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Thanks! I've deleted some old PMs. I look forward to seeing it when the time comes.

How have I not seen this thread until now??? This is great fun, and Ex, I'm impressed with your design ideas!

Thanks, LT!


OK, two quick ones before bed. Two remarkably similar LMB members and only one good arm between 'em. We've got both Arm Fall Off Boy and Arms Fall Off Boy:





Up next: Who are three LMBers who have never been in my kitchen?

Well, me.

It rules !!! I keep staring at it ....

I like how it functions as different effects, energy, circle (like PG), boom tube, some sort of galaxy or solar system graphic ...

Arms Fall Off Boy is hilarious. Love it!

Whew! Thanks, Peebs.

I was actually pretty worried about that one. I kept doing it over and over, but wasn't sure I was conveying what I was trying to accomplish. So glad you like it.


You have no idea how old this makes me feel to say this but, I think that reference might be before your time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=botdmsQilnU


So, as yesterday's clue alluded to, up next we have three LMBers who, although they are quite prominent in LMB lore, I've never had the pleasure of "meeting" on line - Beagz (also Beagle Boy), Harbinger, and Spellbinder (Princess Crujectra):






The logos for Spellbinder and Beagz were actually created by Cru himself, with Crujectra's stylized "S" appearing as a brooch.

For Harbinger, I went to her fanfic story, Legion 35C, where she is described as a Naltorian seer. I didn't want to do a direct Dream Girl lift, so I went with the Greek "Psi' character to represent powers of a mental nature.

Wow! Research Ex is research!

Absolutely, man. Nihil Productions is no slipshod outfit.

OK... 70 down- Group Shot Time!



A couple revisions since last time:

- I scaled down the Interlac symbols for me and Varalent to appear less blocky when seen with the rest of them.
- I reduced Semi's symbol to match the similar one for Lad Boy, and also made the "transparent" section more symmetrical
- I fixed the borders on Saturn Girl and Shady
- I felt that Walk With Crowds was actually too crowded so I removed a couple of the figures and scaled the rest up
- I replaced Rocky's symbol with the more streamlined one that Sketchy had created.

I actually changed my mind on Rhino and am going to leave him as is.

Still to revise:

- I want to add a cloud element to Nighty's
- I've got to fix the center portion of Lash's whip
- I've got to straighten Novelty's (and perhaps make it larger)
- I'm going to redo Dedman's (I don't like the bottom portion at all)
- I'm going to see if I can fix the left part of Drakes (the shadow seems way too dark)
- I might redo Future King's (I was actually quite drunk that night and just trying to be clever)
- I did an alternate one for Candle by request, but I wanted to let her see it first before posting it.

So why no "Next Up..." tag?

Well, because I see by that clock that it's time to start packing for San Diego. I'm Comic-Con bound, so this thread is going on hiatus for a week.

When I get back, though, full speed ahead filling in those gaps.

Coming up, we've got a certain Mr. Ester, Thriftshop Debutante, Outdoor Miner, Kent Shakespeare, Faraway Lad, those young un's Sarcasm Kid and Emily Sivana, a whole clan worth of Quanks... and lots more.

See you in a week.

have fun at SDCC!!! you deserve it! I am sure that you will be swarmed by Legion Worlders on your fantastic work here.

It's been a bit since I've done these, so let's start back with a couple simple ones to get back into the swing.

Today we have the ultra-powered LMBers: Ultra Jorge and Ultra Matt (also called the Boy with Ultra Powers):




Both are just simple Legion/Interlac swipes (go easy on me... I'm still jet lagged )

Up next: Hwaet! Ye Olde Thyme Mefsage Board Pofters.

Tonight we travel back in time to three LMBers who would not have been out of place in Merrie Olde England: Kent Shakespeare, Lance's Realm and Malvolio:





For Kent, I wanted an appropriate image that reflected both his humor and the the sad fact that he left our board, so what better than the jester's skull from Hamlet? "Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him..." I also like how the shape of the eye sockets suggest the frame-less lenses of the actual Kent from 5YL.

Lance, who goes avatarless, I've represented in the past with the pilot character, "Lance" from "Voltron". Recently, however Sketchy did a sort of "Dragonslayer" take that I really dug, so here we've got a heraldic dragon with the lance hanging over him.

I don't know Malvolio, but I do know that his namesake character from "Twelfth Night" is known for the ruse that has him wind up wearing garters, so here, I've used a take on the crest of the "Knights of the Garter" minus the cross shield usually in the middle.


Next up: Arts and crafts

These are all so incredibly unusual and well thoughtout.
They give me goosebumps!

The Kent Shakespeare is perfect.
Absolutely professional quality.

is a huge fan of these monitor board symbols!

They will be very helpful in organizing information about all of my dear friends on Legion World!

Oh crap!!

Luckily for me, old Doc M doesn't remember his incarnation several lifetimes ago when he, a wealthy Spanish nobleman, Don Octavio del Flores, commisioned poor artist Xavier Nahillo to design a symbol for his coat of arms. Nahillo, sworn enemy of the Spanish nobility, betrayed his patron by crafting a repugnant image of Spain being crushed beneath the boot heel of del Flores. Though the image amused del Flores himself (so much so that he laughed for a full hour) nevetheless, at the public unveiling, it sparked a riot during which he was stoned by the angry mob.

What shall I draw for Doc this time around? You will learn the answer to that most important query very shortly!


So, this time out we have three LMBers who have taken their Legion fandom to the next level, and crafted three of my favorite Legion related works that I've seen over the years. Respectively, they are the creators of The Legion Help File , an amazing set of Legion Statuettes and quite possibly the most erudite legion website out there, The Legion Abstract .

All three chose not to go with code names and instead joined the LMB as Chaim Mattis Keller, Jim Gallagher, and Matthew E(lsmlie):





Chaim is represented by an encyclopedia set, representing the massive amount of research he put into his Help File.

Jim is a block beginning to be carved by a hammer and chisel, the three shapes coming together in a stylized "G"

And Matthew is an interlac "E" done in the style similar to abstract artist Piet Mondrian.


Next up: I give a second go at an earlier symbol that didn't make the grade as we pay a visit to The Green of the 30th century.

Ex, you do a damn FINE impression of old Doc M... Hmmmmmmmmmm.

Loving the symbols too

I feel like I should put on a black beret while reading up on that last batch. Also, I'm suddenly craving Brie and crappy room-temperature Chardonnay.

It's definitely giving credence to one of my long-held theories...

Loving the symbols!

...aaaand we're back!

This time out we look at our two plant-based LMBers: Cleome and Suddenly Seymour:





I had a really tough time with cleome (I even posted an earlier version, only to delete it after stewing about how bad it looked.) She suggested going with an Interlac "C" entwined with plant vines, so that's what I went with. I still used a cleome at the focal point in the lower right, but it really is a difficult flower to represent. If the LMB ever gets rebooted, I'm hereby mandating that cleome is "re-imagined" as like "Daisy" or "Tulip".

Seymour, on the other hand, is, of course, the Audrey Two from "Little Shop of Horrors" and, I don't at all mind saying, is pretty badass.


Next up: So, since this time we saw our "green" teammates... next we give equal time to the "red".

Audrey Two is now my official favorite. Bravo!

Two awesome symbols for two awesome Legion Worlders! Great job, Ex!

cleome's is just beautiful!
And, SS's perfectly funny.
Excellent workmanship and ideas.