Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Long Live the Legion! Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes #31 - Spoilers!

Originally posted by Kid Quislet:
I vote for Nightcrawler and Lightning Lad as co-editors!

Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester:
I'm fine with "I've bought a house and have two kids now!"

I'm not so cool with, "By the way, I was cheating with your girlfriend the whole time we knew each other."

A thousand years from now, people do everything 110% -- even voting!


in the current day, I apparently do my math at about a 10% level.

That mistake is purely mine. Don't know why I didn't check it, but maybe this is why I write for a living, instead of doing rocket science!

On the other hand, my son is on his math bowl team, so maybe that stuff skips a generation.

invisible Kid is in my stories, but not a feature player, alas.

Brainac 5 is central to my 6 issues. We also get a spotlight on Star Boy, Sun Boy and Mekt Ranzz, then on Timber Wolf, Atom Girl and Shadow Lass, and finally on Supergirl, Lightning Lad and Saturn Girl.

I'm being true to the current version of the Legion, but there are lots of tips of the hat to previous ones. Some folks feel that the various incarnations of the Legion are incompatible. I don't. I love them all in their own way.

Hopefully, this will yield something you like.

Originally posted by Harbinger:
What the Foxtrot is the editor doing? (Come to think of it, how many have we had now in the last few years?) Isn't the chap beside Mekt when Kara calls the meeting one of the original (therefore DEAD) Wanderers? Is he Immorto (however its spelled)then? Also, is that Brin next to Garth - who later is shown getting out of his sickbed? Am confused!

Originally posted by Kid Quislet:
I vote for Nightcrawler and Lightning Lad as co-editors!

But first, you MUST pass the editorial quiz:

1) What color is Shadow Lass' skin?
2) What color is Phantom Girl's skin?
3) What color is Polar Boy's skin?
4) What planet does Lightning Lad (comic character, not would-be editor) come from?

If you can score 75% or better, you more than qualify for the job! Good luck!

Originally posted by Kid Quislet:
I vote for Nightcrawler and Lightning Lad as co-editors!

But first, you MUST pass the editorial quiz:

1) What color is Shadow Lass' skin?
2) What color is Phantom Girl's skin?
3) What color is Polar Boy's skin?
4) What planet does Lightning Lad (comic character, not would-be editor) come from?

If you can score 75% or better, you more than qualify for the job! Good luck!

Hey Rob,

Nice to meet ya,

First off thanks for being interested in my issue
and being kind enough to check it out.

In response about some of the negative criticisms
you've encountered, I really don't let stuff like
that get to me. On issue 29 of Legion I was thrust
into the middle of a story with a HUGE amount of
characters that I never followed, nor did I have
any reference for. ( plus 3 local comic stores
were sold out of the issue I need for said
reference) To clarify, I followed the Legion in
the late 80's when Steve Lightle was doing the
pencils and really dug that stuff. I also have
some issues that Chris Sprouse did as well but I
had no real exposure to Barry's run ( I can't
afford to buy every comic on the stands I guess)

But when I came on Mike Marts hired me for the
fill ins and they, I believe, ( I could be wrong )
were trying to get everything together and were
under the gun scheduling wise and to compound the
problem. they were a bit slow getting reference to
me (that's not any type of slag to them, Mike and
Jeanine are great folks... it just was just a
confluence of lots of things going on, I think!)
so I had to work around:

a) not having proper reference for Some new legion
members designs (like the new Sun Boy) the TERRA
FIRMAS, The WANDERERS etc...(whew that's a lot of
characters)

B) drawing my pages around what I had reference
for.

C) wait for Barry to draw/ turn in pages in #30 so
I new what I could and couldn't draw since I was
drawing the issue before his last.

So I wasn't happy with everything I did, But I did
my best with the opportunity on #29 that I had.
But at the end of the day, the fact is, the Fans
only get to see what's on the page...not the other
business type difficulties behind the scenes.

I have great respect for the Legion and their
history. I really dig the Cartoon and when I got
the Ok from Mike to do the Fill-in for #31,

I was looking to redeem myself on that issue and
do a good job.

So I started # 30 and was really hyped that I
would be drawing Timberwolf, so everything was
looking up. Well, midway through the issue while
visiting friends from my days living in
Blacksburg, VA., the unthinkable happened, An
idiot walked into Va Tech and murdered 32
people at Va Tech while I was in the area. (I used
to, for 10 years actually, live in Blacksburg. and
knew alumni.)


Now I didn't know anybody there recently, I did
know professors there and I actually was a guest
speaker there a few times as well. So the
timing was bizarre and I sorta for a few days went
in to a bit of a depression----but I had a book to
do, Thankfully, and that helped me get through.

But working on Legion and with Mike was a blast. I
am thankful for every opportunity I got to draw
it.

Were there things I wished I could have done
better or differently......Oh yeah! ( one example
being that I'm a fan of the classic Cockrum
Timberwolf costume and was not a fan of Barry's
design----that's just my personal taste) and I
still wish I would've drawn them a bit younger
looking (Stephen Wacker was the First to nail
me on that LOL)

I do know there's a group of folks that didn't
like my legion issues.....that's Ok ,it happens.
I'm no Rob Liefeld fan either and I'm sure he's
not losing sleep about it. But I do try to listen,
and learn and go from there.

Kev