Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Long Live the Legion! The Lori Morning Support Thread

*That* bad? I'm going to have to reread it now and see just how bad it was! "Leave you smiling" bad, or "just plain shudder" bad?

Legion on the Run was a fairly implausible plot, but I think it had redeeming characteristics.

Magic Wars is a vastly underrated Levitz story, that was largely ruined by Giffen's new art-style.

Pluses for LEGION ON THE RUN: A strong role for Infectious Lass; heavy usage of many previously little-used, only-glimpsed, or not-seen-at-all-during-TMK characters; Stuart Immonen artwork


minuses for LEGION ON THE RUN: Everything else.

Another plus of LoTR: young Ayla and grown-up Vi. I thought that was a very touching relationship and it wasn't played to death.

and Poor Rond Vidar, accused so often of pedophilia thanks to Lori.

...okay, i just made that up

;-)

I'm surprised the most disheartening part of Legion the Run hasn't been played up: Cosmic Boy's goatee! How could the greatest of all Legionnaires have such villianous facial hair?

I was puzzled as to why Cos was wearing the full-face mask, when he hadn't even gone bald yet...

His Time Trapper powers must have started kicking in and he saw his future bald self when he looked in the mirror. Thus, he attempted to hide it.

The goatee was, of course, the first clue to his more villianous ending.

Dare I surmise that reimagined Element Lad may follow the evil road too with his goatee-in-the-making?

...from Lori to evil. This thread makes pseudo-sense.

It makes space-sense!

Note the growth in the reboot Jan's facial hair as he made the transition to Progenitor in those space-crystals Shikari found!

"We have to reboot or cancel" bad.

So tell me, what are some good Legion issues to find out more about Lori? She sounds like a fun character.

She was heavily featured in the reboot beginning with the UNDERWORLD UNLEASHED crossover issues (thanks a LOT, DC crossovers... AGAIN) and continuing until DNA took over, after which scarcely a peep was heard from her. Hooray!!

So you have a pretty lengthy run of books to find out for yourself just how "fun" this era of the Legion was.

Can't recall the issue numbers offhand.

She originally appears in LSH #75 and L*#32.

I'm unaware of her being killed off... I thought the last we saw of her was in "Widening Rifts," after her H-dial was burnt out. (She may have been in LW#6 t the ceremony?)

What I didn't like about Lori:
1. the H-Dial. Never liked it.
2. She was overused.
3. The ordinary-20th-century-kid becoming a whiz-kid in the future, I didn't like. I didn't like it with Gary Coleman in Buck Rogers either. Ferro at least had some doubts and culture-shock, and even Lori's dose of that (the dog-like shop owner) was too cutesy.
4. Comic relief can be good, but not when its too forced, i.e. R2 and 3PO good, JarJar Binks bad.

What I did like about Lori:
1. The premise that she would become Glorith - and that the TT him(?)self presumably set her on that path.
2. There is no reason #2.
3. She was okay for the Chronos 2-parter...

...but therafter wore thin. She should have been bumped back to 20 at the same time Lu got shifted back to Team 20.

I just personally like her infectious enthusiasm for life and being a hero. Personally, I think she would have been better as a single heroine without the H-Dial....maybe accidentally learning Captain Marvel's word.

I just now found this thread so I'll give you my reasons for not liking her. We had a book with a large cast of Legion members. They, being the stars of the book, needed to focus - especially in the area of characterization. Lori's story was a waste of space that could have been used to develop actual Legion members. If Lori was to become a Legionnaire, fine, but that's not what happened. Plus, she was a brat (understandably so, but still not interesting).

The Lori Morning stuff gave the series TOO much of a similarity to those really bad 70's and 80's superhero cartoons with worthless characters such as Batmite, Orco from He Man and the Masters of the Universe, and that stupid robot in the Fantastic 4.

don't forget the annoying kid sidekicks on the cartoon version of "Emergency."

If the Star Trek cartoon had come around 2 years later, imagine McCoy's neice and nephew being on board - Wesley Crusher would have seemed downright cool in comparison!

Damn, People rip into Wesley a lot.

Lori joining the Legion as H-E-R-O might have been fun to see.

And, I liked the LEGIONNAIRES issue when she, Tenzil and Chuck saved the day.

Beyond that, she was useless. A kid sidekick in the Legion - blechh!

I haven't yet read all the Lori appearances, but so far...















...I like her.

From what little I recall of the show, I used to wish Wesley was invited to wear a red shirt to every hostile world in the galaxy.

Lori can't be as bad as that surely?