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I haven't replied to this go-round? About time, I'd say ...

"Real" name: Steve

Alter ego: Greybird

Origin of alter ego: One of Dawnstar's younger brothers ("Who's Who in the LSH" 1, 1988)

Age: 40something

Partners: Single

Where I live and work: Los Angeles

What I do: Use my intellect, really, but to earn money, I do Windows support, typography, and copyediting

Legion fan since: 1982, in a serious way, though I'd read it on occasion since the late 1960s

Fave Legion characters: Dawnstar, Wildfire, Dream Girl, Timber Wolf, Saturn Girl

Worst Legion characters: None (that joined honestly)

Fave Legion creators: Paul Levitz, Jim Sherman, Steve Lightle, Greg LaRocque, Dan Jurgens, Pat Broderick, Keith Giffen (pre-Crisis only)

Worst Legion creators: Keith Giffen (since 1989) ... nope, no one else comes close

Fave Legion stories: Great Darkness Saga, Universo Project, Earthwar, and the ongoing Dawny - Drake romance over 12 story years

Worst Legion stories: Omen and Prophet, everything after Magic Wars and before Zero Hour

Fave Legion single issue: "LSH" v2 n311, the end of Dawnstar's vision quest

Worst Legion single issue: Anything by TMK, take your pick

Fave Legion cover: "LSH" v3 n38, the passing of Superboy (Sienkiewicz's painting)

Fave Legion era: Levitz's writing, 1977-1989

Fave visual art: Winged humanoids , van Gogh's "Starry Night," Jose Manuel Capuletti

Fave films from before I was born: "Casablanca," "The Philadelphia Story," "Citizen Kane," about 20 others

Fave films from since I was born: "The Apartment," "Yentl," "Moulin Rouge," about 30 others

Best movie I last saw in theaters: "Spartan," by David Mamet, with Val Kilmer

Best movie I last saw on DVD: "Big Fish," by Tim Burton

Fave book authors: Ayn Rand, Donald Harington, L. Neil Smith, J. Neil Schulman, Ira Levin

Fave music creators: Beethoven, Puccini, the Gershwins, Cole Porter, John Williams

Fave music performers: Barbra Streisand, k.d. lang, Frank Sinatra, Placido Domingo

Fave sports: Baseball (when the Cubs, White Sox, Dodgers, or Angels make the playoffs), Northwestern Wildcats football

Fave foods: Toasted bagels, eggs Benedict, deviled eggs, New York cheesecake

Worst foods: Peanut butter, marshmallows

Current activities: Looking for more work ... and more Legion fan-fiction , and more non-fan-fiction , and trying, after some years, to get my Dawnstar Website fully on line

Whew, talk about complete!

Movie: Troy, it was pretty good but I kinda hated the ending.

Cover: tough one, but the twin covers of Legionnaires 47 and LSH 91 come to mind...

Sport: Badminton, since it's about the only one I play. Swimming, too.

Movie: I don't go to the cinema. When I was younger I became a bit worried that if I "jumped" or anything then other people would point at me and laugh at me! What started as an irrational worry has now overwhelmed my brain and I don't think I've been to the cinema for a few years now...

Cover: Hmm. I liked the Alan Davis ones. But my favourite was LSH 297 or something - the one with the Legion academy! They all looked great! Shame Lamprey never appeared again though!

Sport: Pah! I became a comics fan coz I hate sport!

Most recent movie: Hellboy. A superior grade of B-movie. Good fun.

Favorite Legion cover: I don't have one. Seriously.

Favorite sport: Baseball, although TPTN of this sport are doing everything they can to cure me of this. I'm also developing an interest in soccer.

Favorite sport: Toss-up between kickball and dodgeball.

Adding to the madness:

BEST movie I last saw in a theatre: Return of the King

Favourite sport: I live softball from January through July. It's what keeps me from posting here more often.

Favourite Legion Cover: Legion #1! It just looked that cool.


And, because I'm curious:

What favourite comic got cancelled in the last year?

Who is a favoured comic creator(s)?

And UTS,
We got leagues of both for adults here in Minneapolis. I'm looking to get a team, if you're interested.

Interested, but a bit too far away at the moment, unfortunately.

Unless...

The John Arcudi/Tan Eng Huat version of DOOM PATROL (though maybe that was over a year ago, I'm not sure).

I'm going to get the new DP coming out next month, but I think it'll be a poor replacement...

Used parts of Greybird's template.....

"Real" name: Richard

Alter ego: Chameleon Boy

Age: 43

Partners: Single

Where I live: Belmont, CA USA

Where I work: Menlo Park, CA USA

What I do: I am a part time hairdresser and I do graphic art and trying to stay healthy....

Legion fan since: 1969

Fave Legion characters: Chameleon Boy, Dawnstar, Wildfire, Element Lad, Timber Wolf, Dragonmage or White Witch (the Legion needs a mystical character)

Fave Legion creators: Dave Cockrum, Mike Grell, Paul Levitz, Jim Sherman, Steve Lightle, Greg LaRocque, Dan Jurgens, Pat Broderick, Keith Giffen (pre-Crisis only)

Worst Legion creators: Keith Giffen (since 1989), Ric Estrada and Arvell Jones (mostly fill-ins but pretty aweful work. Jack Abel, my all time least favorite inker!!

Fave Legion stories: Great Darkness Saga, Universo Project, Earthwar Saga (If only James Sherman would have finished that one.... sigh....) "The Attack of the Infinite Man" by Levitz, Sherman, Wiacek, Oda and Berube and the back up by Levitz, Nasser, Layton, Oda and Berube from Superboy and the Legion of Super Heroes #233, perfect issue from cover to cover!!

Name : Jay Elliott
Age : 27
Where you live : Manchester, England
What you do : Searching for my place in the world (still........argh!)

Legion info (favorite characters, creators, stories, eras; when you started reading; etc.) :
Favourite characters : Ultra Boy, M'Onel/Valor/Mon'El (ahhh....the Gand dude), Shrinking Violet (sigh, I'm in love), Brainy, Ferro!!!! Karate Kid, Dawnstar.
Fave story : THE END. That story always makes me cry.
When I started reading : Er......I forget actually. But it was 5YG period. Not long before THE END. Bought a load of back issues following the war for Earth. What a ride!
Then I bought as many back issues as I could. The Reflecto/Ultra Boy/Superboy story was amazing. I've just recently managed to pick up LSH 37 & 38. SIGH. Poor Supes. Never on my fave list but cool guy. Loved him returning as the anchor in the last run of V3.

Other things you like (movies, books, music, etc.)
Fave book : Lord of the Rings. Read it every year since I was 8. Cool.
Fave movie : Hmm. I love Planes Trains and Automobiles (I'm a sucker for a happy ending). Lord of the Rings (each one makes me cry).
Fave music : Evanescence, Meat Loaf, Bon Jovi, Brian Adams, Nickelback, Metallica. Music with a message.
Fave sport : Fencing. There's few things I've found that I love as much as a good sword fight.

Love to read and write. I have something published, just a poem in a poetry anthology.
Working on a fantasy story which'll probably never see the light of day. Also assisting a friend as his "Creative consultant". I'm just pitching ideas his way.

I joined this board a while ago but never remembered to post to this thread. I'm rectifying that error now.

Name: Michael
Age: 48
Where you live: San Diego
What you do: freelance writer

Legion info (favorite characters, creators, stories, eras; when you started reading; etc.):

Given my "advanced years" it shouldn't come as a surprise that I started reading the Legion during the fabled Adventure Comics days (the first one I bought was #333, "The War Between Krypton and Earth"...I still have it as a matter of fact.) I started reading the book because I was into all things Superman as a kid and Superboy's membership made Adventure a must buy.

The Legion is the one series I have followed faithfully...even during those times when I wasn't reading any other comics.

My all-time favorite Legionnaires are Brainiac 5, Superboy (Kal-El), Saturn Girl, Chameleon (Boy), and Dawnstar (I also have a soft spot for Kono and Kent Shakespeare from the TMK era.)

I've always been a DC fan but somehow I raised a son who is primarily a...shudder...Marvel fanatic (My daughter just read Elfquest...couldn't get her to read super-hero books.)

Michael

Hi! It's great getting to know you guys better!

Name: ah, but where's the mystery?
Age: 34
Where You Live: The Great White North (but no igloos where I live)
What You Do For a Living: English Teacher
What You Do For Fun: reading, squash, volleyball, playing chase around the house with my 2 year old daughter
Status: Married

I've been reading Legion since I was 14, so I guess it's been 20 years!

Favourite LSH creators: Paul Levitz, Steve Lightle
Favourite storylines: Legion of Super-Villains and the death of Karate Kid, the Universo Project and Who Is Sensor Girl?

Favourite Characters: Shadow Lass (Shady forever!), Phantom Girl, Lightning Lass, Dream Girl and Sensor Girl (all by Levitz and Lightle, 'natch!)

Other Favourite Titles: JLA,JSA, Birds of Prey, Teen Titans, Outsiders (Recently dropped all X Titles, Avengers and Wonder Woman...diapers and an education fund cost $$$ after all!)

Heya!

Name: Kurt
Age: 42
Where?: Morgantown, WV.
Occupation: I work the Circulation desk at the WVU Evansdale library.

Legion: Dear Gods! I read the death of Ferro Lad as a young kid when it first came out. I remember waiting with tot fidgeting for the second part of the Fatal Five returns/seige of the LSH HQ story to come out. Pretty much have been around ever since, despite nearly constant cussing and spitting and general curmudgeonly fussing over damn near every issue of the Reboot era. (I'm an ossified Pre-Crisis fan and not well-adapted to change.) I did enjoy the dark and grim Five Years Later era, at least at first.

Other Interests: Um. Most things "weird" or "bizarre". Everything from Trek to Godzilla movies to Santo masked-Mexican wrestler movies to well, Mexican wrestling to Chambara flicks to HK Hopping vampires to...well. The list goes on for awhile.

Secret Weakness: Superheroine erotica. (hey! Nobody's perfect!) That and my cat rules my life. sigh.

First post!! yay! (I use too many exclamation marks that's my *real* super power!)

Name: Jackie

age: 31

location: near London, England

my legion history: first found the Legion by reading my older brother's dog eared old Adventure Comics issues, and a love of all things Legion related ensued from then on forever and ever amen etc. Was horrified when I first got a hold of a contemporary Legion issue (LSH 271 "who is the dark man") and found the costumes had been changed! I didn't get over that for years! (I was a child who hated change! )

Interest in current incarnation of Legion wavering somewhat just because it just doesn't feel like 'my legion' anymore. I want all the characters who have been needlessly killed off and changed species and powers back as they were. *sigh*.

After the Levitz period I was out of touch with the Legion for a while, was re-introduced by LSH v4 24 and 25. Talk about a re-baptism of fire! I didn't know what the heck was going on! I didn't know who any of the characters were! I knew Brainy and right, that guy in the hospital bed must be Timber Wolf because they are calling him Brin, but who is that yellow skinned blue haired girl with the freckles? Who's that tall blonde woman with the Supergirl powers? I was totally lost, but I was hooked again!

I'm talking too much about the Legion and not enough about myself ha.

Favourite characters-Princess Projectra and Brainiac 5. Both really came into their own in the TMK/v4 Legion I think. After the beautiful exploration of the Orandan culture hinted at by the Bierbaums for her to be reborn as a cartoon comedy snake who existed just to go nyaa nyaa to the old fans and make lame jokes about the British royal family....well it rankled with me to put it mildly.

One of the reasons I don't read the Legion anymore, but I may be getting back to it! (I believe things may have improved since I last read it)

Mmm I've gone on far too much. Sorry 'bout that!

-Drura, baking delicious Oolian flu for everyone!

Welcome ID - it's good to have someone else on this side of the big pond!

By the way - how near is near?
Brian Cox apparently is quoted as saying that he comes from a little town just outside of Glasgow - and he's from Dundee.

So all things are relative. Especially my mother.

Thanks for the welcome!

heh, I'm from Staines, Middlesex. I was a little nervous of putting my exact location on the internet. It's become a habit to be deliberately vague, not that I really need to be secretive here, I really should have said it in the first place!

I'm about 20 miles from London (I think.)

Can it be that I have never responded to this thread? Well, let's rectify that right now!

Real name: William Duke Harrington

Alter ego: Obadiah Oldbuck

Origin of alter ego: Title character of the first comic book published in North America, circa 1837

Age: 36

Partners: wife, Sheila. No children

Where I live and work: (live) Sumner, ME. (work) Buckfield, ME

What I do: (by day) Customer Care Specialist for a phone/internet/television provider. (the rest of the time)reporter for the Advertiser-Democrat, Norway, ME

Legion fan since: hooked with very first issue, SUperboy & the LSH #218 OOOUUUIEEE!!!!

Fave Legion characters: Ultra Boy, Karate Kid, Princess Projectra, Wildfire, Tyroc, Invisible Kid, Brainiac 5, Shadow Lass, Kinetix, Gates.

Worst Legion characters: Quislet, Blok, Dawnstar, terraform Kinetix, Kono,

Fave Legion creators: Paul Levitz, Jim Sherman, Jim Shooter, Curt Swan, early Kieth Giffen, Mark Waid, Alan Davis, John Forte, Ed Hamilton, Win Mortimer, Mike Grell, Dave Cockrum, Jeff Moy,

Worst Legion creators: later Keith Giffen, Steve Ditko, Oliver Coipel, Roger Stern's ghosts, I used to hate Jummy Janes until I saw some of his original pencil work on ebay (man, that guy got screwed)

Fave Legion stories: Great Darkness Saga, Earthwar, Shooter era, realy reboot to Team 20/30 split

Worst Legion stories: Omen and Prophet, everything after Magic Wars and before Zero Hour, most post Team20/30 split

Fave Legion single issue: can't pick one, dude!

Worst Legion single issue: Most of Mike McAvennie's run as editor esp. Dark Circle Rising

Fave Legion cover: late Adventure era Adams covers

Fave Legion era: Levitz's writing, 1977-1989


Fave films: most any Jimmy Stewart, 1776, Glory, the Indiana Jones series, Star Wars 4-6, abount a zollion others


Favorite DVD: Firefly, the complete series

Fave book authors: Ayn Rand, PG Wodehouse, Mark Twain, PJ O'Rourke,

Fave music creators: depends enitrely on mod, most anything beside rap, hip/hop, metal


Fave sports: stock car racing

Fave foods: all of them, esecially ones that come out of my garden

Hey there Numf-El and Infectious Drura!
Is this a brit pack invasion or what?
The first people I've spoken to in a while from England who love the Legion.
I'm honoured (don't have to feel so funny about the spelling now) to meet you both.

P.S. I just got to ask, because I'm a bit of a geek, do either of you two desperately want to type "Valour" rather than "Valor"?

Funny story. I had a t-shirt printed from a Valor comic some years ago. Loved it. All my friends used to take the mickey out of me and call me the gas man. Valor gas. Sigh. Maybe you had to be there.

Hey Merriam!? Hey Webster!?

Translation please?

That's close enough - I certainly wouldn't ask you for more detailed info than that.
I know of Staines 'cos the company I work for has a subsidiary company whose main office is in Staines, and I have a friend who works in their IT department who has travelled to and fro.

Wrong spy Teliyon - Scotland. Way up in Aberdeen for me.

Also on this side of the great pond are Sonnie Bloke (my brother), the adorable Harbinger, Faraway Lad and Gigglebot Girl, Sanity or Madness and Bevis, to name but a few.

I know what you mean about the spelling - I generally don't care too much, if we're expected to put up with their bad spelling then they can put up with our correct spelling.


Anyway, Welcome - have fun!

Whoa, Numf-El. (AND whoops). Scotland. Nice one. Soz about the mistake.

And Blockade Boy : Merriam? Webster? I'm afraid the reference is lost on me. But taking the mickey means to insult in a friendly way. To rag on me. A bit of banter between friends.

Ah! got it. Oh, Merriam-Webster is a dictionary.

Love your taste in music Teliyon.