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Name: Paul

Age: 24 (25 in August)

Base of Operations: I'm from Normandy but living near Paris (Noisy le Grand) since september 2003, that is to say in France.

Fun detail: my parents are living near Detroit! My father found a job there.

Occupation: at the moment, i'm in a company for 2 months to do graphic production (Photoshop, Flash MX).

Legion Fan since:
I used to live in a small city where i do not have acces to a comics shop.
I've been reading the credits months after months on the DC Comics website since 2001 and my access to the web, and i've always look at The Legion with envy among the other titles i like because it looks great.
Since i'm on Paris, i've discovered a french message boards on comics where people love "The Legion" and it reminds me that i can go looking now for the title.
So, it's only 2 months that i've been collecting issues of the serie (n°32 and 33) on a regular basis.
But the first issues i've read is Legion Lost since number one and then i've become a legion fan.

Favourite Legionnaire: i like them all, they are all great, there is no superstars among them, they are all well developped, that's a thing i like. Even if i have a preference for Live Wire. I like him a lot.(i suspect it's because i've only read Legion Lost, Legion Worlds and The Legion 1-27 for now, where he is well seen)

Favourite Legion Creators: Steve Lightle, Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning and Olivier Coipel (that's the only ones i've read until now, so....)

Favourite Legion stories: "Legion Lost"

Favourite Legion Era: i like them all, i'm collecting every issue i can find because i like the serie. Since i've started reading it, i like the characters, not an era in particular.

Legion claim to fame: meeting OLIVIER COIPEL on the 15th of May 2004 in Paris (he made me a superb Live Wire!)

Other series i like:
Flash, Green Lantern, JSA, JLA, Birds of Prey, Nightwing, Robin, Young Justice (before it was stopped), Batgirl, Sandman, 100 Bullets, Fables, Authority, Planetary, Hulk, Spider-Man, Daredevil, Punisher, Alias, Hellboy, Bone, Queen and Country.... I'm forgetting some for sure and i'm discovering others....

I also buy mangas and euh... I don't know how to translate that in a way you can understand the difference...maybe graphic albums (you know European books as those from Humanoids Publishing. However i know they are resized for you and the US market)...I like good stories no matter what the format is, that's all.

Here we have 2 types of books: comic books format and the graphic albums format.
If you use "comics" for all the books, that term "comics" is only used here as a reference to the US production as manga refers to the asian production.

I hope i've made it clear for everybody.

Favourite TV: "Buffy", "Angel", "Star Trek", "Ally McBeal", "Smallville", "Sex and the City", "Farscape", ....

Favourite Music: no preference, when i like it, i like it.(classic, pop, rock, hardrock, metal, r&b, techno...etc...)

Otherwise, i like sport and i'm playing basket-ball in a club.

Ok, I don't know what to add, so see ya on the message board!

Name: Frenk

Pain in my ass: sharing a body with another head!

Name: Dyvud

Don't listen to that stupid other head of mine!

Lightning Lad.
Why thank you sir. Yes, I am a humble rocker with a soft side.

Hi. New here but been a Legion fan since way back then. Started reading Legion since I was 8.

Name: Dave
Age: 34
Base of Operations: Manila, Philippines

First Legion story read: A Grell pencilled story I think involving Legion tryouts where 7 didnt make the cut since they had similar powers as 7 Legionnaires.

Favorite Legionnaires: Dream Girl, Dawnstar, Element Lad, Princess Projectra, Wildfire (Drake Burroughs)

Least Favorite Legionnaires: Kinetix, Invisible Kid II, Quislet

Favorite Era: Levitz Era and the 70's Legion stories. Appreciated the Bierbaum era though

Other comics I like: Sandman, Strangers in Paradise, Planetary, old Authority

Other faves:
TV - Alias
Movies - LOTR, horror movies
Music - runs the gamut from Elliot Smith to White Stripes. Not much country though

That's it.

Querl, I've heard nothing but great things about Olivier. He sounds like one of the coolest artists to meet. His Brainiac 5 is just about one of the coolest visual characters ever.

CJ, Olivier is so kind with his fans! Always a good word for them when you come to see him. He's great.

And yeah, me too, i like a lot Brainiac 5 made by him!

And Welcome Sensory Lad!

Secret ID: Allan, but don't tell anyone.
Age: 43
First Legion Issue: SB/Legion #205

Well, I see I never checked in on this thread, either! Allow me...

Name: Chaim Mattis Keller
Age: 33
Family status: Married with five children
Occupation that pays the rent: Computer Programmer
Legion Claim To Fame: The Legion Reference File, of course! Also have met Mark Waid, Tom McCraw and Jason Armstrong (obtaining drawings of Star Boy and Brainiac 5 from the latter) and wrote fanfic for Fanzing .
First Legion Story: Tyroc vs. Zoraz, Superboy # 218
Regular reader since: 1991
Favorite Legion Era: TMK.
Favorite Legion writers: TMK.
Favorite Legion artist: Greg LaRocque.
Favorite Legionnaires: Brainiac 5 and Star Boy.
Also regularly read: JSA, H-E-R-O. And collect back issues of the "near future" DC Sci-Fi characters, such as Space Cabby, Star Hawkins, the Star Rovers, Tommy Tomorrow, etc.
Formerly read: Starman, Fantastic Four (during Byrne era), Dazzler, New Mutants, Power Pack.
Favorite movies: Star Wars, the original trilogy. Airplane!, Rat Race, South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
TV: MASH, South Park, Simpsons, Futurama, Night Court.
Books: The Kinsey Millhone series.
Music: Shania Twain, Celine Dion, Faith Hill, Chicago, Air Supply, Survivor, Styx, Boston, Evanescence.
Sports: Kansas City Royals, suck though they do at the moment.

Current obsession: getting votes for my buddies in the Small Press Idol contest! Anyone who hasn't voted in that yet, please help!

Also, I want to learn how to make my own graemlins! Those things are so cool!

In my state you must marry an adult and only one at a time



I amuse me

That joke would have worked better if I had erroneously written "to" or ambiguously written a comma instead of, correctly, the word "with."

No, it wouldn't have worked any better

Name: Sean Springer
Age: 35
Family status: Single
Occupation that pays the rent: Journalist
Legion Claim To Fame: closest thing, I guess, is meeting Paul Levitz in the mid-90s, saw him cringe when I praised his Legion work.
First Legion Story: origin story in DC Super-Stars 17. wasn't impressed (still not with that one). S/LSH 236 was next, loved it!
Regular reader since: 1978-1989, 2003-
Favorite Legion Era: three-way tie: Levitz/Giffen, TMK, DnA
Favorite Legion writers: ditto.
Favorite Legion artist: Giffen (v2: 280s to 305, 50-59 of v3)
Favorite Legionnaires: Tinya, Kent, Lar and Salu... and post-boot Luornu
Also regularly read: Hellblazer, Strangers in Paradise, Stray Bullets, Strangehaven. Also follow in TPB: Starman, Planetary, 100 bullets.
Formerly read: Cerebus, various Vertigo books... years ago, read most DC superheroes, plus many Marvel.
Favorite movies: Casablanca, Braveheart, Shindler's List, LOTR (all 3), 2001, Star Wars, Contact, Airplane, the Monty Python movies.
TV: Stargate, the Daily Show, Stargate, Friends (yeah, so sue me), MASH, Law & Order, JAG, Barney Miller
Books: Mists of Avalon, historical fiction, plus real history that catches my eye
Music: Louis Armstrong, Enter the Haggis, Indigo Girls, Black 47, Beck, Loreena McKinnitt, Dido, Slade, Sting, the Cheiftains, Artful Dodger, Ella Fitzgerald, Smashmouth, the Clash, and Sarah Brightman
Sports:part-time Yanks fan. part-time Manchester fan. hate American 'football,' but watch the superbowl with friends. sometimes catch winter Olympics... that's about it.
Current obsession: since my Legion fandom reignited last year, I've rebuilt my Legion collection to more than 600 comics, up from around 100 (pre-1992 purge, I'd omly had around 190ish).
Zeroing in on silver age now... Capt. Dallas helped me complete my Bronze (thanks, Keith!).
Also working on several writing, art and comics projects. one or more may be done any century now...

Oops.

Coipel. forgot to list him in faves.

Hey O.O.! you're a small-town journalist, too?

Name: Glorith


Occupation: Queen


Hobbies: Looking at Lash and listening to my worshippers.

***UPDATE***


Name: Kenny

Age: 38 (Will be 39 next month...can't believe that!)

Location: Born and Raised NY (living in NJ)

Family status: Engaged (getting married this October!)

Occupation that pays the rent: Government

Legion Claim To Fame: I met Paul Levitz at a convention in the late 90's. I also own a copy of Adventure Comics issue# 246.

First Legion Story: Probably Superboy & the Legion of Superheroes issue#246 (1978).

Regular reader since: 1980 (Almost 25 years?!?)

Favorite Legion Era: Levitz/Giffen.

Favorite Legion artist: Giffen

Favorite Story: "The Great Darkness Saga"

Favorite Legionnaires: Timberwolf, Dawnstar, Rond Vidar(He was a cool Green Latern), Myg(kid had attitude), Grev Mallor(Tasmia's Cousin was cool too) and Ayla Ranzz.

Also regularly read: Avengers, Teen Titans & JLA

Formerly read: Everything Marvel and DC at one time or another.

Favorite movies: The Breakfast Club, the "Friday the 13th" and "Halloween" flicks, the X-Men movies.

TV: The Honeymooners!!!, Eight is Enough, the Sopranos, Real World.

Books: Most Stephen King novels.

Music: 60's(rock, folk, Motown), 80's, 90's, Freestyle/club.


Sports: Mets AND Yankees, Hockey, Ultimate Fighting, Boxing.

Current obsession: Everything Legion...and I have ALMOST EVERYTHING Legion dating back to Adventure Comics issue# 246.

Name: ANIMEAvenger

Age: 25

Marital status: single

Occupation: other

Location: Western Australia

First Legion Story: EEK! can't quite remember. *hangs head in shame* er...i remember it was late 70's-early 80's era ish that had Superboy and Supergirl in it (yeah i know, REAL help that is).

Reader since: late 70's/early 1980's on and off

Favorite Legion Era: Levitz/Giffen.

Favorite Legion artist: Giffen

Favorite Legionnaires: Superboy, Supergirl, Laurel Kent, Princess Projectra, Mon-El and Braniac 5.

Favorite isssue: The Great Darkness saga!

Other regularly reads: All Superman titles, Wonder Woman, SUPERMAN/BATMAN, JSA, JLA, Teen Titans, Ultimate Fantastic Four and other type of DC trades or specials when available.

Favorite movies: Superman 1 and 2, Supergirl, Batman 1 and 2, Spawn, X-MEN 1 and 2, Spider-man 1 and 2.

Music: Madonna (she's #1 BABY!!!), Prodigy and Marilyn Manson...ect.

Past time hobbies: Drawing paticularly within the Bruce Timm JL Animated type style, watchin Timm Animated style toon series, Japanese Manga and ANIME...ect.

AA

Eek! 25 years old and you were reading Legion in the late 70's?

Good pre-schools there in western Oz.

I have a Legion memory softspot in Oz. When I was a kid, my local drug store stopped carrying. So I thought, being just a kid, that the book just no longer existed. Twenty five years later while traveling through Townsville I saw an outside spinner rack with LSH. This turned out to be much to my then girlfriend's chagrin as I immediately started buying up every back copy I could find and spent the rest of my evenings on the hostel beds reading comics.

I still have the books but lost a dutch gymnast girlfriend that could do some amazing things.

Oh well.

Name: James Davis

Age: 37

Marital Status: Married with lil' ones

Location: Indiana

Favorite Comics: Legion, JSA, Starman and Thor from Marvel

Legion Reader Since: #1 of the Baxter run, and still stuck being nostalgic for it.

Favorite stories: All of Levitz (especially Great Darkness) and the first thirty issues of TMK.

Favorite Legionnaires: Duo Damsel and Bouncing Boy! And Cosmic Boy.

After a couple months of lurking, I've decided to post a little. I'll try to jump into this madness when I can

Great to see you, Red Bee! Post a little, post a lot!

Legion Code Name: CreativityKid

Real name: Mike

Age: 35

Base of Operations: Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Earth

Occupation: Newspaper reporter

Legion since: #280 (part of the "Who Is Reflecto?" story arc)

Favorite Legionnaires: Invisible Kid, Matter-Eater Lad, Wildfire

Hey, CK! you, me and Obadiah Oldbuck are all reporters!

Name: James
Age: 27
Where I live: Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
What I do: Wish I could find a new job. , Mon-El, Bouncing Boy, Ferro Lad, Triplicate Girl/Duo Damsel, Matter-Eater Lad, Collossal Boy. Postboot: Vi , Kinetix, Valor, Ferro, Apparition, Superboy (I've never liked that SuperX hung with the Legion, but I like the story behind the current one being there.), Triad. The 60s hold a place of fondness in my heart, but I really like the Postboot version - if for no other reason than the decades of the 20th century titles messing up continuity have been cleaned up.

Other things I like: I'm a gamer, which ate up most of my free time when I was working. Beyond that I'm a general geek - I like comics, animation (particularly, but not limited to Japanese), SF/F books/movies/etc. I listen to a lot of different music (J-Pop, Goth, Metal, Top 40, Classic Rock, Folk, some Classical...I could go on.)...

I can't think of anything else potentially of interest, so... I guess I'll sign off now.

Hey I was a reporter, editor, and cartoonist for my college paper and a reporter for comics2film.com! Maybe its time to open the Daily Planet 3004?

I was the editor/reporter/typesetter/photographer for a small town weekly for two years. Also served as the only two year editor of my school paper and taught the journalism class my senior year when our teacher was activated to Panama in the 80's.