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Hey Shining Son, welcome aboard!
Hope you survive the experience. Mwa - haaa - haaaaaa!!!!

Um, was survival even an issue? You know, you could mention that on the front page!

Cleome yes, I'm sure I or someone said every day is Straight Pride Day.

I'd love to see the idiot ask the Puerto Ricans why they have to have a pride day. (Just had PR Day parade here in Manhattan yesterday.)

A belated welcome to you Shining Son.

Feel free to play some games at the Spaceopoly forum. (I want to mandate it for all new members, but everyone else said "no" ) And somewhere on this forum is a Victorian gay flirting thread.

Has this board changed from the Legion to the X-Men?

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It's only your connection with the outside world that will really be in peril, Son! Soon you will learn that fresh air and exercise are totally unnecessary for survival. [cue ominous music]

Oh, and here\'s a thread I started when I was a newbie here-- if you feel like contributing.

Okay, but if we have to start flirting in Spanish to honor PR Day (as mentioned in Shining Son's post), I'm doomed. I only know about a dozen words in Spanish, and they're all from watching reruns of Sesame Street.

Back when I worked at the bank (yes there was only one bank in the world so it was "the bank") A woman and her 20something daughter came in to open an account, but neithe of them spoke English. They only spoke Spanish. The bank has just posted a list of employeees who spoke other languages. So while we tried to get one of the Spanish speaking employees on the phone, I said to her "Hablo espanol muy muy muy muy poco." She laughed and said "My english very very little."

After that, whenever she came in to the office, she would smile and wave at me.

It had to happen. As of yesterday I am no longer the newest member of Legion World.

Well, six weeks is a good run. It's been a long time since I was the baby of the family.

I suppose I might be "newest member to actually post" for a while though.

Shining Son, sure you're only at 71 posts now but before you know it you'll be at 5700 posts and saying " Wa hoppen?? " ... like we all did one time!

Hey Folks! I just wanted to introduce myself. I am the New Guy Ash. I am 26 year old Comic fan who spends most of his free time reading Legion books in my ugly apartment in Sioux City, IA. I am pretty new to the Legion.

I grew up in middle of nowhere Rural Minnesota and I didn’t really have access to comics, let alone the Legion. As a kid, I saw comics every once in a while at the bookstore in the Mall, or at a Grocery Store. I never got really ready any or bring them home. I really liked the X-Men Cartoon from the 90s, but every time I picked up an X-men comic they seemed unapproachable and self-involved. I couldn’t get 2 issues in row, let alone a whole event. I would read large collections of like Calvin and Hobbs or Peanuts that I would get at book fairs and big box stores.

I went to college and discovered the wide, wide world of sci-fi movies and TV. Growing up I loved watching Westerns with Dad and Grandpa and I spent a lot of my high school years playing sports and working on the farm. I kind of missed out on tons of stuff. At school I was on my own. I had summer Job watching the front desk of a College Dorm and I would sit and watch a lot of Buffy, Angel, Star Trek and lot Horror and Sci-Fi Movies. There was a Used Book/Comic Store not too far away I would go in looking for stuff like The Road and Call of Wild not finding what I was looking for and come home with Watchman, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Comics, and Vertigo Books.

I didn’t really understand the Justice League for a long time. I thought that a world with Superman (who is basically all powerful and unstoppable) didn’t need a whole Justice League. Or why in a world with the Fantastic Four and the Avengers would people be afraid of Mutants or hate the X-men with such a passion? Superhero teams seemed out of place to me until I found the Justice Society of America. Here was a large group that had a history, a purpose, family and a Legacy. I got hold of as many trades as I could and I started reading as much JSA as I could. I began reading all the JSA and JSA related books I could get Including All-Star Squadron and Infinity Inc. I loved older comics. They had so much more story and I loved the art. I started reading Old team books from the 70s and 80s: X-Men, New Teen Titans, and JLA.

I found the Legion first though the Lightning Saga and in Teen Titans. I found all of these old issues of LSH V2 at my LCS for a 1.00 or less and started putting together a run. They were amazing, but I am kind of a type “A” personality when it comes to reading books. I like to start from the beginning. At the time I wasn’t interested in Silver Age books. I decided to start reading the Legion from the back-ups in Superboy (that were collected in Legion Achieves Volume 10-12) and just kept reading putting together my collection through to where Keith Giffen Left the 5 year later Legion and then I just kept going after I reached that mark. I eventually went back and read all of the other 9 volumes of the Achieves. Currently I am finishing off the Baxter Run and then I plan keep going through 5 Years Later and then on the Reboot Legion. Legion of 3 Worlds has really made me decided that there is a place for all the versions of Legion, but I have to say that the original Version of the Legion is still my favorite of all the Legions. While I have enjoyed a huge chunk of Legion books, I still have a about the whole of my lifetimes worth of Legion books I still haven’t read yet and I am looking forward to enjoy. But I have read enough that I feel current with Legion as far as the all the recent Geoff Johns/Paul Levitz stories.

My favorite Legionnaires are Wildfire, Dawnstar, Cosmic Boy, Saturn Girl and Element Lad. My favorite Legion Stories are Great Darkness, Legion Lost, and Earth War and Eye for an Eye. I think my favorite Legion artist is Dave Cockrum and Mike Grell (with Giffen and Steve Lightle in a closely behind). My favorite Sub is Stone Boy. My favorite Legion writers are Levitz and Shooter. My favorite issues are Legion Annual 1 with Computo, Adventure 340-341, Adventure 352-353 with the Fatal Five, The DC Collectors Edition Special Issue with Levitz and Grell where SG and LL get married, Superboy and Legion of Superheroes 200, and many others I am forgetting. What I love about the Legion is the Giant team and the unpredictable nature of stories. I love the long serial stories and how the Legion builds off its history. I love that the Legion has so much packed into it and you can get some much out of it. It is also a book on its own. Even during “Events” the Legion is still self-contained. I am not particularly excited about the DC Re-launch, but I know that even if I drop the rest of my DC books, I will still be picking up the Legion books. I am so excited for the new Levitz’s Legion Origin Mini and I can’t wait to get a flight ring to be put on my shelf.

I still read a lot of non big two books and I read a lot of comics in general. I dropped most of Marvel books last year, but I still read Captain America and Daredevil (although I dropped it during Shadow land). I love comics. I like watching goofy TV shows like Home Movies, Big Bang Theory, and Freaks and Geeks. I am the hugest DOCTOR WHO fan (Classic Series and Modern) and my favorite Doctors are Baker, Tennant, Davison, and Smith (But I am not picky). I would be the first to say that I may not be the most knowledgeable Legion fan, but I want to be. My Wife is art Teacher and my house is filled with Pots and paintings. She made a Huge Flying Spaghetti Monster that Sits on top of bookshelf in the Living room. We spend our Saturday mornings watching Episodes of the Real Ghostbusters and Mystery Science Theater 3000.

I feel pretty isolated at times. I end up moving away from my family and most of my friends. I really don’t have any friends that read Comics, let alone enjoy the Legion. The Legion of Superheroes is kind of the book I wish I would have found at the Walden books when I was 8.

Welcome, Ash... you've found a great place to hang and discuss your comics love!! You are not alone!!

Always great to have new Legion fans on board!

Welcome! Looking forward to you diving right in to the various forums!

Welcome, Ash! This is a good place to make friends with some great Legion fans. Make yourself at home.

Welcome, Ash! I'm impressed with the time and effort you've put into getting to know the Legion and its history. It warms this old Legion fan's heart.

Welcome Ash!

Are you ready for your initiation tests?

First, you will compete with Rockhopper Lad to alert a spaceship mthat their fuel tank is leaking. (no fair using a radio) Then we will see whether you or cleome can raise a sunken statue from the bottom of the ocean. (If you lose this challenge, you will be taunted by us saying "You lost to a giiirrrrl!") And finally, you will have to put out a forest fire before Shark Lad can.

Can I just pull a Stone Boy and let Saturn Girl finish my test for me?

^good luck with getting that to happen.

Hi Ash,

I love your wife's blog- Fanboy Wife. Threw me for a minute when your home page was written as a woman, but then she mentioned her husband Ash.

If it ever seems like I don't like you, it's because you took all the attention away from me.

Welcome Ash!! Be sure to visit Legion World's facebook page!!

Welcome to Legion World, Ash!

Yeah, I understand, no one likes the New Kid.

My wife is a powerful enemy. I usually link to her blog as my homepage on boards. She needs the attention. She is home for the summer and is currently making me a Ghostbusters Proton Pack out of Paper Mache and junk she found around the house. It's for my Halloween Costume. We always Go BIG for Halloween. She gets to listen to me talk about the Legion a lot.

Ash,

You will be surprised how quickly you cn go from being the new kid here to being a regular.

"But my pants say 'irregular.'"

We are all a bit irregular here. We are expecting a shipload of Activa soon.