Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Long Live the Legion! Random LSH panel discussion

Arm-Fall-Off-Boy!!!! Yay, much happiness.


Plorp!

Fortress Lad...funnist character ever...deeply disturbing if you read the Secret Origin issue.

Admittedly, I don't really know much about the carving of ice statues. But I seriously doubt you can do it with flame.

I find interesting here that Stone Boy can talk while.. um.. stoned.

Thrill as the rejects exposition about their powers!

Watch Chlorophyll Kid flirt with Color Kid! 'How do ya like them tomatoes?' indeed...

Amaze as Lydda drops Stone Boy like a bad habit!

I really like the designs here. I am filled with shame...

So he appeared in this issue first and then he became THE Fortress in the Secret Origins special later added to the continuity?

Too many years and too many continuities & issues to remember.
sigh

This *is* the Secret Origins story, isn't it?

Same story.

It was told retroactively.

You know, for YEARS I actively hated on the Fortress Lad story.

And then I thought to myself, "Why not?"

So the original HQ was a brain-dead Fortress Lad stuck in fortress form. I accepted it. Now I can make fun of it.

Still deeply disturbing...funny as anything...but c;mon.

I would love to retcon it back and have the Legion HQ be inhabited by a living individual, who no longer has any physical body (although he can manifest a robot body, that comes out of the walls, in addition to controlling doors and security systems throughout the HQ or appearing on various monitors to talk to people).

Due to the sheer size of the HQ, and his essence having diffused through the enormous structure, Fortress Lad would no longer be able to reduce himself down to a mere humanoid self and walk away, so, in essence, he's 'trapped,' only because he's unwilling to surrender as much of the resources that he's acquired through the many expansions of the headquarters over the years.

Vi was always so quiet around the established Legionnaires, but always very talkative around the new Legionnaires (especially cute guys!)!

Vi and Lar make a cute couple.

Was this Vi's 1st crush??

Hmm... I'd have to look back to see if there's evidence of her putting the moves on Tenz a few issues earlier...

I know the Legion have had like 10,000 artists over the last five decades, but wow, these two characters look like Lois and Clark disguised as Violet and Mon!

Mon's even got the spit-curl.

Vi's eyebrows and dimples are irresistable.

At least Lar got a Happy Ending...

That idea is kind of like Ann McCaffery's 'Ship Who Sang' about a spaceship who's computers (and by extension, everything else on board) were controlled by a human, female in this case, brain.

Having Fortress Lad remain sentient but forever in the center of the Legion compound would have been amazing, I think.

I loved those two in the original series.
Vi, though, only when she wasn't running, cringing, hiding, breaking down or crying.
Which she only did on missions, most of the time.
sigh

Do you think Vi was full size at the time?

Oh, awesome, I'd totally forgotten about that one!

My mom pretty much raised me on Anne McCaffery, Andre Norton, Tanith Lee, Linda Bushyager, Ursula K. Le Guin, etc. She was a huge fan of fantasy and it seemed that the men were mostly writing harder sci-fi (Niven, Pournelle, etc.), which I also liked, but was less to her tastes.

To Ride Pegasus was, IMO, her best book (at least, of the ones I've read).

So wrong. So, so wrong.