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#600197 12/06/12 03:45 AM
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But he'd have to be able to speak Interlac in order to function in that era.
Although, it would be fun if he would slip in and out of it and struggling with his interpretation sometimes.

I don't know how it would go over, though, since so many people were kind of upset over Brande adopting a Norwegian kind of accent before he was killed in the Retroboot, IIRC.


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Back to Chemical Kid, I find it really annoying that he "possibly skipped that class" about having standard uses of his powers. Is the Legion really that shorthanded that they had to let him on the team when more diligent students like Power Boy and Nightwind are off on Takron-Galtos?

But then, it was in another reality that Chuck and Luornu didn't recommend Atmos for the Legion because he was too arrogant (despite being incredibly powerful)...

Still, he did pull his weight this issue. I'm just cranky that Nightwind and company didn't make it in.

Transuits are a nice touch. I'm pretty sure they were introduced only in the Postboot, and weren't seen before then.

And it's great to see Lydda back, for good I hope. Also nice to see a cavalry of (currently) somewhat less-used Legionnaires, instead of the usual Mon-El and Ultra Boy.

And nice touch on the Violet reference from Ayla!

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Originally posted by Invisible Brainiac:
Back to Chemical Kid, I find it really annoying that he "possibly skipped that class" about having standard uses of his powers. Is the Legion really that shorthanded that they had to let him on the team when more diligent students like Power Boy and Nightwind are off on Takron-Galtos?

But then, it was in another reality that Chuck and Luornu didn't recommend Atmos for the Legion because he was too arrogant (despite being incredibly powerful)...

Still, he did pull his weight this issue. I'm just cranky that Nightwind and company didn't make it in.

Transuits are a nice touch. I'm pretty sure they were introduced only in the Postboot, and weren't seen before then.
Agree that Paul should have given the older Academy heroes more time over the new class. Transuits have actually been around since the 70's-- there's a "behind the scenes" panel shot of Imra slinking into one in the Wedding Tabloid...


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#600200 12/06/12 11:49 PM
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Originally posted by Invisible Brainiac:
Transuits are a nice touch. I'm pretty sure they were introduced only in the Postboot, and weren't seen before then
Re transuits....at the beginning of the Great Darkness Saga, there's a scene where Mon-El tells Shady not to pout because she'll wrinkle her transuit...so they have definitely been around for a while, just maybe not widely used till more recent times...

EDIT: oops, Korbal beat me to it! smile

#600201 12/08/12 01:53 AM
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I'm just cranky that Nightwind and company didn't make it in.

I hear this (or something like it) a lot. I think we all just have to accept that sometime during the Baxter run (if not earlier), someone at DC decided that the bulk of the Academy students were fated never to make the big team. Since then they have been consistently treated as second-rate wannabes. Whether or not they deserve that rep is irrelevant. It has been part of what defines them as characters for over 20 years now and is unlikely to change.

So I think it's time we all quit beating that particular dead horse and concentrate on trying to get DC to fix other, more fixable, flaws in the current book, such as the Vril Doxization of Brainy or the two-dimensionalization of formerly well fleshed out characters such as Phantom Girl ("don't touch me" indeed.)


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I kinda hate transsuits, after seeing the Threeboot ring-generated life-support field instead.

The idea that a molecule thin transparent suit could A) not tear the first time you got blasted, punched or cut, B) not be destroyed the first time Sun Boy or Lightning Lad turned on their powers, C) hold enough oxygen in it to sustain a person indefinitely, despite having literally *zero* storage space, D) etc. bugged me even as a kid.

I like it better as an energy field, whether sustained by the Flight Ring or some other bit of hard-to-destroy tech built into a Legion costume or whatever.


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#600203 12/08/12 06:59 AM
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They are a plot convenience and nothing more to me. If I needed an explanation of how they work, I suppose I'd go with matter - energy. The only thing keeping us calling one thing "matter" and another thing "energy" is technology to contain and shape. I can presume they have developed the technology to develop a molecule thin.... or an energy shield as being the same thing.

Without the plot device, we wouldn't have stranded Legionnaires standing on an asteroid....

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I miss the pre-Crisis glass bubble helmets!

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Nanofiber spacesuits are a common enough sci-fi trope that I'm willing to accept them (and to assume that there being so thin as to be transparent is a logical outcome of this tech), though air supply is a problem.

Er... 4D-oxygen tanks, anyone?

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