Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Legion of Super-Heroes #5 (Preview & Spoilers)

Oh my GOD that Timber Wolf cover.

And oh my God Mr. Levitz please don't kill the twins. Or maim them.

http://dcu.blog.dccomics.com/2010/09/15/the-final-fate-of-saturn-girls-twins-and-a-new-gl/#comments

Wow the art looks great, and that Timber Wolf variant cover will be a sell-out for sure.
Can't wait until next Wednesday!

So far the Mon-El and Chameleon Boy covers have been my favorites, but this one's nice, too!

That preview doesn't do much for me. The writing seems somewhat... stilted? And I still cannot get past how awful Jeckie looks. Or Sun Boy's annoyingly incorrect hair colour.

I like the lighter blond look on Dirk. Hope it stays.

Damn! Another variant hit outta the park by Jim Lee! The first three were kinda *meh*, but T-Wolf and Mon? OUT-friggin-STANDING!!!

It looks like Mon-El's shoulder on the right side of the Jim Lee T-Wolf cover. Do all the Lee covers fit together for a panoramic view?

Yes.

Okay, I think the one and only thing that Legion fandom has EVER agreed on is that this Sensor Girl costume is hideous. Can we PLEASE get rid of it once and for all already?

I said please.

wrong. the other thing all of Legion fandom agreed on was how awful "Sneckie" was.
now we have "boob window/tiara-wearing" Sensor Girl.
also, notice how the Earth Force have glass brains ala Validus! Eeek!

I wouldn't mind it if it were only him(*) but now that he and Garth have both been lightened that makes three blond males (includeing Jan) on the team and no red-heads. Variety is the spice of life.

(*) Actually yes, it would still bug me. Incorrect hair colouring is one of my biggest pet-peeves on the Legion. With so many members and so few artists able to draw more than one stock 'male' face and one stock 'female' face, hair colour becomes one of the most identifiable characteristics a character can have. Change that up and it's like putting a new character in that Sun Boy costume.

I find Dirk's joking(?) about picking up a Titanian girl in this context a little bizarre.

I liked Sneckie, as a person.
The robot arms were silly, but Sneckie I liked.
Sorry GN.

The cover has the twin's and Dirk's hair pretty correct.
On the inside, Dirk's is close to a golden strawberry blonde, too.

But who's the guy on the right (THEIR right?)
It's probably obvious to everyone else.
sigh

Shady doesn't look like she's smitten with Kirt, more suspicious.

And, I think some of the Cinar faces are very distinguishable.
Not all, but most of them.

Wolf is great!
He looks so like my photo redesign.
I just wish the costumes of all of them could be a little more teamish.
Oh, well.

I kinda liked Sneckie too (and her robot arms). Though I would have preferred her as an original character than as a re-imagined Jeckie.

It was everything around Sneckie I hated - her homeworld that somehow developed an exact copy of an Earth feudal poilitcal system (despite the fact it was a planet of snakes :wtf: ), her silly family with all their too-cute, similar-to-the-English-Royal-Family names, her cloying personality (especially at a time when we had another equally as annoying 'perky' Legionnaire in Monstress) and most especially - those raccoon slaves! So tacky!

The presence of a non-humanoid Legionnaire was very welcome to me though. I actually thought she had a great visual (when she was the snake). I hated her post-'change' visual at the time. But in retrospect it was a good one too. I just would have rather'd it be a new Legionnaire in that form than losing a good old one.

So to sum up -

I like Jeckie.
I like Sneckie.
I like Naga-eckie.

Just not all as the same character.

P.S. This is a topic for another thread, but in retrospect I think Sneckie was probably one of the biggest mistakes of the Reboot. What purpose did making that change serve other than to say to older fans "F*** you! This isn't your Legion anymore!"? ... I loved a lot of the improvements the Reboot made to the Legion mythos but an unnecessary and (they had to have known) divisive change like this one was a big mistake IMO. Anyway, I digress...

I can never get worked up about hair colour. So a red head dyes their hair mor blonde? Happens all the time.

The (standard) cover: I loved the way Dirk and Tasmia are both watching Earth-Man. Sun Boy's face is brilliant. Shadow Lass looks like someone ready to jump into his bed.

The earth force: If you blow up the picture, those helmets don't look see through just have some kind of logo on them.

oh man... <span class="spoiler_containter"><span class="spoiler_wording">Click Here For A Spoiler</span><span class="spoiler_text">Timber Wolf has heightened senses and claws now?? BLEHH. Is that really gonna help the Wolverine comparisons any?</span></span>

Does he have a homicidal maniac for a son?

LOL


As for Jeckie's costume, yes I hate it too but I don't hate it as much when the wig and mask are off.
Jeckie's white-ish hair actually makes the white in the costume stand out more, thus making the whole thing more tolerable to me.
Does she really need to keep her identity a secret any longer? It's been so long, I don't think anyone really cares anymore, do they?

Somehow it worked for with just the mark off, at least to me.

I'm kind of in two minds about it....on one hand it actually does make sense for the rest of the world not to know that she's Projectra because it makes her illusions more effective.

On the other hand, the Fatal Five at least know who she is, and while Sarya died not long after that encounter the Persuader, Flare and Caress are still around. I guess the question then becomes how chummy are the bad guys of the 31st Century and how likely would they be to spread the word?

If everyone knows that Sensor Girl is Projectra then the mask is silly. If it's still a secret, I think it's definitely worth keeping a secret...

You mean Mountain Goat, the rock-climbing psychopath he's always butting heads with? Nothing's been confirmed, but I hear rumors....

The claws have some historical precedence as he was sometimes drawn that way after the accident that left him looking 'animalistic'. The heightened senses are a total mistake for this version of the character although the reboot T-wolf did have heightened senses and a healing factor (at the end of the run). The irony here is that 1. Brin predates Logan and 2. Wolverine was originally concieved as a villain for a LSH spin-off series that never happened.

The whole purpose of Sensor Girl's mask was to hide her identity. Wouldn't the tiara be an obvious reminder to her foes who she is? Sensor Girl for leader and she can celebrate with a whole makeover in her wardrobe.

actually Brin had the claws b4 and the heighten senses b4 as well.

The symbolism of it being Sun Boy and Shadow Lass that are clearly keeping an eye on him, as Earth-Man is 'trapped between the light and the dark' deciding which way he's going to go, is kinda neat.

This, like the comment about Polar Boy breaking Sun Boy's flirting record in the second issue (ish), seems to be telling us about Sun Boy, by way of establishing characterization, rather than *showing us* that characterization.

It could be terribly clever, in that he's clearly not the man he used to be, if he's still surviving off of that reputation, despite *not* being a lothario any more...

It's not like we've seen him dating since being busted out of captivity.

If Paul is playing with long-term fans expectations by having Dirk's friends not having recognized yet how changed he is from happy-go-lucky mister serial monogamist, it could make for some interesting character development, although, after what happened with Reboot Sun Boy, I'm not sure I want to see him dragged down that path again...