Legion World Forums LEGION OUTPOST Mission Monitor Board Every 10 Years Forum Looks That Kill Lad (1972-2004)

Andrew, I'm very sorry for you, his partner and his family. Paul was a great guy and will be sorely missed. Thank you so much for keeping us in mind.

I'm at a loss for words, so I can only say that Paul was always one of the nicest people to talk to online and will be very deeply missed.

Des

I didn't know Paul very well, but I echo the sentiments here.

Sad day for Legion fans. My heart goes out to his family and friends.

I knew we were hoping against hope, but this is still a ton of bricks.

Andrew, please accept my condolences, and pass them along to Paul's family and friends. This is a loss for all of us, but especially for those of you who knew him day in and out. I wish I had the words to better express what a crying shame it is to lose someone so young, so good. I'll keep him in my thoughts.

Andrew,

Please accept my condolences. The truth is that I didn't know Paul, I never interacted with him, but from what you and others have said, he was obviously a great human being. If we here can do anything to help you, please let us know.

Juan

May he truly find peace in whatever afterlife there may be.

My sympathies to the many people who knew and loved him, in the real world and through the Internet.

I think of how long Paul's battle was, and that his partner, family and close friends must be exhausted as well as grief-stricken. It's so terrible and sad that a life is lost, but one so young it's even harder to understand.

Our hearts, thoughts and prayers will be with Paul's family and partner as they make the final arrangements and try to carry on. May they draw on each other's strength and love to help them get through this time of pain and anguish.

In sympathy, and with a wish for blessings for comfort.

Caroline and Scott Sharritt

My thoughts and sympathies to those who knew and loved Paul.

Wow. So many people get sick and get better, he was one of the ones I was hoping would make a full recovery. Another painful reminder not to take life & loved ones for granted. My condolences.


Tony

I had not yet had the chance to get to know Paul. If he was part of this group then he was special indeed and I am very sorry for your loss.

My heart and prayers go out to all of Paul's friends and family.

*hugz* to ya buddy.
You're the greatest.

I don't think I ever got the chance to interact here at all with Paul, but he certainly sounds like someone I would have been the better for knowing.

My sincere condolances to family & friends.

I hope you will indulge me in what has turned out to be a longer post than I originally planned... Paul was one of my closest internet friends, and I’ll miss him. I already miss him terribly. And maybe if I can share a little about how much Paul meant to me, and why, some of the posters here who didn’t know him can understand a bit more why Paul was such a wonderful person...

I feel so lucky that I was able to meet Paul in person. I had the chance to get together with him twice when I was visiting the UK a few years ago. It probably should have been three times, but something terrific came out of that first missed meeting, so I won’t complain. The day that Paul was first supposed to meet Terence, Brian (BBC/Seahorse), and me at Bar Acuda in London, he somehow got turned around. Instead of finding us, he bumped into Manuel. Ever since then, whenever Paul mentioned Manuel, I always thought back to that day in early September 2001, and how lucky for all of us that Paul got diverted on the way to the Bar...

The first time I actually met Paul in person was a couple of days later, on a street corner in the West End. We both showed up at the meeting place on time, and kind of looked back and forth at each other for a minute or two before saying “hi.” I’d seen a photo of him before, and he had a description of me, so I think we both knew who each other was... but we were both a bit shy. After we introduced ourselves, we immediately felt at ease, and decided to go somewhere to sit and talk – the Burger King in Leicester Square. I remember having mini-doughnuts, something we don’t have at Burger King in the States. We talked about everything and nothing, and by the time we parted ways outside a little later, my only regret was that we lived on opposite sides of the Atlantic, so that we couldn’t meet up more often.

I had the opportunity to get together with Paul one more time before I left London. We met Terence at an Italian restaurant and had a nice lunch and conversation, despite the pouring rain outside. I wish we’d been able to spend more time together, but Paul had to return to work. The last time I saw him, he was walking off into the rain, adjusting his headphones and pulling his black trenchcoat about him tightly against the chilly September weather.

Since then, I’ve always felt close to Paul. Maybe it was the fact that we were born just a few weeks apart, in the same month and year. (For that reason, I thought of him as a sort of internet brother – we even got the same score on the Dr. Phil test that Bevis e-mailed around a few months back. Paul’s response: “we're twins! I got 44 a well.” and “separated at birth obviously!” )

Maybe it was because Paul and I had so many interests in common – Pokemon, Transformers, videogames, and, of course, the Legion (we both liked Adam Hughes’s Dream Girl, and I busted out laughing so hard when Paul said of that pic, “I swear I nearly turned!”). We would often e-mail back and forth for days and days, just talking about Gameboy Advance or Xbox or Pikachu or Squirtle.

But really I think it was because of how sweet, and funny, and just generally all-around wonderful he was. Paul was modest – he wasn’t the kind of person to make a big fuss about himself. But I hope he knew how important he was, and still is, to so many people near and far.

Andrew, please let Paul’s mum and family, and Manuel, know how much he meant to all of us, even those of us thousands of miles away. He’ll be missed, but never forgotten.

I never really knew him, but I so wish I did. From those posts of his I read, I could tell he was very special. I'm really sorry too.

More hugs from me.

I'm too new to have known him here but from the way his family talks about him hear, I can tell he was a great guy and will be missed.

*sigh* Probably my first internet crush.

When it was realized just how many gay Legion fans there were over on the old DC board, Paul didn't hesitate to start up the LGLFF group (Legion of Gay LSH Fans & Friends).

Stu, you're very lucky. I wish I could have met Paul in person.

My condolences to Paul's family, partner, and friends.

I know exactly what you mean and I was initially worried about that. Paul wasn't the sort of person who'd push himself to the front in a crowd and it would have been easy to miss how funny he could be.

Luckily, the posts here and reactions from some people who I know who only met him a few times have shown me I was wrong.

Thank you Andrew.
I'm very sorry to hear this, Looks That Kill Lad was a fine Legionnaire and an example of outstanding service to many of us. I know LTKL never wavered in his loyalty to his friends nor his love for the Legion. I'm greatly saddened to see a need for new monuments added to the Hall of Dead Heroes and to Shanghalla and I hate it that they're for Paul.

He will be sorely missed among us.

The Yellow Kid and the Primary Color Gang

Paul was the first legion fan I ever chatted with online and possibly the first person of any kind that I chatted with online. I was nervous as a newbie, he made it easy.

My condolences to all that knew him.

I totally missed this thread until today. I remember seeing his posts pop up now and then, but it sounds like I missed out on something far greater. My condolences to all who miss him.

Eric

I'm very sorry to hear this upon loging back on to LW after a weeklong trip. Andrew, my condolences to you, Manuel, & his family. You'll all be in my prayers.

V

Is this the one you're talking about, Jim? This is from his personnel profile at the LMBP Outpost, and it's currently on the LMBP Y-group homepage.

http://www.geocities.com/lmbp_outpost/PERSONNEL/looksthatkill.jpg

I find it funny that someone who called himself "Looks That Kill" had such killer eyes...

I'm so sorry to here this. My sympathies to all his friends and family.

"I didn't know Paul very well, but I echo the sentiments here.

Sad day for Legion fans. My heart goes out to his family and friends."

Same here. My Condolences.