From: tyg@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Tom Galloway)
Subject: Re: Send in the clones: Legion Problems
Keywords: Don't Forget the Chaos...
Organization: Interleaf
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 21:05:55 GMT

In article <1992Oct10.182341.19596@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> ctatro@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Christopher D Tatro channeling Stefan Krzywicki) writes:
>The "Huge Eyes" look given to them in the art of Issue 36 is quite
>silly and I keep expecting Astro Boy or Robotech to happen on the scene.  

Hadn't you heard? Wildfire's new containment suit will look exactly like 
Astro Boy. :-)

> First of all, the costumes of the SW6ers seem to have been taken from a wide
>variety of times in the Legion's past or made up all-together.  Phantom Girl,
>Duo Damsel and Invisible Kid (Invisible Kid's being altered in a way that
>never appeared during the run of his character in the original series) are
>good examples of this problem.  What ever happened to the skirts the women
>wore, now they are all wearing some sheath type thing that exposes their
>buttocks when they move!

Um, what on Earth are you talking about? All the SW6 batch aka the teen
Legion are wearing the costumes those characters wore circa Adventure #350.
The only changes I've noticed have been that the P and Fe on Phantom Girl
and Ferro Lad's costumes seem to be much larger than they should be.

>     Aside from these aesthetic problems, When Invisible Kid drips out of his
>pod, he says "well, looks like the Gang's all here" but we never, never see
>Bouncing Boy, ShadowLass, Timber Wolf or Chemical King.  All of these were in
>the Legion in the apparently long peroid over which these clones were stolen.

Wrong. It was quickly established on the net that the clones are all from
between Adventure #349 and #350. As it happens, a lot of things happened
right around that point, including the initiation of Karate Kid, Projectra,
Ferro Lad and Nemesis Kid, the discovery that Nemesis Kid was a traitor,
Invisible Kid being elected leader (btw, he's got about a week's worth
of experience in the job) happening before and the restoration of Lightning
Lad's arm, Matter-Eater Lad's weight reduction plan, and Bouncing Boy's
restoration, as well as Star Boy and Dream Girl returning to the team.
As Lightning Lad mentioned his restored arm and there was no dialogue
indicating any of the Legion didn't have memories up to the same point
("O.K. everyone, let's settle down and get organized!" "Invisible Kid,
why are you giving orders? Brainy's leader y'know." "Hey, who are those
three over there?" "They're the group that just joined a few months ago,
plus I guess Ferro Lad's twin brother since he's dead." "Whaddaya mean
I'm dead!"). This was later confirmed in the letter column. At that
point in time Bouncing Boy was depowered, Shadow Lass hadn't met the Legion,
and at least Timber Wolf and probably Chemical King were in the Academy.

>     Next problem, how do you clone two invulnerable people without their
>knowledge?

All you need is one cell, and I assume they flake off skin cells.

>     Now, perhaps the biggest problem of them all...Superboy!!!
>     Sorry, got carried away there, anyone else having a problem with a new
>history to "remember?"  By the way, Inside sources at DC say Kent is really
>Superboy from a renewed pocket universe with a mindblock preventing him from
>using certain powers, but I'm sure you knew that already.  Supposidly, it will
>be revealed in Issue 50.  Kent will, in the next few issues, get hit with a new
>mind block or will be possesed by that which possesed Dawnstar(Bounty).  The
>thing will know he is Superboy but not tell anyone(like it would bother) and as
>Brainy(s) works to drive it out, he comes across the mind blocks and restores
>his memory.  Pretty nifty Huh? (Holy Reflecto Batman!!)

I'll believe this only when I see it. From what I can tell from numerous
comments, the Legion writers want to just ignore the current "is he or
isn't he in Legion history" mess that Superboy creates. And naming your
sources would help too.

>     OK, the real biggest problem: Triplicate Girl/Duo Damsel/Mono Maid.

Personally, I rather like the name that one of the Black Ink Irregulars'
opponents at the San Diego Comicon came up with for her; Single White Female.

"There are three types of men in the world:
1) Those who liked Daphne,
2) Those who liked Velma,
3) and those who liked Freddie.
PS: I'm not including those who liked Scooby." --Chuck Jordan
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