From: dvandom@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Dave Van Domelen)
Subject: LSH #41, more ramblings
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 04:02:39 GMT

Okay, more stuff from this issue that I caught on second read or forgot the 
first time I posted.
     Page 7 = Interlac sign.  Does it say "Dead (something)d Club"?  My 
interlac is rusty.
     Page 21 = BEST quote of the issue, and of course Tenzil has it.  Brainy is
trying out his reveneered forcefield belt and comments as he nabs a chair with 
it, "Observe how I grab that seat."  To which Tenzil the Younger replies, "Now,
*Brainy*, what have we told you about grabbing seats?"  ROTFLMAO.
     Costume review on individual basis:
Ferro Lad = I like it, but I'm a sucker for that "button up flap" look.  
     However, I don't like how his mask is open at the bottom.
Ultra Boy = Only minor changes to a classic.
Phantom Girl, er Apparition = seems to incorporate the collar design from the
     elder Tinya's recent costume.  Works okay.
Gossamer = I never have liked the long sleeves and no leggings look, mainly
     because every time I try to use it in a design it looks so bad.  This
     is a better use of the style than most, but I still agree with Ayla....
     it covers too much, namely her forearms.
Live Wire = make the blue parts on his sides white so the vee is uninterrupted,
     and have the blue on the legs taper up at mid thigh (in a way to reinforce 
     the vee pattern and it would look much better.
Leviathan = Looks like the Magic Wars era costume gone worse.  I would prefer a
     revision of his classic costume instead.
Inferno = Yeah, it looks good, but I'd break the symmetry a bit more by
     having the flames wrap around one side of his torso instead of being a
     strip on each side.
Cos = Same design. Better colors.
Saturn Girl = Again, just a sleeker version of the old design, dropping the
     skirt.  I'd have preferred keeping the skirt in a modified form, maybe
     patterning after the pointed Supergirl design.
Alchemist = Boring costume.  I miss the Interlac E myself.
Triad = Okay, but the colors stink.  I don't care if they're the classic
     Duo Damsel colors from her bicolor suit.  Orange and Purple?  Ick.
Vi = Geez, get some imagination.  To think we went all this time without Vi 
     wearing a violet-colored costume, only to surrender now.  Replace the
     purple with green.  She's not shown full size, tho, so we can't see
     any real detail on the costume.
Invisible Kid = Well, at least the design is the same, if only now B&W.  I'd
     add a shoulderpiece of another color to offset the dreary black.  Maybe
     tan, like the shoulderpiece from his original costume.
Brainy = Sorry, but he WORKS wearing a baggy jumpsuit.  Skintight and Querl do
     *NOT* go together.
Tenzil = Hey, I *like* his original costume.  His new one lacks the distracting
     detail that characterizes is personality.  The tooth is a nice touch, but
     I'd like to see it more busy.
Andromeda = Change the base color!  I've already had the following conversation
     twice: Someone - "Hey, she's almost nude!"  Me - "No, it's pale orange
     there, see?  If you squint real hard?"  Under most artificial lights
     that orange looks like flesh.  It needs to be deeper, or maybe replaced
     by a light blue.
Cham = EEWWWWWW!!!!!  This atrocity is by far the worst of the lot!  Even
     Cham's old cowled costume beats this hands down!  It SUCKS.
Computo = This is more the kind of costume Cham should wear, the looser baggy
     fit characteristic of the older legion.
DragonMage = This works well because it has no clear stripe boundary, and the
     dragon pattern seems to flow more naturally.
Catspaw = Massive Robgoblin overdose.  If anything, the stripe pattern should
     be on the outside, and the strip be the solid color.

Okay, off the costumes.  Brace yourself before reading the lettercol...it comes
straight from the Unadjectived X-Men School Of Sycophantic Letters.  All sorts 
of "Terra Mosaic was the best story ever" ravings.  Only a few mild criticisms 
appear, and are largely waved away.  Man, this lettercol was nauseating to 
read.
     Dave Van Domelen, Oh yeah, Tyroc is president now.