From: mamcconnell@happy.colorado.edu (Mark (MacBear) McConnell)
Subject: Re: LSH #41
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: 23 Jan 93 18:59:47 MDT

In article <1993Jan23.064849.9224@netcom.com>, dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig) writes:
> 
> p.4, panel 4:  What do Rokk and Jacques have against the Bimbino twins?

Good question.  We need to vote in Tenzil Kem. (Tenzil Kem... Tenzil Kem...)

> p.7, panel 4:  Crystal Kid?
He was first intoduced in AWODCC (I forget the number) as one of
the Legion applicants that many of the DC readers were introducing
at the time.  They did this for a few issues of the "fanzine."  They 
also had a Legion Outpost for most of those issues.  Very shortly 
afterword, LSH took over complete control of the Superboy comic and 
some of the applicants started showing up in the LSH Academy.  I 
think he was one.

> P.8, panel 4:  Brainiac Sr tries to be helpful.  Maybe Dawnstar needs someone
> with a better bedside manner.  Mordru, perhaps.

Ooh!  Me, me!!  I know!!  Starfinger could help!  Ple-e-ease!?!

> p.9, last panel:  I don't think they've thought this through very carefully.
> What's this "she's back"?  If the other two know themselves to be body-1
> and body-2, doesn't that mean that the third one knows herself to be body-3?
> If that's the case, does she have no memories beyond being killed by
> Computo?  If the three bodies have slightly differing memories, then
> presumably the combined body has all three sets, in which case she should
> know how many of herself there are.  And why should materializing three
> bodies call for any different effort than materializing two?  It would
> imply that normal Cargggians can choose to duplicate instead of triplicate,
> but we've never had a hint of that before.  (I'm ignoring the implications
> of the time Luornu was given the ability to split into a far larger number
> of bodies, as that probably never happened now.)
Good questions and thoughts.

> p.12, panel 1:  Doesn't the old clubhouse belong to the Subs?
They don't seem to be using it, plus the time that SW6 was put
out of commission (or cloned) makes them still feel it is *theirs*.
Of course, Cham knows who it should go to, but maybe he knows
Jacque's and Rokk's plans.

> p.18, panel 5:  Tenzil's back-door entry is reminiscent of a similar scene
> in the movie "The Great Dictator".
My hero!

> p.21, last panel:  It sounds as though Jan was issued a new codename
> against his will.  Isn't that unreasonable?
I kind of always liked Mystery Lad. (? was his emblem.)

> p.22, panel 1:  Looks as though Laurel took her older self's advice about
> costuming.  Though why she's got a no-pest strip hanging down to her knees
> is beyond me.
No Pests!  It's obvious.

> p.24, credits and splash page:  The last fourteen pages are the ones drawn
> for the triple-sized issue that didn't happen.  Costumes...  Dirk's
> represents the most dramatic improvement over his old one.  Laurel's
> looked far better on p.22 than here:  It's a potentially great costume
> that's easy to draw badly.  Most of the others are neither better nor
> worse.  I like Vi's violet costume, and Rokk's new color scheme may be a
> change for the better.  The younger Jo seems to have picked up the 2990s
> fashion of growing a stubble.  
Watch for the pony-tail in the near future...

> It'll be interesting to see if the writers can find anything actually
> useful for Tenzil and Luornu to do.  I'm looking forward to finding out.
> Actually, I have to agree with Cham:  This group has something the older
> group's been missing.
Optimism?  Just because all of these young pups in todays
audience and the current writers think that all of science
is only going to lead us to an apocalyptic future, doesn't
mean it has to be that way.  Gene Roddenberry did not like
that version of the future, so demanded that Star Trek never
be written that way.  On occassion it was, but good always
triumphed in his stories.  Conflict was rare, and always
resolved.  When he died, we got post-apocalyptic stories (DS9).
Maybe we can have some fun with the _Legionnaires_.

(Get rid of that soapbox Mac...)

Thanks Dani for giving me ideas about whether I should buy the
new title.  Looks like a go.

-- 
Mark A. McConnell       |  Looking forward to the new, improved, _old_,
mamcconnell@uccs.edu    |  Legionnaires.  Optimistically.
mark_m@eclat.uccs.edu   |