system: You are Stephen Turner, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Comics message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to David Harding about "Re: Favorite Legionnaire".

They wrote:
TH> Well, I consider myself an old Legion fan (since the Mike Grell
TH> days anyway <g>) and I cannot foresee a time when I would ever
TH> stop buying these books.  They are sooo much fun.
DH>
ST> Hmmmm. I won't get into this. You know hwo I feel about Mike
ST> Grell....(g)
DH>
DH>      Those Mike Grell comments weren't mine anyway... but you're
DH> right.  There's no point in re-fighting old wars again...<G>
DH> From there, I actually started reading the occasional issue of
DH> "Superboy & The Legion Of Super-heroes" (the first one I remember
DH> was the one where Ultra Boy was framed for murder... somewhere in
DH> the 230s
DH>
ST> That one was an EXCELLENT story, drawn by Starlin, featuring
ST> Chameleon Boy as the chief investigator and detective in the case!
ST> A landmark issue of that rag under Levitz, i think.
DH>
DH>      It was a great story.  I've got a question.  Is there any reason
DH> you can think of as to why Superboy & The Legion Of Super-heroes #232
DH> is so hard to find.  Currently, I'm 2 issues away from having from
ST> Some GREAT Keith giffen stories from before he went cartoonish!
DH>
DH>      Actually, it was the Giffen era which got me interested in the
DH> Legion on a fairly full-time basis.  Even after his art style changed,
DH> there were some really good stories being published... but I still
DH> preferred the way his artwork looked early in his Legion career to his
DH> later (and current) stuff.
ST> Whoops! Got to correct you there! The ORIGINAL "Computo" story was
ST> WAAAAAAY back in Superboy number something or other...in the
ST> SIXTIES, when, as drawn by Curt Swan, I think, the machine, built
ST> by Brainiac 5, devoured one of Triplicate Girl's three dupes. The
ST> Keith Giffen sequel was actually MUCH better, but by no means the
ST> original one....it was the SECOND one.
DH>
DH>      By now (thanks to other folks), you know I am referring to both
DH> of those classic Computo stories.  You're right, the story did feature
DH> one of Triplicate Girl's "selves" being killed by Computo (if I
DH> remember correctly, didn't the 2nd body "buy the farm" in a battle
DH> with the Time Trapper in LSH (Vol. 3) #45?).  I own a copy of the
DH> first part... and am still looking for part 2 (although I have read
DH> the story when it was reprinted elsewhere).  The Annual, by contrast,
DH> featured a great story of the Legion having to combat their own hi-
DH> tech headquarters (which had been taken over by Computo... who'd taken
DH> up residence in the mind of Invisible Kid II's younger sister).

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assistant: Amen! (g)
Yes, it's a classic and in-demand issue....hence, there's probably been a
rush on it! (That, and it's over twenty years old!!)
Yes...I'd love to know what possessed him, (and it happened so suddenly when
he
WAS possessed,) to change styles so abruptly and completely...expediency?
Heh...that's when you COULD follow Legion stories! I'd be lost today.