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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 6, 2017 2:44:22 GMT -5
I read this one last night:  Another awesome LSH tale. The first appearance of Dream Girl! She shows up at the Legion auditions and the guys are all "Wow! Your dream powers are great! I'll vote you in! What are you doing Saturday night? Do you like Super Space Dancing?" And the girl are all "Her powers are dumb but the boys are all goo-goo over her doll face! Stupid boys!" So she becomes a member and is totally stuck up and horrible and starts getting people kicked out of the Legion and turned into babies! Dream Girl is one of my favorites. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 6, 2017 3:08:39 GMT -5
I've witnessed other women slowly turn grown men into blubbering babies. Do they all come from the same planet?
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 6, 2017 13:28:16 GMT -5
I read this one last night: Another awesome LSH tale. The first appearance of Dream Girl! She shows up at the Legion auditions and the guys are all "Wow! Your dream powers are great! I'll vote you in! What are you doing Saturday night? Do you like Super Space Dancing?" And the girl are all "Her powers are dumb but the boys are all goo-goo over her doll face! Stupid boys!" So she becomes a member and is totally stuck up and horrible and starts getting people kicked out of the Legion and turned into babies! Dream Girl is one of my favorites. My two cents from a few weeks ago: classiccomics.org/thread/3785/comic-lovers-memories?page=7 |
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Post by Hoosier X on May 19, 2017 11:33:37 GMT -5
I'm up to Adventure Comics #354 in the #350 to #380 run. I think this is the first "Adult Legion" story. Superman visits the 30th century for the first time since he was Superboy. And how things have changed! There are a few more dead Legionnaires honored in the Hall of Heroes, members have married, had kids, lost their powers, joined or left the LSH. Two things really stick out. Number One: All the receding hairlines! Timber Wolf has a full head of hair but almost all the rest of the male members are looking a little chilly up top. And you should see what they did to Thom Kallor! (Who used to be Star Boy.) Almost totally bald! (And some of the men are getting a little paunchy.) The other thing is the continuity. A lot of the future events depicted in Adventure #354 were still canon when I started reading LSH adventures about 1980. Chemical King, for example, is one of the dead Legionnaires, and he hadn't even been introduced to the series yet. He would come along in a year or so, and then die heroically in the 1970s. Also Matter-Eater Lad is depicted as the president of Bizmoll (his home planet) in this issue, and I recall him getting involved in politics while I was reading LSH in the 1980s. And the LSH couples in the "Adult Legion" - Jo and Tinya, Brin and Ayla, Thom and Nura, Chuck and Luornu, etc. - were consistent with the stories I was reading in the 1980s. So it looks like future LSH writers took the "Adult Legion" stories seriously. For a while anyway. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 22, 2017 8:32:22 GMT -5
That they did, but in the big 300 anniversary issue, Paul Levitz revealed that the adult Legion stories were set in parallel realities... and so Shadow Woman did not die saving the Science Asteroid.
The receding hairlines and bulging bellies would make a comeback during the Five Years Later era. Along with mullets.
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Post by brutalis on May 22, 2017 14:05:02 GMT -5
That they did, but in the big 300 anniversary issue, Paul Levitz revealed that the adult Legion stories were set in parallel realities... and so Shadow Woman did not die saving the Science Asteroid. The receding hairlines and bulging bellies would make a comeback during the Five Years Later era. Along with mullets. Swan drew a realistic (as in how we truly might age) adult Legion that was believable by the standards of the time. Granted there are the few oldster's of today who are the exception with incredible bodies but for the average man Swan's adult men were more believable. I know that i more resemble a Swan adult now than i would have imagined in my youth. |
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Post by cellardweller on May 27, 2017 22:26:48 GMT -5
Huge Legion fan, and have every issue prior to Nu52 reboot (including Legionaries, and L.E.G.I.O.N., Wanderers, and all the other spin offs and minis). my favorite? and in my favorite outfit?  tho I liked the slightly more complicated original version too:  and totally dug the Sensor Girl outfit as well:  and although I loved them all, Jeckie was closely followed in my favorites list by: Dawnstar, Wildfire, and Shady While I was far from a regular reader of the LoSH series, I had more than a few issues, and like you, Jeckie was my fave as well. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 3, 2017 1:05:09 GMT -5
I'm up to Adventure Comics #355. The first story is the conclusion of the "Adult Legion" story in the previous issue. I read it a few days ago and I don't really remember it that well. The Legion of Super-Villains lure the Legion into a trap! Or something. I must have been half-asleep when I read it. I just now finished the second story. And ... Superboy takes Lana Lang to the 30th century with him. And she becomes Insect Queen to help out! And she loses her bio-ring while helping the legion on a case in Antarctica and will have to stay in the Moth Maid form FOREVER! I love Lana Lang so much! She's hilarious! And any story where she's Insect Queen is just icing on the cake even if she doesn't go to the 30th century. So you can imagine how much I loved this story! |
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Post by hondobrode on Jun 5, 2017 12:27:33 GMT -5
I liked the Legionnaires title from the 90's, with that Archie LSH vibe but without the Silver Age silliness.
Was really impressed how well that title turned out.
I'd love to have A. the LSH back, and B. a sister title like L.E.G.I.O.N. again.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jul 13, 2017 11:09:31 GMT -5
So I'm up to Adventure Comics #365 in the #350 to #380 run.  The LSH series has been a little uneven, with some really dumb stories and some really good ones. With #365, they are definitely getting back on track. Neal Adams cover! Curt Swan interiors! The first appearance of Shadow Lass! (She's one of my favorites. It's especially nice to see her before she and Mon-El were permanently joined at the hip. They are one of my least favorite super-hero couples. I hate it when they end each sentence to each other with "m'love." PUKE!) Also ... The Return of the Fatal Five! |
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Post by Prince Hal on Jul 13, 2017 15:12:27 GMT -5
So I'm up to Adventure Comics #365 in the #350 to #380 run. The LSH series has been a little uneven, with some really dumb stories and some really good ones. With #365, they are definitely getting back on track. Neal Adams cover! Curt Swan interiors! The first appearance of Shadow Lass! (She's one of my favorites. It's especially nice to see her before she and Mon-El were permanently joined at the hip. They are one of my least favorite super-hero couples. I hate it when they end each sentence to each other with "m'love." PUKE!) Also ... The Return of the Fatal Five! Glory days... at least in my memory. |
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Post by dbutler69 on Jul 13, 2017 15:25:01 GMT -5
Shadow Lass is one of my favorites, too.
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Post by hondobrode on Jul 13, 2017 21:12:05 GMT -5
and her ancestor Lyrissa Mallor in L.E.G.I.O.N. was good too  before her daughter was kidnapped and brainwashed by the Computer Typants of Colu and killed her mother  |
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Post by dbutler69 on Jul 14, 2017 16:01:13 GMT -5
and her ancestor Lyrissa Mallor in L.E.G.I.O.N. was good too before her daughter was kidnapped and brainwashed by the Computer Typants of Colu and killed her mother. I've read a lot of Legion stuff, but I've never read any L.E.G.I.O.N. Is it any good? |
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Post by Hoosier X on Jul 28, 2017 17:30:54 GMT -5
I'm up to Adventure Comics #370. I haven't read it yet. But it looks so COOL! |
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