I can wait for the LOSH designs when they are in the comic to "judge" them. These are just preliminary designs: so Sook (i presume he did the redesigning) likely just used a basic body/costume design to sketch and lay out as templates or guidelines. At least they are different and interesting while evoking classic and recent LOSH suits. Certain there may be some tweaks or changes and surprises when they are revealed on the printed page. Really like the more aquatic/alien Chameleon Boy look. Can't wait to see the rest of the teams looks...

The Best Of the Legion Outpost book was here today, looking brand new and no idea what shelf wear which wa smentioned could be... perhaps they use that same description for a lot of books? I only gave it a brief flipping through but looks like a lot of fun. Some really nice Dave Cockrum, Mike Grell and Jimmy Janes artwork among others. I remember they sort of had a story in honor of some of these fans in one of the '70s Superboy & Legion comics, and they were mentioned on the letter's page.

I did read one part of the Jack C. Harris interview and it mentions Murray Boltinoff sometimes being heavy handed in making changes to stories by one J. Shooter (and possibly other writers). Maybe considering people who carped about Shooter editing their work heavily might feel lucky he would let them make the changes themselves? Old school comics editors just went and changed things, no time or whatever being a decent reason often enough I guess, and maybe Shooter was a step up from that situation he himself came out of as a writer? I remember stories of art teachers erasing work or writing across it... and then compared to someone who hit the roof over the slightest suggestion of an alteration... somewhere between the two extremes I guess is where commerce can function.

Did Harry Broertjes do a fanzine review column in the Comics Buyer's Guide paper once? Broertjes is Dutch/Nederlandse for brothers.

Really lacking in time today but wanted to enthuse and philosophize a little about this here. Long live the Legion!

I happened upon an LSH podcast which has been running for over ten years. It started with the first story and is now up into 5YL.

paulfrench.ca/losp/?m=200810

Wow, Paul Levitz has tiny feet.

They were designed by Rib Liefeld.

OK, so I read the Legion of Super-Heroes Baxter series # 4, where Karate Kid dies.  One thing that confuses me is that everyone says that Nemesis Kid killed him. Nemesis Kid himself says so in the very next issue ("I killed Karate Kid with my bare hands" he says to Projectra, who doesn't dispute it even though she was right there when that didn't happen), and Projectra basically agrees with him, and if you ask any Legion fa, he'll say the same.  The thing is, HE DIDN'T KILL HIM!  Karate Kid flies up into a power sphere in order to destroy it.  He's obviously still alive at that point, and dies in the explosion.  He basically commits suicide. Here's the death scene.





And here's the splash page of the next issue, and KK sure looks fried from the explosion to me.



Maybe the argument is that KK would have died of his injuries anyway, or that Nemesis Kid would have inevitably killed him, but I'm not being either of those explanations.

I didn't know that about Giffen.  I wonder why.  Well, since he was co-plotting, maybe he offered up the idea of KK getting killed off.