*drool*

[yendi]

I so need this book:



At some point I need to write about the thrill of discovering the LSH back when I was nine or so (and long before the Mark Waid Craptastic Reboot that destroyed the concept).

Comments

[iresprite.livejournal.com]

MOOM! The song you're listening to!

Gah!

He's one of my favorites! Don't you know this?

Love the Stuart!

[yendi]

Hell, I had no idea that anyone else even knew who he was. I posted the lyrics to "Progress" a while back, even (before you were reading me). I only discovered him because my best friend in college lived in Minnesota, and caught him at a live show, and made me listen to his CD. :-)

[iresprite.livejournal.com]

Sigh. Good stuff. I'm not a big fan of "Progress", but I love most of his stuff. I love 16 Nudes, Kid Mystic, and Nomen est Numen. Ooh, and Bright Apocalypse. There are some songs where he and I just diverge, and I'm cool with that. But for the most part, yowza.

I will sit in my room and bellow out the lyrics to "I Need". Or, when I'm feeling particularly melancholy/rowdy, "Jonah". Man. That man's lyrics.

[yendi]

I've listened to bits of the other albums, but never enough to really know if I want to buy 'em. There are also songs where I've got a disconnect with him, but enough good stuff that I'm glad I bought the CD.

[envoy.livejournal.com]

Woah, flashback, isn't that guy just to the right of the middle, in the red and yellow outfit that anti-matter guy? Showed up in a one shot, could duplicate all of the legion's powers, but since he didn't have any original powers they wouldn't let him in? Then he killed himself using his one 'unique' power (which was to remove his own faceplate and pour himself out in a single devistating beam of anti-matter?)

[yendi]

I think you're blurring Wildfire (who is the anti-matter guy, and did most of what you said), with Nemesis Kid, a LSH villain who could mimic powers (and who was executed after killing Karate Kid, not be confused with Ralph Macchio).

Incidentally, Wildfire did manage, after blowing out all of his anti-matter, to come back near the end of the real Legion's run.

[gmslegion.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh, I'd say the Legion was dead about five years before the Waid revamp. Letting a team of slashfic fans like the Bierbaums on the book was what really killed it.

[yendi]

For whatever reason, I enjoyed the Bierbaums' run, although it was at its best when it was Giffen and the Bierbaums (what a name for a band). And right when I was getting sick and tired of it, they brought out the Legionaires/clone plotline, and I actually gave a rat's ass for a little bit.

Zero Hour effectively ended my love for the DC Universe, however.

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Dave Cockrum? Or at least after his fashion? *nostalgic sigh*

LSH made me the biggest Mike Grell fan.

[envoy.livejournal.com]

Did he do it to destroy some large hulking machine that was destroying massive amount of the crop of some agriplanet that would have, if not stopped caused millions/billions of sentient creatures to die of starvation (the machine, not the planet)?

Wow... worst. sentence. ever.

[swisscheesed.livejournal.com]

I was just going to say that. The Bierbaums really signalled the beginning of the end. I mean, Sh'vaughn being a man and all that? Um...

Zero Hour was meant to clean up all that shit and I was in a way *relieved* when it happend.

Paul Levitz had the best run, IMO.

[swisscheesed.livejournal.com]

Kara's on the cover....*nostalgic sigh*

Hated and still hate Andromeda. HATE.

*walks away muttering something about third grade Supergirl replacements*

Re: Legion companion

[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

Oooh. Definitely have to get this. I grew up on the legion. Although dawstar is much too small at the top.

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

You and me both.

I think most incarnations of the LSH were amusing and fun.

LLL

[scarcrest.livejournal.com]

I can read and enjoy the current series, as written by Abnett and Lanning, though I have a very clear delimiter between the Legion I grew up with and this Legion. As you said, the Giffen/Bierbaum era had some very good moments, though there were a few bad calls toward the end (Shvaughn Erin's gender issues; Lightning Lad having remained dead all those years and Proty's soul living on in his body; the destruction of the moon).

Andromeda's nowhere to be seen in the current incarnation. If she showed up at all after Zero Hour, it must have been very briefly. (I didn't start reading the book post-Zero Hour until just before the Abnett/Lanning/Coipel "Legion of the Damned" story, when they did a two-parter with Barry Kitson doing a lost tale of L.E.G.I.O.N., with Mon-El and Phantom Girl/Phase.)

I think my favorite Legionaires who've never returned would be Blok, the White Witch and, of course, the original Supergirl.

Re: LLL

[yendi]

I actually thought the Moon story was pretty good, just too short -- it was such a devasting shift to the series, that it deserved more space. And I actually didn't mind Shvaughn's storyline, once it got going. It was a great twist on a character, and added loads to Element Lad (who, let's face it, had always been a one-note character: "oh, I'm the last of my race. Poor me"). The Lightning Lad thing bothered me, because I really think it weakened too many great storylines from the past.

And yeah, I'd love to see a return of Blok. The issue where they killed him in the Giffin run was devastating.