LSH: AOL Chat for 3/26/96 with McCraw and Carlson
T. Troy McNemar, Esq.
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The new assistant editor on the Legion books is Rueben Diaz.
KC Carlson was on the Sci-Fi Channel's Anti-Gravity room this
weekend. (Weekend of March 30, 1996.) (Ed. - I missed it. Does
anyone know whether it will be rerun during the week?)
The LSH Annual will be illustrated by Mike Collins and Mark
Farmer. The Legionnaires Annual hasn't been assigned yet.
KC is trying to get Alan Davis to do something for him.
KC is waiting for the Green Lantern people to come up with an
idea for an LSH/GL crossover.
KC is looking forward to working with Colleen Doran again on an
LSH story. The story won't be scheduled until it's finished, and
will most likely run in one of the regular books. The story is
about Jan Arrah, and won't feature Schvaughn.
Jan Arrah will get a codename soon, provided he sticks around.
Tom suggested "Alchemental" as a compromise between Alchemist and
Element Lad.
KC is pushing for more Legion Archives, and he noted that the
Flash Archives had finally been put on the schedule.
There are no plans for any of the members of the Legion of
Substitute Heroes at this time, but Tom would like to see them
again.
Shadow Lass and Dream Girl are being considered for the Legion
books.
Tom doesn't think that Valor can travel faster than light, and
pointed out that such power levels always caused problems in the
past.
KC was openly soliciting opinions on whether Shrinking Violet
should change her uniform.
KC has named his toes after Legion characters. (Ed. - Certainly
more information than I needed!<g>)
KC is on the last page of LSH #80. The rest of the creators
slipped him into the scene.
Not all of the heroes in LSH #80 will be sticking around after
the story is over. Tom wouldn't say if Gates stays or goes, but
acknowledged that he was a very popular character.
Star Boy has some other problems before he meets Dream Girl.
Nura's reported upcoming appearance was merely rumor.
The next villain is the return of someone that we've already seen
in the postboot.
When asked about the phantom inside Ultra Boy, Tom replied "What
Phantom?"
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WILLIAM H. SUDDERTH
: The new assistant editor on the Legion books is Rueben Diaz.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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Elayne Wechsler-Chaput
: T. Troy McNemar, Esq. (tro...@indirect.com) wrote:
: : The new assistant editor on the Legion books is Rueben Diaz.
: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Yes. But apparently (please correct me if I'm wrong, folks) Mike
McAvennie will still be doing the letter columns.
- Elayne
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H. Jameel al Khafiz
> T. Troy McNemar, Esq. (tro...@indirect.com) wrote:
> : The new assistant editor on the Legion books is Rueben Diaz.
>
> NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
>
Oh, boy.
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Carl Fink
"H. Jameel al Khafiz" <spec...@CMU.EDU> wrote:
>Wait a minute... it just dawned on me... that's Roo, isn't it?
>
>Oh, boy.
Well, look at it this way: he's ASSISTANT editor. Maybe DC is wising
up and demoting him.
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Yeechang Lee
|Well, look at it this way: [Ruben Diaz]'s ASSISTANT editor. Maybe DC
|is wising up and demoting him.
Maybe, but from the way everyone describes "Roo"'s work, couldn't DC
have demoted him to work on, say, _Sovereign Seven_?
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Joy Wikle
: Carl Fink <ca...@panix.com> wrote:
: |Well, look at it this way: [Ruben Diaz]'s ASSISTANT editor. Maybe DC
: |is wising up and demoting him.
: Maybe, but from the way everyone describes "Roo"'s work, couldn't DC
: have demoted him to work on, say, _Sovereign Seven_?
What, and ruin a promising book?? :b :)
Shannon (an S7 fan as well)
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Ben Weiss
>Yeechang Lee (yl...@simile.cc.columbia.edu) wrote:
>: Carl Fink <ca...@panix.com> wrote:
>: |Well, look at it this way: [Ruben Diaz]'s ASSISTANT editor. Maybe DC
>: |is wising up and demoting him.
>
>: Maybe, but from the way everyone describes "Roo"'s work, couldn't DC
>: have demoted him to work on, say, _Sovereign Seven_?
>
> What, and ruin a promising book?? :b :)
>
Ben
Lawrance W Lee
How come we alway get crappy assistant editors on great books?
Daniel McEwen
McCraw and Carlson>, '"Ben Weiss" <weis...@gold.tc.umn.edu>' wrote:
>
>Okay, I'm ignorant--what exactly does everybody hate about this guy?
See, here at racdlsh, we _like_ the writer's we've got and the stories we
get (overall, anyway). We don't wan't a heavy-handed editor to mess up the
books and drive away the writers!
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Douglas Limmer
>How come we alway get crappy assistant editors on great books?
I don't know whether or not it is accurate to describe Ruben Diaz as a
"crappy assistand editor". There's more to assistant editing than
answering letter columns, or so I assume. He might be quite good at
the other parts of the job.
Doug L.
Douglas Limmer -- lim...@math.orst.edu
Elayne Wechsler-Chaput
: s0l...@hibbs.vcu.edu (Lawrance W Lee) wrote:
: >How come we alway get crappy assistant editors on great books?
: I don't know whether or not it is accurate to describe Ruben Diaz as a
: "crappy assistand editor". There's more to assistant editing than
: answering letter columns, or so I assume. He might be quite good at
: the other parts of the job.
Well, he keeps letting the Bad Balloon Placement Fairy get the better of
him, I know *that* much...
From all accounts, Roo seems like a really great guy. I know pros who
will defend him to the death, so I assume he's of some value in the DC
offices. I can only conclude that this value doesn't translate well to
the final product in the eyes of many fans.
William Sudderth
Wechsler-Chaput) wrote:
>From all accounts, Roo seems like a really great guy. I know pros who
>will defend him to the death, so I assume he's of some value in the DC
>offices. I can only conclude that this value doesn't translate well to
>the final product in the eyes of many fans.
I can think of a couple of freelancers who will vehemently disagree, and
have done so publicly on Usenet.
-- Will (remember the EXTREME JUSTICE fiasco?) Sudderth
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Sidne Ward
>s0l...@hibbs.vcu.edu (Lawrance W Lee) wrote:
>>How come we alway get crappy assistant editors on great books?
>I don't know whether or not it is accurate to describe Ruben Diaz as a
>"crappy assistand editor". There's more to assistant editing than
>answering letter columns, or so I assume. He might be quite good at
>the other parts of the job.
There must be quite a lot more. Apparently, at DC the letter columns aren't
even an official part of the assistant editors' duties. They're done on
a freelance basis. At one of the AOL chats, KC said that Mike McAvennie
would still do the letter columns for Legionnaires and LSH.
Of course, this didn't help describe what exactly Roo *will* be doing on
the books. I don't have a clue there. :)
Sidne Gail Ward
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