Dave's Legion Rant: Legionnaires #32
Dave Van Domelen
Legionnaires #32 "Serving Time"
Spoilers and well-endowed females ahead....
"Here and Now" starts with Lar Gand realizing that the LSHQ is about to
crumble and doing what he can to save lives. Forced to move at superspeed
(megaspeed?) to avoid detection, he manages to save everyone who couldn't save
themselves. Cue the keen Roll Call with the Legionnaires lying in the rubble,
plus side shots of Brainy (lost in the time stream) and Zoe (gasping for air...
or is it gasping for on-panel time?). Appropriate that Cos's box shows his
feet, given that he's been something of a heel lately.
Once everyone's okay, they find Chronos's sack full of dust that was once
a body and a fully adult Lori Morning (who puts Andromeda to shame in both
height and bustsize), fortunately Lar still remembers English. Unfortunately,
the time platform is hosed, and now Brainy's the one trapped between times.
Lyle fiddles with stuff and gets an image of Brainy before Cos bawls him out
for screwing with the equipment.
How fickle the public, which is now turning on the Legion for this latest
oops. Is that a monocle I see glinting in the background of page 7? Nah, must
be a trick of the light.
Meanwhile, cut adrift from the book, Zoe drifts as her life support runs
out...and then there's a bright FWASH (sorry, FASSSH!) and the ship is all
energized and stuff. And thankfully, the FASSSH is neither purple nor special
fourth color green. Maybe it's Q, drawn by the TOS Enterprise crew manifest on
her console.
Back in the part of the plot getting more than a page this issue, Cos and
Imra have brought the Towering Lori and the remains of Chronos's gear to Rond
Vidar at the Time Institute, and blabs in front of the wrong SP. Looks like
time travel experimentation is still a BIG no-no like it was in Booster's home
era (and remember, back then it carried the death penalty).
After being very, ah, up front with Rond, Lori tries to explain the
crossover and only succeeds in confusing everyone involved. No surprise there.
While Rond tries to figure out how to A) Rescue Brainy and B) Deal with
Lori (gee, how to deal with age of consent...is she 12 or 1012?), another SP
informs Madame President about the time stuff and she orders the SP to shut it
down with extreme stupidity, er, prejudice. So the SPs start running around
and shooting time machines, perhaps THE single most idiotic thing that you can
do other than sucking on a neutron star. Lyle has gotten Brainy back but has
him on rewind (well, reverse-speak isn't as bad as Interlac, but still) before
the SPs blow up the time machine. Brainy then leaps to Rond's place, where
Rond had been trying to get a fix on him, and starts to work on a solution when
the trigger happy SP goons arrive and blow THAT one up too. This does
something vile to causal reality and brings Chronos (whose remains were in one
of those containers like we saw in v4.0) back to life. Commence fight scene.
Chronos taunts Brainy for being stuck outside the timestream, and Lori
translates for the Legion, giving Brainy A Plan. He merges with Chronos (which
must REALLY sting!) and uses Chronos's suit to save himself. Just in time to
be arrested for illegal time travel experiments. Cos knows there's not enough
pages left for another fight scene, so he lets the SPs haul Brainy off.
This issue was chock full of quotable quotes, even if some of the plot
devices were a tad stale. Peyer must be hanging around PAD. }->
Dave Van Domelen, "And by the way -- don't EVER kill me AGAIN! It REALLY
makes me ANGRY!" - Chronos, and since there's so many good quotes this issue,
here's another, "Once again, I am utterly confused out of my mind." - Rond
VIdar, who reads my Rants and wanted to get the endquote slot....
R. Tang
Karl J Hiller <khi...@ucs.indiana.edu> wrote:
>Dave Van Domelen wrote:
>: Once everyone's okay, they find Chronos's sack full of dust that was once
>: height and bustsize),
>bulging like you'd expect after that big a growth spurt.
Hmph. Hockey Girl? More like Volleyball or Basketball Girl;
wonder if she can spike.....
--
Roger Tang, gwan...@u.washington.edu, Artistic Director PC Theatre
STILL just another theatre geek....
The most unAmerican thing you can say is "He/she makes too much money."
Danny Sichel
>From: Donald MacPherson <don...@gov.nb.ca>
>Subject: Re: Dave's Legion Rant: Legionnaires #32
>Date: 2 Nov 1995 19:02:44 GMT
>dva...@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Dave Van Domelen) wrote:
>>
>> Back in the part of the plot getting more than a page this issue, Cos and
>> Imra have brought the Towering Lori and the remains of Chronos's gear to Rond
>> Vidar at the Time Institute, and blabs in front of the wrong SP. Looks like
>> time travel experimentation is still a BIG no-no like it was in Booster's home
>> era (and remember, back then it carried the death penalty).
> If time travel was/is/will be a BIG no-no, then why hasn't anyone
>mentioned it? And why allow a Time Institute?
Well, ya see, that STAR Labs researcher in the Superboy crossover issue who
was so impressed with the time travel concept bequeathed his entire fortune to
a trust fund which was to be used to start up the Time Institute a thousand
years hence. It was so caught up in red tape that the government didn't
realize anything was wrong until it was shoved in front of them, so to speak.
danny sichel, eds...@umoncton.ca
L KOW1
Sichel) writes:
>>dva...@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Dave Van Domelen) wrote:
>>>
>>> Back in the part of the plot getting more than a page this issue,
Cos
>and
>>> Imra have brought the Towering Lori and the remains of Chronos's gear
to
>Rond
>>> Vidar at the Time Institute, and blabs in front of the wrong SP.
Looks
>like
>>> time travel experimentation is still a BIG no-no like it was in
Booster's
>home
>>> era (and remember, back then it carried the death penalty).
>
>> If time travel was/is/will be a BIG no-no, then why hasn't
anyone
>>mentioned it? And why allow a Time Institute?
I beleive that it was supposed to be a new law, just to get rid of the
LSH.
>Well, ya see, that STAR Labs researcher in the Superboy crossover issue
who
>was so impressed with the time travel concept bequeathed his entire
fortune
>to
>a trust fund which was to be used to start up the Time Institute a
thousand
>years hence. It was so caught up in red tape that the government didn't
>realize anything was wrong until it was shoved in front of them, so to
speak.
>
>danny sichel, eds...@umoncton.ca
>
>
LEv
Donald MacPherson
> In article <eds7466.26...@Umoncton.ca>, eds...@Umoncton.ca (Danny
> Sichel) writes:
> >> If time travel was/is/will be a BIG no-no, then why hasn't
> anyone
> >>mentioned it? And why allow a Time Institute?
>
> I beleive that it was supposed to be a new law, just to get rid of the
> LSH.
That's the impression I got. But assuming this whole United
Planets thing is a democracy (that is the general impression I got),
wouldn't you think SOMEONE would point out the injustice. Say...
someone llike Officer Erin?! Or maybe Rond? ("Breaking the law?! What
law?") A line like that would have made the whole thing easier to
swallow.
Donald MacPherson
R. Tang
Andrew A. Apold <mor...@magg.net> wrote:
>Andrew nearly inhaled Silverale when he heard Karl J Hiller say
>www, I didn't think it was *that* bad... That baggy sweatshirt isn't
>>bulging like you'd expect after that big a growth spurt.
>that.
Must be. Turn a small child into a 6' 5"+ tall woman and you'd
not only fill out a sweatshirt, but you'd have a PAINFULLY tight set of
spandex shorts (either that, or you'd get 'em ripped to shreds, and not no
modest split-at-the-seams).
Verachez
writes:
>PS--I'm now convinced that the Presibitch/Crazy Cos problems are due to
>Universo. Why else would they use Rond so often in these early issues?
>
>
You could be right. But then again, did you catch that suspicious looking
person eyeing the President? He was garbed like a citizen of Titan. We
know they're all telepaths...
Kenipat
>In article <47c2j3$4...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, gang...@aol.com
(Ganglios)
writes:
>>PS--I'm now convinced that the Presibitch/Crazy Cos problems are due to
>>Universo. Why else would they use Rond so often in these early issues?
I half suspect they're using Rond just to avoid promoting Lyle as
savior-of-
the-universe again. I mean, they've just GOT to establish some out-of-
Legion scientific contacts.
>You could be right. But then again, did you catch that suspicious looking
>person eyeing the President? He was garbed like a citizen of Titan. We
>know they're all telepaths...
PsiCorps is your friend. You can trust the Corps.
Joshua Henry Geurink
Archaeophysicist for hire.
Kenipat
>Donald MacPherson <don...@gov.nb.ca> wrote:
>>dva...@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Dave Van Domelen) wrote:
>> I didn't think the girls... er, women.... er... seemed any
>>more busty than usual. And Lori didn't seem busty at all.
>Look at the scene where she's sandwiching Rond's head in her chest.
Uhm, Mike? That's her shoulder you're looking at. :)
Joshua Henry Geurink
Archaeophysicist at Large
L KOW1
>
>In article <eds7466.26...@Umoncton.ca>, eds...@Umoncton.ca (Danny
>Sichel) writes:
>>
>>In article <47b4kk$g...@darwin.nbnet.nb.ca> Donald MacPherson
>><don...@gov.nb.ca> writes:
>
>>> If time travel was/is/will be a BIG no-no, then why hasn't
>anyone
>>>mentioned it? And why allow a Time Institute?
>>
>>
>[Hey, mom, this space has been sitting in the fridge for weeks now. Do
>you think it's OK to eat it?
>
>No, honey, it's probably...
>
>SPOILED SPACE
>
>
>SPOILED SPACE
>
>etc
>
>
>etc
>
>
>
>etc
>
>
>etc
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>
>
>
>Actually, from Rond's dialogue, it seemed that time travel wasn't a big
>no-no until a few issues ago when the Prez (no, not the teenager) said
she
>doesn't like it. I quote Rond from this issue: "There've been so many
>rumors lately we don't know who to trust." This, combined with Madame
the
>President's recent edict, seems to indicate that the Time Institute is a
>well-respected scientific insitution that is currently on the road to
>becoming outlawed.
>
>While I'm here and since no one else's mentioned it yet, does it seem
like
>TPTB have some sort of a three month lead time psychic connection with us
>fanpeoples? A while ago there was a big to-do about Lyle being too
>visible, and suddenly he (I have to do it) seemed to disappear (and he
>even made a incorrect scientific assessment in this issue!).
What about tha comment "since Andromeda...died." Like he was lying or
something!
What was so incorrect about his assesment, it got brainy back.
> Now, we
>start complaining about dangling plot threads, and in this issue two of
>the biggies (Valor and Kinetix) are dealt with, one of them in the
classic
>one-page-to-keep-it-alive format. And we haven't even had a single
>maiming since we started complaining about the depressing qualities. I
>don't mean to gush praise, but it does seem that these guys are doing a
>good job of fixing problems as they come up.
Yeah!!!
>Have fun,
>Tom Smith
>
>PS--I'm now convinced that the Presibitch/Crazy Cos problems are due to
>Universo. Why else would they use Rond so often in these early issues?
Because they mentioned the time institute.
LEv
Sidne G. Ward
>vera...@aol.com (Verachez) wrote:
>>In article <47c2j3$4...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, gang...@aol.com (Ganglios)
>>writes:
>>
>>>PS--I'm now convinced that the Presibitch/Crazy Cos problems are due to
>>>Universo. Why else would they use Rond so often in these early issues?
>>You could be right. But then again, did you catch that suspicious
looking >>person eyeing the President? He was garbed like a citizen of
Titan. We >>know they're all telepaths...
>Would it bother anyone if Universo were Titanian, this go-round?
Wouldn't that make Rond Titanian also? And I don't see any evidence of
that.
Of course, it's always possible that Rond isn't Universo's son in the
post-reboot universe. But if he's not, the fact that Rond's been
appearing probably isn't a clue to Universo's return.
Sidne
sw...@primenet.com
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Jeff Lindstrom
Donald MacPherson <don...@gov.nb.ca> wrote:
> If time travel was/is/will be a BIG no-no, then why hasn't anyone
> mentioned it? And why allow a Time Institute? I get the feeling Chu
> is simply making up reasons to be pissed at the Legionnaires.
We have nuclear power, now. No one is allowed to develop it in this
country unless they have permission from the NRC.
The Time Institute's existence is reasonable because the government
would have to have time travel technology to prevent not only its own
citizens from messing things up, but detecting efforts by an alien enemy
to wipe Earth's history.
--
Regards,
Jeff Lindstrom jeff...@netcom.com
Marc Singer
these problems didn't start until after the annual, and when Lyle
investigated the Pres's office for how/why she was manipulating Cos, he
may have learned (judging by his pregnant pause in #32) what she told
Cos at the end of the annual... Could President Chu be threatening to tell
the UP that Laurel was in the White Triangle?
It's sleazy, I know, but somehow I like that better than the same old
"villain controls president" plot... we've had that one enough already.
Or, judging by McAvennie's latest blurb, maybe it's Starfinger...
Marc
Marc Singer
stole Bart away from Earthgov?
Marc
Johanna Draper
Jeff Lindstrom <jeff...@netcom.com> wrote:
> Do we have the same magazine? I clearly see "RPRISE", "KIRK", "COY",
>and "CK". Above these are two more lines, "EED" and "ER" (probably "WER").
So I got the first four, but what are the latter two supposed to be?
Johanna
Jason Fliegel
Probably "NEED" and "POWER," as in "We need more power, Scotty!"
("Dammit, Cap'n! I canna give you any more power!")
--
Jason Fliegel * Whether or not to commit suicide
(804) 243-1959 * is one of the most important
e-mail: jb...@virginia.edu * decisions a teenager can make.
http://darwin.clas.virginia.edu/~jbf9a * -- Heathers
B103-9
>From: gzyw...@cmsa.gmr.com (Greg Zywicki)
>Subject: Re: Dave's Legion Rant: Legionnaires #32
>In article <47vppg$m...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, myk...@aol.com (MykePM)
>wrote:
>>In article <47b4kk$g...@darwin.nbnet.nb.ca>, Donald MacPherson
>><don...@gov.nb.ca> writes:
>>
>>> Anyway, the one scene with Zoe was... annoying. It amounted
>>>to the same thing as putting "We haven't forgotten about Zoe" in the
>>>letter column.
>>>
>>
>>Agreed. The whole point of devoting a page to a subplot is to advance the
>>subplot a little, not to merely confirm its continued existence.
>>
>>Mike Morris
>So you didn't see the yellow light and hear the "zap Shcrarack!!!!" noises?
>Greg Z
Wow - your issue made a "zap Shcarack!!!!" noise? The best _mine_ can do is to
read the letters page out loud.
Danny Sichel, eds...@umoncton.ca