Sensor: My Favorite Legionnaire
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I'm annoyed at Geoff Johns. Because I want to enjoy Legion of Three Worlds, and I'm trying, but every time I turn a page I'm worried I'll see a character I like getting killed. Because this is a story in which there are a lot of characters that I suspect he sees as redundant canon fodder, because they're alternate reality versions of characters HE likes, and Geoff's got a habit of killing off characters he doesn't think are important so that we know the story is serious business. So I can't enjoy Legion of Three Worlds. Because I'm terrified he's going to kill my favorite Legion character.
Here she is.
The Legion of Superheroes is having tryouts
She makes it to the final selection...
She makes the team, as "Sensor". Later...
Night on the town time!
Running into this page while googling made me decide to repost my Sensor stuff to the new site
Here's the horrific and wrongheaded redesign she got, that just seems to scream "canon fodder" to me. It's exactly the sort of design Johns would consider proof of an expendable character, I just know it. Especially since there are two alternate reality versions of the character that look like normal humans, and the original Silver Age version of the character looks like a normal human, and Johns will always show preference for the Silver Age characters...
But no matter what I guess there's the good old days.
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Date: 2009-04-28 10:53 am (UTC)But then, comics writers are lizards. Well, DC ones. Marvel ones are actually baboons.
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Date: 2009-04-29 03:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-28 09:56 am (UTC)..Are those pages from a trade? Several trades? If I were to be looking to pick them up..?
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Date: 2009-04-28 09:15 pm (UTC)I'm hoping this "Legion of Three Worlds" thing will make DC rectify that situation. I'm missing quite a few bits and pieces of this run myself.
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Date: 2009-04-28 10:57 am (UTC)(Well, and Jeka's. And those little raccoons. As if snake people needed to be any more awesome.)
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Date: 2009-04-28 11:46 am (UTC)Hey, what if they aren't true raccoons, but tanuki? Maybe one of them can join the LSH as "Hardballs." Or, if you wanna use classic Legion nomenclature, "Testicular Lad."
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Date: 2009-04-28 08:16 pm (UTC)I hope you found some room in your heart for XS as well? I love her almost as much as Sensor, but I'm not worried about her.
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Date: 2009-04-29 01:06 am (UTC)Well, at least Lyle's probably safe. -.-
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Date: 2009-04-29 07:43 am (UTC)...If his race has hearts...
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Date: 2009-04-28 11:35 am (UTC)Non-humanoid Legionnaires being a matter of course was long overdue (Tellus and Quislet aside, the old Legion was very bad for that). Sensor and Gates were always enjoyable.
And a special "Squee!" for Lyle's reaction to her true form being, not revulsion or shock, but "Wow! You're GORGEOUS!"
I have never once warmed to what DNA did to the Legion (and have whined at some length in the past), but what they did to Sensor was a lowpoint, even for them.
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Date: 2009-04-28 12:08 pm (UTC)I have to ask, who is the Ice Man looking character?
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Date: 2009-04-28 06:40 pm (UTC)Motto.
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Date: 2009-04-28 03:26 pm (UTC)*stares some more*
*goes on a frantic hunt for this version of Legion*
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