Adventure Comics #528 - this 'n' that
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scans_dailyPicked up Adventure Comics #528 today, still following the adventures of the current crop of Legion Academy students and teachers. It's not a big blockbuster issue, just connective tissue wrapping up a little old business and bringing the Academy folks into the current big Legion of Super-Heroes/Legion of Super-Villains donnybrook. But I did find one or two nuggets of mild interest, and so am posting a cover preview and two panels here.
We open on the graduation ceremony for the senior LA students, Lamprey, Nightwind, Crystal Kid and Power Boy (Jed, not the New God dude who fried in the Titans East special). All are routed into the Science Police, not the Legion, a fact not lost on the current crop of trainees.
However! Night Girl really needs to turn the highbeams down a bit!
Was her costume always so... so... boobie-smiley-facey? I feel we're veering into early Laurel Kent territory here.
Meanwhile, one of Saturn Queen's troops has invaded Legion HQ while all the Legionnaires are off fighting the LOSV on multiple fronts. Cue the reservists i.e.the LA staff, with the new recruits sneaking off campus behind them to play cavalry. (Yes, the cavalry is Comet Queen. Write your own jokes, folks.)
However! Yon intruder has to take a stroll through the Hall of Dead Legionnaires, pausing at the Karate Kid statue for a "good times!" text box. On yon stroll I noticed this:
Proty I has a statue! did we know this already? If so, I did not recall. Really it's the least they owe the little guy, especially since the Proteans have been declared sentient.
This is one of those jobbies with two sets of pencillers/inkers, which makes for a jarring transition about halfway through the ish. Of the two I think I prefer the first section, which according to the signature on the splash page was pencilled by Geraldo Borges.
We open on the graduation ceremony for the senior LA students, Lamprey, Nightwind, Crystal Kid and Power Boy (Jed, not the New God dude who fried in the Titans East special). All are routed into the Science Police, not the Legion, a fact not lost on the current crop of trainees.
However! Night Girl really needs to turn the highbeams down a bit!
Was her costume always so... so... boobie-smiley-facey? I feel we're veering into early Laurel Kent territory here.
Meanwhile, one of Saturn Queen's troops has invaded Legion HQ while all the Legionnaires are off fighting the LOSV on multiple fronts. Cue the reservists i.e.the LA staff, with the new recruits sneaking off campus behind them to play cavalry. (Yes, the cavalry is Comet Queen. Write your own jokes, folks.)
However! Yon intruder has to take a stroll through the Hall of Dead Legionnaires, pausing at the Karate Kid statue for a "good times!" text box. On yon stroll I noticed this:
Proty I has a statue! did we know this already? If so, I did not recall. Really it's the least they owe the little guy, especially since the Proteans have been declared sentient.
This is one of those jobbies with two sets of pencillers/inkers, which makes for a jarring transition about halfway through the ish. Of the two I think I prefer the first section, which according to the signature on the splash page was pencilled by Geraldo Borges.
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Date: 2011-07-06 10:47 pm (UTC)Night Girl's boobs are watching you masturbate.
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Too obvious?
Your words appear to be out of order.
Date: 2011-07-07 05:24 am (UTC)You are masturbating watching night Girl's boobs.
Fixed it for you.
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Date: 2011-07-08 04:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-08 02:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-06 11:08 pm (UTC)No, but then again, it's the Legion. They've got different standards of modesty a thousand years from now.
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Date: 2011-07-06 11:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-07 05:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-07 07:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-07 12:09 am (UTC)[rolleyes]
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Date: 2011-07-07 12:23 am (UTC)Aaron "The Mad Whitaker" Bourque; the whole thing couldn't been solved if they hadn't made the eyes flesh-colored.
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Date: 2011-07-07 01:20 am (UTC)But that's not really the main issue. The main issue is one-sided hyper-sexualization in comics. The women are almost all drawn in this type of gear (regardless of the occasion or their power set or personality or whatever) and frequently in icky pornified poses/angles because this is a hetero dude's game, and that's how it's they want it to stay.
Maybe Hooters will sue for copyright infringement. Creepy Dude Empire vs. Creepy Dude Empire. That would be bleakly hilarious. I'd pay for everyone's popcorn.
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Date: 2011-07-07 02:52 am (UTC)Exhibit A:
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Date: 2011-07-07 02:55 am (UTC)Seriously. Not a good counter-argument. [shakes head] Get back to me when 90% of the male Legionnaires are wearing bare midriffs, chesticular
windowswindshields, and thongs into combat.no subject
Date: 2011-07-07 03:32 am (UTC)On the girl side, Night Girl's costume here isn't even the worst offender. You'd have to look at Laurel Kent or Saturn Girl's pink cut-out swimsuit during the Grell era. Hell, during the 80s Laurel was reduced to pretty much just a poncho draped over her. All in all, that boob window is pretty tame, even when compared to, say, Power Girl's.
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Date: 2011-07-07 03:41 am (UTC)The exception that proves the rule and "things could always be worse" isn't really any consolation to me, though.
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Date: 2011-07-07 03:47 am (UTC)I kinda don't get the Legion guys (and most superdudes in general) not wanting to show off. If I was as ripped as most of them are, I would pull a Matthew Mcconaughey and go shirtless as often as possible.
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Date: 2011-07-07 03:49 am (UTC)As a wise man once said, "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking."
[groan]
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Date: 2011-07-07 04:12 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-07-07 06:21 am (UTC)That's Ravager's sword at Paco's throat, which a page earlier prompted him to note, "Man I am going to have some weird dreams tonight."
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Date: 2011-07-07 05:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-07 06:22 pm (UTC)Yeah, I'm no designing genius, but there seems to be plenty of costume failure to go around there... :/
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Date: 2011-07-07 04:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-07 04:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-07 05:39 am (UTC)Did he ever go into battle without clothes? (I remember that Winath during the Levitz-Giffen run was also supposed to be pretty much clothing-optional. But again, I was kind of thinking that people wouldn't want to be in a combat situation in the buff...)
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Date: 2011-07-07 05:34 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-07-07 09:18 pm (UTC)For that matter, there's not just one definition of sexy, either, no matter how hidebound (pun not really intended) TPTB are on the matter.
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Date: 2011-07-07 11:03 pm (UTC)Night Girl's owl
Date: 2011-07-07 04:55 am (UTC)Re: Night Girl's owl
Date: 2011-07-07 05:28 am (UTC)Re: Night Girl's owl
Date: 2011-07-08 02:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-07 10:01 am (UTC)