Superman #697 - one page and a request

[perletwo]

One page from Superman #697, in which the Legion Espionage Squad reunites.





I see Tiger Woods in Reep's face - the shape of the eyes maybe - and Keanu Reeves in Tenzil's. Jan's is familiar but I can't place it; thoughts? Also, feeling much better about the Sensor Girl redesign now thx, even though you can't see much of it in this splash page.


And the request: I just finished reading The Supergirls: Fashion, Feminism, Fantasy and the History of Comic Book Heroines. It mentions at one point in the 1990s the Wasp of the Avengers started mutating into an actual wasp? Does anyone have scans of this?

Tag wranglers!
char: chameleon boy/reep daggle, element lad/alchemist/jan arrah, char: matter-eater lad/tenzil kem, char: quislet, char: princess projectra/sensor girl, char: star boy/starman/thom kallor, char: tellus, creator: james robinson, creator: javier pina, group: legion of super-heroes, publisher: dc comics, title: superman

Comments

[wabbitseason]

I think this artist made Sensor Girl's new costume look a little better with the side angles he used for his art. I still hate the new costume. To quote Project Runway, "it's a *lot* of look". I think she should Projectra or Sensor Girl not both at the same time. It loses some of mystery of the character for me. But then again she was always one of my favorites. I started reading Legion regularly right when she was brought into the team with the whole mystery of her identity.

[perletwo]

Yeah, it's still a whole lotta somethin' goin' on there with Sensor Girl's costume, but it's not nearly as bad here as this made me fear.

I started reading regularly in the 80s right around the time Projectra and Karate Kid got married and moved to Orando, so I'm right there with you on the "Jeckie is Awesome" bandwagon.

[stig]

Agreed. The addition of a crown and eyeholes to the mask make her look slightly more open, but I'm still apprehensive about the whole cleavage thing. The artist has managed to cover it up here with her cloak, but still...

I'll third that 'Jeckie is Awesome' sentiment. The Sensor Girl version has always been my favourite above the Emma-Frost-lite version and the oh-look-giant-snake version.

[saralakali]

I'm not real familiar with Emma Frost because I don't read Marvel, but I thought she was a telepath, not an illusion-caster. What little I know of Emma's character, I'm just not getting how she and Jeckie are alike.

[stig]

I was basing it on personality and unnecessarily revealing costumes as opposed to power set.

[saralakali]

But her costume was one of the less revealing ones of the time. Shadow Lass's and Saturn Girl's costumes both showed far more skin than Jeckie's. Sure there was a plunging neckline (like Dawnstar's) and decorative cutouts down the sleeves (like Phantom Girl's), but it was positively modest compared to the outfits they put NIght Girl (from the Subs) and Laurel Kent (from the Academy) in. Unless you're talking about her original costume which was still pretty modest as far as heroine costumes go.

Again, I don't know Emma other than she was a villain for a long time and from the snippets I've seen posted here (I know, not necessarily an accurate representation), she seems like a stone cold, steamrollin' bitch. Sure, Jeckie wasn't opposed to throwing the occasional royal temper tantrum if it served a greater purpose, but she was pretty much good-hearted and devoted to Karate Kid. For a long time, she was cast as a damsel in distress in most of her appearances. She didn't grow much of a spine until after she'd resigned from the Legion to ascend to the throne of Orando.

[pallas_athena]

Projectra's white hair was also very Frost-like.

[cleome45]

Now, now. We NEED as many boob windows/windshields as possible or we stupid fans are likely to forget that we're looking at a female!

They should bring back her giant curly Eighties hair, too. I'm sick of the curly-haired being an extinct species in both present and future.

[saralakali]

I don't think it's supposed to be a boob window. I think it's just a plunging neckilne interrupted by her cape fastening.

(Not that your basic point isn't scarily accurate.)

[cleome45]

<--- Yeah, just imagine this icon (amateurish though it may be) directed at our "good friends" in Marketing. :p