Eliyes

Title: Au Revoir
Timing: takes place in the 21st century, before the last two pages of Adventure Comics #11 (2010)
Author's notes: This is the same Kon as in all my fic under the kon/lar tag, but a different Lar. Because DC looooves rebooting the Legion in complicated ways. (And also this is not Kon/Lar; this is gen.)


( After Mon-El disappeared into the Phantom Zone )

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If you're filled
with affection
you're too shy to convey,
meditate in my direction.
Feel your way. ♥

So, this was awesome. There were a couple of essays I plain did not read, and there was one I read that I wish I hadn't (it was about architecture ._. I am not nearly obsessed enough with the last World's Fair to have any clue what they were talking about, and I found it somewhat depressing) but other than that, most of the essays were cool. There was one about science -- written by a scientist! There was one about the multitudinous and often curiously specific rules the Legion had. The ones separately analyzing Levitz and Giffen's runs on the series were really, really well done. The one about Lightning Lad should stand through time as a really good example to give to people when they ask what I mean when I say "the Legion is complicated, but worth it".

I recommend this book! :3

So, a book arrived in the mail this morning. It's not mine -- it's for my roomie, who isn't here and gave me advance permission to open the package.

It's a book of essays about the Legion of Superheroes. Or, really, the Legions -- all of them so far.

Teenagers From the Future: essays on the Legion of Superheroes

Just reading the foreword has me all excited. The Table of Contents has me bouncing with glee like Chuck Taine. Here's just sample of some of the essay titles I figure people on my f-list might be intrigued by:

Liberating the Future: Women in the Early Legion

Revisionism, Radical Experimentation, and Dystopia in Giffen's Legion

Coming Out of Future Closets: Gender Identity and Homosexuality in the Legion

Generational Theory and the Waid Threeboot

The Racial Politics of the Legion

There are eighteen essays, plus foreword, introduction, and afterword. I am really looking forward to reading through this. :D

Title: Weary But Unwavering
Rating: G
Fandom: DC Comics, post-boot Legion & Superboy, Kon/Lar
Timing: The LEGION #32, between pages 18 and 19. How's that for specific?
Author's notes: Part 1 of a series.


( This was just a moment's peace... )

eliyes: someone just said (i.e. I just read) that she wishes Supergirl were more like a female Clark, "since he's actually every pure hearted lead female anime character stuffed into a giant man body anyways."
eliyes: I LOLed
taichara: *snickers*
taichara: she was, once ...
taichara: ;o;
eliyes: he is way more purehearted than Tsukino Usagi, frex
taichara: indeed and amen
eliyes: GIVE THAT MAN AN IMPERIUM SILVER CRYSTAL
eliyes: he's an alien. it will work. ._.
eliyes: no fuku, though
taichara: yes i think it would. ._.
taichara: D: no fuku
eliyes: the skirt would obscure his awesome action man-panties! :D
taichara: and we can't have that! :D
taichara: we can obscure Lar's though >.>
eliyes: 'zactly
eliyes: yes
eliyes: yes we can
eliyes: perhaps with actual PANTS <.<
eliyes: (I still love his jacket-cape rig. the tool-bearing clasps! <3 )
taichara: but he is wearing pants, that's the problem >.> man-panties over billowy pants
eliyes: it's a good thing he's faster than your average bear, or else he'd be in trouble when he needs to pee ._.
taichara: yup. ._.