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batcookies (batcookies) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-04-28 03:45:00

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char: bouncing boy/chuck taine, char: chameleon boy/reep daggle, char: dream girl/dreamer/nura nal, char: kinetix/zoë saugin, char: lightning lad/livewire/garth ranzz, char: magno/dyrk magz, char: monstress/candi pyponte-le parc ii, char: night girl/lydda jath, char: sensor/jeka wynzorr, char: shadow lass/umbra/tasmia mallor, char: star boy/starman/thom kallor, char: thunder/cece beck, char: triplicate girl/triad/luornu durgo, creator: jeffrey moy, creator: roger stern, creator: tom mccraw, group: legion of super-heroes, publisher: dc comics, title: legionnaires

Sensor: My Favorite Legionnaire

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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	cainofdreaming 2009-04-28 08:47 am UTC (link)
	You do know that asking for your favorite character to be spared online is like blood in the water for some writers? Let's hope that that approaching fin means we're going to be visited by a porpoise. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	volksjager 2009-04-28 09:46 am UTC (link)
	The "refrigerator" door is already open. (Reply to this) (Parent)

jlroberson
2009-04-28 10:53 am UTC (link)

True. There was a time when you may have suspected the writers were doing these things to make you scream, and they very well may have been, but what difference did it used to make? A hate letter here, some anthrax there, but nothing a writer couldn't dodge. But now? They can hear you scream. They can print it out, and look at it for hours. To them, it's like chocolate cake.

But then, comics writers are lizards. Well, DC ones. Marvel ones are actually baboons.

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tavella
2009-04-29 03:55 pm UTC (link)

She was likely doomed already. Legion of Three Worlds is just another Geoff Johns EVERYTHING MUST BE AS IT WAS WHERE I WAS TWELVE project, which means that all the reboot and threeboot characters are doomed. If they are *very* lucky some might survive to get locked into some other part of the multiverse, but they will be gone from the regular DC universe as long as Johns has anything to say about it.

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