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04nbod (04nbod) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-06-08 00:12:00

Current mood:	impressed
Entry tags:	char: cosmic boy/rokk krinn, creator: georges jeanty, creator: mark waid, group: legion of super-heroes, series: one perfect moment week

One Perfect Moment :Cosmic Boy
Legion Of Super-Heroes (Vol. 5) issue 9
Writer- Mark Waid
Art- Georges Jeanty

Braal seceeds from the United Planets and is closing its borders. Rokk must leave Earth if he wants to see his family again in the forseeable future. He meets dozens of 'legionnaires' who are going home who accuse him on bailing on the team. Without him they see no point staying.

Say what you like about the Threeboot Cosmic Boy was never better. He was an old head on young shoulders. Of them all he has the most faith in the universe and ideals he won't let go of.

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	icon_uk 2009-06-07 06:36 pm UTC (link)
	I assume that it's coincidence that it's Artie and Leech who appear to be walking away? :) (Reply to this)

	pet_martian 2009-06-07 07:45 pm UTC (link)
	You know usually Cosmic Boy is just not the guy I like the best, but... <3 (Reply to this)

	akodo_rokku 2009-06-07 09:31 pm UTC (link)
	I really loved Threeboot Legion. (Reply to this) (Thread)

cmdr_zoom
2009-06-07 11:41 pm UTC (link)

Couldn't stand it, myself. But that might have been more from being firmly on the wrong side of the manufactured "teens vs. adults" generational conflict that took over and defined the whole book (much like the Temporal Cold War did Enterprise) than simple nostalgia for "my" post-ZH Legion, killed by the Blight and Legion Lost and everything they could think of to make it stop being fun.

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	icon_uk 2009-06-08 06:49 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, this Legion just didn't appeal to me either, an interesting idea, but "All adults are evil and out to get us" isn't a notion I find remotely interesting. Making it halfway true didn't help. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

04nbod
2009-06-08 07:33 am UTC (link)

there is a great essay online about how the 2004 legion are more true to the youth of the late 50's/60's than the first legion was. Its main point was how Legion is a youth team written a generation behind so it wasn't a shock when Shooter became so successful at wrting it as a kid.

'Eat it Grandpa' was never simple, it began with invisible kid who just couldn't communicate with his parents, they literally spoke different languages. Its an extension of the typical teen angst of 'my parents don't understand me'. There was Naltor who looked to be persecuting their young when they were trying to protect them. Again its an extension of young people thinking they aren't given the benefit of the doubt that they are grown up to handle things. Then there was the actual child abuse on a massive scale. Legion was about wish fulfillment. Legion could matter and change their world and how youth is percieved when in reality youth these days are powerless probably due to apathy. The days of universities as the hotbed of revolution are gone and young people aren't galvanised because they aren't given the benefit of the doubt. This time Legion is about standing up and saying something in a time when young people don't care enough to have their say in a democratic process. We all saw how Obama grabbed american youth, especially colleges and how it helped his campaign. Its the same principle and its a sophisticated idea, probably the most relevant the legion has ever tried to be

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icon_uk
2009-06-08 07:38 am UTC (link)

That might make for a gripping miniseries, or an insightful novel, but can it work within the confines of a superhero comic? I don't really think it can, or did.

Invisible Kid not speaking the same language as his parents being an actual problem is a weird one, vernacular yes, but not language itself.

Naltor's protection presumed incompetence on the part of it's youth and was IIRC (and I might well not) self fulfilling anyway.

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	yaseen101 2009-06-08 02:46 am UTC (link)
	Man those two leaving are absolute JERKS!(from my point of view anyway) How can they leave after such an awesome speech? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	psychop_rex 2009-06-08 03:17 am UTC (link)
	I think the point - and it's a realistic one - is that there's always a few people who WON'T listen, no matter what you say - but look at all the ones who did. (Reply to this) (Parent)