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perletwo (perletwo) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-07-13 21:36:00

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char: bouncing boy/chuck taine, char: computo, char: duo damsel/luornu durgo taine, creator: keith giffen, creator: pat broderick, creator: paul levitz, group: legion of super-heroes, title: legion of super-heroes

Legion of Super-Heroes Annual #1 - "Dammit."
In the Computo post down the page, crinosg requested a look at pre-Crisis Duo Damsel's more seriously handled reaction to the death of her third body.

That's in Legion of Super-Heroes Annual #1, in which Brainiac 5 uses the Computo technology in an attempt to help a comatose little girl, Danielle Foccart. Results: Predictable - Computo gets loose and takes control of LOSH's all-automated headquarters, whose systems begin attacking the Legionnaires - and locking out any potential help. One page, not my scan.

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	shanejayell 2009-07-14 02:19 am UTC (link)
	Awww. I always Liked BB and DD. :) (Reply to this)

rab62
2009-07-14 02:27 am UTC (link)

The idea Chuck would be that clueless was unconvincing -- especially given that he proposed to and married her when it was believed another of her bodies had been destroyed, meaning she'd have to leave the Legion. There's no way they wouldn't have discussed this topic long before. And saying "I never gave a moment's thought to how you must have felt" takes him off the "sympathetic reader-identification figure" side of the register and over to the "kind of a selfish dickwad" side.

It was obviously written this way for the sole purpose of providing a reason for Luornu to deliver all that exposition, plausible characterization be damned. Levitz got much better later on. (I think he also cut down on the "breeps" -- or did I just stop noticing them so much?)

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	jlroberson 2009-07-14 02:54 am UTC (link)
	Nono, the "breep"s were always very much a part of it. One thing that's always bugged me about newsprint coloring: why so much damn pink? I know that they actually had a mandated set of colors to work with, but why so much of that one? It's just a personal thing: I've always thought pink was one of the uglier colors. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	perletwo 2009-07-14 03:08 am UTC (link)
	Maybe something to do with the printing process being used at the time? If you're asking specifically about pink in LoSH, I'd guess it was a) referencing neon light and/or b) part of the overall bright shiny iPodishness of the Giffen-era Legion. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

jlroberson
2009-07-14 03:52 am UTC (link)

I'm assuming it was certainly the reason for the "banned colors"(colors that were possible but that were mandated against by editors). But no, when I look at comics from the 70s and 80s--particularly the latter, and especially DC(though Shooter-era Marvel has just as much) I keep seeing as a background fill color this ugly salmon pink. And it NEVER looks good. So I'm wondering why it was used so often.

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perletwo
2009-07-14 04:12 am UTC (link)

I know the color you mean. I think one thing to keep in mind is that all those old 70s and 80s comics on newsprint fade incredibly; it may be that whatever mixes of shades they started out as, they've all faded to that dusty salmon base. (Think about the very early Batman scans we've seen here where Bats looks practically naked; whatever purple or grey wash they used faded to a skinlike grey-pink.) Not sure there's any real way to know if the salmon-pink was intentional or if another pigment leached out of it over time.

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	geoffsebesta 2009-07-14 06:18 am UTC (link)
	BREEP it is not pink it is pale scarlet BREEP (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jlroberson 2009-07-14 08:21 am UTC (link)
	Okay, pale scarlet. It looks like someone spilled Kool-Aid on it, is all I'm saying. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	The Gods Love Chuck Taine jlroberson 2009-07-14 08:29 am UTC (link)
	Were I Chuck Taine, it would not matter what she said, the response would always be "Yes dear." Seriously. Luckiest. Legionnaire. Ever. Ever see how this fella got his powers? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: The Gods Love Chuck Taine kamino_neko 2009-07-14 11:26 am UTC (link)
	Which kind of makes 'I never really realized how you felt' a little more realistic...the boy's got all the observational skills of a stone. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: The Gods Love Chuck Taine 04nbod 2009-07-14 03:29 pm UTC (link)
	Stone Boy would take offence to that (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: The Gods Love Chuck Taine jlroberson 2009-07-15 12:46 am UTC (link)
	He's so dim he even has to keep explaining to himself what he's watching. Seriously. Lucky son of a bitch. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: The Gods Love Chuck Taine kamino_neko 2009-07-15 12:58 am UTC (link)
	Also, OCD, and has to recite the history of Robot Gladiators. Poor, poor mentally challenged Chuck. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: The Gods Love Chuck Taine jlroberson 2009-07-15 01:18 am UTC (link)
	Ever since that one day he forgot, thought it was real, and, well, it wasn't pretty. Also, now that we see what they've been doing to the giant robots, Computo's rebellion looks a bit more Nat Turner/Spartacus than before. http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/657639.html (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: The Gods Love Chuck Taine kamino_neko 2009-07-15 02:40 am UTC (link)
	Red Tornado: I am Computo! Killg%re: No, I am Computo! Amazo: No, I am Computo! Bizarro Computo: Yes, Me am not Computo! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: The Gods Love Chuck Taine smarmyimp 2009-07-15 03:36 pm UTC (link)
	Computo: I am Starscream! ... Hey, wait... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: The Gods Love Chuck Taine kamino_neko 2009-07-15 04:33 pm UTC (link)
	Megatron: boom (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: The Gods Love Chuck Taine khaosworks 2009-07-14 11:37 am UTC (link)
	As Chuck once yelled to Fred Hembeck's salacious inquiries about his built-in menage a trois: "WHAT GOES ON BETWEEN MY WIFE AND I IN THE PRIVACY OF OUR OWN ORGY CHAMBERS IS NOBODY'S BUSINESS BUT OUR OWN!!" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: The Gods Love Chuck Taine icon_uk 2009-07-14 01:06 pm UTC (link)
	Beaten only by the Luorno's last scene pre-Zero Hour, where all five (the two adult and three younger (SW6)) selves merge as the Entropy wave hits... IIRC their last words were "We've never tried THIS combination before..." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: The Gods Love Chuck Taine kamino_neko 2009-07-15 02:42 am UTC (link)
	I liked retconned-in-by-Zero Hour SW6-Chuck's response to meeting real Chuck and Lu. 'I could have had that?' (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: The Gods Love Chuck Taine fredneil.livejournal.com 2009-07-15 08:12 pm UTC (link)
	Bouncing might not be very practical, but at least it's a power. Triplicate Girl could change from one person without powers into three people without powers. Essentially, she was the equivalent of a person with two friends. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	icon_uk 2009-07-14 01:04 pm UTC (link)
	The 5YL Legion re-examined this further, with the first mention of Luorno having three distinct personalities and the first mention of differences between her bodies (eye colours being the most obvious). (Reply to this) (Thread)

	04nbod 2009-07-14 03:32 pm UTC (link)
	Also brought up in coughcountdowncough when Una (who was probably the body killed by computo) said she loved Val but her other selves wouldn't agree (presumably because they loved chuck) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jlroberson 2009-07-15 12:44 am UTC (link)
	Now THAT'S an interesting take on the character. Her powers might not be good for fighting but they're excellent for characterization. (Reply to this) (Parent)

smarmyimp
2009-07-15 03:33 pm UTC (link)

I had a friend who was constantly amused that the most common "origin" for the Legion of Superheroes was "being from somewhere else"... that they were basically just normal citizens on their own planet, but by deciding to put on tights and hang around Earth, now they're superheroes.

Duo Damsel particularly tickled him, since due to her being from a planet where everyone splits into three, she's actually handicapped where she comes from, but a superhero as far as the Legion classifies it.

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