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04nbod (04nbod) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-08-01 16:04:00

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char: brainiac 5/querl dox, char: element lad/alchemist/jan arrah, char: lightning lad/livewire/garth ranzz, char: m'rissy, char: phantom girl/apparition/tinya wazz, creator: jim shooter, group: legion of super-heroes, publisher: dc comics

A Kinder Fanboy- M'rissy
In the final months of the threeboot book the Legion was joined by the young M'rissy. At the time I thought it was obviously how Shooter saw himself in his early years writing the Legion but went on to discover the name M'rissy is actually referring to a fan of the Legion who had since died, Rich Morrissey. (His writings about Coluan Lifespans, from the Legion Fanzine 'legion outpost' is available in 'the best of the Legion outpost' on amazon)

M'rissy is their business manager, its like a good version of the lunatics taking over the asylum. The fanboy is in control and its a GOOD thing. Lightning Lad soon relies on him to help him lead...

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	unknownscribler 2009-08-01 03:39 pm UTC (link)
	That last panel is the win. (Reply to this)

icon_uk
2009-08-01 03:45 pm UTC (link)

It's nice when a little tribute can be offered like that. Not just a namecheck (that's called a Tuckerisation), but a genuine homage to a fan.

Like Geordi in Next Generation, who Gene Rodenberry named for George la Forge, a Trek fan in the 1970's who died from muscular dystrophy.

Or Project Pegasus having Director Gruenwald, after Mark Gruenwald, Marvel's Kurt Busiek before Kurt Busiek (And I mean that with absolute respect to both)

Or, and this one is killing me because I can't remmeber the guys name, during Busiek's Avengers run we meet the head of a Superhuman information gathering centre, who is named for an online fan who was famed for his copious and encyclopaedic lists of superhero information, who had died sometime before.

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	04nbod 2009-08-01 03:53 pm UTC (link)
	I don't think my link worked in the post but reading about the guy, he was utterly deserving http://www.povonline.com/cols/COL346.htm (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-08-01 04:29 pm UTC (link)
	It might actually be the same guy who featured in the Avengers now I read that bio of him and see his picture. Does sound like a terrific fellow. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cmdr_zoom 2009-08-01 06:01 pm UTC (link)
	It's a pity (and probably a disservice to his memory) that his representation here comes across as a total Sue. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

icon_uk
2009-08-01 07:40 pm UTC (link)

Given the general ineptness of the Threeboot Legion, who spent so much time pointing out how awful adults were but, with one of two exceptions, failed to demonstrate how they would do anything better (or at least less wrong in a different way) that I can tolerate an actually bright, competent 13 year old who can work within the system and actually achieve a useful end result. It gives me a lot more hope for the future than this version of Garth ever did.

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	arbre_rieur 2009-08-01 07:10 pm UTC (link)
	The fan referenced in the Busiek/Perez Avengers was one Jason Rivera. I believe he was even drawn to look like the guy. http://www.whiterocketbooks.com/avengers/riveraintro.html (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-08-01 07:44 pm UTC (link)
	Ah, thank you for that.... (Reply to this) (Parent)

	volksjager 2009-08-01 04:09 pm UTC (link)
	What's up with element lad ???? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-08-01 04:30 pm UTC (link)
	Not sure what you mean, that's the look Threeboot Element Lad had all along. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	volksjager 2009-08-01 04:34 pm UTC (link)
	One more reason I'm glad I skipped it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	04nbod 2009-08-01 04:39 pm UTC (link)
	and now he's dead, I blame you ;) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lieut_kettch 2009-08-01 05:27 pm UTC (link)
	Plus he's the one person capable of creating Kryptonite that can harm Superboy-Prime. And now Prime's back in OUR world. You've doomed us all, Volksjager. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-08-01 07:46 pm UTC (link)
	Not necessarily. Element Lad was the last survivor of Trom, and the population was wiped out in the 31st Century. Prime is stuck in the present, so depending if Trom was an Earth colony or not, there may be a planet populated with Trommite-Primes just waiting out there... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	volksjager 2009-08-01 10:11 pm UTC (link)
	Which legion version was it that EL became some universal evil due to some timetravel mess up ??? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-08-01 10:19 pm UTC (link)
	Post Zero Hour, now identified as the ones from the destroyed Universe, sho chose to search the 52 for residual leftovers as "The Wanderers" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	lieut_kettch 2009-08-02 05:19 am UTC (link)
	I'm keeping my fingers crossed that their Headquarters is a Bleed-traversing Legion World. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	arbre_rieur 2009-08-01 07:13 pm UTC (link)
	Morrissey was also honored in the Metamorpho strip of Wednesday Comics #2, as the name of the person writing in the fan letter. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	skjam 2009-08-02 02:28 pm UTC (link)
	Posted the exact same minute! Jinx! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	skjam 2009-08-01 07:13 pm UTC (link)
	Mr. Morrissey was also name-checked recently in the Metamorpho strip of Wednesday Comics. (Week 2) (Reply to this)

rab62
2009-08-01 09:00 pm UTC (link)

I've always thought Rich would have enjoyed scans_daily for the mingling of veteran old school fans with newbies wanting to learn more about comics history, because Rich was all about that. But he never thought of himself as a celebrity of comics fandom, so the idea we'd ever be talking about him here would just baffle him.

And yeah, everything Mark Evanier says about him in the link cited above is spot on...though the included photo bugs me, because his health was already in decline when it was taken and it doesn't really look like Rich.

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shadowcatphaser
2009-08-01 11:12 pm UTC (link)

I talked to Rich Morrissey a few times on the DC message boards shortly before he died. He was rather rude to me and hurt my feelings. Something to do with Blackhawk that I can't even remember now. He always came over a bit of a twat to me in our interactions. Sorry, but that's how I felt. When the subject of him comes up everyone praises him as some kind of fandom god but I always remember that dcmb thread where I said something about the Blackhawks he disagreed with and he was bitchy to me.

At the time I never knew he was famous or a longtime big name fan. As far as I was concerned he was just another rude idiot on a message board.

I suppose I'll be flamed for this, but that time he hurt me like that is what I always remember. All this about what a great guy he was wasn't borne out in my experience. In our dcmb interactions he always came over rather smug and snotty imho.

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	ashtoreth 2009-08-02 02:49 am UTC (link)
	Well, he helped found H.E.A.T. so I'm pretty sure he could sling it around..:) Funny, now that I think about it, I may've come across him on the Green Lantern boards. Hm. (Reply to this) (Parent)