Tom McCraw and Jeff Moy were the guests on America Online's Legion of
Super-Heroes Chat Hour for Tuesday, January 2, 1996. LSH Chat is held every
Tuesday at 6:00 p.m. EST in the chat area of DC Online. Previous guests
have included Tom Peyer, Tom McCraw, Roger Stern, Mark Waid, Jeff Moy, Ron
Boyd, KC Carlson, and Mike McAvennie.
DISCLAIMER - The chat reports present my best interpretation of what was
said at the chat reports. Opportunities for clarification questions are not
always possible. This report is presented for entertainment only and should
not be relied upon.
SPOILERS - Information that tends to Spoil upcoming storylines is placed at
the end of the chat report. No intervening spoiler space is given.
SPECIAL THANKS - To Edward Douglas, Andrew Woodard and Lev Kalman for
providing me a copy of the chat log from which this report was generated.
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Tom would like to see some of the LSH and L* issues put together for a trade
paperback.
Jeff likes Humberto Ramos' illustration of XS in "Impulse". He asked if we
wanted her back. Tom pointed out that Impulse can get on everyone's nerves.
Tom is not taking on any more coloring assignments right now. Starting with
issue #26, Tom will be coloring "Superboy" on his computer. Tom finds
computer coloring more satisfying, but it takes him longer to do.
Jeff indicates that his schedule is fine right now, and he does not foresee
the necessity for a fill-in on Legionnaires any time soon.
Tom appreciated the write-up that the Legion books recently received in
Comic Shop News. He hoped that the reviews would attract a few new readers.
Legion flight rings are still on hold.
Tom would love to do a crossover with "Power of Shazam".
Tom noted that some fans take the use of the Legionnaires' real names as
opposed to their codenames very seriously.
Kinetix does not have a preboot counterpart.
The tongues are always Jeff's ideas.
There are no plans for Celeste Rockfish to come back. Tom observed that it
would be tough to do without Green Lantern ties. Tom also questioned if the
team needed another detective, it might cramp Lyle's style.
There are no plans for Blok or Nemesis Kid. Tom observed that maybe Blok
could sacrifice himself to defeat the Sun Eater in the postboot.
Tom noted that they try to update the storyline every once in a while to
fill in the new readers.
The use of the "Lightning Twin" powers was mainly to show Live Wire and
Spark working together.
XS will return to the 30th century as soon as she finds a way back. Only
Mark Waid knows for sure.
Tom indicates that if Gates wins the leader election, he'll disband the team
so he can go home. Gates was forced to join the Legion, and the Legion was
forced to take him.
There are a couple of costume change suggestions on the table for some of
the Legionnaires, but no plans to change any right now.
Tom McCraw: "Dirk as a villain? Come on, think about it." Tom liked Sidne
Ward's suggestion that the issue of Dirk's return include special
sunglasses. A Dirk story is coming after LSH #80. Dirk is in the hospital
for now.
We'll see more of Karate Kid and Work Force soon.
The Fatal Five storyline is not wrapped up until LSH #80. Any try out issue
would have to be after that.
The Sun Eater isn't in that much of the Fatal Five story.
