Tom McCraw (co-plotter/colorist) and KC Carlson (editor) were the
guests on America Online's Legion of Super-Heroes Chat on
Tuesday, March 26, 1996. Legion of Super-Heroes Chat is held
every Tuesday in the DC Comics Online area of AOL at 6:00 p.m.
EST. Legionnaires Chat is held every Thursday in the same area
at 10:00 p.m. EST. Regular guests include Tom Peyer, Tom McCraw,
Roger Stern, Mark Waid, Jeff Moy, Ron Boyd, KC Carlson and Mike
McAvennie.
DISCLAIMER - Information presented herein is not guaranteed to be
reliable. Misinterpretations of the creators' comments do
occasionally occur.
SPOILERS - Information that tends to spoil current or upcoming
issues is located toward the end of this report. No spoiler
space separates such spoiler information.
SUBSCRIPTIONS - If you'd like to subscribe (or unsubscribe) to
these chat reports, please send me an e-mail at
"troy...@indirect.com".
GRAPHICS - If you want to subscribe to Lev Kalman's weekly
humorous LSH pic, drop him an e-mail at "levkow...@gnn.com".
He'll send it to your virtual mailbox every week in MIME-encoded
format.
SPECIAL THANKS - To Lev Kalman and Ed Douglas for providing
copies of the chat log from which this report was generated.
ANNOUNCEMENT - You may have noticed that I've fallen somewhat behind
in these reports. At this time, I find it unlikely that I will
prepare reports for the two weeks that I've skipped. You are welcome
to refer to this as the "Two Week Gap."
==============================
The new assistant editor on the Legion books is Rueben Diaz.
KC Carlson was on the Sci-Fi Channel's Anti-Gravity room this
weekend. (Weekend of March 30, 1996.) (Ed. - I missed it. Does
anyone know whether it will be rerun during the week?)
The LSH Annual will be illustrated by Mike Collins and Mark
Farmer. The Legionnaires Annual hasn't been assigned yet.
KC is trying to get Alan Davis to do something for him.
KC is waiting for the Green Lantern people to come up with an
idea for an LSH/GL crossover.
KC is looking forward to working with Colleen Doran again on an
LSH story. The story won't be scheduled until it's finished, and
will most likely run in one of the regular books. The story is
about Jan Arrah, and won't feature Schvaughn.
Jan Arrah will get a codename soon, provided he sticks around.
Tom suggested "Alchemental" as a compromise between Alchemist and
Element Lad.
KC is pushing for more Legion Archives, and he noted that the
Flash Archives had finally been put on the schedule.
There are no plans for any of the members of the Legion of
Substitute Heroes at this time, but Tom would like to see them
again.
Shadow Lass and Dream Girl are being considered for the Legion
books.
Tom doesn't think that Valor can travel faster than light, and
pointed out that such power levels always caused problems in the
past.
KC was openly soliciting opinions on whether Shrinking Violet
should change her uniform.
KC has named his toes after Legion characters. (Ed. - Certainly
more information than I needed!<g>)
KC is on the last page of LSH #80. The rest of the creators
slipped him into the scene.
Not all of the heroes in LSH #80 will be sticking around after
the story is over. Tom wouldn't say if Gates stays or goes, but
acknowledged that he was a very popular character.
Star Boy has some other problems before he meets Dream Girl.
Nura's reported upcoming appearance was merely rumor.
The next villain is the return of someone that we've already seen
in the postboot.
When asked about the phantom inside Ultra Boy, Tom replied "What
Phantom?"
