LSHChat:1996-04-09

April 9, 1996 « Prev • Next » Summariser T. Troy McNemar Participants Tom Peyer Tom McCraw Jeff Moy W.C. Carani K.C. Carlson Important information revealed Science Police rank insignia

Tom Peyer (LSH co-plotter/scripter), Tom McCraw (LSH/L* co-
plotter/colorist), Jeff Moy (L* penciller), Cory Carani (L*
inker), and KC Carlson (LSH/L* editor) were the guests on America
Online's Legion of Super-Heroes Chat for Tuesday, April 9, 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. 
(Keyword:  DC CHAT.)  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.

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SPECIAL THANKS - To Elizabeth Woodard, Lev Kalman, and Ed Douglas
who were all available and willing to log the chat for me.

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Peyer, McCraw, Jeff and KC all note that L* #37 will be a good
jumping-on point for new readers.  McCraw offers that the roll
call page will fill in a lot of people in that issue.

There will be a New York area gathering of LSH creators and fans
on Friday, April 12, 1996.  E-mail Andrew Woodard at
wooda...@acf2.nyu.edu for more information if you're interested
in attending.

Jeff and Cory will be making an appearance in Bridgeview,
Illinois on Sunday, April 14, 1996, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.  They
will be at the Oremus Center and 79th and Iketo, one block west
of Harlem Avenue.

Peyer will be attending the San Diego convention this summer. 
Jeff will be attending both San Diego and Chicago.  McCraw will
be in Chicago.

The Legion creators praised DC editor Dan Raspler, calling him a
veritable god, a wonderwall, and more full of love than Donovan.

If you mailed something to DC's offices, it might not have
arrived.  A mail truck was recently stolen outside their
building.

Peyer is writing a Showcase story with Vril Dox for Showcase '96
## 11 & 12 that will involve lots of Coluan stuff.  He's also
writing this year's Adventures of Superman annual.

McCraw is doing a Legion story for Showcase '96 #8.  McCraw's
Showcase story will have two villains.  Peyer countered that his
Showcase story had 6 heroes.  McCraw shot back that Peyer's story
had only one measly villain.

KC thinks he screwed up the Persuader's name in his ANTI-GRAVITY
ROOM appearance rather than having the correct name edited out. 
Regular AGR fans thought that his appearance might be rerun on
Friday, so check your local listings.  AGR appears on the Sci-Fi
channel.

There are no plans for Amethyst to show up in the Legion titles
soon.

KC planted the information about the Moy tongues in the "Watch
This Space" column for books that shipped August 3, 1996.  Peyer
asked Moy why all of his characters kept sticking their tongue
out, but they never seem to lick anything.  Moy responded that
Comic Code Man ruins everything.

Peyer observed that they haven't portrayed any Spark/Shrinking
Violet relationship in the postboot for the code to object to. 
As far as Peyer knows, Spark and Vi hardly know each other.

Peyer is thinking about Pulsar Stargrave right now, so an
appearance is a possibility.

The Legion swearword "squadj" was created when KC became tongue-
tied on "Espionage Squad" at the last Legion summit.

The next tuckerization may be in L* #40.  Keep an eye out for the
LKOWians if they survive Stern's scripting.

Peyer indicated that Spark would not become Light Lass while he
lived.  He thought it was sexist to take the lightning away from
her.

McCraw rejected an idea to have the Legion travel back to the
time of the first Braal-Titan war indicating that they've done
enough time travel stuff already.

Peyer promised a Klordny story by next Klordny.  He plans to skip
the Klordny parade because he would rather do the twist on flying
disks.

McCraw elaborated on the color scheme to determine Science Police
ranks.  Black collars mean foot soldier, rookie or private.  He
thought red was for sergeants, teal for lieutenants, and white
for captains.

Peyer quips that he's thinking of introducing a 5 year gap.

KC promised reader elections for leader soon.  They were trying
to coordinate the announcement between the lettercol, AOL, and
"someplace else."

Jan Arrah will be too busy for a romance with Schvaughn Erin
anytime soon.

When Vernon Harmon asked about the SP officer from the first Mano
story, KC asked if Vernon was related to Tom McCraw.  Peyer asked
if we'd like to see the SP officer again. 

Kinetix will be getting more focus soon.

Chameleon can speak more languages than three.  Peyer later joked
that Pig Latin was required of all Espionage Squad members.

When asked if President Chu would be reappearing, KC revealed
R.J. Brande's new campaign slogan--"I think we're through with
Chu."  McCraw thought that she'd been sent off to the Plevitz-
G'ff'n war, and Peyer was interested in making her Super-ex-
president.

KC thought that Mano was turning out to be an interesting
villain.  He likes to let Tom, Tom, and Roger Stern surprise him
regarding Mano.  McCraw pointed out that KC never knew when Mano
might creep up on him.  Peyer thought that Mano would have helped
Valor destroy the bombs in LSH #80 if he'd been asked.

Peyer and McCraw observed that Mano would not be joining the
Legion.

McCraw thought that Mordecai might make an interesting
replacement for Mano in the Fatal Five.  McCraw opined that
Validus and Mordecai together would crush a lot of things. 
McCraw thought Caress would be good, too.

Spark's secret admirer will be revealed soon.  Jeff confessed
that he was the admirer during the chat.

McCraw promised that Tenzil will always be around, but he wasn't
sure for now if Tenzil would ever become a member.

The next villain that the Legion faces is someone that has
already appeared in the postboot stories.  After that, KC
promised a really nasty villain that the fans would hate them
for.  Moy asked KC for a villain that makes all the Legionnaires
stick their tongues out.

Triad will be getting a new look soon which is a total redesign. 
Jeff is doing the redesign.  Jeff indicated that the new design
will include skirts.  Triad will be getting a new symbol.  Peyer
promised that there will be many redesigns in the months to come. 
All new uniforms will stick to the stripe and belt motif.

KC indicated that there will be romances in the Legion books. 
Peyer noted that they were juggling at least 3 romantic sub-plots
right now.  One of the characters receives their first kiss in L*
#39.

The creators were all online to reveal the cover to L* #37 and
Valor's new codename:  "M'Onel". The creators promised that the
new name would be explained in L* #37.

Jeff Moy designed M'Onel's uniform with some input from KC.  The
uniform is similar to the traditional Mon-El costume with a
horizontal band made of starfield material.  Rectangular tacks
replace the large disks on the costume.  The uniform shows an "M"
on M'Onel's chest. 

Peyer joked that M'Onel was the new name for Tenzil.  He
suggested that Tenzil and Valor would fight for the name, and
speculated as to whether even a Daxamite could prevail against
acid spit.

The Dream Girl appearance has been postponed until LSH #84.  She
was dropped from LSH #83 when that story underwent a rewrite. 
Dream Girl doesn't have much screen time in her first appearance,
but McCraw promises more Nura is in the works.

Peyer thinks Legionnaire tryouts are scheduled for an upcoming
issue of L*.  He guessed it was L* #43 or so.