LSHChat:1996-04-02

April 2, 1996 « Prev • Next » Summariser T. Troy McNemar Participants Tom McCraw

Tom McCraw was the guest on America Online's Legion of Super-
Heroes Chat for Tuesday, April 2, 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.

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Tom McCraw will be attending the Chicago Comics Convention this
summer, as will DC Online's editor Michael Leib.  Tom is certain
that there will be a least a couple of Legion lunches planned,
but refuses to eat pizza with anchovies.  In fact, Tom reveals
that anchovies can not come anywhere near any of the Legion
creators--it's their weakness.

Former assistant/associate editor Mike McAvennie has almost
completed his work with the Legion books.  He still has the
upcoming SHOWCASE stories, and will remain the lettercol writer
for the time being.

The color of the turtleneck collars on the Science Police
uniforms determine the rank of the officer.

Kinetix's new powers are telekineses.  She can no longer reshape
objects.

There are no plans for a Supergirl/LSH crossover story right now,
at least until her own series is underway.

Tom's favorite DC hero is the Flash.  It's the character that got
him hooked on comics.  He loved the Rogues Gallery.

Tom observes that the "ownership" of the Tornado Twins is shared
between the Flash team and the Legion team.  Tom observes its the
fair thing to do and quips if they split them up, they wouldn't
be the Tornado Twins.

There are no plans for the Time Trapper or Computo right now.

There are no plans for any of the members of the Legion of
Substitute Heroes any time soon.

Tom wasn't certain why Braal and Titan declared war on each
other, but speculates it was probably some silly thing.  Tom
conceded that he hadn't thought of the reason yet.

Tom believes that Titan is likely a former Earth colony.

Tom thinks the planets Plevitz and G'ff'n are probably at war
right now.

Tom indicated that Double Header was probably his least favorite
of the Substitute Heroes.

The postboot team will not be doing the Sean/Schvaughn story in
the postboot continuity.

Tom promises a big surprise for L* #37.

Legion editor KC Carlson is the character raising the flag in the
final pages of LSH #80.

President Brande's second-in-command will be identified in LSH
#81.  Tom notes that Chu was both President of the Earth and U.P
President.  However, Brande may change things to ease his
workload.

There are plans for Ferro in the works.

Cosmic Boy gave Invisible Kid free control of the Espionage
Squad.  He didn't know all that they were doing.

Tom offered this explanation for how the Espionage Squad sequence
in L*#36/LSH #80 happened:  Invisible Kid, Shrinking Violet and
Triad (one as Chameleon) enter Ambassador Wazzo's quarters.  They
Drug and hide Ambassador Wazzo and set up apparent deaths. 
Meanwhile, Chameleon captures President Chu and Brainiac 5.  Tom
points out that you can drug a phaser if they aren't expecting
it.

Tom thinks that Triad may be able to only split into two women
rather than three.  Tom speculates that Luornu is special in this
regard and that most Carggites can only split into three bodies.

Triad is going to go through some changes.  No Computo stuff,
though.

Tom doesn't think a Carggite Sex Special would make it past the
Comics Code Authority.

The Xanthan heroes that appear in LSH #83 have a team name, and
Insect Queen will be a member.  There is also a campy heroine
named "Monstress".

Now that Chameleon can speak, he'll be explaining his "popeness".

A new member will probably join in L* #42.  (Ed - Note the use of
the word "probably.")  The potential member isn't Dream Girl.  It
isn't Chemical King, but Tom noted that he would like to do
something with Condo and thought that his powers could be used
better.  It also isn't Chuck Taine, but there are no plans for
getting rid of Chuck anytime soon.

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