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I kinda hope the Large Hadron Collider goes wild and sends us all to hell, just so no alien visitor can ever see what we have done. I mean WWII was wrong, but at least spawned some good videogames. But The Wanderers???

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Lister Sage said on August 7th, 2008 at 9:46 am

Given the right writer an emotional vampire on the team could have made for an interesting storyline. Even a funny one, ala the Red Dwarf episode Polymorph. As far as Quantum Queen goes: it was the 80’s, someone has to have the slutty costume. Even on an all male team, someone was going to have a slutty costume. In fact, if I ever write a comic about a team in the 80’s, they will have a limited number of costumes and will fight over who has to wear the slutty one.

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Between looking at the first and second pages, it’s like they gave “The Wanderers” to Rob Liefeld or similar and said, “see if you can shake these guys up a little.”

I remember first reading The Great Darkness saga and seeing The Wanderers and wondering who the hell they were. The Heroes of Lallor beat The Wanderers any day. I still crack up when I remember the panel of Life Lass bringing the chair to “life”.

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Cookie McCool said on August 7th, 2008 at 9:55 am

Celebrand and Elvo in Wanderers Mark One have terrifyingly big hands. That’s kind of a superpower, isn’t it? Being able to palm a pumpkin is kind of super. Unless their hands are standard future hand size, and Dartalg is so good with a blowgun because of his mighty daintiness.

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Either I’m an idiot (which isn’t out of the question) or you got Elvo mixed up with Dartalg in the first one.

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Actually, it’s the original illustration that’s off, identifying Elvo as Dartalg and vice versa. Other than that, of course, it is perfect in every way.

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Lister Sage: Of all the imaginary comics I would absolutely purchase without a second thought, “Team 80s” just moved onto the top of the list.

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You’re looking at this from the wrong angle. Your “Why I Should Write the Legion” pieces are brilliant, mostly because you take the cool stuff and make it cooler, and the sorta-stupid stuff and make it cool. Think of the challenge then, to take the REALLY lame, sad, and stupid stuff – like the Wanderers – and apply the same touch to them.

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What Joe X said. Say make the Immorto guy Resurection Man and bam suddenly the team gets an A-list bad guy in Vandal Savage. Transforms into birds? Either a Thangarian or one of those weird Man-Hawks…

Just give Quantum Queen and Psyche non suck costumes.

Elf with a sword. Um. Ok, I got nothing. Pick a DC alien race that wander around being all space barbarian and make him one of those. Maybe Starfire’s race? Don’t they like swords? The ones who can’t blast people with rays…

Dart/Quill guy. Ok. Right. You take. No. Er. I guess he can die tragically at the start of the arc to give the team some angst?

And Celebrand would work fine as an Adam Strange tactical genius type…

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I’m sure the Wanderers would have had potential… perhaps in the 19th century? Looking at the anachronistic weapons, it seems like a better fit.

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To paraphrase that one guy in Transmetropolitan: “The transformation affects the visual cortex, too. Sure, you may see a gross leathery winged bird-monster, but to me, I’m fucking Marilyn Monroe.”

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Aviax has hella muscle mass for a guy with brittle bones. Aw, but what bother? They obviously stole the whole idea from a really kickass issue of Thor.

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“Aviax has hella muscle mass for a guy with brittle bones.”

Your logic is not welcome here!

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Sofa King said on August 7th, 2008 at 4:11 pm

Celebrand hypnotizes people with his hippy necklace. I’m just happy to see the Who’s Who back.

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It seems entirely appropriate that the Who’s Who page for each team has a fairly serious error – the picture mismatch on the first team, and “Not true wanderers” when I suspect the desired phrase was “NOW true wanderers” on the second.

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I had the reboot series of these guys. Issue one is currently part of my bathroom wall. No really.

What that series did to the Wanderers would soon be known as “ninetiesification” and perfected as adding pockets, belts, knives, impractically over-sized firearms and mullets to existing bad, tepid, and/or time-honored characters.

It was a more innocent time… playing at being a less innocent time.

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Hmmm Quantum Queens’ costume looks alot like the Pre-Crisis Saturn Girls Bikini outfit.

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Maybe they were at the laundromat together, and accidentally switched loads?

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I love the fact that the originals were so freaking shite, even the writers got them wrong in the side panel.

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Dartalg could perhaps be re-established as a 31st-Century assassin-for-hire – as no-one expects to be killed with such a primitive weapon as a dart, they become incredibly easy targets!

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How does Re-Animage get into that pose he’s in (I’m assuming he’s the one in the middle in the blue-and-white outfit?) Seriously, it looks hip-wreckingly awkward.

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I think Dartalon appeared in one panel of the Five Year Gap Legion, in a Silverale ad.

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jason ray said on August 8th, 2008 at 2:37 pm

that gold guy looks like he’s wearing some kind of eraser head for a helmet. I wish his sword was a giant pencil…then he’d be set.

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Cookie McCool said on August 9th, 2008 at 10:38 am

“Celebrand:… he did wield a raygun…”

This is a lot like writing, “I can use a pencil” on the Skills part of your resume. When this is the most impressive thing you can think of for your cosmic super hero application, it is time to throw away the receipt for the Seven Stones of Alactos and start up that New Future Dance Revue you always secretly wanted and see if Elvar knows any of the songs in “Rent”.

And jeez, Legion, you guys are assholes! Sure, the Wanderers suck like no-one in the 30th century has ever sucked before, but turning the whole thing into a contest? That’s just a dick move.

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My only exposure to the Wanderers was in the Great Darkness saga, which managed to make both them and the Heroes of Llalor look actually pretty cool. In retrospect, that’s amazing.

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[…] Really, making fun of Legion supporting characters is like shooting fish in a barrel slender tube specially-constructed fish-constraining chamber attached directly to the barrel of the gun and removing the necessity to aim. There are plenty of goofy characters throughout Legion history, starting with Matter-Eater Lad and continuing on with classics like Tyr (possessor of the world’s stupidest-looking cyborg arm), Gas Girl (Hero of Lallor, with one of the worst superhero names ever), or of course any of the Wanderers. […]

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