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mygif

As someone who is a fan of romance, sappy or otherwise, I say to you…bravo.

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So it’s an ally with a supervillain concept. Nice.

Have you decided who she is, or is he just going to hang around the legion being helpful (with thought bubbles or soliloquy panels mooning over “her”) until you figure it out (and he either snaps and kidnaps her crazy-villain-style or she falls for him or he confesses or whatever)?

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mygif

ISWTL is my heroin.

This stuff is so good you tease.

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I’m so gonna steal this idea for my next novel.

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Now that’s awesome. That’s so awesome and has so much potential for good, solid character development that I’m not going to make the obvious Planetary reference.

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Hahaha. This is fantastic.

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Did you have a specific Teen Titan in mind for the love interest?

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Eventually she falls for him, but in a brutal battle she loses control of her powers and Phantom Girl no longer is able to touch or be touched?

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ladypeyton said on June 24th, 2008 at 12:43 pm

Screw the Legion! This needs to be a book! Yesterday!

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Yes. Damnit. I like this!

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i’m a sucker for a good love story so, as you can imagine, i just love this

it’s got that brainiac 5 “yes, even though i’m the smartest being in the universe and i know she’s destined to die in the crisis i’m still in love with supergirl. i love her. and i always will” fill to it

rock on man

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mygif

Oh my fucking god that is brilliant and I love it and I would pay a goodly sum to read it.

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Just as long as his “wife” isn’t Saturn Girl, I approve.

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I’d read the fuck out of that story.

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mygif

Hmph. Very close to a concept I’ve seen from another comic writer. So close, in fact, that either you and he share the same inspiration, or you’re both pulling this from the same communal mythological bank.

Either way, don’t be surprised if a similar story pops up one day soon, and not under MGK’s name.

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I’ll be honest. I have never read the legion of superheroes. I grew up reading marvel over DC, and what DC I did see was main-universe current day stuff (Batman, JLA etc). By the time I was old enough to maybe be interested, DCs convoluted attempts to tie the legion in to the rest of the DCU/fix continuity holes etc had put me right off (Seriously, Marvels solution with the guardians of the galaxy was to just say “Its a possible future, now look! EVIL ALIEN CHURCH AND GHOST RIDER OF THE FUTURE!!!!”, which at least didnt get in the way of the story)

But I would read the legion if you wrote it. I am not joking. Right now, its about the only thing that would make me pick up a legion book.

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If they let you write shit like THIS I’d buyu comics again!

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Beautiful. I want to read it.

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Lister Sage said on June 24th, 2008 at 3:16 pm

What Simon K said.

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I had an idea kinda like this once. But when my guy found his alternate-wife it turned out she was evil, so she killed him and proceeded to use his estate for evil.

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I actually think Spoke is a good name, since it allows him to travel to the center. And as a perpetually single comics geek, I approve of all romantic stories which don’t suck.

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Sofa King said on June 24th, 2008 at 4:14 pm

Now I have that with the Flash Gordon theme in my head: SPOKE! AHHHHHHH! But I also must know who his ladyfriend is really! Be darkly amusing if it turns out to be Triplicate Girl, and he steals/marries/kills one of the three and that’s how she becomes Duo Damsel.

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mygif

This is entirely wonderful, as are so many of your Legion ideas.

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I like that it backdoor-kills the stupid “52 universes” concept.

I’m agnostic on the general question of multiverses but I’m pretty sure the stupidest fucking thing you could ever do with a multiverse is have there be only 52 universes in it.

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Sensorium said on June 24th, 2008 at 5:30 pm

This is essentially the plot of Tomorow and Tomorow, by Charles Sheffield. That isn’t a critisism.

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I like it. Reminds me of the 1/2 issue of Astro City, “The Nearness Of You.” And that’s a good thing.

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TheFinalWraith said on June 24th, 2008 at 7:54 pm

I wonder… if anything is possible does that mean that some version of his wife lost him in a tragic accident and is serching the megaverse for a replacement?

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May I just say how vaguely creepy that is? In a good way, of course. It’s the same thing that happens when a person’s dog dies. They get the same breed of dog, expecting that the new pet will be completely identical in all aspects to the old one and it will be like they never lost him. Except it doesn’t work like that, and the poor replacement pet gets abandoned on the freeway or dumped in an animal shelter, or put down, or (in a specific case I know of) neglected to the point of starvation until he was rescued/stolen by an animal lover I knew.

Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t forsee much romance out of this plot. Just tragedy. And I’d still read it because it’s beautiful.

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mygif

Seriously, that is good. Long time Legion fan (like 25 years) and that is great. No really, they should talk to you. It’s not like they are falling over themselves with good writers.

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Like Simon K and Wrath said.

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All I have to add is that it would be fun to play with the meanings of “spoke,” both as the past tense of speak, and as, you know, how you’re using it. I’m not saying that the double meanings apply to anything you’re doing here, but something interesting might be done.

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Thelastavenger said on February 4th, 2010 at 5:06 am

If your dealing with the threeboot legion I guess his love is light lass, explaining why she dates every male member(because she cant be with her true love) and as its pointed out Djir’s wife didnt have powers and shes the only female legionniare who does not have natural powers.

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Thelastavenger said on February 4th, 2010 at 5:06 am

oh,wait it could be Projecta.

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it’s gotta be Light Lass. And Dhir is an alternate (male) version of Shrinking Violet, which explains that particular universe he discovered where he was his wife’s dead lesbian lover.

This is genius.

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