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See Us at ComicCon Erie 2024, Sept. 20-22: itsokimasenator — LiveJournal
Hey folks, Mary and I will be guests at the Sept. 20-22 ComiCon Erie at the Bayfront Convention Center right here in beautiful Erie, Pa. I believe this is our first con appearance in eight years (boy does time fly). Looking forward to it.
Keith Giffen, Colleague & Friend - It's OK, I'm a Senator — LiveJournal
Heres a tribute to Keith Giffen I ran through Interlac and Apa-LSH... I was hit hard by the news of Keith Giffens death, and after a day or two to absorb the news, I decided it would be worthwhile to put down in some detail my history with him and what he meant to Mary and I. There…
"2995" Sourcebook: Chameleon Boy thru Kid Quantum: itsokimasenator — LiveJournal
Continuing to catch up on the missing comments from the early Heroes section of our 2995 Mayfair Sourcebook REEP DAGGLE / CHAMELON BOY (CONTD) : Last time I chopped off my recollections in the middle of Reeps section, so we pick it up with a press…
Keith Giffen, 1952-2023 - It's OK, I'm a Senator — LiveJournal
Keith Giffen has gone out in style as only he can (see the above Facebook post from his family). But for those who knew him well, this is a tough one. Heres what I posted on Facebook when the news came out... In my case, Keith was a mentor, a teacher, a staunch advocate, a sounding board, the…
"2995" Sourcebook: Phantom Girl to Chameleon Boy - It's OK, I'm a Senator — LiveJournal
Continuing to catch up on the missing comments from the early Heroes section of our 2995 Mayfair Sourcebook, at this point profiling each Legionniare in the order they joined the team, with primary source documents from the 30th century that touch on the key…
Daxam, Valor, Laurel Gand - It's OK, I'm a Senator — LiveJournal
Hey folks, my first entry in a long time, sorry about that, but heres another topic-of-the-mailing discussion from the pages of Legion apas, this time covering Daxam and its heroes Mon-El / Valor and Laurel Gand... I guess my overall feeling about Daxam was that it became almost more of…
Stone Boy, Chlorophyll Kid, Mardru, Zwen: itsokimasenator — LiveJournal
Heres another entry re-purposed from a recent Apa-LSH Topic of the Mailing discussion: Stone Boy emerged as somewhat of a favorite for me, probably mostly because he was offered Legion membership (in Adventure Comics #315) and Ive always kicked around the idea that one day…
"2995" Mayfair Soucebook: Echo thru Refleto - It's OK, I'm a Senator — LiveJournal
Boy, Im surprised how long its been since Ive posted an entry, but getting back in the swing of things, lets continue with a look at some segments of our Legion Sourcebook, still in the Heroes section ECHO : I indulged myself and threw in the character Echo,…
"2995" Mayfair Sourcebook: Karate Kid Through Timber Wolf: itsokimasenator — LiveJournal
Continuing our reminiscences of the Legion: 2995 Mayfair Sourcebook Mary and I wrote back in about 1992... KARATE KID : A very brief entry for a hero who didnt play much of a role during our run. We get a brief obituary of the original Vals demise and a quick sense of…
"2995" Mayfair Legion Sourcebook: Evillo to Molock Hanscom - It's OK, I'm a Senator — LiveJournal
Continuing with my recollections of our work back in 1991-92 on the 2995 Mayfair Legion Sourcebook, currently going through the Villains section... PRINCE EVILLO : OK, once again, I got to have a little fun with my offbeat take on Evillo and his run-ins with Tenzil. One of…
Chameleon Boy / Reep Daggle: itsokimasenator — LiveJournal
Another entry re-purposed from a recent Apa-LSH Topic of the Mailing discussion: This Legionnaire (appropriately enough) feels like hes really a number of characters that periodically morph from one to the next. In the early days, he seemed as much as anything to be a quasi-comic…
Color Kid: itsokimasenator — LiveJournal
Here are some thoughts on Ulu Vakk from a past mailing of Apa-LSH when Color Kid was one of the subjects of the mailing.. I always liked Color Kid and was glad to see him phase from being just another quickly rejected applicant to a mainstay in the Subs. Im guessing that his ascension was a…
"2995" Mayfair Legion Sourcebook: Cosmic Boy to Triplicate Girl: itsokimasenator — LiveJournal
Continuing with recollections about the process of writing the 2995 Mayfair Legion Sourcebook... I was surprised to discover recently that Id somehow never posted my notes on the 2995 Sourcebooks entries covering the first set of Legionnaires. Im pretty…
"2995" Mayfair Legion Sourcebook: Magnetic Kid Through Kent Shakespeare: itsokimasenator — LiveJournal
Continuing with segments of the Legion Sourcebook MAGNETIC KID : We enter a phase where we didnt have a lot to say about these Legionnaires because they were characters that mostly came and went before our time. In this…
The Heroes of Lallor - It's OK, I'm a Senator — LiveJournal
From comments I batted out a little while ago when the Heroes of Lallor were a topic of the mailing in Apa-LSH: I didnt have a real strong reaction to the Heroes of Lallor as my brothers and I were learning the early Adventure Comics history through our various back-issue purchases in the…
The Legion's Supporting Cast: itsokimasenator — LiveJournal
Heres another discussion motivated by a Topic of the Mailing in Apa-LSH... It seems so appropriate for the supporting cast of the Legion to compound the groups greatest flaw in the eyes of its detractors, as well as its greatest quality in the eyes of its fans…
Brek Bannin / Polar Boy - It's OK, I'm a Senator — LiveJournal
For whatever reason, Polar Boy always appealed to me from the time I first saw him at about the age of 7. I was probably even then kind of a fan of winter weather and ice and snow, and Ive always tended to like characters with interesting headgear. I think I also kind of liked the color…
"2995" Mayfair Legion Sourcebook: Tyroc Through the White Witch - It's OK, I'm a Senator — LiveJournal
Lets pick up on my notes on our 2995 Mayfair Soucebook, starting with our little section on Tyroc, which starts with a Meet the Legionnaires entry through a pretentious era of The Legion Groupie, then…
Recollections of The Heckler #3 - It's OK, I'm a Senator — LiveJournal
This very well may have been the best issue of The Heckler, certainly one of them. Keith came up with a really great adversary thats both conceptually and visually a barrel of laughs -- the Cosmic Clown, a robotic assassin from outer space in the guise of a clown, whos managed to get…
Laurel Gand / Andromeda: itsokimasenator — LiveJournal
Here are some thoughts on Laurel Gand / Andromeda from a couple years back when she was the topic of the mailing in Apa-LSH. Back in probably late 1989, Mary and I were visiting friends Arnie Starky and James Ricklef on a Saturday evening and this was about the time we were coming up on the…
"2995" Mayfair Legion Sourcebook: Legion Equipment: itsokimasenator — LiveJournal
Continuing with my recollections of our work on the 2995 Mayfair Sourcebook with an entry on the equipment used by the Five Years Later Legion... This section begins with some detail of the Legions HQ on Talus, the asteroid made up of smashed together…
Recollections of The Heckler #5: itsokimasenator — LiveJournal
Continuing on with my memories of working on the Heckler, and now were up to the penultimate issue of its all-too-brief run... Keith conceived this issue as kind of a split-story. For the one half hed dreamed up on his own, it was a set-up for a huge event / villain that would arrive next…
"2995" Mayfair Legion Sourcebook: Dark Circle to Darkseid: itsokimasenator — LiveJournal
Continuing with my recollections of our work back in 1991-92 on the 2995 Mayfair Legion Sourcebook... Earlier entries covered History, Heroes and Equipment, and were now in the Villains section... Needless to say, we werent…
Triplicate Girl / Duo Damsel / Luornu Durgo: itsokimasenator — LiveJournal
Heres another discussion motivated by a topic of the mailing prompt in Apa-LSH, this time looking at the character of Triplicate Girl / Duo Damsel / Luornu... When I discovered the Legion back in probably 1962 at about the age of 6, for some reason I had a bit of a crush on…
Bouncing Boy / Superboy-LSH #200: itsokimasenator — LiveJournal
From a recent Apa-LSH topic of the mailing, some thoughts on Chuck Taine, Bouncing Boy... I suppose if I could go back in a time machine and advise the early creators of the Legion, I might council against the inclusion of Bouncing Boy on the team, because perhaps my earliest memory of the Legion…
"2995" Mayfair Legion Sourcebook: The SW6 Legionnaires: itsokimasenator — LiveJournal
Continuing with my apa recollections of working on the 2995 Mayfair Sourcebook... We were writing this Sourcebook just as the Legionnaires series was coming together, so in its own way, this group could have merited as much attention as the mother-book team,…