I Get My Geek On

Posted on: 10/16/08

As you all know, I am an enormous geek. This is no secret.

One of the many things about which I'm a geek is the Legion of Super-Heroes, my favorite comic book super-hero team, stars of their own eponymous comic book. I've been reading about the Legion almost as long as I could read.

Last year, Tim Callahan asked me to contribute to Teenagers from the Future, a collection of essays about the Legion I was happy to offer my meager thoughts to the volume. The book recently hit Amazon and the Previews catalog, and -- in celebration -- Tim asked me to share my thoughts on the Legion with him online.

The result is LONG conversation between Tim and me on the Legion -- its history, its strengths, its weaknesses, and its potential future. If you've ever wanted to see me go Hardcore Geek...here it is.

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Long Live the Legion
By: Tim Downes on Thu February 19, 2009, 13:50:08
My first email / letter to someone involved with the Legion.

We were both born in '58. I started reading Adventure in '65 in the first Shooter years aged 7.

Never stopped. Well, bar a few month's when I hit 13 and felt I was too old for comics! Meanwhile 37 years later.

...It's the one comic I still buy every month now I'm 50.

My career and life purpose is to help people find the hero within. Their true hero Self and life purpose. ...I kid you not. I've been doing this for eight years now.

My true hero Self is called Starlight. A shining guide that enlightens and inspires to transcend. ...I can't think where the name comes from!

Favourite era's Shooter, Cockrum, Earthwar, Starlin, Giffen-Levitz-Lighte and first dozen issues of Giffen 5 years on and first few of DNA.

Favourite Legionairres... Karate Kid, Timber Wolf and Mon-el... Damn just found out on Wikepedia that they've killed a fourth Karate Kid!!!

...Not picked that issue up yet! Give the guy a break.

Time to go, a man can only take so much death to his hero.

Long Live Karate Kid.

Long Live the Legion.

Tim Downes
Rising the Talent of Heroes

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