Analysis Notes
| General |
The entire Legion content of this issue is out of continuity. |
| Only pages 23:5-29 are covered here. |
| 23:5 |
The sleeping man is Mark Evanier. The speaking man is Sergio Aragonés. The picture on the wall is Crossfire, a character whom Evanier and Dan Spiegle created in the 1980s for Eclipse Comics. The action figure on the bookshelf next to Mark is Groo the Wanderer, a character Mark and Sergio created for Pacific Comics in the 1980s (and then published through Eclipse, Epic, Image, and Dark Horse). The note on Sergio’s lamp has a 215 area code, which is Manhattan, and thus presumably for editor Dan Raspler’s office. |
| 24 |
Cosmic Boy’s description isn’t all that off from how some Legion tryouts went. Ty Templeton did it best with his Legion of Substitute Heroes origin in Secret Origins #< >: “It’s a version of the home game, that’s what it is!” |
| Matter-Eater Lad and Bouncing Boy have never been members of the postboot Legion, of course. |
| 25:1 |
One of the standard rejection lines: “You powers would be useless in…” (although usually something a bit broader, like “space”). |
| 25:2 |
A riff on Legion applicant Antenna Lad. |
| K.C. and the Sunshine Band is hardly a “one-hit wonder,” having won 3 Grammy Awards and with four #1 hits in a single year. Their best known songs are “That’s the Way (I Like It)” and “(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty.” (On the other hand, KC Carlson was the editor of the Legion at the time, so maybe this was a dig at him?) |
| The Archies are best known for “Sugar Sugar”. |
| Keith’s hit was “98.6”. (Danged if I can find out anything more, like even what era the song is from!) |
| 25:3 |
Tonight on “It’s the Mind,” we examine the phenomenon of déjà vu, that strange feeling we sometimes get that we’ve lived through something before, that what is happening now has already happened. |
| 25:6 |
“Mr. Saturday Night”: a drama about a comedian and his life, starring and directed by Billy Crystal. 5.7 stars out of 10 at the Internet Movie Database. |
| 25:7 |
Tonight on “It’s the Mind,” we examine the phenomenon of déjà vu, that strange feeling we sometimes get that we’ve lived through something before, that what is happening now has already happened. |
| 25:9 |
Can we get away with talking about sex in comics like this? |
| 26:1 |
Tonight on “It’s the Mind,” we examine the phenomenon of déjà vu, that strange feeling we sometimes get that we’ve lived through something before, that what is happening now has already happened. |
| Incidentally, Cheryl Ladd is the former daughter-in-law of Alan Ladd, which was the original name intended to be used for Alan Scott, the Golden Age Green Lantern. |
| 26:3 |
And Windows 2000 shipped with over 63,000 known problems. No wonder Cosmic Boy doesn’t believe her. |
| 26:4 |
Tonight on “It’s the Mind,” we examine… okay, enough with the Monty Python quotes! |
| For a while in the early 90s, Darkseid seemed to show up in about every fourth DC comic. |
| 26:5 |
Letterman has not hosted them again, just Billy Crystal and Whoopi Goldberg. |
| 27:1 |
Too many Legionnaires to even get all their faces in the panel. (Somehow reminiscent of Hembeck’s “Legionnaire Crossing” strip.) |
| Coloring error: Kinetix’ costume is a darker green than she ever wore. (Then again, she changes it all the time. Maybe she changed it for this story.) |
| No idea why Kinetix’ sleeve is ripped. |
| Andromeda was Sister Andromeda when this story was published. No wonder DC rejected Sergio, if his continuity was off like this. (Of course, Leviathan was dead by this point, to boot.) |
| 28:1 |
The Legion traditionally elected a new leader initially every year (their time), later every six months. In the postboot, in two years of their time, we have had Cosmic Boy, Leviathan, Cosmic Boy, Shrinking Violet, Invisible Kid, and Saturn Girl; seems to be keeping pace fairly well. |
| 29:2 |
Coloring error: based on the coloring, the person grabbing Star Boy is the Adventure Comics-era Colossal Boy. |
| Coloring error: the halo around XS’ arm should be the same blue as the rings on Chameleon’s antenna in 28:2. |
