tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439298599791449790.post6827238450800614958..comments2024-03-28T17:36:06.132-04:00Comments on The Legion of Super Bloggers! : Legion Traditions: Try-OutsMetropolisKid41http://www.blogger.com/profile/12121196519360092429noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439298599791449790.post-598275781017227232015-01-19T19:00:26.233-05:002015-01-19T19:00:26.233-05:00LSH v2 #14 is my favourite Legion issue ever, for ...LSH v2 #14 is my favourite Legion issue ever, for exactly the reasons you said! Also the Legion aren't nearly as mean as they can be. Though you feel a bit for Energy Boy, putz though he appears.<br /><br />Fortress Lad story thrilled me because back then it seemed like a legend that had grown up around the team, like the Ferro Lad & Legion Academy movies.<br /><br />I've always wanted to see him brought back as a hyper-competant martial artist that the Legion just didn't realize.<br />But his later incarnation as Splitter? Way to kill the joke there.<br /><br />The try-outs have percolated throughout comics and even film but they've never been as integral to a series or ever gone beyond the silly joke stage. It kills me that people don't realise where it all started. The original and the best.RicGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15402490648983811985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439298599791449790.post-29881374733362974732015-01-19T12:14:07.104-05:002015-01-19T12:14:07.104-05:00The X-Bomb Betty line is a reference to the 1957 L...The X-Bomb Betty line is a reference to the 1957 Looney Tunes cartoon Show Biz Bugs, where Daffy blows himself up, and that gag was lifted from 1949's Curtain Razor starring Porky Pig.LLMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17282315103797061534noreply@blogger.com