1. Little Cheese shares the spotlight with Lightning Lad and Lois Lane, so what does that say?
2.The Krypto entry makes me sad and nostalgic and I’m just not going to talk about it.
3. Shag, the Red K entry is confusing, but not a typo. Although Red Kryptonite is unpredictable, a single piece of Kryptonite always works the same way. So, one piece of Red K may make Superman an insect and another may make Superman fat, the piece of Red K that makes Superman an insect would also make Supergirl an insect. Does that make sense? If not, just live by the old adage, “Don’t question the Silver Age”.
4.Lady Quark has the most 80’s-tastic costume of all time.
5. Can Laurel Kent be a candidate for hottest legionnaire? I might change my vote there.
6. The Substitute Heroes are just awesome!
7. So are the Super Pets. Love Beppo.
8. Sorry, Shag, it does look like All Star Comics #8 is the debut, as it is the origin story, while Sensation #1 is written as if the reader already knows who Wonder Woman is.
9. Maybe Edam Cheese is supposed to be, “Eat ’em Cheese”? I don’t know.
10. Lord Satanis- Yeah, the text to picture ratio is way off here. Curt Swan could have done much more with more room to work.
11. Didn’t Jack Kirby do The Losers for awhile? He could have drawn them and didn’t, so I guess that M. can crawl off.

Considering that normalman is a loving send-up of all genres of comics, not just superheroes, having the Legion Of Superfluous Heroes doing a role call for several issues is not the mean-spirited put down your comment seem to imply that it is.

In the interest of fairness, I will mention that Valentino’s only credited connection with the LOSH is in Who’s Who In The LOSH (ironically).

As far as Geo-Force, the line in question was in response to Superman telling the assembled JLA and JSA about his history with the LOSH, which no one save Superman actually remembered thanks to Crisis on Infinite Earths/Zero Hour/Infinite Crisis zaniness.

@Luke Geo-Force made fun of someone else?

And it seems Jim Valentino misses the point of the Legion, the clue being in the name. Still, let him take the mickey, Normalman is SUCH an icon …

B2. I think a training team is a good idea, especially for franchises, but the execution always ends up like this. It’s the League of Super-Assassins without even needing the pretense of being a credible threat for one story. “Shadow Lass with a penis! Boom! One down, five to go. Lois Lane wearing Superman’s cape as a poncho! Frig no, she don’t need shoes. Purity of concept, bro. No way this slice of brilliance gets wasted on a nonsensical tie-in to a much maligned crossover in a few years. Unpossible!” We need “Legion Arena.” Oh wait, Giffen ground this meat off-panel in the 5YL timeline.

B3. Seriously, the Substitute Heroes look feasible when compared to Legion Academy. Cute gags. Didn’t Rokk date Night Girl, or am I thinking of Umbra?

B4. I always wanted to read Legion as a kid, but didn’t have a good jumping on point until Zero Hour. That inspired me to work backwards to the ’70s, but I didn’t embrace the Bronze Age stuff. I was perfectly happy with the Baxter series. By extension, I very much enjoyed the underrated work of Greg Larocque, who offered a shiny happy future of beautiful people. Shag’s right about the Legion versus the JSA, as Dr. Fate and the Spectre were so often absent and of inconsistent abilities. The Legion consistently featured multiple Superman-class heroes in monthly adventures, plus DC’s most powerful telepath, most intelligent hero, most accomplished martial artist, and Element Lad. They had two of whatever any other team had, and one of those two was probably comics’ avatar of their power set.

B5. I like the Super-Pets. They should have pulled a heel turn and subjugated humanity. I want to see Superman punch a super-horse.

B6. One of the reasons I adore Steve Lightle is that he can draw in a classic clean Silver Age retro style clearly outdated characters and still come off fresh and fantastic. I’m much less enamored of the proliferation of one note evil versions of Legionnaires than Shag. I was so fixated on this one image of Sun Emperor that I came up with a whole Dark Phoenix Saga for Superman that ripped him of in the mid-90s. I’m over that now, but wooo Sun Emperor. Can’t wait for the Legion Who’s Who with early idiosyncratic art by Kyle Baker and Rob Liefeld (who I think I remember doing the Hunter entry.) I feel like I should explain Siskoid’s Brainiac 5 joke, but it’s probably not my place. I just don’t want to hear a quizzical listener feedback notation next month.

B7. I like Liberty Belle, and self-love to light colored tight fitting riding pants.

B8. I feel like Lightning Lad was supposed to be the Luke Skywalker of the Legion, without the transformative journey into becoming a Jedi knight. I also felt like his and Saturn Girl’s story was told by the early ’80s, as Levitz let them go off into domesticity while focusing on other members. Post-Zero Hour, the writers rushed through all of Lightning Lad’s traumas, which made him a hot mess. I’m on #TeamCos.

B9. Never liked Light/ning Lass. Her costume sucks and her powers/personality are a snooze. I like June Brigman’s art, though.

B10. Fun seeing Jim Starlin on Lightning Lord, but he’s an evil variation on characters I don’t like in a hideous costume.

B11. Lightray is fine as a foil for the ever dour Orion. Otherwise, worthless. “Metron” should be pronounced like his namesake “Metatron,” an archangel referenced in the Talmud. That would be “Met-Tron.”

B12. Lilith is a character type that I like, and I wish I liked Lilith as a character better, but her stories in the Wolfman era were a drag.

B13. Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys are a nice bit of nostalgia. All-Star Comics #8 was released on October 25, 1941 and was intended as a showcase to launch Wonder Woman (and Sensation Comics) in a big way with her origin story. Sensation Comics #1 came out on November 7, 1941 with a recap and Diana’s arrival in Man’s World.

B14. Little Cheese was a late arrival to the Zoo Crew, and nostalgia for an earlier model is all I have to hold onto with the Zoo Crew. “Edam is a semi-hard cheese that originated in the Netherlands, and is named after the town of Edam in the province of North Holland.” It’s the one with the red-orange skin.

B15. Dig the Oksner Lois Lane. Great, important character. If DC was going to reverse its stupid anti-supporting cast stance, Lois is the one most worthy of breaking through.

B16. Looker. No elaboration necessary.

B17. The Chen/Theakston Lord of Time goes for broke on Silver Age sheen and hits the jackpot. He should have been a bigger JLA villain. The grimmer portions of the history come from a then-recent Steel solo issue.

B18. Was Lord Satanus the boy Satan Girl? I like this guy.

B19. Ditto Lord Shilling, who was exactly what a Revolutionary War bad guy ought to be.

B20. The Losers are so much cooler than Easy Company and the Howlin’ Commandos, probably because each was built to support solo strips. John Severin is the Leslie Nielsen of comics, a guy who built his career on serious work that is difficult to take seriously in retrospect because of his later broadly comedic work. I grew up on Cracked Magazine, which I favored over Mad in part because of Severin.

B21. Siskoid, nobody want 4,000+ word articles on Martian Manhunter. Today’s post was 1,200, and I’ll be lucky to get a two line response. Also, I rarely cover 30+ characters in one go on a blog post. Besides, I pioneered the overly long F&W Podcast comment. You all came from THIS!