Comments on: Comic Book Legends Revealed #212

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 03:44:36 +0000

Oh, and the same goes for coconutphone.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 03:39:20 +0000

Rockin’ Roy wrote:
“Well, I’d say Shelly’s comment proves that racism and homophobia are still alive and well. Kind of sad to see that be the case.”

Wow at the maturity level of this comment. I love how saying “I’m tired of reading columns about racism and homophobia. Can I see something new?” makes someone racist and homophobic.

Grow the fuck up, Roy.

By: Halloween Scene: The Batman Vs. Dracula (2005) « United Monkee

Halloween Scene: The Batman Vs. Dracula (2005) « United Monkee — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:53:55 +0000

[...] with something like this how vampy it will get. It is a WB cartoon afterall and these are the guys who edited the crap out of the Batman Beyond: The Return Of The Joker movie (another one I need to check out, which is also on [...]

By: Hermitmage

Hermitmage — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 13:05:44 +0000

Actually the Marzal situation was resolved during the Giffen/Bierbaums “Five Years Later” run. The last time the city re-appeared was during the period that Earth’s government was being dominated (pun intended) by an alien race. When Marzal appeared, it was destroyed by government forces and retroactively labelled a nest of terrorist sympathizers, or some such nonsense.

By: Mike Grell, Hero « urban horror

Mike Grell, Hero « urban horror — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:54:31 +0000

[...] Mike Grell, Hero By ajharper Leave a Comment Categories: Uncategorized Tags: Legion of Super Heroes, Mike Grell Tyroc the first separationist! I really enjoy reading Comic Book Legends Revealed CBLR is a a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. Column 211 looks at Mike Grell and his quest to make the Legion of Super Heroes more diverse Good Stufff To read the full article click here [...]

By: Tommy Raiko

Tommy Raiko — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:42:23 +0000

About the Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker thing, I vaguely remember that there was a book published of the screenplay which included some not-included-in-the-DVD scenes, but I can’t remember if any of that involved this self-censored scenes, or if the book just included “normal” deleted scenes (like stuff that had been written but never made it to animation at all.)

By: Rob Schmidt

Rob Schmidt — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:38:17 +0000

I could be wrong, but I don’t think any Legion story ever resolved the Marzal situation.

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Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:52:31 +0000

[...] presume Shelly did not like last week, and I don’t think she will be too pleased about this week, [...]

By: Kid Kyoto

Kid Kyoto — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:44:47 +0000

“Jim Shooter’s also re-written the past and has gone on about how Ferro Lad was supposed to be the first black Legionnaire. Which is a bit redundant since he wore a full face mask.”

IIRC Shooter’s full story is that Ferro Lad would be a hero who happened to be black but editors nixed it. They were worried southern stores would not carry a comic with a black character, so in protest he redesigned FL with a full face mask because ‘his face is too hideous for anyone to see’. Talk about a subtle protest…

By: coconutphone

coconutphone — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:17:44 +0000

Great stuff again. Tempted to get the uncut version of Batman Beyond: RotJ.

And thanks Shelley. Nice to see homophobes and racists squirm over something.

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.: Glamazonia presenta: LEGIONE DEI SUPER-EROI :. — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:37:50 +0000

[...] sua rubrica Comic Book Legends Revealed, Brian Cronin ha ripercorso i lunghi e faticosi tentativi da parte di Mike Grell, storico artista [...]

By: Bill D.

Bill D. — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:11:20 +0000

I used to love reading that DC game Atlas. I always thought it was hilarious that they stuck Metropolis in Delaware.

By: Sherman

Sherman — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:33:37 +0000

In regards to Wild Dog I was reading an issue of Amazing Heroes from WAY BACK in the late 80′s early 90′s and the article that discussed his upcoming mini-series referred to him as RED DOG. I wonder why it was changed? I’m guessing Wild Dog sounded better, but you never know.

By: Frank

Frank — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 06:22:04 +0000

“Tyroc came from the island Marzal, which was inhabited by his ancesters due to their slave ship wrecking there,it also shifted in and out of earth’s plane of existance to another dimension every 200 years,and at the end of LSH #264-265 he and the people of Marzal seemed to be gone from earths dimension forever.

Also I seem to remember the reason Ferro Lad was killed off was because Jim Shooter was upset that they wouldn’t let him be black, and I think Shooter said something about Chemical King being hispanic and Karate Kid being half asian but the artist didn’t draw him that way in his debut,though more props to Mike Grell he drew KK with very asian like features”

Jeez these creators in the 70s were like a bunch of hippies, pushing their agendas or something.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:39:32 +0000

Ha!

S’all good, Jay Tea.

By: Jay Tea

Jay Tea — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:31:29 +0000

Dang… as I was re-reading it, the storyline did sound more like the Dvron story, but I’ll stand by Soljer looking more “black” than Dvron did.

Um… on second thought, Dvron does look more black…

Never mind…

By: wildwolfkid

wildwolfkid — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:33:06 +0000

Tyroc came from the island Marzal, which was inhabited by his ancesters due to their slave ship wrecking there,it also shifted in and out of earth’s plane of existance to another dimension every 200 years,and at the end of LSH #264-265 he and the people of Marzal seemed to be gone from earths dimension forever.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:10:48 +0000

Agreed, Michael.

By: Michael Grabois

Michael Grabois — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:09:24 +0000

Jay’s quote of Grell from the Legion Companion makes it clear he was talking about Dvron – “It was about a young man who’s one of the Space Troopers who comes into a conflicting situation. He has to make a choice. Like a lot of us, he makes a couple of mistakes, but then he turns out all right. He does the right thing in the end.”

That’s the storyline from Superboy 207 (if you substitute “Science Police” for “Space Troopers”). Grell just misremembered the name Soljer from another story, as that description doesn’t fit Soljer from Superboy 210.

By: Frank

Frank — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:19:44 +0000

Tyroc has always been a badass. He had a Banshee-like scream but more powerful. Bad Cronin!