the default assumption with your versions was no longer white. And for me personally had actually become Chinese. Hah! Well that works; I expect there will be a lot of Chinese genes floating around in the Future.
Re: Kara I understood what you meant by 'my hero'. I'm glad. It's just that I've *seen* the other interpretation online.
It is the same identification behind your experiment in the first place; how much everyone deserves to have heroes which are theirs. You would think that would be one of the benefits of having a superhero team with 25 kids on the roster!
Of course the picked Legioners least likely to make trouble (and see SENSE) would all be white. If you mean the 3 boys kidnapped by Ayla's brother, excepting Ultra Boy, the other two are actually the only originally brown kids in the group. (Well. Karate Kid depending on what mood the colourist is in.) I had rolled my eyes on reading because this is what happens when you make *one* character black. You pick Thom - the kid with the decades long history of being nice and bland and inoffensive, because that is safe. I mean, okay, if they had picked Ultra Boy to represent black kids everywhere, it would have been a disaster. (But *I* could have done it - having more than one POC is *less stressful*.) And if they had picked Cos, well. Someone might have *cared*.
But I didn't make the connection to the "good" brown kids being the brown kids let in the Legion.
And of course one of their premier heroes of the old days come to the future would be a long haired blonde girl in a miniskirt (however much an individual loves the concept of Supergirl as her own entity). And that was why I had to change her. It would have gutted, maybe not the story, but the message. Supergirl is *their* hero.
Anyway, I've uploaded a rar for you here (http://www.sendspace.com/file/w9uepz). Also, someone actually talked about the first issue in a university lecture (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TFLlg-GwbE8/SrKZ1Q4MwcI/AAAAAAAAAGU/XK7JxDIpGIM/s1600-h/Coppa_poster.jpg). I haven't seen it, but if you're interested I'll let you know when the video goes up.
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Date: 2009-11-15 10:35 am (UTC)Hah! Well that works; I expect there will be a lot of Chinese genes floating around in the Future.
Re: Kara I understood what you meant by 'my hero'.
I'm glad. It's just that I've *seen* the other interpretation online.
It is the same identification behind your experiment in the first place; how much everyone deserves to have heroes which are theirs.
You would think that would be one of the benefits of having a superhero team with 25 kids on the roster!
Of course the picked Legioners least likely to make trouble (and see SENSE) would all be white.
If you mean the 3 boys kidnapped by Ayla's brother, excepting Ultra Boy, the other two are actually the only originally brown kids in the group. (Well. Karate Kid depending on what mood the colourist is in.) I had rolled my eyes on reading because this is what happens when you make *one* character black. You pick Thom - the kid with the decades long history of being nice and bland and inoffensive, because that is safe. I mean, okay, if they had picked Ultra Boy to represent black kids everywhere, it would have been a disaster. (But *I* could have done it - having more than one POC is *less stressful*.) And if they had picked Cos, well. Someone might have *cared*.
But I didn't make the connection to the "good" brown kids being the brown kids let in the Legion.
And of course one of their premier heroes of the old days come to the future would be a long haired blonde girl in a miniskirt (however much an individual loves the concept of Supergirl as her own entity).
And that was why I had to change her. It would have gutted, maybe not the story, but the message. Supergirl is *their* hero.
Anyway, I've uploaded a rar for you here (http://www.sendspace.com/file/w9uepz). Also, someone actually talked about the first issue in a university lecture (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TFLlg-GwbE8/SrKZ1Q4MwcI/AAAAAAAAAGU/XK7JxDIpGIM/s1600-h/Coppa_poster.jpg). I haven't seen it, but if you're interested I'll let you know when the video goes up.