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odditycollector) wrote2009-11-02 06:32 am
odditycollector) wrote2009-11-02 06:32 am
Finale.
And here is the final chapter of the Legion of Super-Heroes: Everyone Survives to the 31st Century.
(It turns out that I did not need a couple months away from the series, which is why my estimate was so ridiculously off. But, hey. *Early*.)
If you haven't been following along at home, this will probably read better after Issue One and Issue Two.
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Notes:
0. If you want to see what I've changed, click on an image. Sometimes the answer is "nothing", though.
1. I find this is a very different story than the one that existed before I took a brown crayon to it.
2. When I decided to leave Triplicate Girl as one of my token white people, she was a set of undefined figures in a single panel of issue one. And, after I'd started work on issue two, she was one of my excuses for why there would be no more after it.
I was explaining to a friend - probably![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
caia_comica or vagabond_sal? - about how if I *did* have intent to continue, issue 3 would be full of white people, and what would be the point of that? There already exist Legion comics full of white people.
Well, countered the friend, it was kind of hard to tell for certain what my intent was for Triplicate Girl from the corner of that one panel. And hey, maybe she could be *three different races*!
No, I said. No, she *cannot*. I mean, obviously. That is the whole... point....
The ellipses here are placeholders for the moment I realized that there would be a reason to do this story after all.
3. Sometime, I will have to ramble about things I've realized while working on this project. Even if they were probably already obvious to people who aren't me.
4. Mekt traditionally has white hair. This is not relevant *yet*.
5. No. I couldn't just leave things there. There's a Coda.
(It turns out that I did not need a couple months away from the series, which is why my estimate was so ridiculously off. But, hey. *Early*.)
If you haven't been following along at home, this will probably read better after Issue One and Issue Two.
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Notes:
0. If you want to see what I've changed, click on an image. Sometimes the answer is "nothing", though.
1. I find this is a very different story than the one that existed before I took a brown crayon to it.
2. When I decided to leave Triplicate Girl as one of my token white people, she was a set of undefined figures in a single panel of issue one. And, after I'd started work on issue two, she was one of my excuses for why there would be no more after it.
I was explaining to a friend - probably
caia_comica or vagabond_sal? - about how if I *did* have intent to continue, issue 3 would be full of white people, and what would be the point of that? There already exist Legion comics full of white people.Well, countered the friend, it was kind of hard to tell for certain what my intent was for Triplicate Girl from the corner of that one panel. And hey, maybe she could be *three different races*!
No, I said. No, she *cannot*. I mean, obviously. That is the whole... point....
The ellipses here are placeholders for the moment I realized that there would be a reason to do this story after all.
3. Sometime, I will have to ramble about things I've realized while working on this project. Even if they were probably already obvious to people who aren't me.
4. Mekt traditionally has white hair. This is not relevant *yet*.
5. No. I couldn't just leave things there. There's a Coda.
Re: Combined Reply
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.