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Hello, I’m pleased to be alive.
Johanna as well as I have been on a short vacation, driving from Madison, WI, to Richmond, VA, to see her parents to see their new house (and to pick up a few heirlooms that they no longer wanted). plus we encountered the terrible things in the headline above. Hands down, the worst was Beau… however I’m getting ahead of myself as usual…
LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES SILVER AGE OMNIBUS volume 2
Legion Of Super-Heroes Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 2
This chunky volume shipped about a week ago, on June 27, as well as of program we purchased one. That evening — before ripping off the shrink wrap — I played a mental guessing game as to who was going to compose the Forward/Introductory text Piece. There’s only so numerous people around these days that can still compose intelligently about the LSH, because the legion has seemingly all (except for one member) disappeared from the pages of recent DC comics.
It turns out that all my guesses were wrong about who wrote the introduction. After getting the book out of its wrapping, I jumped to the contents page where I was stunned as well as shocked to see the words “Forward by K.C. Carlson” — to which my very first reaction was “when did I do that?” complied with by my typical irritation of seeing my name “misspelled” again. (“KC” is not initials, so there are no dots in it. KC Carlson is my expert name. I’ve been utilizing it for composing work for practically 50 years.)
ANYWAY…
Legion Of Super-Heroes Omnibus Vol. 1
After the “when did I compose an intro for the Omnibus?” thoughts stopped churning in my head, I remembered that I had written a couple of Forwards for the legion of Super-Hero Archives from a decade or so ago, as well as many likely it was chosen up from there. A trip to my bookshelf confirmed that I was correct. My ahead was very first written for The legion of Super-Hero Archives volume 4 in 1994. (Since I was already at the bookcase, I likewise confirmed that the great ahead that Mike Gold wrote for the legion of Super-Heroes Silver Age Omnibus volume 1 originally appeared in The legion of Super-Hero Archives volume 1 in 1991.)
Part of the reason that they did appear once again without us knowing about it (although I’m quite sure that Mike most likely knew; he seemed to understand everything) was since both of us most likely signed what were then called “buy-out vouchers”. They most likely had a much more “legal” name, however everybody I understood called them buy-out vouchers, since that’s what they were. In real-world terms, we were paid extremely well for composing these pieces in exchange for DC never having to pay us once again if they chose to re-use the piece. who would have believed in 1994 that DC would requirement to reprint something in 2018 that I thought about a one-time thing back then? definitely not me. (I hope former DC VP Terri Cunningham, who handled payments as well as associated matters, isn’t reading this. She’d most likely pull me into her office as well as slap my head silly. Or just look at me confusedly, just like quite much all the DC VPs did to me back then.)
WHERE’S THAT LSH REVIVAL, BOYS?
I’m sorta amazed that DC even remembers that the legion characters are still around. I believe the last appearance of a Legionnaire was Saturn woman (Imra Ardeen) in DC world renewal special #1 — the giant-sized 80-page single comic book from may 2016 that “rebooted” (can we still utilize that word?) the entire DC Universe.
Months later, in Batman #9, she is shown as being incarcerated in Arkham Asylum as an inmate understood only as “Doe” who steams up a glass door with her breath as well as draws the LSH sign with her finger. She later fleetingly appears in Justice league vs. suicide Squad, “The Button” crossover between Batman as well as The Flash, where she’s seen screaming about the death of the legion of Super-Heroes, as well as Doomsday Clock, where she assists Rorschach II’s getaway from Arkham.
Loose talk over the last couple of years had it that both Jim Lee as well as Geoff Johns each wanted to work on a new LSH series, however because both of them are many likely the two many overbooked people at DC Comics, that wasn’t going to occur anytime soon. as well as recent workers modifications at DC seem to have moved Johns up as well as out of DC (but still at Time Warner) quite much altogether.
This story is not over yet.
BY THE WAY…
Adventure Comics #346, Jim Shooter joins the Legion
Oops. practically forgot to mention that The legion of Super-Heroes Silver Age Omnibus volume 2 hardcover is 580 pages of Silver Age teenage fun, mainly written as well as drawn by old men. That would modification soon — as well as it reallyoccurs in this volume! women as well as gentlemen — Jim Shooter in his debut as a 13-year-old expert comic writer! It collects experience Comics #329 with #360, plus material from Superboy #124 as well as 125.
MEANWHILE, IT’S Christmas IN JULY!
KC & Beau, the early years
While in Richmond, Johanna as well as I were joined by the ever-lovely Stephen Scott beau Smith (we get to just phone call him beau since that Smith-thing is just as well confusing) as well as his actually-lovely other half Beth. We had a extremely fun time trading old as well as new stories. (I’ve been stopping off to see beau as well as Beth for over 20 years of driving back as well as forth from Virginia to Wisconsin, as well as they’ve provided me numerous a warm bed as well as a great meal on overnight stops in my nomadic travels.)
Disney’s Christmas Classics
Beau’s currently working for Dean Mullaney (yet one more old friend) at the library of American Comics/IDW, and, true to form, beau handed me one of their books after our meal together. It’s the Disney’s Christmas classics hardcover book that was originally released last year (which I somehow missed). I question that beau might have understood this, but, while I originally missed the book, I was extremely familiar with its contents!
Every December beginning in 1960, the Walt Disney Comic strip department would create a two-to-four week brand-new Christmas comic strip starring their characters (most of them from their prominent feature-length cartoons like Snow White as well as the seven Dwarfs or Peter pan or The Jungle Book). Notably, Disney’s most significant stars — Mickey mouse as well as Donald Duck — were sidelined! numerous of the Disney Villains were yearly spotlighted in different schemes to somehow destroy Christmas!
The strips ran every Christmas from 1960 to 1997 with the exception of the years from 1988 to 1991. The series restarted in 1992, with much more of an emphasis on the present film characters (Beauty as well as the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame), lastly retiring with The little Mermaid in December 1997.
What beau couldn’t have known, when he handed me the book, that I was a routine visitor of numerous of these strips in their original newspaper presentation! What an awesome surprise!
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KC CARLSON is practically back to normal. Whatever that is.
WESTFIELD COMICS is not accountable for the dumb things that KC says. particularly that thing that truly irritated you. It’s KC, dammit!