Nine Reasons to Join the Legion

Why would anyone want to join the Legion of Super-Heroes? Here are nine reasons, courtesy of the Legion World page at Facebook, which happened to pop up on my page and I checked out. They have all kinds of photos of Legion-based stuff, including a lot of photos of individual people dressed up as Legionnaires, both Photoshopped like these and people at cons. This was the most impressive group:

I have to say, I don't think Pamela Anderson makes a great Dream Girl, although the idea isn't too far off, and I always pictured Saturn Girl as a bit more prim than that hairdo makes her look. Even so, if I ever gained the power to have my arm fall off, I'd be taking the first space shuttle to the Legion HQ and filling out the paperwork.

And just for equal time, here's one they posted of the Legion Lads:

Obviously, you need to be on Facebook to see the rest of their photos, but here's where you can find them: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Legion-World/1354112298142

-- MSA

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  • WRT the first nine reasons:  hubba hubba!

     

    I generally avoid "casting" comic-book characters because it's difficult to settle on ideal choices (one of the reasons I so admire the ability of a good casting director).  (And yes, yes, I know . . . I did a couple of Deck Log Entries on just that very thing a few years back; but they were agonisingly tough.)  And when I finally do come up with choices, I can't shake the feeling that there's someone better that I haven't thought of.

     

    But, speaking of the Legion, there was one case in which I thought of the perfect actress, hands down.  It goes back to my hormone-charged youth, when I thought of actress Noreen Corcoran, "niece Kelly" on Bachelor Father, when she hit maturity in the final season, c. 1962.

     

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    Wouldn't she make the perfect Silver-Age Duo Damsel?

  • I think it's the hairdo as much as anything that sells it, and it's a hairdo we probably won't be seeing again soon. I have to admit, I've never heard of her, as BF was a bit before my time (or at least my memory), since I was 8 years old then. My choice along that same line a few years later probably would've been Patty Duke. 

    I know what you mean about casting heroes, I'm lousy at it. That's mostly because I know almost none of the actors who'd be the right age group to fill the roles. Wizard often does those casting jobs, and usually I don't have any idea who the people are they're casting in the roles. (At the same time, I'm always at a loss to figure who would star in the Mr. Silver Age movie who would be a bit more "mature.". Movie stars are not my strong suit.)

    Although I have to say, I think Robert Downy Jr. made about the best Tony Stark I could imagine, and Ryan Reynolds seems like a good choice for Hal Jordan. Whereas I'm not sure that Tom Welling would make a great movie Superman, unless we assume it's a continuation of the TV show, and I'm holding my judgment on Chris Evans as Captain America, as the image of him as Johnny Storm is hard to erase.

    I think to cast many parts, especially an entire Legion movie, they'd have to pick TV guys. Most of the leading young men in movies today seem rather wimpy--not that that kept them from putting Michael Keaton in Batman's cowl, and that worked out pretty well. 

    -- MSA

  • Besides Pamela Anderson, does anyone know who the other models are for the Girl Legionnaires?
  • For some reason, I want to say Shadow Lass is Jacklyn Smith from her Charlie's Angels day and Princess Projectra is Amanda Tapping.

    Even if I'm wrong about that, I would like to know why Light Lass has her arms around Saturn Girl and the Princess, let alone why Saturn Girl seems to be enjoying it.

  • Mr. Silver Age said:

    I know what you mean about casting heroes, I'm lousy at it. That's mostly because I know almost none of the actors who'd be the right age group to fill the roles. Wizard often does those casting jobs, and usually I don't have any idea who the people are they're casting in the roles. (At the same time, I'm always at a loss to figure who would star in the Mr. Silver Age movie who would be a bit more "mature.". Movie stars are not my strong suit.)

    Although I have to say, I think Robert Downy Jr. made about the best Tony Stark I could imagine, and Ryan Reynolds seems like a good choice for Hal Jordan. Whereas I'm not sure that Tom Welling would make a great movie Superman, unless we assume it's a continuation of the TV show, and I'm holding my judgment on Chris Evans as Captain America, as the image of him as Johnny Storm is hard to erase.

    I think to cast many parts, especially an entire Legion movie, they'd have to pick TV guys. Most of the leading young men in movies today seem rather wimpy--not that that kept them from putting Michael Keaton in Batman's cowl, and that worked out pretty well. 

     


    My unfamiliarity with contemporary actors and actresses always does me in on these sort of things, as well. Time was when I could name every opening credit-performer, end-credit performer, and bit player in cinema and television. ("See that guy over there on the third bar stool? That's James Murtaugh; he did a Parkay commercial last month." Used to drive the GMB crazy.)

    But I doubt I could give the names of the folks currently populating the television air waves to match the fingers on each hand. And if you gave me the names of the most popular film stars, with rare exception, I could not put faces to the names.

    There's another problem with me being a Silver-Age relic; that's how my visual image of the characters is rooted. So it's difficult for me to envision modern-day performers with their modern-day styles in those rôles.  Iron Man is one of the few super-hero films of the last thirty years which I have seen (for some ugodly reason, the GMB wanted to see it), and no matter how I tried, I could not see Robert Downey as Tony Stark.

     

    That's why, on the rare occasions when I do play the casting game, I limit myself to using only performers from the '30's through the '60's, selecting them from the eras in which they would have been age-appropriate the portray the characters.  What that usually means is only my fellow greybeards recognise them.

  • Good heavens!  I'll volunteer to be beaten up by THOSE female Legionnaires!  Um, I mean... nice smiles!

     

    Those are great!  Except that actor for Colossal Boy... I dunno... too Jewish. ;)

     

    ELS

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  • Frank MIller said in early-'80s interviews that his Matt Murdock was based on Robert Redford. Bodybuilder/model Lisa Lyon was the visual model for Elektra.

    And, according to Gerard Jones, Gil Kane based Hal Jordan on Paul Newman (who Kane had actually known in the early '50s, when Newman was in his struggling-actor phase and was a neighbor of Kane's).

  • I once read a comic magazine, I forget the name of it, that said Tom Selleck was being considered for an upcoming Iron Man movie. That film was in production hell for a long time...

  • Ron M. said:

    I once read a comic magazine, I forget the name of it, that said Tom Selleck was being considered for an upcoming Iron Man movie. That film was in production hell for a long time...

    ... as the Magnum, P.I. movie is. But then, I recall it was a full ten years between the time I saw a note in the newspaper that a Batman movie was in the works and the moment I actually went to see Michael Keaton on screen in the role.

  • Back in the mid to late 80s me and my friend's thought Tom Skerritt would have been a perfect Iron Man. To us he had the look, plus he was already playing a high-powered corporate exec in Cheers at the time.

    Ron M. said:

    I once read a comic magazine, I forget the name of it, that said Tom Selleck was being considered for an upcoming Iron Man movie. That film was in production hell for a long time...

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