LSHChat:1995-08-15
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Tom Peyer, Tom McCraw, Roger Stern, and Jeff Moy were the guests on America Online's Legion of Super-Heroes Chat Hour on Tuesday, August 15, 1995. John Byrne hung around and threw out insults, but he was hardly a guest--more like a squatter. LSH Chat Hour is held every Tuesday at 6:00 p.m. EDT in the DC Comics Online Chat Room on AOL. Previous guests have included Mark Waid, Tom Peyer, Tom McCraw, Roger Stern, Jeff Moy, Ron Boyd, KC Carlson, and Mike McAvennie. DISCLAIMERS - This report constitutes the author's interpretation of what was said during the chat hour. The viewpoint of a reasonable person might produce a highly different report. SPOILERS - The information is presented so that the spoilers are located at the end of the material. The most spoiling material is presented at the end of the report. SPECIAL THANKS - To Lev Kalman who has stepped up to the plate to provide the LSH transcript this week. Both he and Edward Douglas have generously offered to attempt to "cover" the LSH Chats and provide a log so that this report can be generated. This report exists because of their generousity. ================================================================= Roger will be starting work on the Legion titles after he's finished "Superman: Man of Tomorrow" #3, and swept up some odds and ends. He estimates that his first issue will appear sometime after the first of the year. Peyer had a string of calamities that kept him away from the chats for a while. The hurricane bypassed him, fortunately. McCraw confesses: Fractals are beyond him. Jeff estimates that over 400 copies of Legionnaires #26 were given away at GenCon. Byrne speculates that the Hobgoblin is really Bouncing Boy. Peyer knew nothing of the rumored DC/Marvel company-wide crossover. He's heard the rumors, but hasn't asked anyone. Peyer and Roger may be having a mini-summit so that Peyer can bring Roger up to speed on the titles. McCraw noted that his head always hurt after the LSH summits. Jeff claimed that he couldn't fight the guy that brought him back into comics (Byrne). But when told that Byrne wanted to fight him, Jeff indicated that he'd "have to beat him to a pulp. :)" Peyer likes the three founders. McCraw suggested that we shouldn't hold our breath on an appearance of Captain Carrot or Angel Love in the LSH. Peyer offered that Winema Wazzo was a postbooted "Angel Hate". Roger gloated that he gets to see Jeff's and Lee's pencils before the rest of us. Jeff notes that comics would be much easier to draw without pesky editors. Roger thinks a comic about him would be easy to draw. It would be nine panels per page of him staring at a monitor. Byrne has hated the Legion from day one. Jeff didn't design Mekt's postboot hairstyle. Peyer asked the inquiring fan if the fan really liked Mekt's old look better. Jeff goes back a year or two on the Legion. Peyer has been writing Legion stuff since June of 1994, and reading it since the early 1960s. Roger first wrote the Legion back in 1976. He assisted Jim Shooter with Shooter's last two Legion stories. (S/LSH #223-24.) The title, "We Can't Escape the Trap In Time" was his. The second part of the story introduced Pulsar Stargrave, who was originally supposed to be "Brainiac 4." Roger helped Peyer get his start in comics writing. At a point when Roger was buried, Peyer stepped in and gave him a hand with writing. Roger subsequently helped Peyer find a writing job. Roger asserts that Peyer bent Roger's arm to get Roger to join the writing team. There are no plans for a 3rd title yet. They're trying to get some mini-series in the works which would focus more on an individual or smaller team. McCraw (jokingly?) suggested bugging KC if we wanted a 3rd title. McCraw is all for a 3rd title, but has no control in making it a reality. Roger noted that if we want more Legion titles, we need to get people to buy the ones that they're publishing now. Peyer noted that the LSH titles could creatively stand a 3rd book. He notes that they ran 30+ years preboot. McCraw indicated that they have plenty of stories to tell. Jeff noted that a 3rd title would give them a chance to flesh out more characters. Roger followed that he'd like to see a Legion Spotlight title where they could focus on one or two of them. Roger would be happy if the LSH titles sold well enough that they received the "funky" paper that the Superman books get. He wants to see them on the newstands for $1.95. He didn't like the shiny paper at first, but it's grown on him. Roger would like to use the old "Adventure Comics" title. Peyer didn't think that DC owned the trademark to that title anymore, and that another company had co-opted the title. McCraw thought that DC had regained the rights to the name. But the status was uncertain because of the "Silver Age Classics" reprint of a few years ago. Jeff is shooting to complete L* #33 by the end of the month. Jeff noted that his being behind gave the Toms more time to write. Peyer is really interested in Saturn Girl's backstory. When asked by McCraw, Jeff noted that he hadn't done the new sketches for Kenetix. Of course, he didn't know that he was supposed to. He noted that he was working on some "Lori" stuff. Jeff had done a new Vi sketch. There are no plans for Nemesis Kid or Ferro Lad. The creative team likes Supergirl (Matrix), but there are no concrete plans to use her at present. Peyer responded to a request to slow down the killings by pointing out that there had only been two killings so far. McCraw joked that Kenetix was the next Legionnaire to get the axe. McCraw noted that there wouldn't be a clone of Apparition because clones in the 30th century tend to explode. (ED - Insert your own Spider-man joke here.) McCraw joked that the idea of the Proty that was killed in the L* Annual was "brilliant." McCraw did note that he understood that it was hard to lose a character that you've bonded with. The Superboy/LSH crossover might become an annual event. XS will meet Impulse. Lightning Lord and Live Wire now bleed lightning when they bleed. There's more stuff coming up about Ayla's secret admirer. Lee Moder is currently pencilling the Brainiac 5 spotlight in LSH #77. When disappointment was expressed that Moy wouldn't be pencilling it, McCraw noted that Jeff got to pencil "something better." Something better than that "Startoe" guy. It's a secret for now, but McCraw promised that we'd be talking about it for a long time.
Addendum: 1995-08-22
A full August 22 report is unavailable. An addendum to the report read:
Some corrections to the chat report supplied by Jeff Moy: Jeff's work appeared in Excalibur #88, not #89 as was reported in the chat report. Jeff originally designed the uniforms for XS, Spider Girl, Inferno, and Karate Kid. There aren't any plans to redesign those uniforms at this time.
