Smallville and the Legion

Today I sent out a resume to Kelly Services for a Web developer position.  Web stuff isn’t my favorite but it’s something I can do, unlike running.

Smallville’s episode was ‘Legion’.  Three members of the Legion of Superheroes come back in time to save Clark at Chloe’s wedding.  I recognized Saturn Girl and Lightning Lad right off because of their costumes.  The third guy and leader I couldn’t identify by either his power or costume.  They introduced themselves by their real names so that didn’t help me.  I had to hit Wikipedia to find out he was Cosmic Boy with the power of magnetism.

I used to love the Legion Comic books because you got more superheroes for your quarter or 50 cents.  The plots always had a situation where somebody’s powers didn’t work.  Exactly like almost every Star Trek episode.

About the time I hit puberty Mike Grell started drawing Legion comics.  He changed all the girls costumes to cater to horny thirteen-year-olds.

Saturn Girl went from this (she’s the one in the red)some sort of cheerleader outfit

to this a hot red outfit

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