Hey, that’s why they pays me the big bucks. They’re actually 20% larger than anything that counts as real, legal tender. :)

Don’t if anyone saw it here, but they actually played the Sun-Eater story out in the season finale of the new cartoon with Ferro Lad sacrificing himself. I thought that took some guts. They could have kiddified it and skirted the death, but they included it.

The new Legion cartoon is a fave-rave at my house, with it’s awesome take on Matter-Eater Lad, Bouncing Boy, the whole Sun-Eater story, and even their odd-yet-compelling take on Brainiac 5. My daughter Molly loves it, saying that Saturn Girl is her favorite, but also enjoying “That Boy With A F On Him,” (Ferro Lad) “Tooth Man,” (M-E Lad) “Jumping Boy and His Three Girls,” and Tom Welling, who she claims is Daddy. I’ve actually been torn a number of times as to whether I should reference it as part of the Double H’s, and have figured that it would only muddy the already swirling waters of Pre-Crisis, Reboot, and Threeboot continuities.

Still, it’s pretty impressive, and I hope that the revamped Season Two doesn’t disappoint me…

It reminds me of when I loved the Legion. I never could get into the 5 year jump or anything after it, so for me the series ended in last issue 1989, before the jump and everyone got all dark and moody. Honestly, the first Crisis had started the downward slide for me. I’ve tried to get into it it with each new re-boot, but can never stand it for long. To many great memories.

Don’t if anyone saw it here, but they actually played the Sun-Eater story out in the season finale of the new cartoon with Ferro Lad sacrificing himself. I thought that took some guts. They could have kiddified it and skirted the death, but they included it.

RobOrange aka “Major Spoilers Fanboy”

“what makes Tenzil unique is that he possesses an amazingly silly superheroic power and he’s in the Legion, mostly on the basis of sheer goddamned balls. Tenzil being a lawyer or a fry cook (as he was during the “Archie Legion” period) completely misses the point. (Of course, maybe Bedard is setting up for Tenzil joining the Legion. I don’t know.)
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That blog is somewhat out of date. Sure it’s a week or two but hmm.

but anyway, to the topic on hand. All I knew of Ferro Lad was he sacrificed himself to stop the Sun Eater. What comes to mind was that at the start of Exiles one of the new team was Magnus (The son of Magneto and Rogue) whose power, albeit an unintentional by product, was turning whoever he touched into iron. He too sacrificed himself on his first mission to save everyone. Although granted he didn’t have a chance of achieving anything. Seems very coincidental.