Comments on: Hero History: The White Witch

By: Mela

Mela — Sat, 17 May 2008 23:36:50 +0000

I just discovered this profile, thanks to WFA. I’ll have to read the rest. All I can say for now is – Well done. In summing up Mysa’s history, you’ve also hit on everything that made her a favorite of mine, especially how she shows the power of diligent study to transform (in her case, literally, but for most of us, figuratively). It’s a shame both of the reboots seem to have shunted her deliberately off to the sidelines, like there’s no room for mysticism in the future. Bummer.

By: Katzedecimal

Katzedecimal — Wed, 14 May 2008 00:25:13 +0000

Always read the last paragraph on the page, the one below the Comprehensive List Of Legionnaire HHes — that’s where you’ll find who’s up on base for the next week. Coz then you’d know that she’s up to base next week ;)

By: Todd Schoonover

Todd Schoonover — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:54:37 +0000

Just stumbled across these while doing a search on Chameleon Boy. You do a great job with these entries. Very informative and I appreciate the comic panels you choose too. (Nice choices for the Colossal Boy one for example.) So how do I put in a request for you to do Shadow Lass? Do you take bribes?

By: Katzedecimal

Katzedecimal — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:26:33 +0000

I, for one, welcome our new Tom Welling overlord >.<

By: Matthew Peterson

Matthew Peterson — Tue, 13 May 2008 01:15:08 +0000

I expected you to touch on the invasion of Xolnar, though.

And now I feel horrible that I didn’t… That one I think I shall have to go back and edit in…

By: Matthew Peterson

Matthew Peterson — Tue, 13 May 2008 01:02:13 +0000

Y’know, I’ve never been a really big fan of “style.” I’ve written for newspaper, television, and radio, and quite frankly, style just tends to be another shortcut for saying “We’ve always done it this way.” Wikipedia is, to me, a great example of how ridiculously self-important we as a species have gotten. When you see great ongoing debates on whether the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode guides are too long, or whether Olivia Newton John is Australian or not, we’ve come to a point where I start to root for the meteors.

This Hero History mentions Superboy twice, both in passing… I spent six days locating and scanning the appropriate images, including a full six hours to clean up and resize the title image. I’m still not happy with the color on Mysa’s skin, by the way. I had to reread some of the least enjoyable issues of the Rebooted Legion, as well as badly ripping my copy of Legion Volume 4, #50, meaning that this Hero History cost me five bucks or so, when you factor in my employee discount. I fought against server issues, a crashing laptop, and a crushing lack of free time to write this piece, and I had hoped that it might hold up to the others I’ve done, even though I’ve edited and re-edited and find my transitions to still be awkward and stilted…

So you must forgive me when I say this, as I’m more than a little bit pissed to have to continue defending myself in this manner: If all you got out of these pages was the fact that I typed Tom Welling twice, then you’re probably not my target audience.

Also, for future reference, Mr. Peterson was my grandfather, and he’s been dead for 30 years.

By: R. J. Sterling

R. J. Sterling — Mon, 12 May 2008 23:10:07 +0000

Another potentially great Hero History that is seriously flawed by its author’s inexplicable quirk. Mr. Peterson, why o why do you insist on referring to Superboy as ‘Tom Welling’? It’s not as funny as you seem to think and every time I see that name I’m stopped in my tracks. It very much interrupts the flow of your writing, whether you acknowledge it or not. And it is WHOLLY UNNECESSARY. DC can’t take the legal risk of referring to the character as Superboy, but anyone else in the Solar system can call him whatever he or she wants. No one else faces any liability for saying ‘Superboy’. I’m sure you realize this. Please, please, when you’re writing a Hero History, when you’re writing in an ‘in-universe style’ as Wikipedia calls it, stay ‘in-universe’ and JUST SAY ‘SUPERBOY’. In fact, that’s my new slogan: JUST SAY SUPERBOY!!!

By: Bob S.

Bob S. — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:17:01 +0000

Wow I think she is my favorite Giffen drawn charactor. Even in the 5yl series.

By: Matthew E

Matthew E — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:55:01 +0000

I haven’t done a ‘The Legionnaires:’ feature for the White Witch yet on Legion Abstract, but I’ve known for a long time how I was going to do it once I got around to it… and it pretty much goes in lockstep with your take.

I expected you to touch on the invasion of Xolnar, though.

By: Matthew Peterson

Matthew Peterson — Mon, 12 May 2008 03:44:53 +0000

Y’know, I futzed up the formatting on this thing sompin fierce…

I think it’s up to speed now. Maybe… Possibly…

By: Katzedecimal

Katzedecimal — Sun, 11 May 2008 22:47:17 +0000

Yay, White Witch! The Legionnaire who first piqued my interest in the Legion (where it was quickly stolen by a green-skinned accident-prone genius…) Alas, my last memories of her, at the end of the Magic Wars, were not good. The rebooted version was intriguing but not nearly as much so as the original, and mainly because of her backstory links to Kinetix. I do think that White Witch, like many Legionnaires, is rather a product of her time and does not ‘translate’ as well to the other eras. But for her time, she was win (and proved that you could be a great kick-nass heroine while wearing clothes! ^_~ )

By: MaGnUs (aka Slacker Lantern)

MaGnUs (aka Slacker Lantern) — Mon, 05 May 2008 08:22:02 +0000

She’s a good witch Rodrigo. Matthew, great Hero History (thanks for all the LSH love in that section), and I’m glad the site is back. Keep up the good work.

By: Rodrigo

Rodrigo — Mon, 05 May 2008 05:43:01 +0000

is she a good witch or a bad witch?