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Princess Projectra of the Legion of Super-Heroes. She didn't appear in all reboot versions of the book. I made designed this costume for her in the prevailing style of one of those gaps.2000 -- Digital, Painter
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The color palette, the strong light source with the sharp shading across the face, all the textures and esp. the little 'glowing orbs' make this a wonderfully 60s portrait to be sure.
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Thank you! It was great fun to do, and I learned a lot -- it was one of my first full paintings done digitally.
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Very nice. While I loved the Cockrum/Grell costume, purely from an eternally adolescent male viewpoint, it always seemed wrong for her character. She's from a medieval culture, and even though her world was shown to have a sort of fantasy-viking style to it, modesty in well-born females is pretty standard. I just don't see a royal princess going for the stripperific/dominatrix style outfit until well into her 4th marriage. This is a nice compromise between super-hero utility and modesty.
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I will second all of your comments, aside from the male element. But I too was a teen when that costume debuted.
The other thing that bugged me was a small one--once the Cockrum/Grell costume debuted, it set the color scheme for Projectra to red/yellow/magenta forever afterwards. I really missed the royal blue/magenta/white scheme that she wore first. That was my other major reason for creating this design.
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I'm guessing you hated the snake, as much as I did, then.
I was especially appalled when they went to her planet and the giant snakes were mind-controlling furry raccoon people as slaves. And I'm sure it was no accident that they were just the right size to slide down their snaky throats.
I think one of the tricks they always missed in the Legion comics was to explore the different cultures of the Legionnaires' planets of origin. They were lazy science fiction writers and only played with the different cultures when there was a joke to be made or to make them look backwards or bad.
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I wouldn't say that I hated the snake, but I missed the original Projectra character concept. I liked such a completely non-humanoid character. I was sad that they had to replace one of the original characters in order to do it. I wouldn't argue with your thoughts of the mess they made of Orando in the process.
I completely agree with you about the lazy treatment of science fiction cultural concepts. Even with what I said above about non-humanoid characters, did they have to make the Orandans (both races) essentially Earth species transplants? Lazy.
Another long-running irritation I had was with the poor naming of supposed alien characters. Most all of the actual Legionnaires have reasonable names, as in not Earth transplants. On the other hand, there were the names of the poorly conceived serpent Orandans, which were just garbled spellings of English names. Or the civilian names of Legion Academy members Crystal Kid, Nightwind and Lamprey--don't care that they were fan creations who were incorporated, the names read wrong to me from the start.
I guess the rare cases where they did the science fiction well really stand out in comparison. It definitely varied over the years from creative team to team.
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Yeah, a lot of the early writers had a pulp sci-fi background, even if it was just as readers. The later writers, like a lot of the writers in comics, grew up reading comics. They seemed to have little or no grounding in science fiction traditions, and the science gets to be laughable.
The thing with the snake, if a 25 foot cobra slithered into the room, the humans in the room would react with visceral terror. 100%, in most cases. Even if you're cool with snakes, one that size would trigger reflexes so ancient that they predate reason. It would take massive doses of anti-anxiety medication and/or an enormous degree of deep behavior modification to let most of us just sit in the same room with the thing, cowering in the corner. To actually relax around it, I think you'd have to be certifiably insane. And I'm not even all that frightened of snakes. And, in the stories, the only thing that causes a stir is that she has to eat meat. Seriously?
I really hated what they did with the snake at the end, "evolving" her, and all that...ugh...that story was the worst kind of pseudo-scientific crap.
Many of the "alien" Legionnaires are of human descent. I didn't have a problem with that, once they came up with a reasonable explanation. I came up with something similar for my web-comic, Ad Astra, because I wanted to play around with that Planet of Hats trope. Hence, everyone from Atlas is super-strong, everyone from Nelvanna has electromagnetic powers, stuff like that.
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I'd seen that commentary on the younger comic book creators, artists and writers both. I think there is some merit to it. At the same time, they brought back a couple of the earlier LSH writers for this last year before the cancellation, and I was wondering if they'd been ordered to write it into the ground, or if they'd completely lost touch with the story and characters. And these were writers who I thought had created some of the best LSH stories in decades past.
I'd never analyzed the snake issue that deeply. Points to you for doing so. I'm seeing no holes in your logic.
I am now reading through your Ad Astra story. Curse you for getting me hooked on yet another webcomic!
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Awesome! Let me know what you think.
Legion fans are the most shat-upon fans in comics. At one time, the Legion was a top selling book and, at every turn, they'd switch the art teams, and run the thing into he ground. Earthwar, ugh. Then came Crisis on Infinite Earths and the Superman reboot and FLUSH goes Legion continuity. Ugh. Painful. When they wiped the whole thing out a few years ago, I just gave up. I had some hope around the time they did the Secret Origins story, for Superman, and reintroduced the Legion to hs youth. But, that led to stories I just couldn't get into.
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