Re: Action Comics question

On 29 Feb 2008 23:28:08 GMT, Daibhid Ceanaideach
<daibhidchenedelh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>My knowledge of LoSH minutae is spotty, but would I be right in thinking 
>Rainbow Girl is a new character, given that her powers would appear to be

>based on a universal concept DC made up last year?

No.  She appeared as a Legion rejectee way back in Adventure #309
("The Legion of Super-Monsters") and then only for one panel.  Still,
such was my memory of her in that story that I instantly recognized
her on the cover of the new Action.  ("It's Rainbow Girl!")  As far as
I know, she's never made any appearances in between, with the Subs or
otherwise, except for an entry in Who's Who In The Legion which gave
her the civilian name used here.

By the way, I hope I'm not the only old-school Legion fan who is
loving "Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes".  Not only is Geoff
Johns redeeming these characters from their last icky phase (the
execrable run of the Bierbaum spouses) but Gary Franks' visual
redesign of them is tight, modern and ***y.  (Especially that Rainbow
Girl.)