Re: Action Comics question

On Feb 29, 6:46 pm, Michael <thissp...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Tim Turnip wrote:
> > On 29 Feb 2008 23:28:08 GMT, Daibhid Ceanaideach
> > <daibhidchened...@[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.)
>
> I think The AWFUL Giffen/Bierbaum run has been wiped from existance and
> is not part of this version of the LSH.
>
> Michael

I must be the only person who liked 5 years later.  My only problem
with it was that Keith would introduce stuff and then rarely or  never
get back to it