Mark Waid is such a great comic book writer.
A number of years ago they had him re-envision (i.e., "reboot") the Legion of Super-Heroes, which happens to be my sentimental favorite comic book as it was my boyhood favorite. It’s about a group of young superheroes in the 30th century, a thousand years from now.
Waid did a great job, and recently DC asked him to reboot (i.e., "re-envision") it again and he’s doing a great job again so far.
To the left is the cover of the third issue, which focuses, appropriately, on Triplicate Girl.
Triplicate Girl is a character who has the power to split into three. None of her three forms have any other superpowers, so many have viewed Triplicate Girl as a poorly-thought-out heroine.
Not Waid.
In his first re-envisioning of the Legion, he made Triplicate Girl a vital, exciting character who was able to hold her own against much more powerful individuals and make a real contribution to the team. Now Waid’s out once again to show us that Three is a magic number.
In this issue he has a priceless scene between three heroes: Phantom Girl, Element Land, and Triplicate Girl. None of these heroes are from Earth, and none seems familiar with the ancient Earth custom of dating. Nevertheless Element Lad and Triplicate Girl are about to go on a date, and as the scene begins Phantom Girl is coaching Element Lad on how the dating custom works, using a 20th century comic book (Batman) for help.
Problem is: Element Lad is from this really detached, spiritual planet, and he has a hard time grasping how things in ordinary humanlike cultures work.
The scene is so innocent and priceless that I thought that (strictly within the limits of the fair use provisions of U.S. copyright law and to encourage you to go out and buy the comic and thus increase its sales) I’d share it with you.
LOL! Betcha didn’t see that coming!
I had dates not disimilar to that…many years ago…well, just the end bit really…(since you’ll never know me in real time, I can say that 🙂 )
God Bless.
All of my dates went that way, too. Except with the line about being naked at the end… and except with being coached by an attractive superheroine at the beginning. So, in other words, just the part where they’re standing around looking at dumb at each other. But after all… I’m a computer geek. That’s the way our dates are supposed to be. Its the law.
Marvellous. And nice to see that Barry Kitson’s still doing well in the business after all these years. I fondly remember his 2000AD work on ‘Judge Dredd’ and ‘Anderson, Psi Division’ in the mid 1980s.