Comments on: In Which I Am Helpful http://allenholt.com/content/in-which-i-am-helpful Web Polyglot Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:58:27 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ryan Crutchfield http://allenholt.com/content/in-which-i-am-helpful/comment-page-1#comment-493 Ryan Crutchfield Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:06:55 +0000 http://thunderdog.com/?p=322#comment-493 <p>Haha, thanks for the laugh Allen. That is great.</p> Haha, thanks for the laugh Allen. That is great.

]]> By: Allen http://allenholt.com/content/in-which-i-am-helpful/comment-page-1#comment-491 Allen Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:28:12 +0000 http://thunderdog.com/?p=322#comment-491 <p>I haven't seen <i>Zoom</i> yet... honestly, the chances of my doing so aren't too good based on the previews, which certainly made it appear that the movie's not too good, either. So I'm going to hope that my unknown reader was, indeed, looking for info about Bouncing Boy. :)</p> <p>And I wasn't aware that Chuck became leader in the Legion cartoon -- how cool is that? So now the fat kid (or at least the Legionnaire my teenage-comics-reading brain thinks of as the fat kid) has the hot chick <i>and</i> all the power? Wow, talk about wish fulfillment. Thanks for the info!</p> <p>(Matter-Eater Lad... man, do I love me some old-school Legion.)</p> I haven’t seen Zoom yet… honestly, the chances of my doing so aren’t too good based on the previews, which certainly made it appear that the movie’s not too good, either. So I’m going to hope that my unknown reader was, indeed, looking for info about Bouncing Boy. :)

And I wasn’t aware that Chuck became leader in the Legion cartoon — how cool is that? So now the fat kid (or at least the Legionnaire my teenage-comics-reading brain thinks of as the fat kid) has the hot chick and all the power? Wow, talk about wish fulfillment. Thanks for the info!

(Matter-Eater Lad… man, do I love me some old-school Legion.)

]]> By: Feste Sylvain http://allenholt.com/content/in-which-i-am-helpful/comment-page-1#comment-492 Feste Sylvain Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:22:51 +0000 http://thunderdog.com/?p=322#comment-492 <p>There is an alternate answer to the brief "inflated boy" superhero query: Tucker, aka "Mega Boy" in the disappointing movie <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0383060/" rel="nofollow">Zoom</a>.</p> <p>And there was a period of time when Chuck wasn't the fat kid in the Legion; for a bit there, Matter-Eater Lad held that "honor", while Chuck was powerless and relatively slender.</p> <p>The Saturday morning cartoon version of the Legion uses Keith Giffen's artistic take on the inflated Bouncing Boy: Chuck becomes a perfect sphere while bouncing, with his features distorted across it. This frankly makes more sense than Curt Swan's "sphere plus arms, legs, and head" version.</p> <p>And in this cartoon, Luornu is still Triplicate Girl, is absolutely smitten with Chuck, and was instrumental in getting him elected to the post of Legion Leader(!).</p> There is an alternate answer to the brief “inflated boy” superhero query: Tucker, aka “Mega Boy” in the disappointing movie Zoom.

And there was a period of time when Chuck wasn’t the fat kid in the Legion; for a bit there, Matter-Eater Lad held that “honor”, while Chuck was powerless and relatively slender.

The Saturday morning cartoon version of the Legion uses Keith Giffen’s artistic take on the inflated Bouncing Boy: Chuck becomes a perfect sphere while bouncing, with his features distorted across it. This frankly makes more sense than Curt Swan’s “sphere plus arms, legs, and head” version.

And in this cartoon, Luornu is still Triplicate Girl, is absolutely smitten with Chuck, and was instrumental in getting him elected to the post of Legion Leader(!).

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