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From Shawn:

Hi Kurt! Are you coming to the Baltimore Comic-Con this year? I don't see you on the web site's guest list! I hope you do come! Have a good one!

Thanks, Shawn. No Baltimore Con for me this year, sorry—it's a great show, and I always like attending, but maybe another year.

And you can always check out my upcoming appearances at the Find link, just to the left over there. It'll tell you where I'm going to be, and when.

From Torsten Adair:

Life imitates art imitates life?

"Two men apparently carried the five or six-foot-long animal to several fish markets and tried to sell it for $10. During the trek the men carried the fish on the city's Metromover downtown train, prompting calls to police."

Not as cool as the Watchmen squid in San Diego, but interesting...

Indeed! It seems that shark thefts are more common than you'd think. Let's hope they're not all Shirak worshippers...

From Wayne P. Bertrand II:

I just read the question about how many Legionnaires had letters on their costumes. If you discount Superboy & Supergirl and the first appearance costumes of the founders, I count seven (also assuming only the first reality versions are used).

1. Duo Damsel (Levitz-Giffen era) had a "D" hanging from her chain-link belt.

2. Phantom Girl had a "P" on her original costume.

3. Invisible Kid (Lyle Norg) had an "i" almost concealed by the styling of his costume.

4. Ferro Lad had the "Fe" symbol on his chest.

5. Element Lad had an "E" on his first costume (after the "?") and an Interlac one later.

6. Shadow Lass had a stylized "S" belt buckle on her classic outfit and an Interlac one on over the chest of her later one.

7. Sensor Girl has an Interlac "S" on her cape clasp.

How'd I do?

Fine as far as I'm concerned, Wayne—but I never did have a full answer key. I did count Superboy and Supergirl, mind you (why wouldn't you?) and the founders in Adventure #247 were the three that I figured were kind of a cheat and Paul Levitz agreed shouldn't count.

I think Duo Damsel counts, and Shadow Lass probably does (is that a belt-buckle? I just thought it was a design on her crotch), but looking at Invisible Kid's classic costume, I don't think that's recognizably an I. I didn't count Sensor Girl—or other costumes like M'onel's suit with the M on it—because I was sticking to the pre-Crisis era, and Sensor Girl, as I recall, was in that interregnum between Crisis and the cascade of revamps. Wasn't it hinted she was the dead Supergirl come back to life, before her secret was revealed?

The only other name that came up, from the era we were thinking of, was Tom Galloway's mention of Marvel Lad, a.k.a. "Legionnaire Lemon," a.k.a Mon-El. At least that I recall.

But as I said, I never had an answer key, so there may be others I missed!

From Patrick:

Given the recent news for an ongoing Astro City, any plans from DC/Wildstorm to reprint previous issues in Deluxe HC format like Ex Machina or Fables?

I really hope so....

I'd like it too, Patrick. And it's come up for discussion, at least. We'll have to see how things go once we're back to ongoing monthly status next year. Plus, of course, if it were to happen, we'd have to decide how to do it. Strictly in publication order, or building the volumes around the longer stories?

Those volumes seem to be around ten issues long each, so it would probably work to do a first collection in that format as vol. 1 #1-6, vol. 2 #1-3 and #1/2, then the second collection would be the whole Confessor storyline (#4-9) and #10-13. The third would be the whole Steeljack arc (#14-20) plus #21-22 and Local Heroes #1—but I'm not sure it'd fit together so well after that.

It'd take some thinking. But I wouldn't mind...

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