World Enough and Time

In the early 1990s one of my favourite fandoms was the DC comics "Legion of Super-Heroes", though before that and after that I've been mostly a Marvel girl. It was the right comic at the right time - and it was so good, any time would have been the right time. I'm talking about the "Five Years Later" run by the Giffen/Gordon/Bierbaum/Bierbaum team.

Since then, I've been in other fandoms, and life has taken twists and turns I didn't want or plan, which took me far away from the Legion. Then recently, partly due to whim and partly due to invitations by my friends in two terrific apazines, "APA 247" and "Interlac", I have returned to Legion fandom. One of the things I am doing is reading all the LSH stories ever written. Is this masochism, completism, intellectual curiosity, or simply fun? Time will tell. Currently I've read something like 85 out of... what, a thousand? More? Still counting.

So I've also been refurbishing my apartment. Putting pictures back on my walls after painting. I felt like a change, so I dug out my box of original art collected over the years; I was thinking of putting up the sketches of Shang-Chi I bought from Mike Zeck and Gene Day long ago. But while looking through the pile of art, I discovered a treasure I'd forgotten. Something I was wishing I had: an original page of LSH art. It's page one of "Legion of Super-Heroes" vol. 4, issue 15 (February 1991), featuring one of my favourite characters - Brainiac 5. It's autographed by the artists, Keith Giffen and Al Gordon.

Now framed and on my wall in all its 9-panel glory.