The Legion Stallions

Legion Stallions was pretty much my only attempt, ever, to do a superhero comic. Not that I don't enjoy them; I've been collecting Marvel's big X-Men phonebooks lately and loving them in all their cheesy goodness. However, my own writing talents just don't lie in that direction. And actually, for all that I was seriously trying to do a series about a superhero team and their archnemesis, Legion Stallions didn't ultimately end up all that super-heroic. On the other hand, I was 8 years old at the time.

The Legion Stallions of the title were four horses who developed humanlike intelligence and the ability to speak after a highly unlikely accident involving a thunderstorm, lightning, and an emergency power generator. Hey, if radiation can give a human the ability to fly rather than cancer, I suppose electrocution could result in the ability to speak instead of a corral full of fried horseflesh. The four horses escaped and ended up living with a middle-aged hermit, a guy named Elda Fonara who lived in a little house by the sea. Elda had three adopted daughters, all of whom he'd rescued when they washed up onshore. One was an athlete, one was a telepath, and one was the halfbreed daughter of a human man and a fire elemental who lived in the sun, so she had fire-related powers. Together, the group of them waged a never-ending battle against the robot armies of their arch-nemesis, the evil Falcon.

All of them, except for Elda and the occasional background character, were female because I didn't like drawing men.

All I have left now are random pages from different stories. I'd cut a piece of letter-sized paper in half to make a vaguely comic-book-sized page and then subdivide it into 6 or 8 panels and draw on that. Most of the stories ended up unfinished because I'd either lose interest and move on to another one, or couldn't figure out how to finish.

The following pages should give a general idea of the sort of quality storytelling we're dealing with here.



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