It was fun, blunted a bit by the fact that a novel due out in mid-October still doesn't have a release date.







Conversely, in the early days of TV visual effects, the very-low-operating-budget Doctor Who team at the BBC framed two complaints as badges of honour.

The 1968 story "The Web of Fear" was set in London Underground, but the BBC couldn't afford the fees demanded to film there. So they mocked the whole thing up in studio and filmed it like that - and got a legal proceedings from the Undergrouynd for filming down there without permission!

The 1971 story "The Daemons" featured an ancient evil awoken under a little village church. Most of the episode was filmed on location in a suitable village with a suitable 17th century church. When it came to the finale when the church blew up, the programme naturally resored to model work - but still got angry letters from people who knew the village and assumed that the BBC had somehow actually detonated the historic building!

To complete this somewhat irreleavent sidebar, much later, in 1988, "Rememberance of the Daleks" featured a Dalek battle in and around an old school building in Shoreditch, London. The big end explosion was a practical effect that the explosives team were a bit too enthusatic about. It created a huge black mushroom cloud over the area and was powerful enough to set off car alarms and burglar alarms. Fearing terrorist attack, fire engines rushed to the scene to confront the spreading black cloud - only to see Daleks emerging from it towards them.







Conversely, there is sometimes a new appreciation of other people in different circumstances when folks are pushed together by a crisis.







We need this in-story.







Remind me how she gained her powers. It's relevant because Cathode gained hers quite differently from a genetic implant.







What the Hood needs, as will become evident next issue, is a stubborn battery who won't back down.




I suspect that by now the Legion has come to terms with how hard it is to take down most of their regular archvillains when those baddies aren't "in the act". There's that tricky chain-of-evidence thing. And right now, the Hood et al aren't exactly in their jurisdiction.










VV might be interested in a date.




I made passing reference to the Dead Galaxy's "alliances and treaties" at some point early on in this run. This is what I was obliquely referencing without tying you down explicitly.

The other main treaty out there right now is with the Plyxtragar Peace Mission. Plxtragar the planet was devastated after the transworlds Challenge when many more powerfuyl races saw how nice it was and decided to conquer it. It was an occupied world for some time before Caphan Warlord Vaahir was sentenced there by the Shoggoth to "do good". He organised the resitance movement there, eventually aided by outcast Thonnagarian Shazana Pel, and with a push from the Juniors he finally helped the Plyxtragarians win their freedom.

That freedom was enshrined in "The Caph Accords" after the Parody War, when Emir Kiivan ruled Caph and Galactivac was repulsed. Shazana Pel took over the last effective Pigeonwarrior force and, at Plxtragar's invitation, based it there to insure the planet against further agression. The place has effectively become Geneva. The war-shattered planet could have turned very dark but has instead becomne a beacon of light.

I mention this because the same Hooded Hood was behind many of the events that set up that situation as was pushing the Black Galaxy armada's new empire-building. Two mechanisms towards the same end?

I've always meant to do a Plxtragar-related story to properly illustrate the new set up but haven't found an opportunity yet.