Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 4 Annual #6 pgs 34-35

So cool to see all the thought and planning that went into this! Thanks for sharing and congrats.

Thank you so much!!  It's just a delightful page, and I think it really is clear that a lot of thought and care went into the design.

In the 1970's, the artist, Eliot R. Brown, and I went to the same specialized art high school in Manhattan, The High School of Art & Design, where many students hoped to become professionals in the comic book industry.  Several achieved that goal (dreams can come true!), including Eliot, and I always get a kick out of seeing the detailed buildings and objects he designs for various corners of the comic book multiverse, of which this Legion Headquarters is the most impressive example I've seen of Eliot's work.  (Margaret, by any chance, are you a time-traveler from the 30th or 31st century, here to give us tantalizing glimpses into the future with your postings of Legion art and your fascinating accompanying essays?)

Oh wow, that's incredible!!  Thank you very much for sharing that you knew Eliot personally.  I didn't know until today that doing blueprints and schematics was sort of his "thing", but I think that just makes this pickup all the cooler in hindsight - blueprints like this are what he does, and I agree that this must surely be some of his best work.

And oh, if only I could be a time traveller.  If anything, I'm sort of a reverse time traveller - I never lived during the eighties and nineties, but I'm doing my best to pretend that I did by collecting my favourite art from the period!  (And thank you for the complement about my little essays - and thanks for taking the time to read them!)

Nice one.

I thought about bidding on it. Glad you got it!

Thanks, Miki!

I guess there's no telling if we would have outbid you or not, but I'm glad we didn't have to find out!

Truly amazing The details are incredible 

Thanks, Aidan!  It's a fun one to spend half an hour getting lost in, every now and then.

I remember being wowed by this schematic when it came out, so it is a heartfelt "Big Congrats!" I give you on this win. As to Brainy's suite's location, his lab used to blow up a lot, so it made sense to me that they wouldn't put other legionnaires near it.

Well, thank you very much for the big congrats!  :)  You make a very good point thinking of another reason why Brainy's suite is surrounded by empty ones, too!

Best piece of the day!  Far better than what I had done in industrial drafting class. You can can see the Legion made the most out of the upside down rocket design.  If you are co-habitating, this is a great reminder of the goal of having a dream home. 

Aww, Marcus!  Thank you!!  It's neat that you took a drafting class, which is certainly an artform unto itself - it's hard to imagine you not surrounded by art at any given moment, digitally or otherwise.

This version of Legion HQ was neat because it blended the classic old rocket ship designs with a new building shape, which looked like an "L" when viewed from above.

And we are, in fact, co-habitating!  I appreciate the very sweet perspective that someday we'll have our very own Legion HQ / dream home.

This piece and the story behind it give you both many reasons to celebrate. congrats! One of the coolest references of a fictional comic book headquarters buildings ever! With you already as a Legion expert and your partner as a budding one, all the more merrier! that's going to look amazing on the wall for you both to enjoy for years to come. 

Thank you so much, Kavi!  I do think this diagram could rank pretty high on the masterlist of "awesome comic book headquarters blueprints".

I think I got pretty lucky ending up with a partner who was interested in learning more about the Legion!  We're definitely looking forward to getting this piece up on the wall so we can just gaze fondly at it every time we walk by.

As much as I adore this page, I confess (as you well know) that as much as I profoundly respect Mr. Brown's attention to detail and love of schematics... I cannot wrap my head around the baffling nature of the architecture of this building. Not necessarily his fault, but still ;)

Oh yes, I well remember you puzzling over why and how the building is laid out the way it is!  I think it becomes a little more bearable if you remember they all have flight rings, so their feet wouldn't get tired from walking back and forth between the two wings all day.