Little
Did I Know that they HADN’T just created Calorie Queen, and that she
was a character created a WAYS back! Imagine my surprise when (shopping
in a comic store near Pike’s Market in Seattle) I found an old back
issue of Superboy (Featuring the Legion of Super-Heroes, of course) and
saw that one of the girls in the menacing super-team on the cover was
none other that Tenzil’s trusty assistant, Calorie Queen Herself!!!
Getting
that original issue with Calorie Queen as nature intended should have
been a real eye opener into the character, for I now knew she had : 1) a
costume, 2)a real name (Taryn Loy), and 3) a home planet (Bismoll, just
like Tenzil!!!)…but honesty, it really didn’t do much for me. I simply
liked the “later” Cal more! Smart and funny, cool and witty, she was the
perfect foil for outlandish Tenzil Kem, and besides, If I have to
choose between 70’s disco jumpsuit costumes or pretty dresses I always
go with the latter. Because I do love a pretty girl in pretty clothes!
Props to Jim Shooter and Mike Grell for creating Cal, and BIG KUDOS to Tom and Mary Beirbaum and Keith Giffen for the “Update”!
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