Components are split into two broad segments: actives and passives. Active components like the vacuum tube and the transistor contain the power to generate and alter electrical signals.

For the Legion, we're looking at 20th century futures rather than 19th. Analogies with steampunk might be dieselpunk, atompunk, or rocketpunk – but any Legion of Super-Heroes worthy of the name seems to be as far from the punk aspect as it's possible to get.

This was that which made the old Christians paganize, while by their scandalous and base conforming to Heathenism they did no more, when they had done their utmost, but bring some Pagans to christianize; for true Christians they neither were themselves, nor could make other such in this fashion.

Montreal, where French and English have not merged but coexist in ‘two solitudes,’ has Latin flair but British solidity.