From: zeus@watserv.ucr.edu (Zeus)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: CYBER FORCE #1
Date: 12 Oct 92 22:35:41 GMT

Mark "Crimson" Friedman writes
-->In article <1992Oct11.215611.4468@cs.unca.edu> mcmahan@cs.unca.edu (Scott  
McMahan -- Genesis mailing list owner) writes:
-->
-->I did read it again...and it still left a sour taste in my mouth.
-->Maybe it's the fact that everyone *must* display their powers in the
-->first issue: it's in their contract!  ;-)
-->

Do us all a favor and DON'T read anymore - period.

-->I still don't know about the dude with four arms...with three on one
-->side of his body!?!?  C'mon!  What kinda biophysics were they
-->thinking?  There's gotta be a *reason* why practically all life forms
-->are symmetrical!
-->
-->It's the little things like this that spoil the fun.

Hey, SPARKY!  It's a comicbook not reality.  If a guy has four arms - it's ok.  
If they were all symmetrical - you'd be screaming that it's the Liefeld-MLF-Guy  
rip-off!

-->
-->>Well, the coloring *is* better than anything I've seen! And the art is  
leaps
-->>and bounds above the rest of comicdom. 
-->
-->Ho ho!!!  Hee hee!!!  HAHAHAhahaha...you're kidding, right?  Leaps
-->and bounds?  Wow, you *really* like this book, eh?
-->

Well, judging from that little comment I assume you must be color-blind.

-->Yeah, it may have been kinda purty, but (ahem) "Image" isn't
-->everything! (thank you, Andre Agasi) It just felt *sooo* incomplete on
-->the story half of the book...

not even IMAGE is going to help you...

-->
-->>Even ElfQuest, the original B&W comic, is now in color! Time marches
-->>on, and things change. 
-->
-->But is it *better*?  [This is philosophy, so we needn't discuss it at
-->this very moment...]
-->
-->>Well, lower your standards!!
-->
-->We *shouldn't* have to!  Is it too much for a book to have both image
-->*and* substance?  The moral: don't settle for less, and keep mailing
-->those letters to the editor.

Listen - if you like B&W soooooo much why don't you just settel for the  
newspaper funnies - they also wouldn't be as demanding as far as the reading is  
concerned.

-->
-->>No wonder it didn't do anything for you.
-->>Go look at some Monet and leave comics alone!
-->
-->The idea of comics is that it's both art *and* story-telling.  If one
-->side is weak, it tends to bring down the other.  As art only, CF #1
-->really couldn't stand on its own.  As a story it is still incredibly
-->flat.  Put 'em together and it's still only typical.

It's not HEMMINGWAY - but is it supposed to be?  Typical?  Unlike Clinton, I  
bet you DID inhale!

-->
-->>You can't be serious -- that doesn't look anything like M.
-->
-->Well, that's what hit me immediately. [shrug] I got out an old X-Men
-->to check, since I forgot Mystique's name: that was her.  One of my
-->friends even pointed that out when I had them side by side.
-->

He's a sapp! [shrug].

-->>: However, I do encourage people to take a look
-->>
-->>Why!?!?! you hated it!
-->
-->Because no matter what I think about it in summary, it still may have
-->potential.  I by no means tell people *not* to get a book, ever!
-->

Not many will listen to you after this little interlude...


-->Just because I find faults in a book doesn't mean it's *all* bad.  We
-->gotta learn to stop thinking in absolutes.  The only point *I* was
-->making was that this, by no means, is the best comic in print today,
-->as you seem to believe.  I think this assesment is quite unrealistic.
-->

What planet are you from?  And what do you *read* there?

-->>Petty vindictive comments like this tend to shoot down any arguements
-->>you made previously!
-->
-->Or rather, perhaps your sense of importance of your title lends doubt
-->to your judgement in other realms.  You may be Adamant Authority on
-->Everything in your own little world, but here you're just this guy,
-->you know?
-->

Look who's talking.  I wouldn't want to visit the little world you're from.
Planet of the [inbred] Apes, perhaps?

-->>(the one & only band...)
-->
-->Oh, puh-leeez!
-->
-->							- Mark
-->
-->-- 
-->Mark "Klone Crimson" Friedman is friedman@cis.ohio-state.edu
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

     PUH-LEEZ!


Chris