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From: asoto@dacapo.urbana.mcd.mot.com (Anthony Soto)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: Professor X (X-Men Cards)
Date: 7 Apr 92 20:50:19 GMT
Reply-To: asoto@dacapo.urbana.mcd.mot.com (Anthony Soto)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Motorola Computer Group, Urbana Design Center


In article <1992Apr6.220659.17742@sol.UVic.CA>, jcowling@ophelia.UVic.CA
(Scowling Jim Cowling) writes:
|> If you read the inside of the discarded wrapper, it defines what
Mental Level 6
|> and Mental Level 7 are -- effectively, Level 6 is "multiple powerful psionic
|> abilities".  Level 5 is "One single powerful psionic ability or a number of 
|> weak psionic abilities" -- Storm is classified as a Level 5.  Level 7 is
|> near-infinite mental power.  She kicked Chuck's butt in X-Men #136, as I
|> recall.

Sorry Jim, but the Prof' kicked Jean's (Phoenix's) butt in X-Men #136. Remeber
Scott was talking Phoenix down when Charlie came out and attacked her. He beat
her and put psionic locks (or whatever they called it) on her right before
the Shi'ar beamed the X-Men up to their ship to rid the universe of Phoenix.
I have to agree with the original post that Professor X should be rated higher
than Jean Grey and maybe the same level of Phoenix.

Now that I think about it, Dark Phoenix has been shown to be way more powerful
that Rachel ever has... Charlie should be above the Rachel-Phoenix and the
same level as Dark Phoenix.
					Tony

|> 
|> ------
|> Jim Cowling			|  "Ha!  Pronoun trouble.  It's not 'he doesn't
|> Creative Writing Department     |   have to shoot _you_ now', it's
'he doesn't
|> University of Victoria          |   have to shoot _me_ now'.  Well, I say he
|> Opinions Disassociated          |   _does_ have to shoot me now.  So
shoot me
|> Fnord                           |   now!!"   -the immortal D. Duck
|> ------
From: khale@dawnstar.Eng.Sun.COM (Abhijit Khale)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: Movies? who came 1st: Aliens or Brood?
Date: 8 Apr 92 17:47:31 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: dawnstar

In article <0dskpwy00Uh_M3BFI0@andrew.cmu.edu> ri10+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert Isenberg) writes:
>>In article <92093.090140EAO102@psuvm.psu.edu>, EAO102@psuvm.psu.edu
>(Ernie Opor
>>to) writes:
>>> In article <1992Mar31.114348.88465@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>,
>>> ugoni@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au says:
>>>>
>>> 
>>> Um....Sauron is no new character.  At least if you dont enjoy him, you
>>> cant blame Liefeld....  Now that we're comparing X-Men villains with movies,
>>> can you say Brood=Aliens(I, II and 3)?  Anyone know if the Brood came before
>>> the Alien did, or not?  I suspect the movie came first.

>>the Brood came first.

Alien first appeared in 1979. Wasnt the first appearance of the Brood in X-men 154
or so, which is 1982-83. I cant remember the Brood having appeared  before, but
then I could be wrong. 

Aliens came much later (1986). 

>While were at it, Who came first: Wolverine or Freddy Kruger?

Almost certainly Wolvie. I dont remember exactly when Nightmare on ELm Street I
came out, but Wolvie first appeared in Hulk #181, which puts it in the
mid-to-late 1970s, which I think predates Nightmare by quite a while.
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From: grs02500@runt.appstate.edu
Subject: Youngblood I
Summary: New series
Organization: Appalachian State University
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 22:45:13 GMT

Has anybody heard anything about the new youngblood series.  It hits the stands
in a week and I just found out about it.  It appears to be a new mutant group
in another marvel universe.  What's the deal, didn't marvel already find out
that "New Universe's" are not hip.  But I'm looking forward to Rob's work on
the comic.  

           SCREAMING BANSHEE




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From: acadams@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Arthur C. Adams)
Subject: Re: MISC:DC:Whatever happened to....?
Reply-To: acadams@aplcen (Arthur C. Adams)
Organization: Johns Hopkins University
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 12:12:57 GMT

In article <AduuIZ_00WDK84bUMe@andrew.cmu.edu> Vernon H Harmon <vh00+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>I was just reading some old comics and I was reminded of a question I've
>been wanting to ask ever since I first found r.a.c.--whatever happened
>to T.M. Maple? Anyone who read DC Comics in the 80's I'm sure knows who
>it is I speak of--except that I'm not sure if anyone ever really knew
>who it was. He/she had letters published in just about every lettercol
>DC had during the 80's. Does anyone know who this person is/was and/or
>where he/she is now (I haven't seen any letters from him/her for
>years...)??
>
>Thanks.
>--Vernon.

In an issue of Zot, or maybe it was Nexus, T.M. Maple signed his real name.
To my everlasting disappointment, he wasn't anyone famous. 

After that, he kind of disappeared.

Though, you know, that was about the same time Uncle Elvis started to pop up
in letters pages. Maybe there one-in-the-same.

Or maybe this should be posted to talk.rumor
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From: EAO102@psuvm.psu.edu (Ernie Oporto)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: STARWARS
Date: 11 Apr 92 00:29:35 GMT
Organization: The Pennylvania State University

In addition to what everyone else posted, here is what will be coming out
in June for Star Wars...

Timothy Zahn's 2nd Star Wars Book (delayed from May)
     Dark Force Rising
Star Wars:  The Glove of Darth Vader by Paul and Hollace Davids
Star Wars:  The Lost City of the Jedi by Paul and Hollace Davids

the last 2 are oriented towards young readers and stars Luke Skywalker and
gang.  113 pages each. softcovers

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From: gls@windmill.att.com (the Colonel)
Subject: Re: DC: Doom Patrol Annotations
Organization: Kentucky Fried Fox
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 03:20:58 GMT

In <1992Apr11.034524.5047@math.ucla.edu>, sherman@oak.math.ucla.edu writes:
> 
> P. 5: "Downtown".  Petula Clarke?

Clark without an "e".

> p. 3 The Juvenal quotation is translated "Prayer is necessary for a healthy
> mind in a healthy body", according to my sources.

Get some new sources!  "It is to be prayed that a healthy mind be in a
healthy body."

> p. 23: Token suckers are for real (NYC).

And not everybody will know of Lynch's movie _Eraserhead_ ...

-:-
	"I'm warning you ... if you kill me, they'll
	 just send 008!"

					--Flaming Carrot
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
gls@windmill.att.COM
From: v129j6ed@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (We make money the ole fashion way, we BEAT people for it!)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: X-Men Traitor
Date: 7 Apr 92 00:53:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Apr6.213401.23863@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>, kogutt@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (SCAVENGER) writes...
>I'd vote for Cable being the traitor--remember all X-teams are really part of the X-men.

As I recall, in the future, Jean was calling to both Alex and Cable for
help with the traitor, right before she died.  
My vote for Cable is that he is the future version of Guy Gardner after
D.C. does not want him anymore.

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From: vjmurphy@carina.unm.edu (Phred T. Platypus)
Subject: Re: Season of Mists. What was Lucifer's game?
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 06:12:27 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Distribution: rec

In article <1992Apr12.233934.1@fnalb.fnal.gov> morrow@fnalb.fnal.gov (I Elmo) writes:
>
>        Lucifer was quitting, giving up all his responsibilities, everything,
>including his vendettas.  When you abandon a throne, you could easily forget
>about petty comeuppances.  He gave Dream the key, partly, IMHO, because Dream
>was in the right place at the right time.
>	I think Lucifer did not have any more specific plan for revenge in 
>mind than giving Dream the key.  He knew that it would be a hot ticket and at
>the least discomfit Dream.  At the worst, it could cause theomachy, which
>would probably start in the Dreaming.  I think Lucifer didn't really care what
>happened.

    I wouldn't be surprised if the ramifications of Season of Mists have
 yet to be seen.  Knowing Gaiman's ability to return to storylines past,
 I bet we will see the effect Lucifer wants near the end of Gaiman's
 run.


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From: purtill@idacrd.UUCP (Mark Purtill)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Third Aardvark, woo!
Date: 6 Apr 92 22:42:52 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: idacrd, princeton, nj

Random third aardvark thought...
	There could, of course, be more than three aardvarks;
Weishaupt might not have known about all of them.  For that matter, he
could have been wrong or lying about the other two.  For instance,
perhaps Cirin isn't an aardvark;  but she looks like one, and
Weishaupt might have mistakenly thought she was.  
	Likewise, if Po isn't an aardvark 'cause he's dead, perhaps
Weishaupt didn't realize either that begin dead disqualifies one from
being ar aardvark, or perhaps even that Po was dead.

^.-.^ Mark Purtill, IDA/CCR-P, Thanet Road, Princeton NJ  08540; (609)924-4600.
((")) Email: purtill%idacrd@princeton.edu; uunet!idacrd!purtill. (609)497-0526.
From: bjm1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Bobbie J. Mann)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: MISC:DC:Whatever happened to....?
Date: 16 Apr 92 20:37:45 GMT
Organization: Mississippi State University

acadams@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Arthur C. Adams) writes:

>In article <AduuIZ_00WDK84bUMe@andrew.cmu.edu> Vernon H Harmon <vh00+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>>I was just reading some old comics and I was reminded of a question I've
>>been wanting to ask ever since I first found r.a.c.--whatever happened
>>to T.M. Maple? Anyone who read DC Comics in the 80's I'm sure knows who
>>it is I speak of--except that I'm not sure if anyone ever really knew
>>who it was. He/she had letters published in just about every lettercol
>>DC had during the 80's. Does anyone know who this person is/was and/or
>>where he/she is now (I haven't seen any letters from him/her for
>>years...)??
>>
>>Thanks.
>>--Vernon.

>In an issue of Zot, or maybe it was Nexus, T.M. Maple signed his real name.
>To my everlasting disappointment, he wasn't anyone famous. 

>After that, he kind of disappeared.

>Though, you know, that was about the same time Uncle Elvis started to pop up
C

>in letters pages. Maybe there one-in-the-same

No, they aren't the same.  TM is from Canada, and Elvis is from Kentucky.

Roland
.
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From: aoki@hermes.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki)
Subject: Re: EPIC: Sam and Max
Organization: Kunou Education Consulting
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 04:17:35 GMT

dml@athena.mit.edu (David M LaMacchia) writes:
>In article <1992Apr9.213458.1@fnalo.fnal.gov> birmingh@fnalo.fnal.gov (Phillip J. Birmingham) writes:
>>         Okay, so I went to pick up the Sam and Max Go to the Moon Dirtbag
>>    (what a mouthfull!) I wanted to see what Sam and Max are like and I
>>    only have one question: where can I get more???? 
>	Sam and Max Special #1 (published by Fishwrap Press, black & white)
>	Sam and Max Color Special #1 (Comico, this time, in (take a guess)
>		color)
>	GrimJack #52, in Munden's Bar (six page story, Sam and Max go
>		back to ancient Egypt, not widely known about)
>	Sam and Max also appear in several other places, but not in full-length
>stories (well, not that I know of, anyway).

The only stories I've seen are:
	Sam & Max, Freelance Police Special Edition #1 "Monkeys Violating 
	  the Heavenly Temple" (Fishwrap, 1987)
	Critters #19 "Night of the Cringing Wildebeest" (Fantagraphics, 1987)
	Grimjack #52 "Fair Wind to Java" (First, 1988)
	Critters #50 "The Damned Don't Dance" (Fantagraphics, 1990)
	Sam & Max, Freelance Police Roadtrip Special #1 "On the Road"
	  (Comico, 1989)
	Sam & Max, Freelance Police "Bad Day on the Moon" (Epic, 1992)
The Critters stories are very, very short.  Like maybe four pages each.

For the truly anal-retentive fanboy, Sam and Max have also made cameo 
appearances in several issues of Amazing Heroes, two posters, and
Eclipse's DIRTY PAIR (Steve Purcell once said he wanted to produce Sam 
and Max merchandise, so Toren Smith and Adam Warren made a running gag 
out of it by putting Max's face on all sorts of things -- porn magazines,
throw pillows, ..).
-- 
    Paul M. Aoki   |   aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU   |   ...!ucbvax!aoki
From: lazlo@triton.unm.edu (Lazlo Nibble)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Eclipse (was: SOME NEAT STUFF IN THE NEW PREVIEWS)
Keywords: Blandman, other parodies; Aztec Ace
Date: 8 Apr 92 18:51:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: lynx.+-rj51
Distribution: na
Organization: Living in a satellite fantasy, waiting for the night to end.

rlawson@ac.dal.ca writes:

>> BLANDMAN from Eclipse--a parody of DC's horror titles ("IF IT'S 
>> WRITTEN BY A BRIT, IT HAS TO BE GOOD!") 
>
> This is strange.  Eclipse first did X-Farce (At least I think it was
> them), then they planned to solicit Loco vs. Pulvereen (or name
> something like that) for March.  Now they're doing this. 
> I have a feeling that someone at Eclipse hates the Big Two. 

They don't seem to hate the Big Two quite enough to stop making money by
publishing cheap parodies of the Big Two's books though, do they?  That
wacky Cat and Dean!

Here's an Eclipse question: what's the deal with their revival of AZTEC ACE?

--
Lazlo (lazlo@triton.unm.edu)
From: kogutt@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (SCAVENGER)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: A Coupla Thoughts...
Date: 8 Apr 92 20:32:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: ucsu.1992Apr8.203239.12995
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder

>Warlock-Magus thing, only in reverse.)
>
 thought just hit me(still smarts too)! Warlock(Adam)/Magus and Warlock(RIP)/
Magus(dad)

Hmm...go figure.

------SCAVENGER 

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get a cassette to make love to Elle McPherson  |
for $19.95, this virtual reality stuff is going|No matter where you go,
to make crack look like Sanka. -  Dennis Miller| there you are."-Buckaroo Banzai
From: morrison@eng.auburn.edu (Kelly Morrison)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: STRIPS: Generic question...
Date: 6 Apr 92 02:50:36 GMT
Reply-To: morrison@eng.auburn.edu
Distribution: usa
Organization: Auburn University Engineering


Hi!
   I've got a quick question: what are the legal issues involved with
including a cameo of a comic strip character in another comic strip? Is
it similar to "sampling" in the music industry, and must permission be
obtained from the creator(s)?
   Berke Breathed used to include cameos of other cartoon characters in
his "Bloom County" strip from time to time (such as Cathy, Hagar the
Horrible, Dagwood, Charlie Brown, and Snoopy). I noticed that in the
early days he just used the character with no mention of the original
creator. Later, he started putting a comment in the strip to the effect
of "apologies to guisewaite", etc. I've also noticed that DC comics puts
Marvel characters in the background of their comics from time to time,
and vice versa...
   Thanks in advance for any help! I've been doing a nonprofit comic
strip for the Auburn campus newspaper for the past year and a half, and
I have no idea how to obtain information about "cameos". I used Gaiman's
"Death" in the background of a comic strip panel set at a Halloween party
and I've been wondering if I should have credited him and Kieth in the 
border.
   Another question: are there any other campus cartoonists out there?
I've been trying to do something really different: a weekly strip with
no continuing characters, no cute talking animals, and no hackneyed strips
about bowheads, football players, or cafeteria food. The art is awful, but
I like to think the subjects I've covered are fairly sophisticated. In
fact, after catching a lot of flak from the Black Student Union about a
PRO-Martin Luther King, Jr. strip I did two months ago, the editor at my
paper considered moving my strip to the editorial page. Anybody else out
there have any similar problems?
         -----> Kelly Morrison
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From: fal20643@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Capt. Frank A. Lauro)
Subject: Re: X-Men Traitor i.e. Gambit
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 04:23:20 GMT

<MSH109@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:

>In article <6APR199223505827@rigel.tamu.edu>, j0d7858@rigel.tamu.edu (DABELIC,
>JERKO) says:
>>Cyclops - Original member wouldn't betray dream
>>Jean - ditto

>Ahhhhhh, but where's the White Queen's psyche? Emma is *still* in a coma, and
>Jean "oh so suddenly" manifested a possesion power, much like Emma's.
>MY THEORY: Emma, now  living down the hall from all the other personalities  in
>           Jean's head, asserts control and wipes out ye olde X-Men.
>           She is, after all, the one who calls for help (perhaps into ambush?)

Hmmm...

>>Forge - quite possibly - he created a gun to zap Storm's power - why not

>Rogue's powers. (Nitpick)

(Further nitpick) *Anyone's* powers.  Storm just happened to catch the shot
aimed at Rogue.  Say, whatever happened to Henry Peter Gyrich?

>ObXComment: (re:X-men8) A Mutant PIE FIGHT! LOVE IT!!!

Yeah, the next official X-Men baseball game should be interesting...
--------
Captain Frank A. Lauro          Commanding Officer       University of Illinois
fal20643@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu       USS ALEXA NCC 1764-D     Urbana-Champaign
--------
"What happened to your hair?"
 -- Boothby (Ray Walston) to Picard, TNG: "The First Duty"
From: jcp@gauss.rutgers.edu (Jonathan Petersen)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: MUTANTS: X-Traitor Theories Disproved
Date: 13 Apr 92 15:23:42 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

RE: a follow-up to my post wanted to know if the "rumor" that Scott Lobdell was
a WRITER for the X-Men was true.

Well, get out your comics and look!  Scott is scripting the Unadjectived X-Men
and writing the Uncanny X-Men.  This is direct from the credits of #8 and #289,
respectively.  This should qualify as proof, n'est-ce pas?
Jonathan
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From: bike@athena.mit.edu (Michael Y Fan)
Subject: Re: Dark Empire - Nagging Question
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 15:02:42 GMT

In the latest issue of Lucassfilm magazine, the editors state that the Zahn
books are NOT part of the official storyline.  Episodes VII, VIII, and IX
are NOT related!!!!  I believe this is what I read.  I'll doublecheck tonight.

						Mike Fan
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From: rogerk@QueerNet.ORG (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Subject: Re: SOME NEAT STUFF IN THE NEW PREVIEWS (no spoilers)
Reply-To: rogerk@QueerNet.ORG (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Organization: QueerNet
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 14:34:50 GMT

In article <1992Apr7.234226.4877@ac.dal.ca>, rlawson@ac.dal.ca writes:
|> In article <1992Apr4.002849.16255@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>,
|> kogutt@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (SCAVENGER) writes:
|> > the new JSA series
|> 	Is this the one that does a ELSEWORLDS
|> type treatment to the JSA, eliminating the
|> (forgot-the-name) Spear as propaganda and
|> establishing the real reason the JSA didn't
|> stop Germany as a guy who could negate their
|> powers.

Nope.  That's THE GOLDEN AGE by James Robinson and Paul (Pokey) Smith; the
issue one preview looks terrific, but JSA will probably be on the stands long
before Smith finishes the second issue...
-- 
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From: sksircar@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Subrata Sircar)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: EPIC/SUPERHERO/SF: Wild Cards...
Date: 8 Apr 92 22:55:25 GMT
Organization: SPAMIT
Originator: news@ernie.Princeton.EDU

From: kogutt@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (SCAVENGER)
>BTW--was it me or did the fact that Tachyon was infected by the wild card
>virus seem to have been forgotten in the storyline ending in DOUBLE SOLLITARE?

I was waiting for this to come up; I have a feeling they ignored it because
it would either a) have killed him, b) have made him a joker on a planet where
deformities are intolerable c) made him an ace, which is a trifle deus ex
machina.  I don't think it will come up unless he returns to Earth.

BTW, doesn't anyone else find it strange that the Network, Takis's greatest
enemy, would willingly condemn Blaise, possibly the greatest threat to
Tachyon and hence Takis?  If I were the Master Trader, I'd have Blaise on
ice, along with some scrapings of his original body to clone so that I could
release him at a later date...

From: albert@chain.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu (Rick Jones)
>The next book will finish off the Jumper Trilogy, and the one after
>that is a Captain Trips solo novel.

Dealer's Choice, due in November of 1992.
As for the Captain Trips solo novel, I'm pleased (although I'd rather see
Zelazny write a Sleeper novel!)

From: faber@loon.cs.wisc.edu (Ted Faber)
	Don't they fit into continuity before _Dead Man's Hand_?  If there
	are dates given in the comics (dates in the Wild Cards universe,
	not publication dates) that's easy to check.

I don't think any mention is ever made of the destruction of Jetboy's tomb,
which certainly takes place after the 40th anniversary of Wild Card's Day,
and after the removal of a few of Kien's fingers by Wraith...

	(Book X) I'd bet there will be similar events in the next book...

See above.  It concerns what's happening to Bloat and the Rox while Tachyon
is off Earth.

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