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From: cwagner@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Christian Wagner)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Cthulhu as Prez (Was: Re: FLAME: Liefeld Art(?)
Date: 16 Oct 92 13:32:23 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

In article <21073@plains.NoDak.edu> dhenry@plains.NoDak.edu (David Henry) writes:
>I have been wearing my Cthulhu for President button, except to bed,
>constantly since I first got it early this summer. Gained me a lot of
>interesting stares in the Sea-Tac airport.
>"Up from the depths
> Thirty stories high
> Breathing slime
> His head in the sky
> CTHULHU! CTHULHU! CTHULHU!"
>
>"And Cthooky...."

AEEIIIIIIIII! Someone else remembers that show.......

And now I'm going to have this mental image of this tiny cutesy Spawn of 
Cthulhu running around with a bunch of teenage investigators.....

--

I'm getting the same looks from my Capus Crusade for Cthulhu button, especially
around campus. Luckily (or unluckily, depending on your point of view) I 
haven't run into any CCforChrist types....

Fave new button : "Be nice to your friends, or they may develop psychokinetic
powers and destroy Tokyo."

-- 
    "Well, do you ever get the feeling that the Story's too damn real
                        and in the present tense?"
               Christian Wagner - cwagner@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
From: pathall@astro.as.arizona.edu (Patrick B. Hall)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: ElfQuest 3
Summary: What The?!?
Keywords: elfquest
Date: 9 Oct 92 01:41:39 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

In article <1992Oct8.181322.24024@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> as010b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (andrew david simchik) writes:
>I have to agree that ElfQuest Hidden Years #3 was a bit slow.  Actually,
>I've been tremendously dissatisfied with the entire Hidden Years series,
>which has just not been up to WARP's usual standards.  Weak plots,
>inconsequential themes, undeveloped characters...very disappointing.
...?
Are we reading the same Elfquest?  Hidden Years #3, the story about a human
raised by the elfs?  I thought this was the best EQ in a looooong time.
I can't remember one that moved me more since the original 20-issue series 
ended.  Weak plots?  Well I'll grant you it wasn't a bold innovation, but I
didn't think it was weak.  Inconsequential themes?  What is of more import
than the story of an entire life?  And hatred of people who are "different"
is alive and well today, for reasons just as flimsy as the human's birthmark.
Undeveloped characters?  I thought the human was about as developed a character
as you could get in a single issue, and his adopted elf mother (I confess her 
name has slipped my mind), to see her go through everything a mother might
face in her life and the life of her child... what can I say, I thought it
all came together wonderfully.  I don't mean to flame, I'm just surprised
that someone (two someones, at least) felt so different about this issue.

>	However, I agree that the next one looks good.
Yep, but I thought Ember and Leetah, etc., didn't age more than a few weeks
during their time travel... am I wrong, or are they skipping ahead a few
years till Ember's grown a bit?
>
>	Andrew D. Simchik
>
>PPS The New Blood special was much more entertaining.
	My only complaint is that I would prefer 2 or 3 complete stories in
a single issue, rather than 5 or 6 strung out over several issues.  But yeah,
it was entertaining.

Pat Hall
pathall@as.arizona.edu
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From: raboles@eos.ncsu.edu (RODNEY ALLEN BOLES)
Subject: Re: CYBER FORCE #1
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 18:55:37 GMT

In article <Bw2G2C.II@news.cso.uiuc.edu> dv52151@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (SilverFang Ahroun) writes:
>raboles@eos.ncsu.edu (RODNEY ALLEN BOLES) writes:
>
>>I had a hard time with all the Xmen/Xforce swipes. I wonder what Marvel's
>>lawyers think of all of this?  The four armed guy was STUPID. A bad idea!!
>>It actually ruined the first issue for me. Speaking of never having had
>>an anatomy lesson!!! Sheeesh!!
>
>Okay, I have to say this: If you read comics fairly often, you wind up
>accepting comic reality instead of the reality we all deal with from 
>day to day. Basically, comic reality is a lot more fun. If you can 
>deal with people bouncing bullets off their chest, flying and shooting
>raybeams from their eyes, why is a guy with more arms on one side
>of his body than the other so hard to deal with? Yes, it would
>probably not work..but I think it's better to try drawing something
>different than to just do "another guy/girl with four arms" in the
>conventional manner.
>
>
>Axly
>
>

I am willing to accept many things in comics. But stupid is STUPID!!  
I think that it is a stupid power! Doc Ocks mechanical arms were cool
(in a ditko sort of way). Spidey's 6 arms was cool, cause he's a
SPIDER-man. But by the time spiral came around, it started to seem 
stupid, unoriginal and boring. Xforce redefined stupid, unoriginal and
boring, and Forearm is definitely these. 

I said I kinda liked CF. But I thought the 4 armed guy looked dumb. 
It is not only a bad idea, but VISUALLY it just looked DUMB!!!

I just wish that these Image guys could at least give us interesting characters
that aren't direct swipes of existing (largely Marvel and Xtitle) characters.
Savage Dragon is a new twists, and Spawn is at least a combination of 
enough different characters to make him not a clone of any one.
He's Spidey, Bats, Punisher and Ghost Rider all wrapped up into one.
But Leifield, Lee and Larsen are just swipping from the Xtitles.
And Shadowhawk is Darkhawk. How boring.

I'll stick to Sandman.

All in My Humble Opinion of course.
Rodney Boles
From: riceball@west.darkside.com (Riceball)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Dead?
Date: 8 Oct 92 17:14:02 GMT
Organization: The Dark Side of the Moon +1 408 245 SPAM


   Doesn't seem dead over here.  I didn't even know it was dying to begin 
with.  <shrug>
From: sewon@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (WAYNE WONG)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Information about "Psycho" ...
Date: 8 Oct 92 22:55:00 GMT
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Hello.

I recently bought "Psycho" #1 which was put out by DC some time ago.  Does 
anyone have any information about this title?  Was it a miniseries or a 
series which has since been cancelled?  How many issues?

The book was published in prestige format and had some great painted art by 
Brereton.  The first issue takes place in an alternate reality where 
superpowered mutants are enlisted by different countries as "operatives" 
called Psychos.  The first issue deals with a non-powered human American
operative who feels inadequate and obsolete because of the great influx of 
Psychos.  He gets involoved with what seems to be some type of conspiracy 
(issue 1 doesn't spell everything out).  The top US Pyscho happens to be 
the president; he's had a major impact on the "history" of this alternate 
reality.  The story was very intriguing; I would recommend it.

Any information would be appreciated,
 - Wayne.
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    W                     O                      N                     G
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                                                SEWON@LIMS01.LERC.NASA.GOV
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From: kogutt@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (SCAVENGER)
Subject: Re: Image gets competition?
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 23:16:37 GMT

In article <1992Oct15.050626.26445@sol.UVic.CA> jcowling@ophelia.UVic.CA (Scowling Jim Cowling) writes:
>From Comics Journal # 153 (reprinted without permission):
>
>	Sources close to [The Comics Journal] have confirmed recent rumours
>	of a new creators' imprint called _Dinosaur_, whose founding members
>	include Frank Miller, Walt Simonson, John Byrne, Art Adams, and
>	Geoffrey Darrow.  The core group of five has also sounded out other
>	creators, including Alan Moore, Mike Mignola and Chris Claremont,
>	about joining the group.

Another example of Life imitating art.  We r.a.c.ers came up with a company 
involving many of these people last year.  We just called it SUBSTANCE.


----SCAVENGER

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From: cwelsh@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Craig Welsh  )
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: CYBER FORCE #1
Date: 16 Oct 92 18:13:21 GMT
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland

A couple of words about Cyberforce. The art was quite nice and say what
you will about Image, they use one damn good color process on their
titles. Best art of seen of Silverstri (sp?). Noticable improvement from
his stuff on Wolverine and X-Men. The story was blah, but what else did
you expect.

However there were two other things that caught my eye. The first was
the list of people he thanks, including a lot at Marvel and Tom DeFalco.
This can either mean that he is crazy or that he is considerably more
grateful than some of the ex_Marvel artists out there.

But the thing that really caught my attention was on the lower panel,
page 1. There is a newspaper blowing near the ground. The headline reads
"Keown to start doing Pitt". The headline of the next article was "David
in Tears". Friendly poke or cheap shot? you be the judge.


*************************************************************************
* Craig Welsh                  *    "I'm a few bricks short of a       *
*                              *     load, but a full load always      *
* cwelsh@morgan.ucs.mun.ca     *     hurt my back."                    *
*                              *     "Crazy" - Barenaked Ladies        *
************************************************************************
* "Homeboy from Hell." Screw that. I'm the Waiter from Hell.           *
*  You figure out which is scarier.                                    *
************************************************************************
From: dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Justice League Quarterly #9
Date: 16 Oct 92 23:11:27 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

I want to know why JLQ is consistently good (more or less) while
JLE and JLA are...not.  Is this simply the benefit of having three
months instead of one to get each issue out the door?

-----
Dani Zweig
dani@netcom.com

   'T is with our judgements as our watches, none
   Go alike, yet each believes his own
		--Alexander Pope
From: solovay@netcom.com (Andrew Solovay)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Sandman #43: Transportation
Date: 11 Oct 92 20:20:30 GMT
Organization: International Irony League -- Death before smileys!

In article <YAMAUCHI.92Oct11125939@sartre.ces.cwru.edu> yamauchi@ces.cwru.edu (Brian Yamauchi) writes:
>Perhaps this has been answered in previous issues, but I was wondering
>why the Endless needed physical transportation in this issue.  Can't
>Dream simply materialize anywhere he chooses?

Well, at the end of #42, Dream says something about how its been
a while since he went abroad in the waking world. He's dropped
into the waking world lots of times since his escape from the
crystal sphere (to meet Constantine, fight Dr. Destiny, free Jed,
rescue Rose, meet Hob, etc., etc.). Thus, he must be talking
about actually spending time in the waking world, traveling from
one place to another by (fairly) conventional means, etc., as
opposed to just blinking from one place to another by taking a
shortcut through the Dreaming.  (The longest waking-hourney we've
seen Dream take before was that cab-ride to get back his pouch
of sand in issue #3.)

Now, *why* is he doing this? We don't know. (Leastwise I don't
*think* we know...) But since Neil called our attention to it, we
can assume it's significant.

-- AMS
-- 
Andrew M. Solovay       "Work is the curse of the drinking class."
solovay@netcom.com			--Wilde

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From: carterk@cgsvax.claremont.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Howarth Overload
Date: 12 Oct 92 00:06:03 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: The Claremont Graduate School

Has anyone (including MH himself) put together a complete Howarthography,
particularly one divided into his various cosmologies? I've gotten a lot of
the Bugtown stuff, but the references to this "Mad Empress" have got me
clueless.

If someone has a list of his work, could they post it?

Also, is it me, or is his stuff nigh-impossible to find in comic stores? If I
didn't order through mail, I'd never see most o' this stuff.

----
Douglass Barre - carterk@cgsvax.claremont.edu
From: c60b-3fe@web-3f.berkeley.edu (Coffee)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Sandman
Date: 9 Oct 1992 02:25:44 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: web-3f.berkeley.edu
Keywords: titles

In article <1992Oct8.122014.24483@csd.uwe.ac.uk> wj_wigna@csd.uwe.ac.uk (Ebeneezer Goode) writes:
>Could somebody please post the title of the collection of  the 3 short stories held in issues just before Brief Lives and their separate story titles, as I
>managed to miss all of these issues.

Sure.  The title of the series is called CONVERGENCE
There were three issues numbered #38-40
and were title as follows in that order:

The Hunt
Soft Places
The Parliament of Rooks (My first sandman. Awwwww :)

Happy Reading...

Coffee  --  c60b-3fe@web.berkeley.edu	mikebcg@ocf.berkeley.edu
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From: toriver@flipper.pvv.unit.no (Tor Iver Wilhelmsen)
Subject: Amber (Was:Re: SANDMAN: New Destruction! (SPOILER))
Keywords: gallery
Organization: ProgramVareVerkstedet - UNIT
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 15:39:38 GMT

Strange, but the more I read Amber...

1) The galleries: Each endless has the ability to contact, and visit the
realms of, the other endless. This mirrors in some respect the ability of
the Trumps of the Amber royal family. Here also, there were those who
could not be reached by the trumps (their father, and in the beginning,
Benedict) much like Destruction.

2) Internal strife: The endless compete between each other, create and
break alliances (though it's mostly the older three vs. the rest), much
like the Amberites, though not to the same degree.

Any other details that (sort of) match??

- Tor Wilhelmsen
-- 
"I'm a Derek, and Dereks don't run!" - Derek in 'Bad Taste'
toriver@pvv.unit.no
Standard disclaimer should apply to this, I guess...
"Reality is a poor escapism for people who cannot handle roleplaying" - Me
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
From: geigi@isis.sniap.mchp.sni.de (Martin Geigenberger)
Subject: Search for Comic-Pepe urgend !!!!
Organization: Siemens-Nixdorf AG, AP 712
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 13:08:34 GMT


Hello News-Friends,

i am searching for a Comic-Figur from 'Bugs Bunny' with the Name 'Pepe'.
Pepe is a Skunkanimal from the Comic Bugs-Bunny.
I need a picture from Pepe for my Girlfriend. She will tatoo's it.
Sorry, i am Germany, my English is not perfectly you, but i hope you
understand me. O.K. (:-)
I searching in more of Comic-Shop's for Pepe, but i not found.

When you have a picture from Pepe, please send it in News-Group :
alt.binaries.pictures.

Full Thanks in any time.

Geigenberger Martin




==============================================================================
Geigenberger Martin
Siemens-Nixdorf AG / 8000 Muenchen 83 / West-Germany

Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
From: mcollins@nyx.cs.du.edu (Killans - First And Last And Always)
Subject: Re: Comic Shop Question
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 14:00:24 GMT

In article <ceqWHQK00YV9A6G44M@andrew.cmu.edu> jbb9+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jason Michael Borlinghaus) writes:
>
>I've noticed a trend in a local comic store that I frequent, and I'd
>like to know whether this happening anywhere else. Everytime I go down
>to the shop to get my weekly dose of comics, I notice that the
>independents are slowly nudging D.C and Marvel comics off of the new
>issue rack, not that that's a necessarily bad thing. Has anyone noticed
>if their stores are buying less and less D.C. and Marvel titles with
>each passing week?
>
>----- Moose


(I've put this onto rec.arts.comics.misc - it was on r.a.c)

At my local comics shop, there used to be two racks of shelves - one for
direct sales comics (air-freighted into the UK within days of their US
release at a higher price) and one for distributed comics (shipped over a
couple of months after their US release and selling at cover price - mostly
DCs and some Marvels). Recently, the distributed comics were shoved together
onto 2 shelves and the rest of the rack given over to independants.

I guess the reason for this is that certain fanboyish indie comics (eg Image
Valiant and Dark Horse) along with licensed titles are getting very popular
and hence more numerous. Thankfully, this has also meant more space for the
classy indies too.

Mike
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
From: jogle@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Jim Ogle (Ks. Jim))
Subject: Re: Zoo Crew
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 12:57:41 GMT

In article <mumble> tpjg9663@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Tom Johnston) writes:

>silvers3@husc8.harvard.edu (Jolyon Silversmith) writes:

>>They were ignored in the Crisis (although there nay be a cameo somewhere);
>>the Official Crisis Index later indicated that Earth C and probably Earth
>>C-Minus were not really alternate Earths at all. Captain Carrot still
>         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>But... but... but they met Starro, the Starfish Conqueror!  And
>SuperMax, I mean, Superman!  They did exist.  They did, they did, they
>did!  The next thing you know, they'll be denying the existence of
>Ambush Bug!

The explanation was that Earth C is not a parallel Earth (like
Earth-2, Earth-X, etc) but is an alternate reality (like the Gemworld
and several other 'planes of existence') and as such was not drawn
into the Crisis, which only involved parallel Earths.

So everything still could have happened!

-- 
Kansas Jim (Jim Ogle, TORG guru)                               /|
jogle@aoc.nrao.edu (NRAO-VLBA, Socorro New Mexico)           o| |-
"I'd be apathetic if I cared."                              /|\\|
From: gwangung@carson.u.washington.edu (Roger Tang)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: PAD.  Is it really him?
Date: 12 Oct 92 23:34:57 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

Skip for those bored by infantile in-jokes.



In article <1992Oct12.173441.1@fnalo.fnal.gov> morrow@fnalo.fnal.gov (Elmo's Glue) writes:
>In article <1992Oct12.200112.23593@u.washington.edu>, gwangung@carson.u.washington.edu (Roger Tang) writes:
>> In article <1992Oct12.191005.4019@news2.cis.umn.edu> lsmith@milli.cs.umn.edu (Lance "Squiddie" Smith) writes:
>>>In article <1992Oct12.181519.17002@u.washington.edu> gwangung@carson.u.washington.edu (Roger Tang) writes:
>>>>In article <92cj02Mq25ob01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> branwen@cerebus.ccc.amdahl.com (Karen Williams) writes:
>>>>>In article <1992Oct9.164044.21836@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> lee@torrid.ogo.dec.com writes:
>>>>>>In article <70615@hydra.gatech.EDU>, jd53@prism.gatech.EDU (DE LA COVA,JORGE) writes:
>>>>>>~Is the PAD who posts to this newsgroup Peter David, of (recently)
>>>>>>~Hulk fame?
>>>>>>~I haven't been involved with the net long enough to know.
>>>>>>Yep.  It's him.
>>>>                              *************
>>>>>Shouldn't that be: Yep. It's  * H * I * M * 
>>>>>                              *************
>>>>>complete with a choir of angels singing in the background? :-) 
>>>>	Angels??
>>>He is dead you know.
>> 	Well, yeah. I'm just wondering if we got the right acommpaniasts...
>	Hey, that borders on blasphemy, buddy.  Remember, I'm one of the popes
>of the ex-Church of Peter David.  You don't want a Holy War on your hands.

	Pish and twaddle! Given that Gwang Gung is a minor to middling deity
(and not just on the net, either), I'm not worried a'tall....


-- 
Roger Tang, gwangung@u.washington.edu
Producer Emeritus, Asian Theatre at the UW
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
From: kogutt@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (SCAVENGER)
Subject: LSH: Earth goes boom---BAD
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 19:54:13 GMT

I just read that not only does the Earth blow up in LSH #38 (Which has been
known forever now) but it blows up because of TOXIC WASTE STORAGE.  Bad enough
K&T&M are destroying the place, but they're trying to do an enviromental story
while they're at it!!!

Also, It's been a while since I read it, but wasn't the whole deal in COSMIC
ODESSEY that if two of the planets were destroyed, then the universe would fall
apart?  Since one died in CO, doesn't that mean that when the Earth buys it, the
rest of the universe does as well?


-----SCAVENGER

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From: tyg@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Tom Galloway)
Subject: Re: Duo Damsel (Re: Send in the Clones)
Organization: Interleaf
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 00:06:15 GMT

In article <1992Oct14.205108.1@fnalo.fnal.gov> morrow@fnalo.fnal.gov (Elmo's Glue) writes:
>	I suspect that there is a pun lurking in here somewhere, but _I_ don't
>see it (unless it's canard=duck).  Dani?

Oui, oui.

"This kind of restaurant is the ideal place to learn the rules of dining
etiquette ("etiquette" itself is a French word, meaning "wrong fork")."
--Dave Barry
tyg   tyg@hq.ileaf.com
From: scott@nv10.uswnvg.com (Scott Eckelman)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Gender Character Contest
Date: 9 Oct 92 18:27:47 GMT
Organization: US West NewVector, Inc., Bellevue, WA

>
>Male *and* female character?
>
>Um....  Shade?
>
>[Insert Looney Toons theme here...]
Well, there's:

Svaughn/Sean   in LSH
Walter/Wanda   in AlphaFlight
Lobo/Bimbo     in Lobo's Back

that's all I can think of.
From: birmingh@fnalo.fnal.gov (Phillip J. Birmingham)
Subject: Re: Information about "Psycho" ...
Organization: Blackriver Recorporations, Inc.
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 05:16:28 GMT
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In article <8OCT199217555983@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov>, sewon@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (WAYNE WONG) writes:

> Hello.
> 
> I recently bought "Psycho" #1 which was put out by DC some time ago.  Does 
> anyone have any information about this title?  Was it a miniseries or a 
> series which has since been cancelled?  How many issues?

         "The Psycho" was a three-issue miniseries. I liked it, too,
    especially Brereton's art.  

         I have heard rumors that there (was | is) gonna be a second one,
    but I forget where I heard it, plus I may have heard wrong.

-- 
 Phillip J. Birmingham   birmingh@fnal.fnal.gov  
 I don't speak for Fermilab, although my mouth is probably big enough...