From: dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig)
Subject: Re: DC: misc stuff
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Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 02:28:32 GMT

jz1j+@andrew.cmu.edu (James D. Zelenka):
>Sandman: I've enjoyed this title a lot up to Brief Lives, and BL itself
>is pretty good but somehow doesn't seem quite up to the level of quality...

It's inconsistent.  Some parts, like "the people who remember Atlantis"
and the chat with the girl on the airplane, have been superb, but it
keeps bogging down.

>Hellblazer: this is one of my favorite DC titles. It's consistently very good

It's inconsistent.  Royal Blood was a major disappointment, as were Ennis's
other attempts at blood-and-gore, such as that silly laundromat story.  But
"Dangerous Habits" was the best this title's ever been.

>Flash: When Messner-Loebs left, I was depressed, because I really enjoyed
>his run. Mark Waid, however, has done an excellent job in his own right.

I was worried that Waid would forget about the supporting cast, but he's
been good about that.  As for Barry's return, there are a few good
ways this could go (eg, he's from the past, and he *really* doesn't want
to go back, now that he knows he's slated to die), and a large number of
wretched ones (eg, he's a Skrull Probe based on Lobo's DNA).  We'll hope.

>LSH: I like a lot of Giffen's stuff, but judging from how this title has
>improved since he's left, he was dragging it down.

General agreement.  I don't really understand why T&M have gotten all
the vituperation although Giffen was the plotter.

>The most recent issue wasn't quite up to snuff, though. Maybe it's because 
>the old-legion-meets-young-legion was just too corny for me.

It was the sort of thing that would appeal to fans.  (It appealed to
me.  I'd have liked to see an entire issue devoted to that meeting.)

>Wonder Woman: ...The Space Pirate
>storyline is one of the most abysmal in a looong time, and I hope it's
>not a harbinger of things to come in this title (but, unfortunately, it
>seems to be, since M-L is writing a more "action-oriented" WW).

I think it is a harbinger, judging by the letters page.  The impression
I got was that the people reading those letters don't so much disagree
with the complaints, so much as just not understand them.

>Heckler: At first, I was a little uneasy with the title because it
>seemed to lack that maniacal feel that Ambush Bug and JLA had under
>Giffen, and I was worried that he couldn't maintain the hilarity...

It's been getting better from issue to issue.  A surprise, considering
how unpromising the premise appears at first blush.

>Green Lantern: It's taken me a while to notice, but I think it's been
>getting steadily worse since somewhere in the mid-teens.

I finally noticed with issue #25, and dropped the title with #30.
This title started so well.  The breaking of three interlocking
storylines into three separate titles certainly hurt this title.
The main problem, though, is that starting at the point at which
Hal returned to Earth, they started portraying him as a real shit.

>Green Lantern Mosaic: I think the book aspires to more than it is. 

Cancelled. :)

>Swamp Thing: ...Maybe it's just that I really
>really hate Collins' writing. Or something.

It's Collins.  The Moore run was superb, and the problem with the
you-can't-expect-other-writers-to-live-up-to-Moore argument is that
Veitch and Wheeler did reasonably well.  Collins simply can't write
comics.  She's produced a small number of good individual issues
(eg the Lady Jane issue, which had nothing to do with the Swamp Thing
story), but has been unable to control a continuing story.

>Stanley and His Monster: <snicker>. I like Foglio.

It's good stuff, as was his Angel and the Ape retcon.  I'm looking
forward to seeing what he does with the Inferior Five.

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