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From: dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: LSH #33
Date: 25 Jul 92 06:05:51 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

This wasn't a very good issue.  Finally "The Terra Mosaic" builds up
some momentum...and it's again stopped cold, this time to give us 
another episode of "How in the world did Reep ever get to be the head
of the Espionage Squad?"

The 'Legionnaires' section of the comic was better, largely because
it was about characters who are part of the continuing story.  Excellent
bit of dialogue at the bottom of page 22, making it clear that the young
Garth is no Protean.  And we are introduced, quickly and unsubtly, to
the *new* Legionnaires.  (Was Imra reading Danielle's mind, or did she
just assumed that anyone named Foccart must naturally be related to Jacques?
It's not as though Danielle was born yet at the time of Imra's last memories.)

Oh well, the next four or five issues are supposed to stay on topic.

"How can ya side with a skunk like the Hunter against the people
 yer supposed to be servin'?"

"Budget directive 48:122 superceding general order 4.  Law Corps must
 achieve self-sufficiency."

"Self-sufficiency?  As in money?  He *bribed* you?  He bribed a robot?"

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

  The surface of the strange, forbidden planet was roughly textured and green,
  much like cottage cheese gets way after the date on the lid says it is all 
  right to buy it.--Scott Jones
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From: ken@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Ken Primer)
Subject: opinions sought on Ramna1/2
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 04:18:28 GMT
Keywords: non manga fans please

    I would like to know peoples opinions of the comic Ramna1/2 by Viz comics.
This question is aimed at those who are not big fans of manga or anime.

-- 
  RUMORS OF MY DEMISE ARE IN FACT...
ARE NOT EXAGGERATED! I AM IN FACT DEAD.        ken@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu

                        <<FNORD>> 
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From: dvandom@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (David VanDomelen)
Subject: Jewish Superheroes
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 02:47:26 GMT

Ah! The mention of Judah Maccabee reminded me of one other hero.  Judah 
Maccabee of Nexus started off his adult life studying for the rabbinate (is 
that the right word?), but since he was an alien he was denied the position.  
He then became a mercenary warrior (what he had started to do before converting
to the Jewish faith) of a heroic sort.  Later on (in the First special "The 
Gift") the prophet Elijah showed up at Judah's Channukah (I suspect I
misspelled that) dinner to deliver a very important message, and as an aside
informed Judah that the Interstellar Web Rabbis had rescinded their earlier 
prohibition and he could become a Rabbi if he desired.  However, he declined, 
saying he had found his true purpose.  I can't recall if Nexus was of the 
Jewish faith or if he was just there because Judah was his friend.
     Dave Van Domelen, hoping he didn't accidentally blaspheme
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From: dml@athena.mit.edu (David M LaMacchia)
Subject: More Sam & Max
Keywords: Sam Max Mack Salmon Twisty Bent Steve Purcell
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 19:47:24 GMT

A friend of mine was ruffling through a free copy of something called
the "Marvellizer" a week ago which said the $4.95 collection + new story
of Sam & Max material was coming out this week.  Anybody seen it lying around?

--dave 
"Max, your head is a series of twisty, turney passages, all
alike!" -- not really a quote, but sounds like one



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From: perry@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Perry Staltari)
Subject: Re: Green Lantern Stuff
Organization: University of Western Australia
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 04:22:48 GMT

s1082919@giaec.cc.monash.edu.au (T Hankinson is YODA) writes:

>  I'd just like to say that I am so glad Hal is Green Lantern of Earth and
>  that he beat Guy Gardner at his own game.

>                                             Just a Hal fan

>                                                             Templar

	Personally I didn't think much of Gardner before, but Guy has a
lot more guts and character than Hal(the greeny) will ever have.

	Just a LOBO fan.

	Perry.

--
-----------------------------------------------------------
Perry Staltari		          	| Things aren't always as bad
perry@tartarus.uwa.edu.au       | as they seem. They're worse.
University of Western Australia | "Use the force Luke."      
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From: mss2@quads.uchicago.edu (Michael S. Schiffer)
Subject: Re: LSH #33
Reply-To: mss2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 15:54:23 GMT

In article <1992Jul27.085627.1891@wkuvx1.bitnet> charyma@wkuvx1.bitnet writes:

>> 	Except that if this is the original Lightning Lad's personality,
>> how is it that he has Proty/Garth's memories from between the "resurr-
>> ection" and the Universo story? Up till now I was putting down the
>> inconsistencies to "comic book science", but this makes my brain hurt.

>This was explained to me by Mary Bierbaum at Chicago.  The memories were
>given to the SW6 batch in a separate process from the cloning.  The concept
>is probably similar to Larry Niven's  _World Out of Time_.

Actually, it's probably not nearly as well thought out as Larry
Niven's _A World Out of Time_, betting the odds.  For example, _why_
would the Dominators give the clones the original Legionnaires'
memories if they didn't have to?  (And that answer suggests they
don't, since they've put the memories of one being, Proty/Garth, into
another, a clone of the original Garth.)  Why not use the memories of
fanatically loyal Dominator soldiers?  Or non-fanatics who are trusted
by the Dominator high caste?  (If they don't think they can trust such
folks in the clone's bodies, one wonders why they'd think they could
control teenagers with the original Legionnaires' personalities, given
the record.)  They spoke of a "mindwipe" technique which would allow
them to wipe memories while keeping skills, but why bother with
anything so dangerous?  These kids have maybe four years experience
with trial and error tactics.  Put in Dominator minds and give them a
competent tactician to train them-- _especially_ the Daxamites, who
are a _bit_ dangerous if the mindwipe technique fails, and don't
really need brilliant tactical insights to be militarily useful.  But
then, the Dominators have only been mulling this plan for fifteen
years-- it's really too much to ask that they be able to think up what
I did in five minutes at my terminal, I suppose.

Mike
-- 
Michael S. Schiffer, LHN, FCS	"Workers of the world, forgive me.
mss2@midway.uchicago.edu	 You had more to lose than I thought."
mike.schiffer@um.cc.umich.edu	 -- Karl Marx (1990) as imagined by
mss2@usite-next.uchicago.edu     Jim Koncz (konc@midway.uchicago.edu)
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From: jogle@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Jim Ogle (Ks. Jim))
Subject: Re: Blue Devil & Showcase (was Re: Crisis on Inf)
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 05:38:13 GMT

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

>Now then, what's all this about a book called Showcase '93?

It was mentioned in that editorial page thing you find at the back of
most DC books these days; basically it is going to be a place for
characters who probably cannot support a book themselves to be
featured (Marvel has something similar but I'm blanking on the name
right now).  The name is from the original Showcase title, which ran
back in the 70's I believe (that's what I get for just skimming the
editorial page 'thing' 8-).

Blue Devil was mentioned as one of the characters that would be
appearing in Showcase; the only other ones I can remember (damn memory
is really shot this week!) are Jade and Obsidian.




-- 
Kansas Jim (Jim Ogle, TORG guru)
jogle@aoc.nrao.edu (NRAO-VLBA, Socorro New Mexico)
"I'd be apathetic if I cared."

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From: morrow@fnalo.fnal.gov (Jor-Elmo)
Subject: MISC: Of Squids and Computers
Organization: Lara's Kandorian Take-Out
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 04:27:12 GMT
X-Posted-From: fnalo.fnal.gov
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

	It occurs to me upon Suicide Squid's appearance in the favorite
character list of the CBG fan awards, that someone from this group should
probably submit an explanatory article to CBG.  Choice bits of the SS archive
could be included, maybe a description of the net, the various mailing lists,
etc., a plug for the Annotated Sandman :-), and so forth.
	I'd do it, but I fear I lack the historical perspective required.
-- 
"I'd like to interject a comment here: eeeeeekkkkkkkkk.  That's it." 
--Hatchetman

elmo (morrow@fnal.fnal.gov,morrow@physics.rice.edu)
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From: dvandom@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (David VanDomelen)
Subject: Megaton Man Rip-off in FF!
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 01:28:34 GMT

In Yarn Man #1 (Megaton Man spin-off), Yarn Man (Thing parody) and Bulky Guy 
(Hulk parody) duke it out on one of those hockey table things.  And in the 
recent FF, Thing and Hulk do the same!  When DeFoolco has to steal ideas from a
comic dedicated to the downfall of Comics As We Know It (trust me, Simpson's 
parodic pen has a lethal tip), we know things are going up the spout!
     Dave Van Domelen, by this time my lungs were aching for air
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From: vanyel@camelot.bradley.edu (Alan Williams)
Subject: Re: Wonder Woman #66
Organization: Bradley University
Distribution: usa
Date: 23 Jul 92 21:42:43 GMT

Well, some of us out here liked it. . . .

--

 ________________ Alan Williams  vanyel@camelot.bradley.edu ___________________
 \/ A hypothetical paradox: What would happen in a battle between an         \/
    _Enterprise_ security team, who always get killed soon after appearing,
    and a squad of Imperial Stormtroopers, who can't hit the broad side of
    a planet?                 	--Tom Galloway
From: jrp3935@tamsun.tamu.edu (Jonny Ray Purvis)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: MISC: CBG Awards results
Date: 28 Jul 92 20:43:22 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station

I'm only gonna say this once.  I ain't got no saved copies, so make
a printout now!

Favorite Painter

254 Simon Bisley
86 Joe Jusko
77 Dave McKean
51 Dave Dorman
44 John Bolton
34 Charles Vess
32 Brian Stelfreeze
23 Nelson DeCastro
21 Mike Okamoto
20 Bill Sienkiewica [sic] and I'm not gonna even try :-)


Favorite Letterer

246 Tom Orzechowski
157 Todd Klein
98 Rick Parker
79 John Costanza
50 Janice Chiang
47 Joe Rosen
44 John Workman
42 Bill Yoshida
36 Chris Eliopoulos
29 Stan Sakai


Favorite Cover Artist

228 Jim Lee
109 Simon Bisley
109 Todd McFarlane
103 Brian Bolland
72 George Perez
70 Dave McKean
58 Sam Keith
54 Rob Leifeld
37 Kevin Maguire
36 Barry Windsor Smith


Favorite Limited Comic Book Series

334 Infinity Gauntlet
82 Batman vs Predator
56 Books of Magic
38 Concrete: Fragile Creature
36 Ragman
32 The Adventures of Captain America
28 Robin II: The Joker's Wild
27 Robin
25 OMAC
22 Black Canary


Favorite Original Graphic Novel or Album

168 Batman/Judge Dredd
110 Batman and Dracula
69 Hearts of Darkness
62 Batman: Holy Terror
49 John Byrne's 2112
29 Avengers: Death Trap The Vault
29 Wolverine: Rahne of Terra
21 Elektra Lives Again
17 Maus II
15 Punisher: Blood on the Moors


Favorite Reprint Graphic Novel or Album

59 Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes
32 Crossover Classics
32 Incredible Hulk: Ground Zero
24 Batman Archives, vol 2
24 Lobo: The Last Czarnian
22 Maus II
20 Ghost Rider: Resurrected
20 Robin: A Hero Reborn
19 Animal Man
19 Spider Man vs Venom

Favorite Publication

341 Wizard
253 Comic Shop News
107 Advance Comics
86 Amazing Heroes
83 Marvel Age
77 Comicscene
44 Overstreet Price Guide
42 Previews
31 The Comics Journal
29 Westfield Newsletter

And now, back to my regularly scheduled life!

Jon Purvis
jrp3935@tamsun.tamu.edu
Organization: Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 19:01:43 -0400 
From: "David M. Pahnos" <dp0q+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Character Aging (was Re: Marvel Continuity)
	<1992Jul29.193210.20088@midway.uchicago.edu>

Excerpts from netnews.rec.arts.comics: 29-Jul-92 Character Aging (was
Re: Ma.. Michael S. Schiffer@quad (5505)

>  (One of these
> days, Superman is going to be younger than the New Titans.  Infinity,
> Inc. is either forty-something or are very much the children of the
> JSA's old age-- there aren't many people under thirty who are the
> children of WWII veterans.  And so on.  Which means each retelling of
> a story will have to change the names of the players, IMHO defeating
> the purpose of having such a unitary universe in the first place.)

Well, I think it has been shown just how LATE each of the parents had
the kids in all of the instances.  I also look at Infinity Inc as being
older than the Titans at this point.  You have the Titans at college age
and the Incers as being the twentysomethings. (like 23-27 at the most).


michael j pastor iii
guest on davids account
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From: jjonsson@alexandria.lib.utah.edu
Subject: Re: Just wondering...
Organization: Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:00:48 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.213359.169900@zeus.calpoly.edu> mdturner@riker.acs.calpoly.edu (M Turner) writes:

>sta2534@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes
>> OK, I got a question here:
>> 
>> If Superman fought Dr Manhattan (the blue guy in Watchmen),
>> Who would win?
>> 
>> I imagine Manhattan would kick his ass.

>yes i agree 

This thread reminds me of a guy named Bruce Grubber who used to frequent a 
computer lab I did. He would talk at anyone there whom he had seen in the 
local comics shop. In a rather loud and frenzied voice, the topic would 
usually be something really, really, *really* stupid. The classic was one 
time he asked a buddy of mine and I who would win in a fight, Superman, or 
Winnowill from Elfquest. Our reaction was rather polite considering we were 
both thinking: "Who gives a f***!?!?"

But I guess Manhattan would just turn him into dust or something. ;-)

Jeff Jonsson
Marriott Library System Support, University of Utah.
==============================================================================
--"It's the sound of the secret--  jjonsson@alexandria.lib.utah.edu
-- machinery at the center of  --  jjonsson@utahlib.bitnet
-- the world." -Cliff Steele   --  "You talkin' to me?"
Organization: Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 18:28:48 -0400 
From: "David M. Pahnos" <dp0q+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Lexor
	<YeRlcU600VB_AL92Y3@andrew.cmu.edu>

Does anyone have the issue where Superman and the pre-crisis lex luthor
went a red-sun planet to fight (so supes would be powerless)?  Lex ended
up saving the populace and the renamed it Lexor in honor of him (then he
got the green supersuit, was married and had a kid).  Lex saved them
from a menace called the Rainbow Crystals I believe..

if so, can you please email me a detailed summary of that issue?  There
might be something of interest in there for a story I'm writing.


michael j pastor iii
guest on davids account
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From: mcollins@nyx.cs.du.edu (Killans - First And Last And Always)
Subject: Re: SANDMAN: Annotation 33
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: Tue, 21 Jul 92 14:12:18 GMT


Thanks for the Annotations, as always!

'Cotton wool' is a kind of soft white fluffy stuff which is commonly used for
delicately cleaning things (eg babies). I presume it's called somthing 
different in the US.

Mike
From: mfterman@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Mutant for Hire)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Doom Patrol: Where was the Chief?
Date: 27 Jul 92 22:15:50 GMT
Reply-To: mfterman@phoenix.princeton.edu (Mutant for Hire)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Mutant for Hire, Inc.

In article <1992Jul27.220120.26636@uwm.edu>, ultron@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Andrew H Krieg) writes:
>Where did they finally find the Chief?  How did he survive the explosion of
>the island?  What was he up to the last 2 years?

He appears out of nowhere, claiming that he was working in secret
elsewhere. He used a force field on his wheelchair to survive the
explosion. He's been very closemouthed about what he was up to, though
that lecture to Robotman gives some hints.

>How did Scott and Celsius die?

The meta-gene bomb killed off Scott. Celsius died during Invasion itself.

>Are any of the issues in the gap of #10-#18 worth picking up?

Not especially.

-- 
  Martin Terman, Mutant for Hire, Mad Scientist, Priest of Shub-Internet
mfterman@phoenix.princeton.edu mfterman@pucc.bitnet terman@pupgga.princeton.edu
"The parts of the universe I don't control are stomping all over the parts of
  me that control the parts of the universe I do control." - Martin Terman
Xref: sparky rec.arts.comics.misc:321 alt.fan.suicide-squid:22
From: lewandow@floss.cs.wisc.edu (Gary Lewandowski [TSoD])
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc,alt.fan.suicide-squid
Subject: Re: SQUID: Crisis on infinite Storylines (was Re: Huh?)
Date: 21 Jul 92 15:59:40 GMT
Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept

In <1992Jul19.184204.16308@spool.cs.wisc.edu> rawdon@cabrales.cs.wisc.edu (Michael Rawdon) writes:
>In <1992Jul19.161731.13161@spool.cs.wisc.edu> lewandow@floss.cs.wisc.edu (Gary Lewandowski [TSoD]) writes:
>>On the other hand, Tom Galloway reports
>>>left the book to go to Peter David's new line Substance Comics, Squiddy 
>>>encounters teal radioactive kelp and is changed into a Slug of Doom. Given

>...with debilitating effects on his frisbee arm...

I figured I'd wait to respond to this until after we played Ultimate
on Monday, so I could comment on the ability of a Slug to run Michael
into the ground.

But he outsmarted me and played on my team.

Ob comics:  on the plus side of becoming a Slug of Doom, the former
Suicide Squid will now have some amazing powers involving dental floss.
I expect this will become evident next issue.

-- 
Gary Lewandowski             gary@cs.wisc.edu              Theory Slug of Doom
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math,
that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.
	-- Kurt Vonnegut, _Hocus Pocus_
From: dp0q+@andrew.cmu.edu (David M. Pahnos)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: LSH #33
Date: 27 Jul 92 21:31:56 GMT
	<1992Jul27.054849.27395@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
Organization: Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

>You can _always_ think of fixes for this sort of mistake, but at some point
>the fixes to fixes to fixes to...  get worse than the original problem.  The
>proper way to fix it is to not make Garth Proty in the first place.


Why not?  Of all the retcons the Bierbaums have done so far, this is the
one that I like the most (besides the miniretcon of Carggg..just
emphasizes a characteristic of the culture). .  It makes sense to me
that Garth is Proty.  Garth DIED.  We saw the body, lifeless. The soul
supposedly departs the dead body.  Proty died in a 'resurrection'
ritual.  Garth rose.  It fits.  If anything, give them credit for a
wonderful twist on he's dead but he isnt really dead storyline.


michael j pastor iii
guest on davids account
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From: jogle@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Jim Ogle (Ks. Jim))
Subject: Re: Metropolis/Gotham/NYC 
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 03:25:14 GMT

In article <mumble> caw@gtech.com (Christopher A. White) writes:

>Color me lost, but, I thought that according to the maps, et al in the DC 
>Heros game, Gotham was actually Rhode Island.
>
>Correct me am I wrong

I don't remember any maps in the DC Heroes boxed set showing where
places were so I'm only going off of the maps in the Atlas of the DC
Universe, but the New England map clearly shows Gotham in New Jersey.
The only thing in Rhode Island is Happy Harbor (home of the Secret
Sanctuary and Snapper Carr).

Because I happened to bring the Atlas with me I'll list the locations
of where Mayfair has placed the DC cities (DC Comics has told Mayfair
that the maps are definitely not canon, even though DC did approve
them before publication).

Go ahead and hit 'n' if you don't want to bother with a long list....

	Ivy Town (Ray "Atom" Palmer) - Connecticut, on the mouth of
the Housatonic River.  Calvin City is just across the river to the
west (home of Al "Atom" Pratt).
	Happy Harbor - Rhode Island.
	Gotham City - New Jersey.
	Metropolis - Delaware.
	Star City (Green Arrow & Black Canary) - north of San
Francisco, CA.
	Coast City (Green Lantern?) - across the bay from San
Francisco & Oakland near Sausalito.
	Challengers Mountain - somewhere near Aspen, CO.
	Smallville - near Russell, Kansas (based on interstates
mentioned in text description)
	Central/Keystone City (Barry "Flash" Allen & Jay "Flash"
Garrick) - northeastern corner of Kansas.
	Hub City (Question) - Illinois 
	Midway City (Doom Patrol) - northern tip of Michigan on the
North Channel.
	Tritonis/Poseidonis - northern Atlantic ocean south of
Greenland.  
	Bialya (country last seen in JL* books) - western coast of
what is Syria on our maps, except for a section just north of Lebanon.
	Diablo Island (Eclipso) - Caribbean Sea, about 110 miles SE of
Dominican Republic.
	Gorilla City - central Africa (somewhere in the Central
African Republic probably).
	Markovia (Geo-Force) - between Switzerland and Italy.
	Modora (Sonar) - right where Czechoslavakia, Poland, and
(East) Germany met.
	Qurac (Suicide Squad mostly) - most of the southern coastline
of the Persian Gulf, including Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and most of the
United Arab Emirates.
	Vlatava (Count Vertigo) - right where Yugoslavia, Romania, and
Bulgaria met.
-- 
Kansas Jim (Jim Ogle, TORG guru)
jogle@aoc.nrao.edu (NRAO-VLBA, Socorro New Mexico)
"I'd be apathetic if I cared."
From: mamcconnell@happy.colorado.edu) (Mark (MacBear) McConnell)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: CBG Awards!
Date: 28 Jul 92 05:27:47 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder

In article <lis.712286848@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>, lis@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Elisabeth Riba) writes:
> Just a quick note--the new issue of CBG features the annual awards,
> and Suicide Squid did get ten votes for best character!
> 
> Just thought I'd share the news...
> 

Yes!  Finally, I can see where my vote counts.  1/10 of his position!
We made the list.  Now maybe they'll believe us when we talk of
The (now amorphized) Squidster

-- 
Mark (Sidewinder) McConnell  | I think we have more machinery of government
mamcconnell@uccs.edu         | than is necessary, too many parasites living
mamcconne@colospgs.BITnet    | on the labor of the industrious - Jefferson
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From: tnrogers@mtu.edu (Rogers)
Subject: Kryptonian Powers
Keywords: Krypton, Kryptonian, Daxam, Daxamite, Superman, Mon-El, Kal-El
Organization: Michigan Technological University
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 00:21:42 GMT

WANTED: a good, solid physics-based explanation of Kryptonian and Daxamite
        abilities.  How does yellow sun radiation charge 'em up?
        Are they photoelectric?  Do/did they originally draw energy from
        a red sun environment?

I feel a real weakness of the post-Crisis Superman is the lack of a good
explanation for his powers.  Hey, I know this is comics, but I gotta at
least TRY to believe, right?  Oh yeah... how do Kryptonite (or lead in the
case of Daxamites) fit into the explanation? 

Thanks in adavnce for any replies.

tony rogers