From: mre@kepler.unh.edu (Santa MikE)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: State of the Image
Date: 12 Dec 1992 21:33:17 GMT
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[I'm posting this for a friend of mine, Chris W Hope, art2cwh@cabell.vcu.edu,
who's school will not allow the students to post to the newsgroups.  All E-
mail replies should be sent to him and not me. --MikE]

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From: Chris W. Hope <art2cwh@cabell.vcu.edu>
Message-Id: <9212110314.AA26091@cabell.vcu.edu>
Subject: Re: Image splitup
To: MikE@unh.edu (Santa MikE)

Hello Mike
     I just waited an hour to get onto the computers and needless to
say I am a bit pissed.  Anyways I had lots o' mail so now I am happy.
Well despite your plugs I won't be reading Savavge Dragon.  I read
the first issue and totally didn't like it.  I had read that Eric
Larsen had spent the last twenty years or so brewing this comic
together and with Image he finnaly had the chance to get it out.
Well after reading this article i expected something fresh, exciting,
and new that might stick out of the stagnant norm of todays super
hero comics.  Well I was VERY dissapointed.  To me ( and i stress
this....  just my opioions ) this comic was merely a months work of
below par art ( I have never been a fan of Larsen's art anyways
though ) and rushed writing.  And the tie in with Spawn and
Youngblood..... I know that this was not in Larsens head twenty
years ago.  This is merely a plug to help boost sales.  Anyways these
are just my thoughts so they can't count for much.  Don't hate me ;)
at least i tried it.  
     Concerning Todd McFarlane: It wouldn't surprise me at all if he
left.  He is cocky, and ignorant, enough to do it.  I have to E-mail
you some of his interview with Gary Groth.  This was in the Comics
Journal a couple a months ago.  Todd mcFarlane admits that he doesn't
read any comics or any books;  he says the only thing he needs ," is
my boxscores."  How does this guy expect to be a compitent writer
when he doesn't explore the best that comics have to offer.  At least
he understands WHO is setting the standards in comics today ny
getting Moore, Gaiman, Sim ( I wonder if he has even read an issue of
Cerebus ), and Miller.  It is ironic that he would choose some of the
top names whose talent cuts Spawn down to the pathetic, shabbily
written book that it is. What Todd McFarlane does in many lines( this
goes foe most of the other "hot artists" too ) Simm and Miller can do
in one EXPRESSIVE pen line.
     Well I sure went on tonight didn't I.  Hope I didn't piss you
off.... and I didn't mean to....  I just thought I would let you know
how I feel about a few particular things inthe comics world today.
write me back cause I AM very intrested in what you have to say.  I
respect your opinion deeply cause I know your not buying ten copies
of a book, sticking them in bags, and not reading them.  You read
your comics and thats what counts.  Talk to you later
                                   Chris

-- 
********************************************************************************[][][]  []  []  [][][]  []         " Ouick to judge, quick to anger
[]      []  []  []      []           slow to understand.
[]      []  []  [][][]  [][][]       Ignorance, and prejudice, and fear
[]      []  []      []  []  []       walk hand in hand. "   Neil
[]      [][][]  [][][]  []  []     Chris Hope  art2cwh@cabell.vcu.edu
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