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From: lsmith@deci.cs.umn.edu (Lance "Squiddie" Smith)
Subject: SANDMAN: Sphinges and Second Thoughts
Summary: calamari is a very important part of your daily breakfast
Organization: Little Squids of the Nerds
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 06:32:45 GMT


Some minor spoilers about Sandman #46


While trying to get the FAO Schwartz jingle (Welcome to our world of
toys and all that) out of my head, I looked through Michael Page's
_Encyclopedia of things that never were_. It's sorta a coffee table
book of folklore and weird stuff with nice pictures. Page embellishes
some, but the book is fun and it has a long bibliography of pop sources.

Anyway under Sphinx, there's nice picture of a sphinx with really big
lion hind paws, hawk wings and a Grace Jones haircut. Page describes middle-
eastern sphinges (not to be confused with the more famous Oedipal Sphinx
who made a practice out of eating Thebans) as knowing much and telling 
little. They sit in the glow of adoration and respect, being asked 
questions, and speaking rarely. 

Since Dream and Delirium are off to speak to the Sphinx (that really 
shouldn't be capitalized, should it?) I have this image of Dream asking
the Sphinx a series of questions and getting nowhere. And Del asking
some puzzling questions that so confuse the Sphinx that he/she spits 
out what Dream wanted to know.

It will be completely different of course, my speculations are invariably
wrong, but it's an entertaining image.

Looking way back into issue #43, I'm curious about the sequence with Etain 
escaping the gas explosion. It seems that she does things before she even 
knows what is going on. While this might just be a cloudy memory of the 
sequence of events, another possibility is that someone got her out of there. 
We've seen how Delirium was able to enter the brain of Tiffany, perhaps 
another member of the family entered Etain long enough to get her out of the
apartment.

Coming soon, the complete list of eye references in Brief Lives, reserve
your copy today!

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From: mss2@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Michael S. Schiffer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Top Ten DC Slogans
Date: 19 Dec 92 03:10:30 GMT
Reply-To: mss2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

If you were reading DC comics in the early eighties, or have acquired
back issues from that era, you may recall that during one of their
occasional attempts at revitalization (this was pre-Crisis, so the
only people at DC who have any memory of these events are Jenette Kahn
and the Psycho-Pirate) DC began plastering the catchy slogan
"The New DC: There's No Stopping Us Now" on various and sundry comics.
This, of course, was so successful that within a few years they
began eliminating virtually all of those comics from the continuity, a
process which seems to be about complete.  Unlike their more recent
attempts at revitalization, these often had actual plots and decent
stories and such, but were woefully bereft of such modern advantages
as plastic bags, holograms, or moving covers.

Now that DC is again changing direction (much as the sun changes
direction every day around noon) I felt that they should have a new
slogan.  Here are ten possible candidates, which DC is free to use if
they wish with my compliments-- and if they keep up current trends,
within a few years those may be the only compliments they get from me:

1.  The New DC: Can't _Anybody_ Stop Us?"
2.  The New DC: It's A Cry For Help
3.  The New DC: We Figured, "Hey, Why Not?"
4.  The New DC: Because You Can't Spell "Disappointing Crap" Without DC!
5.  The New DC: Stop Us Before We Plot Again!
6.  The New DC: A Mandate For Change
7.  The New DC: 40's Continuity, 60's Plotting, 90's Marketing
8.  The New DC: Reminding Gaiman Why He Kept Creative Control
9.  The New DC: Next Month -- Dark Phoenix!!
10. The New DC: Just Cause We _Can_

Mike
-- 
Michael S. Schiffer, LHN, FCS	"Indeed I tremble for my country
mss2@midway.uchicago.edu	 when I reflect that God is just."
mike.schiffer@um.cc.umich.edu	 -- Thomas Jefferson, Notes on
mschiffer@aal.itd.umich.edu	    Virginia (1784)
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From: sewon@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (WAYNE WONG)
Subject: Re: Stan Lee
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Distribution: na
Date: 19 Dec 1992 02:56 EST  

>>should come clear.
> 
>Stan Lee owns between 10-15% of Marvel Entertainment Group.  He is *not* the
>a share (you can do the math).  Stan Lee *is* the head of a subsidary company 
>of MEG - Marvel Comics Publishing.  Stan runs Marvel Comics.  The other groups
>in MEG are ones for licensing, marketing, etc.  The guy who owns MEG also is
>the chairman of the board for several other big companies - I can't remember
>offhand their names, but if somebody REALLY REALLY cares, I'll just che

The majority shareholder of MEG is Ron Pearlman (not the actor from Beauty 
and The Beast).  Besides Marvel, he also owns Revlon, and an engine 
manufacturing company, among other things.  Hmmm.. must be nice!

 - Wayne.
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From: rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu (Michael Rawdon)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Grendel War Child is boring
Date: 16 Dec 92 23:31:16 GMT
Reply-To: rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu
Organization: University of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Dept., Madison, WI

In <1992Dec16.123619.1@skcla.monsanto.com> jjfink@skcla.monsanto.com writes:
>2) There's a lot going on, it's just not obvious.  A few things I've noticed:
>   a) There's a number of grendels out there that APPROVE of this kidnapping.
>      (most recently the african 'tribesman')
>   b) There's a lot more to this Grendel than meets the eye.  Initially he
>      looked merely quite tough, but there's a few hints in the latest issue
>      that he must be something more:  Someone says he must have one heck of
>      a power source to cross the ocean... several pages earlier he unplugs
>      the bike from his boot.  The bike plugged into the boot, not the other
>      way 'round.

Plus, he drove off a gorilla with one punch after being hit in the chest and
knocked several meters, and then beaten on by it for several seconds.  And
then got up and drove away.  That's some sort of resilience.

I wonder if he's a vampire?  Nah, that doesn't seem very plausible.

-- 
Michael Rawdon				  rawdon@colby.cs.wisc.edu
University of Wisconsin Computer Sciences Department,  Madison, WI
( Coming soon to a Massachusetts near you! )

"So if you ask me how do I feel inside, I could honestly tell you we've
 been taken on a very long ride."
					- Marillion, "That Time Of The Night"
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From: Montague_Kevin@Tandem.com (Kevvy Kev)
Subject: Re: Flash 73:  SPOILERS!!!
Followup-To: rec.arts.comics.misc
Organization: In Effect Enterprises
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 18:16:19 GMT

In article <1992Dec18.000231.7096@midway.uchicago.edu>,
mss2@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Michael S. Schiffer) wrote:

[snip, attributions and such]

> >1) How is he "fated to die."  He already died in the Crisis, so what's the
> >   justification here?  
> 
> 	The theory being proposed here is based on the fact that the
> late events of Barry Allen's life involved his travelling to the 30th
> century, staying there for a while, then being picked up by the
> Anti-Monitor and beginning the events which led to his death.  

This is where the problems start.  Why the hell is the Anti-Monitor still
in the picture?  He was snatching heroes and villains, and mucking with
the cosmic framework, simply because he wanted to eliminate the parallel
universes (famous "white effect").  There ARE no more parallel universes. .
.
what's his motivation?  This is especially stupid in terms of Barry;
because
the reason he was the first (!) the Anti-Monitor went after was Barry could
travel between the parallel worlds unaided.  Since there are no more par.
earths, there's NO reason for the Anti-Monitor to pick on Barry.

> The idea being kicked around is that in fact, during that 30th century
> tenure, he travelled back to the late 20th century and that's where
> this month's surprise comes in.  He's "fated to die" because he
> eventually has to return to the 30th to die in the Crisis, according
> to this scenario.  

But there WAS no Crisis. . .was there?  Ugh. . .The whole idea is just
resoundingly STUPID.  As per Waverider & the Linear Folks, you can
snatch Barry from a different timeframe:  You could get, theoretically, an
infinite number of Barrys, according to DC's view of science.  So what
sense does it make for the Anti-Monitor to kidnap him from his tenure in
the 30th century?  Yuchhh.

> >2) There is no "pre-Crisis" 30th century any more than there is a
> >"pre-Crisis"  
> >   20th.  The events that happened pre-Crisis (and, for that matter,
> >apparantly
> >   most of the events that happened during, but that's another can of
> >worms)
> >   have been wiped out by the Critical Rewrite.
> 
> 	True, though enough of the Crisis remains for Barry to have
> died in it.  They've said that the Anti-Monitor's invasion happened,
> and that Barry died in it, though all the parallel earth-related stuff
> is retconned away.  At least that's the Truth this week.  Next week,
> it may be different.  It's the New DC: Now, We _Really_ Can't Be Stopped!

Hah.  For reference, what book(s) was this info in? 

Kevvy Kev

* Prediction: In 19?? the Anti-Monitor will reappear.  However, *
* Superman will trick him into saying "Rotinom-Itna" and every- *
* thing will go back to where it was before the CRISIS.         *
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From: lis@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Elisabeth Riba)
Subject: Need Evolution Comics Address
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 00:00:58 GMT

Help!!

I ordered a painting seen at Philcon from one of the artists of
Evolution Comics, and then lost the address...  If anyone out there
has it, could you _PLEASE_ forward it to me ASAP?   Thanks a bunch...
-- 
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From: jhildeb1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Jeff Hildebrand)
Subject: Getting books out on schedule (was Re: Image Splits Up)
Reply-To: jhildeb1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Jeff Hildebrand)
Organization: Don's Merry Horde of Topologists
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:04:15 GMT

mcmahan@cs.unca.edu (Scott McMahan -- Genesis mailing list owner) writes:
> He also pointed out that the reason Marble and Dee See comics come 
> out on a monthly basis is that the editors can hire other people to
> do them at their own discression. Image titles are owned by the
> creators, so they control it. No one finished a Steven King novel
> when it doesn't come out when expected. Likewise with
> Image -- and with the HUGE press runs and $1.95 price tag, it's
> not like they need the $$$.

	First off there are self-publishers out there who do get books out on
a regular basis even without an editor. Furthermore, there's a big difference
between a book that is advertised as monthly and comes out bi-monthly and a
book that's advertised as bi-monthly and comes out bi-monthly. For an 
excellent run down of this see Dave Sim's text piece "The Last Waltz" in
Cerebus #162. Sure, right now people are waiting for the various Image titles
and they are getting huge press runs. However down the line, they're
probably going to find that they keep distributors and store owners happier
if they keep to their announced schedule, regardless of what that schedule
is. Delayed books are a pain in the neck for distributors and in the long
run, Image will do better if they don't annoy the distributors.

-Jeff
-- 
Jeff Hildebrand, The Shaggy TA		       	   hildebra@math.wisc.edu
"The following statement  is an editorial viewpoint  and does not reflect 
the views of WSRN-FM, its employees, or mutant drosophila" - Off the Cuff
"You can't confuse us; we're not listening to you!"  -  topology students
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
From: YANJUNA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu
Subject: Re: Sandman, Hellblazer, and Hell
Organization: Yale University
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 16:49:31 EST

In article <1gphf0INNeb@access.usask.ca>
vcz40@jester.usask.ca (Perry Testem) writes:
 
>
>
>The being Constantine pissed off is the Satan of the Old Testement, i.e.,
>the Tempter. DC deals with Hell by having all the various religions'
>concept of Great Evil as different demons (Beelzebub is different from
>Belial, who is different from Lucifer Morningstar, etc.).
>
>The Tempter is the first resident of Hell, King of the whole lot until
>Lucifer showed up. His power pales in comparison with Lucifer's, so he was
>under control unter Messr. Morningstar quit his job.
>
>Why the angels running Hell haven't stepped on The Tempter hasn't been
>mentioned; maybe he is third in power only to Lucifer and God.
>
>
   My impression was that the angels ARE "running" Hell, at least in the
administrative sense.  They themselves think they are in control, since
they hold all explicit and "legal" reins of power.
   However, being amateurs at evil, they forget that real power often
lies in who has the connections.  In this sense, it is Satan (the Tempter)
who is in charge.  So the angels are, if you will, "mayors" who do not
know that the real power in the city is the crime boss.
     Junsok Yang
Xref: sparky rec.arts.comics.misc:10034 rec.arts.comics.xbooks:3571
From: Peter_A_David@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Kyle Baker is black!!  Wow!! (was Re: Black artists...)
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 19:04:19 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world
  <1992Dec11.215424.12069@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
  <a70O02.y2ec101@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
  <1992Dec13.185333.6635@zip.eecs.umich.edu>

Kyle Baker did the "Classics Illustrated" version of "Cyrano de Bergerac
"...which I thought was kinda okay.

Peter David (who has both "The Cowboy Wally Show" (signed by Kyle, thank
you very much, complete with Cowboy Wally sketch) and the novelization of
Buckaroo Banzai, and is not in the market for any body parts (but is
looking around for a Mercury Villager...))
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From: mss2@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Michael S. Schiffer)
Subject: Re: SANDMAN: avella gorgio
Keywords: sandman annotation
Reply-To: mss2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 03:17:32 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.005550.16480@cbnewsh.cb.att.com> gls@windmill.ATT.COM (part setter, part pointer, part chow) writes:
>In <BzJv1B.G1B@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca>, jwtlai@jeeves.uwaterloo.ca writes:
>> Sorry to be a nitpick, but I would qualify that statement with "but not to
>> Japanese speakers".  Or Chinese for that matter.  :)

>I usually see it written "gajo"; Borrow in _Lavengro_ writes "gorgio." But
>remember that Romany has Indic roots.  Gajo and gaijin may be related after
>all. ...

	Um, I guess I don't see how that would follow, or even be
particularly likely.  Romany is Indo-European, yes (part of the Dardic
group in the Indo-Iranian subfamily according to my encyclopedia), but
Japanese is apparently a language all to itself, and not part of any
family.  (There are some scholars who think it may be related to
Korean, but there are more who think that Korean is part of the
Ural-Altaic family if it's part of any family at all).  The practical
upshot being that Romany words are more likely to be cognate with
English words than they are with Japanese.  I'd say that the
gaje/gaijin similarity can be chalked up to coincidence amplified by
transliteration conventions.


Mike
-- 
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mss2@midway.uchicago.edu	 when I reflect that God is just."
mike.schiffer@um.cc.umich.edu	 -- Thomas Jefferson, Notes on
mschiffer@aal.itd.umich.edu	    Virginia (1784)
From: tyg@LON.UK.Ileaf.COM (Thomas Galloway {US HQ})
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Star crossed artists and writers
Date: 18 Dec 1992 10:00:43 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu


moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (The Napoleon of Crime) writes:
>Maybe a star-crossed romance between a comix artist and a writer?  Jonathon
>Pryce playing Neil Gaimen and Leo Salonga playing Colleen Doran?
>
>[No, wait, that's adultery.  OK, we'll kill their respective spouses off in

Um, just when did Colleen get married? She wasn't as of March.

Also, I wouldn't want to kill off Neil's wife. Holly Gaiman, their 6 year old
child and apparent Wednesday Addams in training might not like that very
much...

"'You can run,' shouted Scotland Yard's Inspector Boothroyd in triumph
as he clutched the last remaining bottle of noxious potion and watched
Dr. Jekyll leap to freedom through the shattered window, 'but you
can't Hyde.'" --R.L. Bryant, runner-up 1992 Bulwer-Lytton contest
tyg   tyg@hq.ileaf.com
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From: castle@cs.dal.ca (JULIAN GUTHRIE CASTLE)
Subject: SANDMAN: ObEndlessSpotting (Was Re: Do we need a rec.arts.comics.sandman?
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 22:30:43 GMT

In article <lsmith.724037823@peca>, lsmith@peca.cs.umn.edu (Lance "Squiddie" Smith) writes:

|> ObEndlessSpotting: There is a publicity still for London Kills Me (think
|> I have the title right) that had two actors that sorta reminded me of Dream 
|> and Death. Anyone seen this?

Now that you mention it, the main actress reminded me of
Thessaly (slightly weird look, floppy clothes)

London Kills Me started and ended in the first exam period
so I couldn't see it.

I still have this weird feeling that Thessaly will suddenly
be chosen as a replacement for Delusion.

Yours Sincerely,
	Julian Castle

//////////
    o-o /    o o o sorry about the name change, I just felt that it was
   //////////   was no longer about whether there should be a rac.sandman.

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From: YANJUNA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu
Subject: Re: PAD, Sex AND Nudity .... (Re: Writers vs Artists)
Organization: Yale University
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 02:45:31 EST

In article <15DEC199221255945@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov>
sewon@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (WAYNE WONG) writes:
>>>
 
   [whole bunch of interesting stuff shamelessly deleted]
 
>>>(PAD, what are your thoughts on this topic?  I was not at the convention
>>>mentioned earlier in this thread.)
>>>
>>> - Wayne.
>>
>>
>>	PAD won't answer, btw.  The subject line doesn't contain PAD, sex,
>>or nudity.
>
>Okay!  Now will you answer?   :)
>
> - Wayne.
 
     You forgot "orgasm."
 
 
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     I shouldn't cry
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From: smith@ug.cs.dal.ca (Sean Smith)
Subject: Martian Manhunter:  American Secrets
Keywords: Where is it?
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 00:55:35 GMT

	Does anyone out there in R.A.C-land know when issue #3 is supposed to
be released?  I have 1 & 2 and really enjoyed them.  But now I'd like to see
the ending...

	Sean
-- 
Sean Smith - Dalhousie University  "I'm not paid to think - that's management." 
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada                    Don Cherry for Prime Minister in
01SSMITH@AC.DAL.CA or smith@ug.cs.dal.ca	'93 in Canada!
Disclaimer:  These ideas are mine...ALL MINE!!  'Cause noone else'd want 'em.
From: EAO102@psuvm.psu.edu (Ernie Oporto)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: SHOOTER FIRST, ASK QUESTIONS LATER
Date: 12 Dec 92 13:12:28 GMT
Organization: The Pennylvania State University

In article <1992Dec12.012905.6114@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>, kogutt@ucsu.Colorado.EDU
(SCAVEN-CLAUS) says:
>
>Well, he also talked about submissions.  He garuntees (sp) that they will get
>comments back to everyone who sends in a submission to them.  For writers, he
>said he'll take subs. in any format (short stories, scripts, etc).  He wants
>to
>see if they can write, writing comics can be taught later.
>Other names he mentioned that get back to submitters were the guys at
>INNOVATION, and Mike Carlin over at DC.

Any idea on where we can write to Defiant for sending submission?  =)
---
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From: fau@po.CWRU.Edu (Francis A. Uy)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: SANDMAN: Sphinges and Second Thoughts
Date: 14 Dec 1992 15:04:32 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: fau@po.CWRU.Edu (Francis A. Uy)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


lsmith@deci.cs.umn.edu (Lance "Squiddie" Smith) says:

>Looking way back into issue #43, I'm curious about the sequence with Etain 
>escaping the gas explosion. It seems that she does things before she even 
>knows what is going on. While this might just be a cloudy memory of the 
>sequence of events, another possibility is that someone got her out of there. 
>We've seen how Delirium was able to enter the brain of Tiffany, perhaps 
>another member of the family entered Etain long enough to get her out of the
>apartment.

I got the impression that unconscious foresight 
 is one of Etain's abilities.  She doesn't 
 consciously understand the danger until after
 she's safe.  Hence 'The Second Look'.  A power
 like that could help you live a good long time.
 (or a Brief time, from an Endless POV)
Xref: sparky rec.arts.comics.misc:9529 alt.comics.lnh:240
From: mre@kepler.unh.edu (Santa MikE)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc,alt.comics.lnh
Subject: LNH: Hello?  Anybody out there?
Date: 13 Dec 1992 18:37:12 GMT
Organization: University of New Hampshire  -  Durham, NH
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: kepler.unh.edu

Hmmmm....Either WeaselNews has stopped getting new stuff from a.c.l. or
nothing has been posted.  Well, I guess I'll have to fix that...
	--MikE...should be studying but isn't...yet.

-- 
Mike Escutia	   |	"Holy Bat Caves, Boy Wonder!" 
a.k.a. Pliable Lad |				--Speedball, 
of the LNH	   |MikE@unh.edu |||  		  _New Warriors_ #31 
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From: castle@cs.dal.ca (JULIAN GUTHRIE CASTLE)
Subject: Re: "idiot field" (Doomsday)
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:02:02 GMT

In article <Bz6nEu.LJ5@cs.uiuc.edu>, wesselak@sunc0.cs.uiuc.edu (Erik Wesselak) writes:
>>Montague_Kevin@Tandem.com (Kevvy Kev) says:
> 
>>>"Doomsday exudes an "idiot field" as his most potent power
> 
> Note:  This offense is completely useless against The Tick  :)

It would have been nice if the Tick had shown up just
as Superman and Doomsday were about to finish each other
off.

Too late for that to happen though.

Yours Sincerely,
	Julian Castle
///
/</ o o blah
///
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