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From: jordan@castor (USENET's Chuck)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: SANDMAN: galleries and sigils
Date: 13 Oct 92 22:51:41 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia

In article <1992Oct12.042409.13152@zip.eecs.umich.edu> colomon@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Colomon Foster) writes:
>(Andrew M. Solovay) writes:
>>Now you tell me: Why was it
>>important (to Desire) that Rose was a woman? We never saw a hint
>>of attraction between Rose and Dream.
> 
>Perhaps Desire hoped for an attraction between the two. 

It's been a while since I've read the story, and I'm CERTAIN that someone
will correct me if I have anything wrong, but I assumed that when they
said "the vortex is a *woman*" they were referring to Unity, not Rose.
It was important to Desire that the vortex be a woman -- that way it could
impregnate Unity and the vortex would pass on to her granddaughter, and
that would drive the plot forward.

>>Note that from all we've seen, Desire's involvement in the Rose
>>Walker episode was long before Rose was born. It doesn't make
>>sense for this conversation to take place in recent years.
[...]
>It is much simpler to assume that all is as it seems, and everything in
>that issue is in the present.

I agree with Elizabeth Holden that it's completely irrelevant to talk 
about anachronisms in relation to any of the characters in Sandman,
especially any of the Endless.  It's been mentioned a couple of times in
the series that time DOES pass for them; Morpheus said so after he was
freed from his bottle after so many years.  But, it's also been mentioned
that everything we see of the Endless is just one particular aspect of them;
they seem to flow through time, changing their appearance and speech as they
go.  If you're going to start being picky enough to claim certain lines or
manners of dress are anachronisms, why don't you point out their unusual
speech patterns which are also out of step with time?  Or countless other
things?  The Endless are not restricted to just what is going on on Earth.

Chuck

-- 
                  Chuck Jordan | jordan@castor.cs.uga.edu
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From: morrow@fnalo.fnal.gov (Elmo's Glue)
Subject: Re: SANDMAN: Annotation 35
Organization: Bounces off Me and Sticks to You
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 23:28:38 GMT
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In article <1992Oct12.145448.8193@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, mcollins@nyx.cs.du.edu (Killans - First And Last And Always) writes:
> In article <1992Oct10.155139.1@fnalo.fnal.gov> morrow@physics.rice.edu writes:
> 
>>Page 1 panel 2-3:  The Land is full of fantastic elements, such as the Trees
>>and the Tweeners, which don't have obvious direct antecedents.
>>
> The Ents from JRR Tolkein's 'Lord of the Rings'?

	Nope, don't buy it.  Nigh-sentient, often malevolent, forests are a
staple of this sort of fantasy.

>>	Panel 3:  The name "Room Patrol" is reminiscent of DC's comic book
>>_Doom Patrol_, another title from the "Mature Readers" line 
>>with a British author and a similar editorial feel to _Sandman_.  
>>	Panel 6:  Wilkinson's speech here is quite reminiscent of John
>>Constantine; Wilkinson is probably meant to be an analog to Constantine, given
>>the similarity in costume and language.  I have not identified a "Swamp Thing"
>>analog in the Land; that would complete the DC Mature Readers homages in _A
>>Game of You_.

> What, no Shade?

	OK, I forgot Shade.  I don't read it (Milligan has nothing to say to
me), and it had only been around about a sesquiyear at that point.
-- 
"There is no such thing as inner peace.  There is only nervousness and death." 
--Fran Lebowitz                                                                
  
elmo (morrow@physics.rice.edu,morrow@fnal.fnal.gov)
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From: solovay@netcom.com (Andrew Solovay)
Subject: Re: cerebus 162
Summary: It's two--two--two Oscars in one!
Organization: International Irony League -- Death before smileys!
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 22:02:11 GMT

In article <Bw3K4D.71y@acsu.buffalo.edu> gmkoenig@acsu.buffalo.edu (Gerson V Koenig) writes:
>dvandom@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (David VanDomelen) writes:
>
>>Well, it feels like only a few months passed between 100 and 162
>>(and we thot Marvel Time was bad!), but if Oscar served his
>>entire sentence(I can't recall if eh did or not) then it's more
>>like 2 years.
>
>
>Umm, I'm pretty sure that was him (Jaka's Story Oscar) next to Posey in issue
>#160 or so, so I'd guess it's less than 2 yrs.

There are at least two "Oscar Wildes" in Cerebus. The Oscar from
Jaka's story was imprisoned at the end of the "The Poet" section
of said story. As we saw a few issues ago, he's still in prison.

The Oscar (actually "Sebastian Melmoth", I believe) from
"Melmoth" is definitely a different person. He was just released
from prison at more or less the time the "Jaka's Story" Oscar was
locked up (in fact, he may well have been imprisoned by Cerebus's
administration). Note that he talks about the author of "Daughter
of Palnu" in the third person, and is sure that the last chapter
was written by a different (inferior) author than the man who
wrote the rest of it. The first "Oscar" was the author of "Jaka's
Story", and, as that Oscar complained in his correspondance, the
publishers seemed intent on naming it "Daughter of Palnu." He was
of course imprisoned before he could finish the book.
-- 
Andrew M. Solovay       "Work is the curse of the drinking class."
solovay@netcom.com			--Wilde

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From: jhildeb1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Jeff Hildebrand)
Subject: Re: Neil Gaiman's Sandman ...
Reply-To: hildebra@math.wisc.edu (Jeff Hildebrand)
Organization: Don's Merry Horde of Topologists
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 21:19:03 GMT

dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig) writes:
> Bear in mind that while Sandman is popular and profitable, it isn't
> incredibly so.  (Wasn't it something like number sixty in terms of
> sales?)  Also DC isn't exploiting it to the hilt.  In my own opinion,
> this is wise:  The value to DC (image, PR, related titles) of having
> a title of Sandman's caliber is far more than they could recoup if
> they were to milk it for all it was worth.

	Except for the fact that the sales curve on Sandman is virtually the
exact reverse of the normal curve. It's been increasing sales with almost
every issue. It was around 60th about 6 months ago. On Friday I saw a list
of sales for the comics DC released this past month. (I believe these were
only the figures for one distributor, not overall, but it's still
something.) Sandman 43 was the 3rd highest selling DC title, behind only a
couple of the Batman titles (but ahead of a couple more). So it's becoming
more profitable all the time.

	Also I think they're trying to milk it for all its worth in other
ways. For example, the Season of Mists trade paperback was $20 which is
fairly ludicrously high.

-Jeff
-- 
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"Did everyone buy that? Good, 'cause I didn't"   The Proof By Snow Job
From: schlatt@wish-bone.berkeley.edu (mark schlatter)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Sandman dream artists (Mike Mignola)
Date: 9 Oct 1992 00:01:19 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department.
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In article <maguire-071092165247@128.149.100.151>
maguire@copland.jpl.nasa.gov (Kevin Maguire) writes: 
>In article <1avceqINN1bi@agate.berkeley.edu>, schlatt@chaos.berkeley.edu
>(mark schlatter) wrote:
>> 	(Gaiman also mentioned that he would love to get Michael
>> Dalton Allred to do an issue, but Karen Berger said no.)
>
>Anyone have any idea why she would be opposed to Allred?  I think he'd do 
>a bang-up job.

	Gaiman didn't mention any reason, but he gave the impression
that Allred was a bit too "far out" for Karen's taste.

	(To be honest, I've tried Grafik Musik twice and one issue of
Madman, and I still can't why Allred gets the raves he does.  Anyone
want to try and explain his appeal?)

							mark schlatter
						  schlatt@math.berkeley.edu
From: PCK102@psuvm.psu.edu (Pete Kennaday)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Fantastic Four -- Malice
Date: 14 Oct 92 13:43:37 GMT
Organization: Penn State University

The "Mailce" character you're confused about is actually the "darker side" of
Sue Richards.  This persona was brought to the surface in FFs #218-284, when
Byrne sent the FF into the Microverse (remember the Micronauts?) to fight the
Hate Monger and Psycho Man.

In that 4-ish story, Malice was pretty cool - using her force fields to
suffocate the Torch, and do something _nasty_ to Reed (I'm not sure what).  I
have no idea how Malice is portrayed now...I left the book when Byrne did, and
then picked it up again for Simonson's stint.

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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Hail Sinfonia!no "conferences."
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From: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons)
Subject: Re: PAD. Is it really him?
Organization: Inland Sea
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 00:36:44 GMT

lsmith@milli.cs.umn.edu (Lance "Squiddie" Smith) writes:

>~Is the PAD who posts to this newsgroup Peter David, of (recently)
>~Hulk fame?

>In article <1992Oct12.181519.17002@u.washington.edu> gwangung@carson.u.washington.edu (Roger Tang) writes:
 [yes]

>In article <92cj02Mq25ob01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> branwen@cerebus.ccc.amdahl.com (Karen Williams) writes:
 [yes, adding details]

>In article <1992Oct9.164044.21836@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> lee@torrid.ogo.dec.com writes:
 [yes, adding details]

>In article <70615@hydra.gatech.EDU>, jd53@prism.gatech.EDU (DE LA COVA,JORGE) writes:
 [yes, adding details]

C'mon, give the poor guy a break.  It's *A* Peter David.  Next you'll have
the poor schnook trying to buy a Suicide Squid shirt or something.
-- 
 "When Dexter's on the Internet, can Hell be far behind?"
		-- Steve Simmons, scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us
From: nova@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Jennifer Baughman)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Female Character Contest
Date: 12 Oct 92 02:21:00 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

In article <1992Oct3.151127.9458@athena.cs.uga.edu> houk@athena.cs.uga.edu (Joshua Houk) writes:

>Oohh- gee, can you say chauvanistic?
>
>It'd be a bit different if you asked for favorite male *and* female
>characters - but your omission, I think, betrays your mind...

Well, then, since the fave ladies has already been done, I'll balance the
equation. 

Ladies, Gentlemen, Net Heroes!  Presenting....

	YOUR FAVORITE MALE CHARACTERS!!!

That's right:  anyone, in any universe!  E-Mail me your votes and I'll post 
them in a week's time (That's October 18!) for all to see!  Don't be a dope,
let me see your vote!  

__NOVA__
From: cwagner@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Christian Wagner)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Sandman dream artists (Mike Mignola)
Date: 14 Oct 92 13:04:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: ut-emx.81649
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

In article <1992Oct7.115842.17311@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> dnaraghi@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Dara Naraghi) writes:
>In article <1992Oct6.032325.23687@wam.umd.edu> gatsby@wam.umd.edu (Ravindra Pillalamarri) writes:
>>	Mike Mignola might do a good job.
>	According to Gaiman, Mignola is supposed to do the giant 50th
>issue.  We'll see.  (personally, I can't wait...I think I'm actually
>one of the few people who likes Mignola's art!)

Nah, you're not alone. I've loved Mike's art since his work on the Fafhrd and
the Grey Mouser series. Cosmic Oddesey was really well-done too, IMHO. I'd 
love to see Mignola do a Sandman issue..... (almost as much as I'd love to see
Phil Foglio do one. :> )

And am I the -only- person in existance who -likes- Shawn McManus's artwork? 
Who doesn't think he does "one face"?

-- 
    "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: mkelly@ovid.helios.nd.edu (michael kelly)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Miracleman #23: Afterthinks; SPOILERS
Date: 8 Oct 92 21:39:51 GMT
Organization: OUC, University of Notre Dame


 mss2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>
>	I think you're largely right about the Miraclekids, but note
>that I believe that Gaiman's been quoted in interviews as saying that
>their mock-superhero battles take place in a replica of New York on an
>island in the South Pacific.  This has not yet been confirmed in the
>series itself, of course, but I expect that it will be before the
>Silver Age arc is complete.

It has *almost* been confirmed in the series. From Winter's tale,
Mist: "We're building a place for us to play in the South Pacific, for
when we're older."
--
+               Mike Kelly, Notre Dame Department of Physics                +
+                                                                           +
+ mkelly@happy.helios.nd.edu          "The more you drive,                  + 
+ mkelly@undhe5.hep.nd.edu                 the less intelligent you are."   +
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From: tyg@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Tom Galloway)
Subject: Re: PAD.  Is it really him?
Organization: Interleaf
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 22:48:49 GMT

In article <c4r402wR25ml01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> branwen@cerebus.ccc.amdahl.com (Karen Williams) writes:
>In article <1992Oct12.214954.15925@morgan.ucs.mun.ca> glocke@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Gordon Locke  ) writes:
>
>>	You guys ... you're all just trying to get noticed, aren't you?
>
>It must of worked. You noticed us, didn't you? :-)

Besides, most of us have already been noticed by Peter...right Sgt. Tang,
Security Redshirt Meyer, Atlantean Dan'l, and Admiral (but still second in
Admiral's rank due to dual seniority nyah nyah nyah) Williams? :-)

"Next time I'll manage to court-martial Kirk..." --me after Star Trek #4
Admiral Tom Y. Galloway, commanding Starbase 24
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From: chinm@aix.rpi.edu (Mang S. Chin -- Kid Klaxon)
Subject: Re: Marvel 2099 views
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 18:03:23 GMT

In article <1992Oct10.152558.17094@nmsu.edu> bgrubb@dante.nmsu.edu (GRUBB) writes:
>I was thinking about Marvel's 2099 series and who from the 1990's would
>still be alive in 2099 given what we have been told.
>
>The original Dr. Doom:  In an Iron Man comic Dr Doom and Iron Man are
>pulled into the 31st century  where Dr Doom destroys his future self, who
>is little more that a mystic robot.
>
>Dr. Strange:  In a divergent future (Gardians of the Galaxey(sp)) Strange is
>still around in the 31st century
>
>The Red Skull:  given his access to cloning equipment and the extended life
>factor of the Super Soldier formula he should still be causing problems.
>
>Wolverine:  hinted at in GOTG that he MAY still be alive in the 31st
>century.  This is very iffy.
>
>Machinesmith:  since he is a robot with a human mind, he should still be
>around.
>
>any comments and additions would be welcome.

Kitty Pryde:  at the rate she's aging, she'll be around til 3099.

MSC

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From: hannu@polaris.utu.fi (Hannu Pajunen)
Subject: Re: Siderman 2099 #2
Organization: University of Turku, Finland
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 11:08:44 GMT


Siderman?? Suicide Squid's new sidekick, huh?

Hannu
From: sl859@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: HOORAY!!!
Date: 14 Oct 92 22:21:47 MDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Utah State University

> Praise the gods of chaos and order!!
> There's another Simonson fan out there! 
> Simonson rules!!

Mostly the god of Chaos I assure you!  :)

			BandWagon Boy!
From: intruder@cats.ucsc.edu (Isaac Truder)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: CYBER FORCE #1
Date: 15 Oct 1992 02:40:58 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu


 > 2.  I never said any of the people on that list could do a better
 > job on Cyberforce than Silvestri - most of them definitely could
 > not, although I'll bet Ben Dunn could give it a hell of a try (as
 > could Masamune Shirow, or...).  I also made a point of stressing
 > that different artists are better for different stories, and that
 > saying that "X is better than Y" is stupid without saying what the
 > story they're to draw is.  I did all that specifically
 > to prevent posts like yours - did you miss that paragraph?
 > 

Must have.  All I saw was a list of artists who had little or nothing to
do with whether or not CYBERFORCE is a good comic.

 > 3.  Rembrandt would do a killer job on the Spirit (or Sandman), but
 > would have
 > been the WRONG choice to help out on Appleseed vol. 6.  DaVinci, on
 > the other
 > hand.....      :)

Nah, Rembrandt would have screwed up royally.  I've been to the Metropolitan
Museum in New York, and I've seen his art --  he sucks.  Someone oughtta buy
him a copy of Eisner's COMICS & SEQUENTIAL ART.



:-), of course.
From: gmkoenig@acsu.buffalo.edu (Gerson V Koenig)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: cerebus 162
Date: 15 Oct 92 05:22:33 GMT
Organization: UB

As far as the title Mothers and Daughters refering to Astoria and Cirin, that's
one way to look at it. I think the most direct reference in the title is that
every woman is one or the other, and it is an important distinction for 
Cirinist law. (i.e. Read back to Theresa's description of the split between
Astoria and Cirin, where Astoria refused to id herself as a Mother or a 
Daughter.)

Gerson Koenig
gmkoenig@acsu.buffalo.edu
From: c60b-3fe@e260-4f.berkeley.edu (Coffee)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Characters available for Marvel 2009
Date: 15 Oct 1992 01:17:41 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <1992Oct14.173900.2339@bvc.edu> daikerjohnc@bvc.edu writes:
>>By 2099, Franklin Richards should be just about old enough to enter 
>>high school.
>
>And Aunt May wil be very close to, but not yet near, dying.

Hey!! Isn't that where she is at now?!?

Anyway,
We've already seen Aunt May in SM 2099.
PAD and crew killed her off in the second issue. :)
So much for her having her own book.

Coffee
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From: teo33398@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Doctor Zero)
Subject: Doom Patrol SPOILERS :What should be told to all those big cosmic villains
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 04:34:38 GMT

dvandom@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (David VanDomelen) writes:

>     In the recent Doom Patrol, the Templar Kipling tells off the candlemaker 
>in a wonderfully rude way.  This is how you should treat big cosmic baddies!  
>Even if they kill you after, it's such a wonderful feeling to just tell them 
>the hell off, and I quote:
>     "I refuse to listen to this utter shit for one second longer...[villain 
>says I'll kill all of you]...Oh, piss off! I've had *enough* of your pathetic 
>sepulchral voice and your shitty death rays. Go on, then!  Pull my bloody head
>off, you ridiculous prick!  I don't think you *can* anymore, can you, you 
>wanker?"
>     Rude and crude, but awfully cathartic.  He musta worked in the Abuse 
>office for a while. }->

	Indeed, that was one of the high points of this issue!  The past three
have been maddening, what with all the DPers dying off and all.  While this
issue seemed a bit rushed in its conclusion, a lot of things got resolved.  I'm
glad to see that Rebis is back ('bout time!), and that Kipling isn't dead (I
was almost sure that Grant was going to let him die).  The Candlemaker is dead,
but now the Chief's last plan is unfurled (Great!).  I'm glad to see Doc Magnus
back in the picture for this last storyline.
	One question sticks in my mind though...WHERE THE HELL IS JANE???  Last
any of us knew, she was being sent to Hell.  I kind of miss having her around,
and I'm sure Cliff does too.
	I've noticed that there hasn't been as much discussion of Doom Patrol
as there used to be on the list.  Has everyone else given up on it?  It's 
still my favorite comic (right above Miracleman and Sandman...)

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From: vapspyo@prism.gatech.EDU (Jon Hughes)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Buying Habits Survey?
Date: 9 Oct 92 03:28:41 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology


Has anyone conducted a survey of comic buying
habits of netters recently?  If so, could some
kind soul send me the results.  If not, then
there might be another such survey (yeah, I know,
I'm getting too much sleep as it is).

Jon

-- 
+-------------------+  So you've found a girl who thinks really deep thoughts.
|  Jonathan Hughes  +---------+  What's so amazing about really deep thoughts?
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+-----------------------------+       How's that thought for you? -- Tori Amos
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From: tyg@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Tom Galloway)
Subject: Re: Frivolous WHAT IF? concept
Keywords: what if?
Organization: Interleaf
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 02:05:16 GMT

In article <1992Oct14.000329.4916@tc.fluke.COM> moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) writes:
>What if Bruce Wayne's parents had been murdered by software engineers?

Well, this really should have been phrased as something like:
(cond ((and (deadp "Thomas Wayne") (deadp "Martha Wayne")
            (eql *murderer* "Bill Gates"))
       (way_back_machine 'Sherman 'Peabody)))

But the result would undoubtedly be...

"Hello, my name is Bruce Wayne. You killed my parent processes. Prepare to vi"
tyg   tyg@hq.ileaf.com
From: boyes@forty2.enet.dec.com (Mark Boyes)
Subject: Re: Legends of the Dark Knight #39 (no spoilers)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 13:41:34 GMT


In article <1992Oct12.172448.1@fnalo.fnal.gov>, morrow@fnalo.fnal.gov (Elmo's Glue) writes...
>	Whatever the name, it still sucked.  As Mark Balbes pointed one, at
>least one issue where we've seen this story before was Flash 300; I recall it
>as well, and it is virtually the same plot.
>	Like I said before, Talbot does *nothing* we haven't seen before; he
>doesn't even bother to use his own writing style!

According to one who was there, Alan Moore announced this as his idea for
Batman Year Three a few years ago, back when Batman Year Three had not happened
and people gave a toss what Alan Moore was doing in comics. Year Three would
cover a period of mental breakdown for Bruce Wayne, during which time all
of the Sapce-and-dinosaur stories happen...in his head (This will be familiar
to Miracleman readers: his most embarrassing stories were also brought back 
into continuity in a similar way). 

BW's psychiatrist is Kathy Kane, who he works into his fantasies as Batwoman. 


>elmo (morrow@physics.rice.edu,morrow@fnal.fnal.gov)

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