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From: dvandom@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Dave Van Domelen)
Subject: Re: green lanterns
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:33:14 GMT

It's not a matter of power usage, since even if the ring isn't used at all it 
will run out in 24 hours.  Likewise, even the heaviest usage won't burn it out 
before the 24 limit.  This is another artificial limitation like the yellow 
weakness, to keep the GLs on their toes and keep them from becoming too 
powerful (cuz power corrupts, eh?).  Now, given that not all systems of time 
measurement match well, the limit is likely different for each GL, but is close
to 24 hours in all cases.  For example, is 24 hours is exactly 13.85735 breems,
the GL with that time system will have to recharge every 14 breems.  The idea 
is to be short enough to limit the GL, but long enough that the GL isn't made 
useless, and in all cases a simple to remember period.
     Dave Van Domelen, PLEASE don't start the "Why Yellow?" thread again....
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From: jdelacr@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Jorge DeLaCruz)
Subject: Re: I miss Krypto the superdog or Damn, that Crisis anyway!
Organization: The Great Beyond
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 16:44:50 GMT

In article <9184@news.duke.edu> anguilla@acpub.duke.edu (Hunganh Nguyen) writes:
>
>	Please excuse my ignorance, but WHAT happened to Krypto????
>Was he killed off in that Crisis thing?  
>	Really.  I DON'T know....but would like to....

  I'm not sure, I got lost in the Crisis, but someone told me since their was
  no Superboy, and Lex and Sups didn't meet as Teenagers, then Krypto was
  never in this Timeline and therefore has never existed.  Major Reconn Maybe.

						My $.02

						Jorge


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From: lecuyer@wam.umd.edu (Catherine L. LeCuyer)
Subject: Re: artists who draw themselves
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:05:50 GMT

I tried to post this and I think it ended up in someone's e-mail.
Mea culpa. 

Some time ago one of the artists on Swamp Thing started drawing a character
that looked like Alan Moore - just to see if Moore would notice. 
The character got more and more 3-d and was seen in more stories - until
recently. :-( I think he may have been called Labo. Corrections?

Cathy the .sigless

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From: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
Subject: Re: Death #1 comments
Organization: Johns Hopkins University CS Dept.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 02:37:23 GMT

In article <llr1deINNd7e@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> khale@camilla.Eng.Sun.COM (Abhijit Khale) writes:
>> Mad Hettie suggests that last time it was also here, so
>>>would that mean that she becomes mortal every century on EVERY planet of the
>>>multiverse? That would mean she is on constant holyday, then.
>>It would also mean that Death on other planets somehow uses Terran centuries,
>>a rather silly concept....
>Sillier than the fact that the Green Lantern Corps need to recharge their
>rings using the period of rotation of an obscure blue-green planet whose
>ape-descended lifeforms are so primitive that they think that digital watches
>are a neat thing ? 

This is more an indictment of Green Lantern than a defense of Sandman.  (I once
created a Green Lantern-clone Champions character whose powers had to be
recharged every 24.001 hours....)
--
"On the first day after Christmas my truelove served to me...  Leftover Turkey!
On the second day after Christmas my truelove served to me...  Turkey Casserole
    that she made from Leftover Turkey.
[days 3-4 deleted] ...  Flaming Turkey Wings! ...
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From: lsmith@deci.cs.umn.edu (Lance "Squiddie" Smith)
Subject: Re: SANDMAN: The flip side of the Endless...
Organization: The Little Ruby Squids of the Poor
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 02:57:27 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.020846.11471@netcom.com> dhawk@netcom.com (David Hawkins) writes:
>In article <edu> jeff@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jeff Williamson) writes:
>>
>>>Anyone think Death was mortal-walking with Chairman Mao? Or am I
>>>just confused?
>
>Uh, It could be that whoever Death spends a day with during her mortal
>day dies at the end of that day.  So Sexton might die in issue #3 of
>High Cost of Living.    

Or Mad Hettie could die or Didi could just be a mixed up teenager 
that's read one too many comic books. (That's what's in the box!
A complete set of Sandman back issues! Oh if only she would have 
read The High Cost of Living instead of sewing Sexton's jeans!)

>So speculation about who that was with Death
>might be irrelevant.   But would you want to be holding hands with
>Didi when she 'took on her Aspect.'????

As long as she wasn't there specifically for me, I guess I wouldn't
mind too much. She seems to be a fairly good conversationalist. We 
could always talk about hats. 

>Personally I find that as depressing as speculation that Dream's boon
>will be to kill his son.  But it did cross my mind.

I think it's the most probable request that Orpheus can make. I don't
think it will be as simple as just having Dream kill his son. There 
are rules that the Endless must obey and Death can't take Orpheus 
anymore. 

>By the way, did anyone notice that Dream changed outfits to the one he
>was wearing when he last saw his son?   The ruby doesn't exist any
>more, but he was wearing something.

As you point out, the brooch that Dream is wearing isn't the ruby. (It's
shown as facetted on page 14.) The boots also change to those Dream was 
wearing at the end of the Special. (I don't have the Special handy, but 
I recall lots of buckles when Dream stepped on the snake.) Since Dream
can change his appearances, it makes sense to appear as Orpheus remembers
him. 

Another note about costumes, as Dream returns from the far galaxy he isn't
wearing the gloves he was wearing when he first appears in issue #1. We 
can also make out a dark sleeve in the original issue, but the rest of his
body is covered by his cloak. I don't think it's important. It wouldn't
take much effort for Dream to appear properly clothed even as he was 
captured. 

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Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 17:45:48 -0500 
From: Jonathan Michael Levy <jl3o+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Comics Poll

I would like to do a very short poll. 
There is obviously very little in this for you all,
but I will post the results if the response merits it.

I. Name your five favorite comics series currently being printed.


II.  Name the comic series which you own the most copies of
    (duplicates excluded.)  How many? (doesn't need to be exact)

III. Name your favorite artist.

IV. What is your least favorite comic.

V. How long have you collected for.

Thanx,

Jon


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From: tara@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Lady Johanna Constantine)
Subject: Re: Death #1 comments
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 02:16:52 GMT

royd@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Roy Daniel) writes:

>
disturbing, because it was breaking the mood. I would hate Death to be portrayed
in a vaguely geometric form to ressemble what the habitants of XDF-34D8 call 
sexy.

>Maybe Gaiman uses a technique that let us see the Ds in the way we want to.
>For instance, the first time I saw Desire, I was sure (s)he was a girl. I was
>wrong, in a sense. Maybe girls reading it thought it was a man? 

Nope.
I tend to think of at as "here is your visual babel fish."
heheheheh
I just pictured DiDi's goldfish in a bowl that say's "So
long and thanks for all the fish".

>
If so, maybe Gaiman's magic extends to the point where we see the Endless in the
way we want them to be? 
:)


Makes sense to me.  I definitely see Dream they way I want.
I just go for those dark haired, skinny-butt types.
Okay, so he's an anthropomorphic personification with a 
bad track record in the relationships department, but a girl
can (heh) dream, can't she?

>-- 
>Daniel Roy, of the "Voyageurs sans Permis"			CARPE DIEM!!

>"A man's science is another man's magic; 
> for all I know, Merlin was a physicist."

	 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Mac Guyver quote, or just me?


LJC
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From: conty@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (E. Kontei)
Subject: Re: Hellblazer's Still Not That Great
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 05:51:43 GMT

In article <93023.152004DCC117@psuvm.psu.edu>, <DCC117@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>    Anybody think Constantine partied a
>   little TOO hearty in #63?  I mean, all
>   of a sudden everybody's toking.  What an
>   influence this could have on impressionable
>   young minds.

Well, yeah.  That's why HELLBLAZER is a *Mature Readers* title.

Aside:  I liked the episode.  As long as it doesn't become an annual
tradition, I wouldn't mind having "breathers" like these.
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From: jelmore@nyx.cs.du.edu (John Elmore)
Subject: Oh, really? (was Re: SANDMAN: Annotation 40)
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	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: Sat, 23 Jan 93 03:50:17 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.165137.9124@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> conty@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (E. Kontei) writes:
>In article <C16IKn.DEJ@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, tara@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Lady Johanna Constantine) writes:
>> mkelly@dumpster.helios.nd.edu (michael kelly) writes:
>> > sasha@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (David A. Tumarkin) writes:
>> >|>
>> >|> MAIDEN -- The first Eve (The nameless)
>> 
>> >Nope. Nameless "died" in Metal Men.
>> 
>> Mike, you've completely confused me, you know that?
>
>He's making a comics otaku joke.  "Nameless" was a late addition to the
>Metal Men who was, well, never named (although I seem to recall the name
>"Tina", for some strange reason).  She died saving someone from something
>or other.

"Tina" is a nickname for "PlaTINum". Yeah, it's kinda stupid, I guess...

>> Didn't your mother ever tell you it's not nice to
>> confuse people, especially young, single college coeds?
>
>No, it's not nice.  But it sure is *fun*!!  B-)
>
>> You don't get to date as often if you do.
>
><OOF!>  Now that hurts...

Excuse me, I haven't confused anybody... Can we talk? :D

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From: brackney@author.ecn.purdue.edu (Larry J Brackney)
Subject: Re: Gaiman & McKean: Hell Raiser.
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:36:26 GMT

In article <26JAN199300520780@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov> sewon@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Wayne A. Wong) writes:
>Did "Wordsworth" the Gaiman & Mckean collaboration for Epic's Hell Raiser
>series ever come out?  If so, which issue of HR was it in?

   Wordsworth should appear within the next two months.  I'm really looking
forward to seeing how the pair treat the material.

   - larry

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From: tara@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Lady Johanna Constantine)
Subject: Re: SANDMAN: Annotation 40
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 00:55:34 GMT

mkelly@dumpster.helios.nd.edu (michael kelly) writes:


> sasha@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (David A. Tumarkin) writes:

>|> Actually, it really ought to be:
>|> MOTHER -- Eve
>|> MAIDEN -- The first Eve (The nameless)
>|> CRONE -- Lilith
>|> 
>|> Opinions?

>Nope. Nameless "died" in Metal Men.

>;)

Mike, you've completely confused me, you know that?
Didn't your mother ever tell you it's not nice to
confuse people, especially young, single college coeds?
You don't get to date as often if you do.

LJC
-- 
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tara@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu   * endure when mere facts are dust, and ashes, and
Disclaimer - huh?       * forgot.      -Dream of the Endless (and Neil G.)
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From: jcowling@ophelia.UVic.CA (Scowling Jim Cowling)
Subject: Re: Image..., sigh!
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 01:39:21 GMT

In article <1993Jan23.215210.27370@news.uiowa.edu> mstailey@icaen.uiowa.edu (Michael David Stailey) writes:
>
>|> 1) Has Anyone besides me noticed that "Spawn" is teh only image title
>|> coming out on some regular sort of basis?
>
>   So true... what ever happened to CYBERFORCE #2 and WETWORKS #1????

I know nothing about Cyberforce #2 other than it is four months late.  As for
Wetworks, the title (according to Robert Gibson on GEnie) has been cancelled
and Malibu is trying to figure out how to tell everyone.

Supposedly, Portacio finished about ten pages of issue #1 then took off for the
Phillipines.

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Creative Writing Department, University of Victoria (opinions disassociated)
GEnie:  J.COWLING	Internet:  jcowling@ophelia.UVic.CA

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From: manley@iies.ecn.purdue.edu (Skybax Rider, Apprentice Class)
Subject: A couple didjanotices . . .
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:26:45 GMT

  Two things I saw today:

  1) Did anyone else find it significant that Delerium is now pale white
     like Dream, Death and the twins?

  2) For anyone who gets the Chicago Tribune or may have seen this photo:
     There was an AP photo in the paper today (front page of the Trib) of
     the new Kuwaiti Emir Guards (I probably spelled something wrong) in
     their spiffy new uniforms . . . which look *exactly* like the Dog
     Soldier uniforms from the old Micronauuts series.  It was scary.

  M.
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From: ast2r@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Andrew Symons Troth)
Subject: Re: LSH #41
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:09:42 GMT

I believe the "Bimbino Twins" were intended as a comic reference to the
"Barbi Twins", who are pin-up models. If I'm not mistaken, I recently saw
one of their ads in CBG. Perhaps T&M didn't realize how obscure they were
being...

And Garth and Ayla are fraternal twins, not identical (which you might
guess from their differing genders :) ). Their hair has always been a little
different; look at the old Adventures. Garth is more blond, Ayla is more red.

cheers,
	ast

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From: silbrmnd@acf3.nyu.edu (Darkmage)
Subject: Re: Sandman -- Brief Lives 7
Organization: New York University
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 23:48:09 GMT

conty@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (E. Kontei) writes:

>In article <1993Jan22.194801.5191@BofA.com>, ross@BofA.com (Ross Lefstin) writes:
>> 1) Was anyone really surprised to find Destruction's villa right across from
>> the temple of Orpheus?  I seem to recall several people speculating that
>> this would be the case early on.

>It was fairly obvious, once you knew what to look for.

>> 2) The references to change are getting kind of heavy handed.  "Cooking
>> is one of the fine arts."  Art = Change = Destruction?

>Art = Creation.  Destruction tries to distance himself from his realm,
>so he spends his time in Creative endeavours.  He's terrible at it,
>as you would expect from the anthropomorphic representation of "destruction".

>[Aside:  When I read that line about cooking being a creative art, my
> first thought was "No wonder he's lost so much weight..."]

Destruction becoming Creation....  The D's they are a-changin'....  :)

>Another one for the annotations:  while Dream is having his father and
>son chat, Del sings this little song (Soldier, Sailor, Tinker, etc...)
>I'm pretty sure I've heard that song before, and not in the title of
>a John LeCarre novel.  :-)

It's one of those jump-rope songs.... "A tinker a tailor, a soldier a
sailor, a rich man a poor man, a beggar man a thief, a doctor a lawyer,
an Indian chief..."  The way we used to play it when I was a kid was
everyone formed a line, and when it was your turn you ran in and jumped
for two jumps/proffessions.  (tinker/tailor.....   soldier/sailor  etc)
The person who got "Indian chief" got to continue until she missed a
jump, and then whatever you got out on was your destiny....

			-Darkmage

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From: jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca (James Davis Nicoll)
Subject: Re: costumed vigilantes
Organization: University of Western Ontario, London
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:08:40 GMT



In article <1993Jan25.133421.11849@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcollins@nyx.cs.du.edu (Killans - First And Last And Always) writes:
>In article <1993Jan20.190216.3732@julian.uwo.ca> jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca (James Davis Nicoll) writes:
>>
>>Logistical and legal
>>difficulties limit costumed  wackos' effectiveness in the real world.
>>
>You mean like not being bitten by radioactive spiders, or being the last
>son of a dead planet which happened to have a red sun?
>
>:-)

	*I've* been bitten by a radioactive* spider, and all that happened 
was that my finger ballooned up. No spider sense, no spider strength, and 
no ability to stick to walls (Unless propelled at high speeds, I guess). On 
the other hand, I didn't get spider-respiration, either, so maybe I came out 
ahead.

	What I was actually thinking of was the problem of being in the
right place at the right time to fight crime, and how one deals with civil
suits and charges of assault (The cabbie in San Francisco who used his cab
to pursue and subdue a mugger ended up paying a large amount to the mugger). 

								James Nicoll

* OK, not *that* radioactive, but it was (I assume) at equilibrium with
the C-14 in the atmosphere. It's pretty hard to find a non-radioactive
animal on Earth...
From: djsnyder@husc10.harvard.edu (David Snyder)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Rec.arts.comics.mature
Date: 28 Jan 93 01:21:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1993Jan27.202111.19882
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

In article <1993Jan27.150151.22669@inel.gov> mgq@inel.gov (Michael G McKellar) writes:
>In article <1993Jan26.202555.26060@wam.umd.edu> lecuyer@wam.umd.edu (Catherine L. LeCuyer) writes:
>>
>>Using  r.a.c.vertigo  is the only fair way of limiting what gets
>>posted of the newsgroup. Otherwise you'd have a big fight over what
>>is "mature". I think someone has already brought this up. It seems

>>to me that what the Vertigo titles have in common besides the "mature"
>>label is that they are about the supernatural rather than the superheroic.
>>Maybe that should be the designation? r.a.c.supernatural? It would 
>>allow comics like Spector, DR.S, and Mage (if we ever see it) to be
>>discussed also.
>>This is just a thought, r.a.c.vertigo would probably be simpler.
>>Cathy I don't have a clue either.
>
>Is there really a problem creating a r.a.c.mature?  I mean most of the
>mature titles have "For Mature Readers" printed on the covers.  Would
>someone really be offended if they thought their comics might not
>be mature?  I collect Batman and I have no problems that it is not
>a mature title.  IMHO I think the best split would be r.a.c.mature (
>as if you didn't guess that by now).

Well, Lobo also has "For Mature Readers" printed on its cover.  
Under your deffintion discussion of it would also be included.
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From: fau@po.CWRU.Edu (Francis A. Uy)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: MISC:  Missed Deadlines
Date: 25 Jan 1993 02:42:05 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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lis@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Elisabeth Riba) says:

>Recently, people have been bitching about how late some titles are;
>the Image books, Miracleman, On a Pale Horse...  

Is Miracleman actually late, or are we referring to its
 one per 3 months normal schedule?  I can never tell.

>So, in your opinion, which title has the worst record, and why?

Well, Miller + Darrow's _Hard Boiled_ #3 was a full
 year late.  They even mentioned it on the cover.

Assuming (hoping) it ever comes out, the grand master
 of late shipment will be Wagner's _Mage II_.  Every
 so often I pull out my copy of Mage #15 + read the
 blurb "Mage II, coming in Summer 1987"...

Anyone later than that?
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