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From: rutled@bnr.ca (Philip Rutledge)
Subject: Re: Bone!
Reply-To: rutled@bnr.ca
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 12:41:01 GMT

White Wolf (wwolf@zooid.guild.org) wrote:
: From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
: >
: >The single best thing I picked up at the convention (and I picked up a
: >LOT) was the first five issues of "Bone" by Jeff Smith.  This stuff is
: >just too good to believe.  It's not Sandman, and it's not all
: >angst-ridden, but it's a damned good story with some damned good
: >characters, and some very good unembellished art (he has one hell of a
: >clean line).   If your comic book store stocks it, take a look at it.
: >The first issue was a little weak compared to other issues, but way
: >above most other stuff.
:  
:      I too just recently picked up those same five issues. Best darn new thing
: I've read in years. It was great being able to read all five issues, one after
: another. Now I gotta wait for bi-monthly installments. Darn.
:  
:      For those who haven't read them, put down that extra copy of
: fill-in-the-blank from Image Comics and invest in at least the first issue of
: this series. After getting the first issue home, I drove back to the store to
: get the other four...
:  
:                      White Wolf

I  discovered  Bone a month or so ago.  The Silver  Snail  line of comic
shops in Toronto  have been  recommending  it also the CBG did a review.
Seems everybody is raving about it.

It's wonderful stuff.

Also, if you buy the set of back issues  directly  from  Cartoon  Books,
Jeff Smith will  autograph the first issue and put in a little sketch of
Fone Bone!  I sent off for them and was not disappointed.

By the way the first 3 issues are already in their second printing.

Later,
Phil

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Philip Rutledge (rutled@bnr.ca)                  Bell-Northern Research
"Stupid, Stupid rat creatures!!" -- Fone Bone                   Bone #2
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From: akuma@netcom.com (Steven E Barnes)
Subject: San Diego Con Horror Story
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 09:16:34 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 


Scene in dealer room, with Fanboy looking at issues of
Youngblood #1:

Fanboy: "How much?"
Dealer: "$3.00 each"
Fanboy: "I'll take all of them"
Dealer: "OK, that's 33; take two more comics and I'll call it an even
         $100"

-steve
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From: tyg@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Tom Galloway)
Subject: Re: DC's plans
Organization: Interleaf
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 23:33:04 GMT

In article <lsmith.714421989@myria> lsmith@myria.cs.umn.edu (Lance "Squiddie" Smith) writes:
>I have this disturbing image of people thrusting Squiddie
>shirts at Gaiman where ever he goes. Just out of curiosity, how many shirts
>out there have Neil's name on them?

None of them.  Heck, we didn't even put the poem on any of this run,
let alone do customized name versions.  What you do in terms of
embroidering "Neil Gaiman" on it when you get it is your business though.

"The seaweed of crime bears bitter Fruit-of-the-Loom"
tyg   tyg@hq.ileaf.com
From: louzon@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Louzon ronald g)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: DC's plans
Summary: please list plans
Date: 18 Aug 92 13:22:16 GMT
Reply-To: louzon@aplcen (Louzon ronald g)
Organization: Johns Hopkins University


Would someone please list what DC's new plans are?  What titles are they
planning to launch?  Amoungst all of the discussion of the DC title 
explosion no one has bothered to say just what they plan on releasing.
Some of us weren't there and would just love to know what everyone else
is talking about.  This includes any juicy details from any of the panel
discussions, especially the responses people have metioned that Peter 
David said.  Thanks in advance.
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From: stantbat@iastate.edu (John S Sinnott)
Subject: Re: San Diego Con Horror Story
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 21:31:59 GMT

In <Bt68EJ.BuJ@matilda.vut.edu.au> jed@matilda.vut.edu.au (Jed Bowtell) writes:

>>Gee,
>>	Perhaps he would like my copy as well. Or better yet, would
>>	he like my copies of ShadowHawk 1 and Brigade 1, ecch!
>>	:-) :-)

>The way I see it is in ten years it will be good to look back
>at these comics we bought and laugh. I didnt by Shadowhawk or
>Brigade though. I only stuffed up slightly by buying 
>Youngblood #1. I think in a couple of years there will be a 
>whole new generation of fanboys just aching for some copies
>of Youngblood #1. Hold onto it!

>Jed

Yea, Youngblood #1 will be worth a fortune, like all of those other 'hot'
books from yesteryear.  I bought a Shazam #1 for $0.35 and now it's worth
a whole $2.50!  And it took less than 20 years to get that high.  Or 
remember Howard the Duck #1??  I still have one I paid $20 for at the peak 
of it's popularity.  Now it's worth $10!  And remember when it was rumored
that part of the print run for Miricle Man #1 was damaged?  Boy it's a
really hot book, guiding at cover price.  Save you Youngbloods.  Someday 
they might make good kindling.

-John
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From: jimh@pacdata.uucp (Jim Harkins)
Subject: Re: Thoughts on the CON
Organization: Pacific Data Products
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 19:15:33 GMT

>>> It was a BLAST!  Big hint - register in advance.  The lines on
>>> Saturday and Sunday stretched back from the door, down the block to
>>> the light, took the corner, and then started spiraling around a
>>> parking lot.
>
>Better yet, get in free, as a "Pro." 

I got in as 'press'.  My friend is a reporter for a local paper and I just
*happened* to be holding his camera bags in both hands while he was showing
his press credentials.  It wasn't the money, it was that damn long line that
seems to get longer each year.  The pre-advance flyers shouldn't just talk
about long lines, they should show pictures of them on every page.  I go
every year, I know every year I'm going, and I have yet to pre-register.
*sigh*  Next year maybe I'll start thinking about volunteering, that could
be pretty interesting as long as I have the time.

jim

-- 
Lawyers Creed:  What's mine is mine, what's yours is negotiable.
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Pacific Data Products               jim@pacdata.com
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From: cwelsh@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Craig Welsh  8823239)
Subject: Doom 2099
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Distribution: rec.arts.comics.misc.
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 01:09:07 GMT

This is what I know about Doom 2099 from a promo flyer I recieved when I
bought my comics today.

"The old Victor von Doom has been gone for many, many years. Latervia
has a new ruler known as Tiger Wylde. The new Doom is a young man with a
mission to recapture his throne as ruler of Latervia. Tiger Wylde will
be an opponent who won't take no for an answer. The creatice team of
John Francis Moore (writer from the Flash) penciler Pat Broderick and
inker John Beatty have created a dark and ominous world of Doom 2099.

Doesn't sound to bad and the art on the front by Broderick looks great.
There is other info as well. No Aunt May and everybody for Spidey 2099.
Ravage 2099 looks really bad and Punisher 2099 sole redeaming feature is
that Pat Mills (Martial Law) is doing it. Looks about 50/50 for the new
Marvel titles.


*************************************************************************
* Craig Welsh                  *    "I'm a few bricks short of a       *
*                              *     load, but a full load always      *
* cwelsh@morgan.ucs.mun.ca     *     hurt my back."                    *
*                              *     "Crazy" - Barenaked Ladies        *
************************************************************************
* "Homeboy from Hell." Screw that. I'm the Waiter from Hell.           *
*  You figure out which is scarier.                                    *
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From: jhildeb1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Jeff Hildebrand)
Subject: Re: CEREBUS: M&D 10 (spoilers)
Reply-To: jhildeb1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Jeff Hildebrand)
Organization: Don's Merry Horde of Topologists
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 21:22:47 GMT

dml@athena.mit.edu (David M LaMacchia) writes:
> In article <1992Aug12.155804.24296@news.acns.nwu.edu> jeff@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Jeff Williamson) writes:
> 
> >Dave Sim's writing has managed to move me, on numerous occasions, to
> >provoke me into emotional response. But never, never before has it
> >*shaken* me.
> 
> Wow.  I read this Wednesday and had to wait two days until the shops
> in D.C. (where I am now) finally got it in.  I have to agree: you were right.

	Hmm, while it was another excellent issue I'm not sure I would go
that far. It certainly didn't shake me the way #136 did (the final chapter
of Jaka's Story). Still, there's a hell of a lot of interesting stuff going
on.

> That was a surprise.  And the "death" of Julius...hmm.  Well, Dave's been
> known to do things like this before (although Weisshaupt's death was pretty
> dramatic).  I don't know what to make of it, so I think I'll await the next
> issue (i.e. the easy way out).

	C'mom folks. This is Lord Julius after all and the fact remains that
the "slash" was essentially off panel. We don't see anything about who or
what was involved and how. I'm betting very strongly that next issue we'll
see that something very silly has happened which has gotten Lord Julius out
of danger.

-Jeff
-- 
Jeff Hildebrand                                  jhildeb1@cc.swarthmore.edu
"Fly Heisenberg Airlines! We may not know where we are, but we're making
real good time." - _Synners_ by Pat Cadigan
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From: gouvea@zariski.harvard.edu (Fernando Gouvea)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Need list of Marvel Masterworks volumes (repost?)
Date: 22 Aug 92 14:25:14 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Math/CS Colby College

Sorry if this is a repost; I'm not sure the first one got out properly.

I have a pressing need for a list of which comics are in which "Marvel
Masterworks" volumes. This is because I need to buy the volume containing
Fantastic Four issues 21-30, and all the catalogs I find merely list these
by the number of the Marvel Masterworks volume (rather than indicating what
each contains). I hope somebody out there has the set and can help...

Thanks.

-- 
============================================================================
Fernando Q. Gouvea				fqgouvea@colby.edu
Dept. of Math/CS				(207)-872-3278
Colby College					Mudd 407
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From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Subject: Re: "How to be a super hero?"
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 05:32:04 GMT

>us279764@mmm.serc.3m.com (Philip . Miller) writes:
>>Several weeks ago there was some discussion in this
>>news group about a book titled something like:
>>_How to Become a Superhero_.  I've looked for this

>>Could somebody help me out with the title and author?

"How to be a Superhero" by Mark Leigh and Mike Lepine.  Illustrated by
Steve Dillon.  Published by NBM publishing, 1992.  ISBN 1-56163-051-9.
-- 
This quote is encrypted - get your decoder rings ready!
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From: dvandom@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (David VanDomelen)
Subject: Spinoffs of Mature Readers Titles in DC
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 02:15:59 GMT

Hey, I want Delirium #1!!!  But I thought only *viable* titles would get spun 
off...}->  I mean, I like Doom Patrol so therefore it must be on the verge of 
cancellation just like Captain Atom, Blue Devil, Blue Beetle, Booster Gold, 
Hawk & Dove and just about every non JL* title I like(d) at DC!
     Dave Van Domelen, "Hey, who put my gazpacho in the microwave?"
From: chris@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Chris Casey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: rec.arts.comics.image?
Date: 17 Aug 92 20:09:51 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

In article <1992Aug15.185715.24942@cs.unca.edu> mcmahan@cs.unca.edu (Scott McMahan -- Genesis mailing list owner) writes:
>Is there enough interest in rec.arts.comics.image to go through
>the motions of CFD,RFD, and so on?
>
>I can't be the only one who likes them!

Or for that matter, rec.arts.comics.valiant.  I think enough discussion could
be drummed up (there certainly seems to be enough interest) to merit the group.....

just MHO, of course....

Chris

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From: mkelly@lazy.helios.nd.edu (michael kelly)
Subject: Re: Joe Shuster
Keywords: A Legend Maker is Gone
Reply-To: mkelly@lazy.helios.nd.edu (michael kelly)
Organization: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 19:27:58 GMT

 moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (The Napoleon of Crime) writes:

Jeff, thanks for the following summary of the first Superman stories. I agree
with you 100%, and I'm eagerly awaiting volume four of the Superman Archives!

|> I think Siegel and Shuster's original Superman is probably the best
|> rendition of the character ever done.  Yes, Moore's writing was certainly
|> better, and I have a real soft spot for Curt Swan's artwork.  
|> 
|> Nevertheless, the S&S (particularly the war years) SUPERMAN was absolutely
|> primal stuff.  I look at a Shuster's depiction of the Big Blue Cheese, and I
|> think, "Now *there's* a guy who really *is* more powerful than a
|> locomotive!"  Not an atom bomb, not a planetary force -- just a dynamo of a
|> guy, a Hercules.  Plots were primitive, characterizations are wooden, but
|> hey: Superman, under its two originators, had a power that didn't last past
|> their run on the book.  Maybe its derived partially from nostalgia, maybe
|> some from Freudian influences, but when you look at a Joe Shuster issue,
|> you're looking at a *Super*man, man.

-- 
+               Mike Kelly, Notre Dame Department of Physics                +
+                                                                           +
+ mkelly@happy.helios.nd.edu       If you crumple your money into little    +
+ mkelly@undhe5.hep.nd.edu           balls, it will never stick together.   +
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From: jcomeau@unixg.ubc.ca (Joe Comeau)
Subject: Windows Comic Collecting Program
Organization: UBC Pulmonary Research Lab., St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 18:56:30 GMT

I am going to be writing a program for Windows which will allow collector's 
to keep track of thier comic collections.  I am looking for additional information and ideas from other collectors about my rambling thoughts
listed below, and hopefully some new ideas as well.

Database for Publisher, Title, Issue

Publisher: will just list the available publishers .

Titles:	will include: Name of the title, Start date of title, Volume of title,
	and the state of the title (ie.. ongoing, or finished)

Issues will include:
	Issue number(includeing special  Eg X-men 1A....), condition based
	on Overstreet guide (M, NM, VF, F, VG, G, F, P), price paid, 
	Date purchased, Number of copies, Remark field(ie.. Red Youngblood
	silly cover #2, Neil Adams pencils etc...)

1)	You will be able to add: Publishers, Titles, and issue at any time.
2)	Print out lists of issues you have
3)	Print out prices paid of a title, or collection
4)	Want lists can be printed, provided you take the time to enter the
	titles and issue information, but nothing in the copies field.

I was thinking of adding a current values index much like Gerber's Marvel hard
cover books Vol. 3 & 4 (Highly recomended) which list all marvel (most) from
the early 60's to about 1989-1990.  The problem with this would be that I
would have to enter every comic in the database, something I don't really want
to do.  ANY IDEAS in this area would be appreciated.

Any and all comments will be appreciated.

Please post replies to rec.arts.comics.misc so other's can also read them.
I will attempt to gather all the information together and post a summary
of what I inted to do later.

If your comments are going to be too long for usenet, then mail them to me
at this address:
		jcomeau@pulmonary.ubc.ca

						Thanks Joe
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From: carterk@cgsvax.claremont.edu
Subject: A Step in the Right Direction (comics to try)
Organization: The Claremont Graduate School
Date: 15 Aug 92 01:14:04 PST

Along with the previously noted sleeper, Hawkworld (which gets better with this
issue, as it has with the last twenty-six), another title that I haven't heard
people talking about much (anywhere) came out this week: Green Lantern/MOSAIC.

I was rather put off by the first issue, not knowing what to expect, and
looking for Gerard Jones' regular GL writing, or even his rather lackluster
John Stewart/Mosaic storyline (GL14-17) writing.

This is not your ordinary comic.

While it fits into the (rather seamless these days) Green Lantern continuity, I
keep wanting to file it in my DC/Alternatives box along with Doom Patrol or
Animal Man. It's a well thought psychological book delving into the mind of
Green Lantern John Stewart, who is charged with the task of maintaining peace
on the patchwork world of Oa (remaining from the first 8 issues of GL(ii)). 

Thing is, he's gone mad.

That is to say, mad in the sense of "not quite sane" but stopping (we hope)
somewhere short of "they-laughed-at-me-at-the-university-but-i'll-show-them"
mad. It seems sometimes like the most interesting parts of the book take place
inside John's head, and it isn't always pretty. I'm not sure whether I would
even want to call him the "hero" of the book, because we get to see where he's
at and "heroic" isn't really it.

For people who want to try a median step between regular superheroes and the
often-inaccessable to the uninitiated "DC weirdness/horror" books, the latest
issue, featuring GL Hal Jordan (the one everybody knows) works really well as a
bridge, both to the series and to the comic "type."

It's issue five, with the ever so subtle cover blurb "MIND WAR!" (who writes
those things, anyway?)

How to get your Marvel friends to read it: Hey! It's got Dan Panosian, hot new
(old) X-Force penciller inking it! It'll be real hot in a year.

-----
Douglass Barre - carterk@cgsvax.claremont.edu
"Don't judge my madness by your sanity, brother." -- John Stewart, _Mosaic_ #5.

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From: dvandom@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (David VanDomelen)
Subject: Other Comics Like Tick and Ambush Bug
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 17:09:11 GMT

As an owner of all the Tick appearances save one, and many Ambush Bug 
appearances, I agree about Fish Police #1-26.  The sequel, Fish Schticks, isn't
as good without the "hook" of Gill being replaced by his author.  I would also 
recommend wholeheartedly _Flaming Carrot_. Is good.
     Dave Van Domelen, evil umpire
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From: tweaver@nyx.cs.du.edu (T.C.Weaver)
Subject: Re: Sandman spoiler question
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: Fri, 21 Aug 92 16:17:46 GMT

 mac7@po.CWRU.Edu (Michael A. Chary) writes:

>Obviously, the crystal Nuala has is suppose to clue in the smarter
>readers about who the girl is.  That category doesn't include me.
>Could some kind soul among the elect kindly clue me in? Please?
>Pretty please?

Some New Ager? I dunno, I thought that the crystal was just a nice gift for
Nuala & she's still being terribly nervous about proper protocol in Dream's
realm, in contrast to Matthew, who looks hacked off with it all.

But Ali went home early again today, so I haven't got my own copy of B.L.2
yet & am theorising from a 5-minute scan through the issue.

Tanaqui
From: branwen@cerebus.ccc.amdahl.com (Karen Williams)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Gaiman (was Re: DC's plans)
Date: 21 Aug 92 18:38:45 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

In article <1992Aug20.223009.1@fnalo.fnal.gov> morrow@fnalo.fnal.gov (Dan Elmoe) writes:

>	Tanaqui, has he moved to Minnesota yet?

Apparently, the reason Gaiman wasn't at SDCC was because he got the
house he'd been in the process of buying and was doing closing thangs
on the sale. I heard (unsubstantiated rumor alert) he was moving to 
Wisconsin, to a town near the border of Minnesota near Mipple City.  


--
                                          Karen Williams
                                          branwen@cerebus.ras.amdahl.com
"Don't whine. Warrior women speak in a husky whisper."
  -- Brat Pack #3
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From: jwtlai@jeeves.uwaterloo.ca (Jim W Lai)
Subject: Re: Gaiman's and DC's plans
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 21:35:46 GMT

In article <1992Aug21.165814.20175@raven.alaska.edu> ejo@kaja.gi.alaska.edu (Eric J. Olson) writes:
>In article <lsmith.714342985@atto> lsmith@atto.cs.umn.edu (Lance "Squiddie" Smith) writes:
>>After Neil wraps up the Sandman title, in about three years, he says he would
>>like to do a set of stories for each of the Endless. He suggests maybe a
>>Destiny prestige book, a three issue Delirium miniseries, a 12 issue Desire
>>miniseries and a Despair one-shot, but adds that he really doesn't have
>>any formal plans at this point. 
>
>Great!  But why stop there?  Why not:
>
> A six-issue Death series which mysteriously ends after only four
>   issues?

Three seems to be the preferred number, though I do not think it to be the
case for the one coming up.

> A Delerium cross-over into Groo?

If you want surreal, why not have a Delirium-Shade the Changing Man crossover?

> A Destruction limited edition AK-47?

Naw.  I see a Destruction one-shot which ends midway in a flurry of entropy
and printing errors.

>The possibilities boggle the wallet!

Nonsense.  We haven't even begun to issue the commemorative Destruction suit of
armor from the Franklin Mint, each detail hand-crafted; as well, the dents in
the armor are replicated as accurately as possible from authentic dented suits
of armor.  Or the Desire chess set, sold by one piece a month; you do want this
fine set, carved and painted by the most skilled artisans, don't you?  Or the
Delirirum set of psychedelic dinner plates, said to be so effective that one
can experience vertigo near the end of a meal served on them.  I have heard
rumor that some are working on Despair glow rats.  (In fact, I just made up
that rumor myself.)  Death will come out with a line of winter fashions (aren't
these dresses just the most wonderful outfits to be ending an evening in?).
And to top it off, there will be the Destiny Book-of-the-Eon club;
unfortunately, the title selection will be very limited.
From: lin@ug.cs.dal.ca (David Lin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Good comic stores in NYC
Summary: Help needed
Keywords: comics, stores, New York
Date: 18 Aug 92 02:37:29 GMT
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada


I know this has probably been asked a million times (is it in the FAQ?)
but could someone out there e-mail me some addresses of some good
comic stores in New York City?


Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
dave

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