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From: v124jw4y@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Benjamin R Pierce)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: LNH: Death of a Hero (?)
Date: 9 Sep 92 00:10:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

..as the chaos built, and net.Earth was split asunder by the combined forces
of the Ring of Retconn, the Cosmic PlotDevice, and massive amounts of bad
editing, a rift to another, darker dimension opened.  Out of this rift came 
creatures from beyond.  Creatures with a purpose.  They were...

The Rec.Arts.Comics readers who did NOT follow the LNH posts!

The screaming horde cut through net.heroes and villains alike, unstoppable and
singleminded in their purpose.  Suddenly, they stopped, their crazed eyes 
fixed on a lone figure struggling out from beneath the rubble...the dazed form
of Marvel Zombie Lad! (Note: this plotline happens after the self-contained
plotline involving Manga Man and the bakery is retconned out of exsistence
several years from now).

With a scream of pure madness, the readers surged towards the battered hero,
screaming, "You're the one who sent out that damn distress call last year!"
"You're to blame for all this insanity!". Still disoriented from the effects
of his wounds and the awesome power of the Cosmic PlotDevice which he still 
held, Marvel Zombie Lad made no effort to defend himself as a horde of crazed
readers seeking to discuss Sandman in peace swarmed over him, pummeling, 
kicking, clawing, and including him in their permanant killfiles. 

Suddenly, it was over: the non-LNH readers had returned to their own dimension,
leaving behind the bloody, broken form of Marvel Zombie Lad.  Cliche Kid rushed
to his side to determine his condition, then looked up, his face grim.

"He's dead, Jim!", he intoned solemnly.

(In the meantime, the Cosmic PlotDevice, still clutched in Marvel Zombie Lad's
 hand, has begun to glow faintly, unnoticed by any of the assembled heroes 
 and villains...)
From: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: My thoughts on Sandman 42
Date: 11 Sep 92 04:31:46 GMT
Organization: Johns Hopkins University CS Dept.

In article <1992Sep10.200642.27577@news.unomaha.edu> torsten@cwis.unomaha.edu (Torsten Wesley Adair) writes:
>	Why Dream is defined as male by our culture depends in part to Roman 
>and Greek Mythology, and those cultures probably decided to make Dream male
>because of his horrific aspects.  
>	A better question would be: "Why is God male?"

Here's a question: In a culture where the number 8 occupies the same place that
the number 7 does in our culture, will the culture see 8 Endless?
--
"the bogosity in a field equals the bogosity imported from related areas, plus
the bogosity generated internally, minus the bogosity expelled or otherwise
disposed of."  -- K. Eric Drexler

Ken Arromdee (UUCP: ....!jhunix!arromdee; BITNET: arromdee@jhuvm;
     INTERNET: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu)
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From: REBECCA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Rebecca Drayer)
Subject: Re: Superman - Glad he is going to die.
Organization: Yale University
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 19:21:46 EDT

In article <stantbat.716404490@vincent2.iastate.edu>
stantbat@iastate.edu (John S Sinnott) writes:
 
>Superman also does not fight a monster every issue.  Some entire coomics have
>no punches thrown.  For example every X-mas, Superman goes to the postoffice
>to read his fan mail.  Most of it is 'Gee your great' or 'I've got an idea
>for us to make a lot of money' type stuff, but some of it is not.  Last year,
>(I think) a boy wrote and said "You can do anything.  My father has a brain
>tumor and the doctors say he is going to die.  Please save his life." Of course
>Superman can't, and goes to talk to the boy.  He arrives just after the father
>died, and the kid hates Superman because he didn't get there sooner.
 
 
 
Do you remember the issue number?  I usually don't read Superman either, but
I'd like to take a look at that one.
 
 
 
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From: jcowling@ophelia.UVic.CA (Scowling Jim Cowling)
Subject: Batman / X-Men timeslot in Seattle?
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 92 03:14:11 GMT

Could anyone please e-mail me with info on what timeslots Batman: The Animated
Series and The X-Men Cartoon have on KCPQ Seattle?

-------
Scowling Jim Cowling
Creative Writing Department, University of Victoria (opinions disassociated)
Do I need a BotENV name?  How 'bout "Impatient Lad"?
-------
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From: murphy@npri6.npri.com (David P. Murphy)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: LNH: Return of Lurking Girl
Date: 14 Sep 92 18:33:37 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: NPRI, Alexandria VA

vcf1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Victoria C Fike) writes:

>Reading further, Lurking Girl receives a nastier surprise--who is Lurking Lass?
>How could the Legion admit such a blatant rip-off?  And after she nearly killed
>herself, trying to warn them about Y-Plex Burp's evil plot!!  

>"Still, I have to find them.  This mess has got to be straightened out.  And as
>for Lurking Lass, well, she has no chance against me; *I* was the original, 
>*I* am the mistress of networld invisibility, and *no one* can stand against 
>the focused totality of my lurking powers (tm)!!  This legion ain't big enough
>for the both of us!"

Egocentric Editor spares you the trouble by Efficiently Erasing all Existence
of the Ersatz 'Eroine from Everyone's Eidetic memory.  her Error?  an Enormous
breach of Comix Ethics: under-Endowment!  her bust was a mere 42", far below
the Mininum Daily Requirements which the Market demands.

ok
dpm
-- 
murphy@npri6.npri.com 602 Cameron St. Alexandria, VA 22314 (703) 683-9090

              When every one is dead the Great Game is finished.  Not before.
                              --- Hurree Babu, "Kim"
From: lf7z@ellis.uchicago.edu (glenn alan carnagey jr)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: Query: Sandman character on Cerebus?
Date: 11 Sep 92 17:35:56 GMT
Reply-To: lf7z@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

In article <1992Sep9.043151.28706@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> conty@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (OtakuRoach) writes:
>In article <1685C14501.YANJUNA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu>, YANJUNA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu writes:
>>      Can anyone post or e-mail the name of the character (in both books)
>> and the issue reference?  (From Gaiman's description, it sounds like
>> Death, but I don't see an obvious match in Cerebus.)
>
>I don't remember the issue number, but it is in the early 150's.  It should
>be easy to spot.  Just look for the lady with the ankh and the slightly odd
>smile in the page with all the men chanting "DEATH! DEATH! DEATH!".
>She DOESN'T look like Gaiman's death.  I didn't realize who she was until
>someone pointed it out here in USENET.

I thought she was readily recognizable as Death.  Anyway, I caught it 
immediately and got a good chuckle.

Pax,
Glenn
......................................................................
"Death or Lower Taxes!"
   --- Cerebus
"Death! Death! Death!"
   --- the ever-so-imaginative mob
g-carnagey@uchicago.edu
......................................................................
From: bxp1628@hertz.njit.edu (Brian Perler)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: Superman's Death
Date: 15 Sep 92 16:09:18 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <smznlvr.jrs@netcom.com> jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer) writes:
>I think that the only superhero who has stayed dead is Brother Voodoo, 
>and even he shows up from time to time in Fred Hembeck's column in Marvel
>Age.

Not to start up the "Who stays dead?" thread again, but the only 
superheroes who stay dead are Bucky and Captain Mar-Vell (at least
at Marvel).  Brother Voodoo isn't dead.  (At least, not that I
know of).

-- 
"Dog bites man--that's not a story.  Man bites dog--*that's* a story.  And
if the dog and the man slug it out for six issues, and then Wolverine shows
up for a guest appearance, and the dog turns out to be a mutant, that's a
*Marvel* story!"			-Marvel Editorial Handbook
From: un032115@wvnvms.wvnet.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: Dale Keown, and leaving The Incredible Hulk
Date: 10 Sep 92 10:33:43 GMT
Organization: West Virginia Network for Educational Telecomputing

In article <65447@cup.portal.com>, Peter_A_David@cup.portal.com writes:
> That is correct. Gary Frank will be the new penciller on Hulk--making Hulk
> the only title at Marvel to have a writer/penciller team that doesn't have
> a single last name between them.
> 
> PAD

How long is Jan Duursema's stint, then?

Ken Bradley
kbradley@nyx.cs.du.edu
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From: panda@Micor.OCUnix.on.ca (Elizabeth Holden)
Subject: Death of Superman
Organization: M.B. Cormier INC.
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 09:17:03 EDT


.... I think they'll milk this death for all it's worth and then we'll 
get back to something resembling the pre-Byrne, pre-crisis Superman.  
All-new, all-improved....


Namaste,
Elizabeth

P.S.  I wonder if there's any hope for Kara/Supergirl?

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From: hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke)
Subject: Re: RAC
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 21:48:53 GMT

In article <BuFIK5.C8C@news.udel.edu> lmlc@brahms.udel.edu (Carolyn M Chandler) writes:
>
>Rac.Marvel		(so i/others wouldnt have to read about this stuff)
>rac.DC
>rac.Black & white
>rec.marketplace
>rac. independent or rac.Valiant/image/dark horse
>rac.strips
>rac.info
>rac.misc (for discusing things like marvle vs DC or inter newsgroup things
>to avoid crossposting.
>
>this setup make the most sense to me i can think of other groups 
>but i think that all of these groups would have enough trafic to 
>justify their exastince.

So do I... but at the beginning of the summer, the people wanting a
superhero/misc pushed for a vote, apparently thinking they could pull it
off since the majority of r.a.c. readers were gone for the summer... it
failed, but it prevented the more useful marvel/dc/indy split from
taking place.



-- 
And now, Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handey:
    If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, go real limp, so people will think
    you're a dummy, and they'll try to catch you, because hey, free dummy!
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From: conty@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (OtakuRoach)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Please set the appropriate Date: when posting (was Re: Cerebus #300...)
Date: 4 Sep 92 22:16:21 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories

In article <1992Sep3.221433.28446@midway.uchicago.edu>, mss2@quads.uchicago.edu (Michael S. Schiffer) writes:
> 	Well, I have to admit, Sim managed to pull it off.  Not
> perfect, certainly, but he managed to tie everything together nicely,
[...]

Mike, it seems you set the wrong Date: field, and sent your posting to
sometime in 1992.  Please be careful next time.

Until Gaiman finally calls it quits (it has been, what, 15 years on SANDMAN?),
this was:
-- 
			    E n r i q u e  C o n t y
			The Incredible Man-with-no-Life
			      jester@ihlpl.att.com
		    Disclaimer: You're not dealing with AT&T
From: jed@matilda.vut.edu.au (Jed Bowtell)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: Late Comics.
Date: 8 Sep 92 04:15:54 GMT
Organization: Victoria University of Technology

un032115@wvnvms.wvnet.edu writes:

>In article <Btw9tA.JIy@matilda.vut.edu.au>, jed@matilda.vut.edu.au (Jed Bowtell) writes:
>> The Godzilla color special by Art Adams is pretty late as well.
>Heh.  ROBOCOP VS. TERMINATOR #2-4 (also from Dark Horse) is really, REALLY
>late.  
>Oh, well.  It should be quality, with Miller and Simonson on the job.

Well I think the Godzilla special is later than RvsT 2-4 are. 
I heard that RvsT #1 wasn't very good. I ordered a copy but
havent picked it up yet!

Jed
From: barnejd@wkuvx1.bitnet
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: LNH - The Master Plan Revealed
Date: 8 Sep 92 13:45:23 GMT
Organization: Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY


  Meanwhile...
  Crossover Queen chuckled evilly.  Her master plan had worked; some
unsuspecting fool had actually split the net.Earth into several
different continuities!  Seperately, they were each vulnerable to
her insidious temporal/spacial invasion.  She turned to the cowering
Royalty King.
  "The Ultimate Crossover has begun! The confusion it creates shall
now keep the net.heroes busy as I take over each of their worlds! And
the best thing is that they do _my_ bidding!  Bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha!"
  "B-b-but have the appropriate licensing fees been paid?" Royalty
King whimpered.
  The Queen's laugh abruptly ended.  "You fool!  You mindless insect!
You forget who you speak to!  I shall rule all the net.continuum!  
Royalties?!  Ha!  Characters are my playthings!"
  Several realities away, the shock wave from the splitting of the
net.Earth hit one Earth.  As fate would have it, it was the one that
the Continuity Champ was on.  Floating amongst the debris, he had a 
sudden insight as to why this had happened.  At last, his destiny was
to be fulfilled!
  However, he could not join the LNH so long as Captain Continuity was
on the team (some dumb clause about similar nicknames confusing the
media).  The Champion realized that his only hope in stopping the on-
coming destruction of all the net.Earths lay in going back in time and
assuming the role of some minor character, one who joined the LNH
_before_ Captain Continuity, thereby making the Captain the new-comer,
the one who was required to leave.  Of course, if he had read some of
the older pre-Crisis LSH's, he would have known that all he really had
to do was change the Captain's powers, but, unfortunately, he hadn't.
  So, with a blinding explosion of burnt sienna light, he was gone.
  
  On earth.net.prime, one of the heroes smiled grimly (though it was
difficult, at best, to tell due to the mask).  
  But which one was it?

  TO BE CONTINUED... (hopefully without any convenient world-
splitting)

                                    -Drizzt
Organization: Valencia University (Universitat de Valencia) SPAIN
Date: Thursday, 10 Sep 1992 15:37:24 EST
From: <ARTIGAS@EVALUN11.BITNET>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Help: San Diego Con


   I'm writing an article about San Diego Con. I have a little info on DC
plains and Marvel, but I have nothing about DH, Image,...
   Can anyone help me? All your news, remarks, or opinions will be welcome.


   The Spanish mad-fan-comics will be grateful to you.

                                          Alvaro Pons
                                        artigas@evalun11

          ------------------------------------------------------
             Superman ha muerto. El gran heroe espaol hace su
             aparicin:   Superlopez
From: jogle@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Jim Ogle (Ks. Jim))
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: X-MEN on FOX??
Date: 15 Sep 92 17:17:37 GMT
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM

In article <mumble> 4mckenzie_m@spcvxb.spc.edu writes:

>    FOX is going to put on the X-Men, but it won't be till October.  I don't 
>know what day, but it will be a thirteen episode series.  All the major 

October 10.

>characters and villians will be there--except for Colossus (I reealllly wanna 
>know why he was left out!).  It looks like a good series; ask around at a comic 
>shop for more info.

Colossus shows up in one of the first five or so episodes but not as a
member of the X-Men.  Maybe he joins up in that episode, I don't know.

-- 
Kansas Jim (Jim Ogle, TORG guru)
jogle@aoc.nrao.edu (NRAO-VLBA, Socorro New Mexico)
"I'd be apathetic if I cared."
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From: kogutt@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (SCAVENGER)
Subject: COMING ATTRACTIONS
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 04:53:08 GMT

COMING MONDAY (or maybe Tuesay if the computer center is closed):

THE 501 BLUES:  THE FINAL BATTLE FOR EARTH R.A.C.

Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid.  It's 100% pure Adrenaline.  This Time its Personal.



-----SCAV "REBEL YELL" ENGER
 
-- 
KAHN: And I never forget a face.  Mr. Chekov,   |  kogutt@ucsu.colorado.edu
           isn't it?                            |      (Internet/Usenet)
CHEKOV:  But, I wasn't in that episode!!!       | No matter where you go, there
     (from MST3K:The Wrath of Kahn)             |    you are."-Buckaroo Banzai 
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From: dvandom@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (David VanDomelen)
Subject: Re: Death of Superman
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 03:47:32 GMT

Let's see.  First they cancel many of my fave series (Blue Beetle, Booster 
Gold, Starman, Captain Atom, Blue Devil, Hawk & Dove).  Then they add insult to
injury by hunting down the characters and killing and/or exiling them.  Starman
"dead" from Eclipso, Beetle to be comatose, Cap Atom exiled, Hawk with him and 
Dove killed.  It seems to be a pattern of "Well, their series died, let's kill 
them to add sales to a megacrossover event."  Scum.
     Dave Van Domelen, and now for a song....
          It's No Fun (Being Chased By Hordes Of Aliens)
               to the tune of the equivalent Genesis song

(sorry, but this is only a partial song, I don't have the original on tape)

Down in d'sewer, their acid-like blood
Burns holes in m'clothes, then I hear a thud!
I turn around, see the slime-dripping teeth
And behind them, the teeth underneath....

     They won't tell anybody, what d'aliens do
     If this goes on, all d'human race will surely be through!

          It's no fun, being chased by hordes of Aliens!
          Nonononono it's no fun, being chased by hordes of Aliens.

Back in d'spaceship, I tink I am safe,
Turn on machine guns and start in't'strafe!
I killed them all and I blew up d'nest...
Den I feel somethin pokin outta my chest!

     Now don't tell anybody, but I'm gonna spew,
     I'm real grossed out by the Alien pushin' through!

          It's no fun, giving birth to baby Alien!
          Nonononono it's no fun, giving birth to baby Alien.
               (repeat to fadeout)
Note: transliteration of accent is attempt to duplicate feel of original song
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From: vcf1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Victoria C Fike)
Subject: LNH: Return of Lurking Girl
Organization: Columbia University
Reply-To: vcf1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Victoria C Fike)
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 19:57:12 GMT
X-Posted-From: cunixa.cc.columbia.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In a quiet corner of r.a.c.Earth, Lurking Girl staggers into the light.  Gaunt
and haggard after a recent attack of mono, she moves over to a nearby terminal 
to catch up on back issues...

"What?  R.a.c.Earth is going to be destroyed, and replaced by R.a.c.misc.earth?
The things you miss by going home for the summer!"

Reading further, Lurking Girl receives a nastier surprise--who is Lurking Lass?
How could the Legion admit such a blatant rip-off?  And after she nearly killed
herself, trying to warn them about Y-Plex Burp's evil plot!!  And what has 
happened to all her old teammates?  Half of them are being treated as villains!
Ah yes, she remembers; summer.  Twice as much happens, due to popular titles
being released bi-weekly instead of monthly.

"Still, I have to find them.  This mess has got to be straightened out.  And as
for Lurking Lass, well, she has no chance against me; *I* was the original, 
*I* am the mistress of networld invisibility, and *no one* can stand against 
the focused totality of my lurking powers (tm)!!  This legion ain't big enough
for the both of us!"

Brushing off her incredibly-revealing-but-still-within-the-comics-code ethereal
gray costume, Lurking Girl prepares to stalk off in search of the LNH, when a 
final entry on the terminal catches her eye.  

"What's this?  The LNH has a group of its own?  I'll seek them there!"


Tori
aka Lurking Girl

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From: cole@concert.net (Derrick C. Cole)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.info
Subject: This just in... (Spoiler Warning)
Date: 4 Sep 92 15:10:06 GMT
Followup-To: rec.arts.comics.misc
Organization: MCNC Data Operations


This could be construed as a spoiler so...


In a phone interview with CNN's Bobbie Battista, Mike Carlin, Editor of
Superman Comics/DC Comics, confirmed that Superman will die in the issue to
be shipped November 18, 1992.  According to Battista, the comic will be
packaged with both an obituary from the Daily Planet and a mourning band.

The incident will occur as the result of a confrontation between Superman and
Doomsday, apparently someone/thing that will come from outer space and wreak
havoc on America.  The confrontation will occur "literally in front of the
Daily Planet," Carlin said.

In response to what next, Carlin said they will be following the aftermath of
Superman's demise and that there "is always hope."

Derrick

-- 
Worf is a "sensitive" Klingon.
======
Derrick Cole                                  MCNC Center for Communications



--
-Hades (Brian V. Hughes) 
	    "Egads! These look like a women's fingerprints"
						   -- Durlock Holmes
From: ac985@cleveland.freenet.edu (Joel Tscherne)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.info
Subject: Scheduled Releases-9/11/92
Date: 4 Sep 92 14:13:19 GMT
Reply-To: ac985@cleveland.freenet.edu (Joel Tscherne)
Followup-To: rec.arts.comics.misc
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)




Here are some of the books scheduled for release the week ending
September 11th.  Please note that this does not guarantee that they will
arrive on time.

DARK HORSE
Alien 3 #2                           Classic Star Wars #1
Thing: Climate of Fear #2            20,000 Leagues #1

DC
Action Comics #682                   Batman Adventures #1
Bride of the Demon TPB               Guy Gardner #1
Justice Society #3                   Lobo's Back #3
Martian Manhunter #2                 Sgt. Rock Special #1

DC/IMPACT
Crusaders #6

MALIBU
Ninja High School #3

MARVEL 
Alpha Flight #114                    Darkhold #2
Excalibur #56                        Ghost Rider #31
Marvel Universe #23                  Metropol AD #2
Pendragon #5                         Wolverine #63

VALIANT
Shadowman #8


Next list: September 11th.
 
-- 
===============Joel Tscherne:  ac985@cleveland.freenet.edu===============



--
-Hades (Brian V. Hughes) 
	    "Egads! These look like a women's fingerprints"
						   -- Durlock Holmes