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From: ejs16@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Eric Jaron Stieglitz)
Subject: Re: MISC: Missed Deadlines
Reply-To: ejs16@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Eric Jaron Stieglitz)
Organization: Me, Myself, and I
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 02:52:07 GMT

In article <C1FuHA.x6@cs.uiuc.edu> wesselak@suna0.cs.uiuc.edu (Erik Wesselak) writes:
>I think a fair scale for this sort of tardiness is not how late a comic is,
>but the product of how late it is and how many people are waiting for it (in
>other words, how much anxiety it is generating :) ...so something like
>
>	Absolute Distress  =  (#months comic is late  *  #people waiting)
>
>Of course, there is no way to accurately quantify this here, but I'd venture
>to say that the forerunners of AD are Big Numbers and Miracleman.

Speaking of Big Numbers, what's the current story on when issue #3 will be out?

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From: royd@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Roy Daniel)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Death: The High Cost of Living
Date: 22 Jan 93 00:02:54 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal

In article <1993Jan21.152115.1@fnalo.fnal.gov> birmingh@fnalo.fnal.gov (Phillip J. Birmingham) writes:
>In article <wsokXB12w165w@Micor.OCUnix.on.ca>, panda@Micor.OCUnix.on.ca (Elizabeth Holden) writes:
>
>> It's the people who make Lobo their role model that I wonder about.
>
>         HEY! Fraggin' bastiches, I'm gonna have ta geek alla ya for
>    insultin' the main man!
>
Gee, Elizabeth, I see EXACTLY what you mean. Let's wonder, indeed... :)

-- 
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."
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From: bards_n@buttercup.cs.odu.edu (Nathan Bardsley)
Subject: Re: Sandman #47 (APA!  SPOILERS!)
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Va
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 00:12:57 GMT


Neil has said on GEnie that all the coloring errors will be corrected for
the collections.  At great cost to DC, but even so they won't send out
colored proofs.
-- 
Nathan Bardsley -- bards_n@cs.odu.edu
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From: rnmg1200@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Walrus and April)
Subject: Re: Squadron Supreme
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:13:17 GMT

In article <C19rzn.9En@acsu.buffalo.edu> camdna@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Darren Natale) writes:
>In article <C19nAv.4rM@world.std.com>, modrall@world.std.com (Mark W Modrall) writes...
>> 
>>actually, i remember at the time they were just launching the
>>New Universe line, and rumor had it that the Squadron was supposed
>>to figure prominently in it, but DC threatened a lawsuit... a limited
>                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>series for the Squad was okay, but an ongoing series was too much...
>>that's how we ended up with DP7 and Star Brandy
>> 
>
>On what basis was the lawsuit threat? Hyperion?

The Squadron was almost a complete carbon copy of the Justice League.  For
example:

Hyperion = Superman
Power Princess = Wonder Woman (She was from an island of women, and 
	fell for an American pilot (?) who was old by the time of the 
	series; reference was made to her having fought in WWII, I think)
Whizzer = Flash
Doctor Spectrum = Green Lantern
Nighthawk = Batman
Nuklon = Firestorm
Amphibian = Aquaman
Black Archer = Green Arrow (even had a goatee)
Arcanna = Zatanna
Tom Thumb = Atom (closer to the original than Ray Palmer)
Lady Lark = Black Canary (down to the vocal powers, and she dated Black 
	Archer)
Golden Eagle/whatever = Hawkman

I can't think of any others off the top of my head, but they  were pretty
obvious.  These people even had a satellite headquarters!  

>DN

The Walrus
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From: silbrmnd@acf3.nyu.edu (Darkmage)
Subject: Re: Sandman -- Brief Lives 7 (possible spoilers)
Organization: New York University
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 04:35:16 GMT

dhawk@netcom.com (David Hawkins) writes:

>In article <1jumr1INNgmr@bigboote.WPI.EDU> mikecap@wpi.WPI.EDU (Michael Vince Caprio Jr) writes:
>>Then perhaps we're going to find out that the Endless are not as endless as 
>>they seem...

>>Perhaps by the end of the storyline, we will see the death of one of the
>>Endless...

>Well, isn't Death the only one who hasn't taken part in the search?

>Delerium met with Desire and Despair and Dream and Del. met Destiny
>and Destruction.  Just leaves one out of the whole mess.  She met the
>lawyer, and a big death was coming for the alderman ... but take part
>in the quest?  No.  Prevent the quest?  Hmmmm...

No, no, no, no, no.  She was too busy doing D:tHCoL to participate in
the search!  *8-)

			-Darkmage

>later, david
>--
>David Hawkins    dhawk@netcom.com
>It's a hard, sad life for most people.  Don't scorn the simple
>things that give them pleasure.  -- D. Sutten
--
"And whut-- ah say...  Whut are _YOU_ALL_ goin' t' be doin'?"

"I...?  I shall stand around looking... moody.  And feeling...
 sorry for myself."
From: marks@castle.ed.ac.uk (Mark Steyn)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: The Slightly Annotated Death #1
Date: 21 Jan 93 11:25:09 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

mcollins@nyx.cs.du.edu (Killans - First And Last And Always) writes:

>I doubt it - I assumed he was just standing there staring moodily across London,
>as one is apt to do when one is a tortured angst-filled teenager disenchanted
>with life...

Hang on, didn't Death (Didi) become mortal in New York?
Which beggars the question how did Mad Hattie get to NY?

Of course you don't get to be 250 without learning a thing or two I
suppose... :-)

	Mark

-- 
      "We all want to be Obi Wan Kenobi,       \ Mark Steyn :          \
  But there's a little Darth Vader in us all"   \ marks@castle.ed.ac.uk \
           Chris, Northern Exposure              \ mpjs@dcs.ed.ac.uk     \
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From: ejs16@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Eric Jaron Stieglitz)
Subject: Re: Image..., sigh!
Reply-To: ejs16@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Eric Jaron Stieglitz)
Organization: Me, Myself, and I
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 06:31:31 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????

According to information that I read in COMICS-L, Whilce Portacio has pretty
much quit the comics business and went home to the Philipines. Since I don't
read any Image, I'm not sure what to think of this.


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From: genef@netcom.com (Gene Fornario)
Subject: Re: Josie and the Pussycats FOREVER!
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 06:55:44 GMT

In article <C1G24z.974@panix.com> jis@panix.com (Linus Van Pelt) writes:
>
>Hey net people!  Get funky with Josie and the Pussycats!
>--------------------------------------------------------
>

Heh...I watched that Hanna-Barbera TV series when it came out in 1970.  Sure
was a change of cast from 1964 when it seemed a plain "teen" story a-la
Archie.  In fact she looked very conservative in 1963.  But then again, so
did everyone else.

Yeah, I really liked the songs that were played on the show...kind of music
videos before their day.

Gene :)



-- 
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From: morrow@fnalo.fnal.gov (Elmo the Stunt Elk)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Rec.arts.comics.vertigo
Date: 27 Jan 93 06:09:53 GMT
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berninge@cs.purdue.edu (Jim Berninger) writes:
> silbrmnd@acf3.nyu.edu (Darkmage) writes:
>>rac.vertigo sounds like a good idea; if you're posting something that
>>falls into a grey area (like Lobo, or Spawn :), just post to both...

> True, but [...]
> I'd suggest rac.mature if that didn't sound so snobbish or
> suggestive.  Any takers?

	One:  how about rac.low-sales?  That pretty much covers everything
people want to talk about....
	Two:  Never ever suggest crossposting in a serious group proposal.
	Three:  I'm still going to vote NO.  racm is not so large that it
needs another split.
-- 
"The theologians had asked if women had a soul.  Several centuries later, some
 scientists were ready to refuse them a human intelligence."
--Leonce Manouvrier, 1903, on craniometry
  
elmo (morrow@physics.rice.edu,morrow@fnal.fnal.gov)
From: mre@kepler.unh.edu (MikE '93)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: British authors
Date: 21 Jan 1993 18:26:10 GMT
Organization: University of New Hampshire  -  Durham, NH
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Waitasec!  I didn't know PAD was British!  >;-)
--MikE...Hulk:  "I say, old chap, do I have to pop your head to make my point
clear?" :)


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From: cornwall@bach.udel.edu (Ray J Cornwall)
Subject: Re: IMAGE et al.
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:11:42 GMT

In article <1k76b3INN8uu@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> intruder@cats.ucsc.edu (Isaac N. Truder) writes:
>
> > And I hated the letterer and the expletives in Pitt, but the art
> > was kinda nice. Just shows how valuable Farmer is as an inker.
>
>Dale Keown inked PITT himself.  And the inking was the WORST part of
>it!

hat I meant, as I took each item from the original post, was that,
tho Keown's inking was okay, his pencils look much better when they
appeared in the Hulk, with Mark Farmer's inks. I didn't think the
inking was as nearly as bad as the lettering. I mean, gosh, there's a
page where you can see where they had cut out some lettering and
replaced it, if my memory is correct (look for a slim white line...)
Ray
U of D

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From: v129j6ed@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (This is F.U.N.)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc,alt.comics.lnh
Subject: LNH: Offical Timeline
Date: 21 Jan 93 18:16:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

I have an old copy of the TimeLine.  I am hoping to put together an 
updated version of it in the next few weeks.  If you wrote a story,
please send mail to me its name, and when you wrote it.

E-Mail Address:

v129j6ed@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu

Thanks


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From: Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc,rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: _Nina's_Adventures_ . . . An Anecdote . . .
Date: 25 Jan 1993 03:48:26 GMT
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In-reply-to: branwen@cerebus.ccc.amdahl.com's message of 18 Jan 93 18:45:43 GMT

> You can get DEPRESSION IS FUN in bookstores now (at least
> I found copies in Printer's Ink in Mountain View), and it's
> fantastic!

=o= I've also heard that it's available at Million Year Picnic
in Cambridge, Mass.  Nina has no clue where the books are being
sold (due to aforementioned publisher-related nonsense), so I
appreciate hearing about these "book sightings."

=o= If there are any more sightings, please email them to me.
    Many thanx,
    <_Jym_>
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From: tara@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Lady Johanna Constantine)
Subject: Re: Where's Neil now?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 07:14:54 GMT

silbrmnd@acf3.nyu.edu (Darkmage) writes:

>I don't know where he is now, but doesn anyone know when he's going to
>be in NY?
>		-Darkmage

He went to Toronto nd Toronto a while back (when they had all the 
scary weather.  My Da was there too.  Buildings were shaking with
90mph winds.) and came home to find 96 messages on c-serve email.

he said he was scared to logon to GEnie.

*sigh* I wish I would get volumes of mail like that.  Mail has a way
of making me feel like I'm an actual person existing in space, as
it means other people have acknoweledged my existance, even if it is
only to flame he half the time.

*sigh*


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.)
LJC of the Net.Trenchcoat.brigade (Hi Elmo ;)
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From: cwelsh@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Craig Welsh  )
Subject: Re: Annotated Future Imperfect (Long)
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:00:33 GMT

>You also missed Captian Marvel's nega-bands holding the plants.
>
>(Sorry, I forgot to add this to my last post...)

Goddamn, I knew there was something about those plants that were
bothering me. Oh well. That's two strikes against me. One more and I am
out of here.

_craig
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From: geurink@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Josh Geurink)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: green lanterns
Date: 22 Jan 1993 16:03:45 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
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In article <C18KHI.Bt9@world.std.com> modrall@world.std.com (Mark W Modrall) writes:
>somebody postulated that a GL's ring lasts for one day of whatever
>planet the GL happens to be on... interesting hypothesis, but what
>about the GL that was a planet?  there was a GL that was a whole
>planet... theoretically, that GL could make the ring last forever, no?

That's, of course, assuming the postulate is correct.  I see the rings
as little rechargable batteries -- they can only store so much power before
they need recharging from the central battery.  

There was a villan -- the Black Hand, I think -- that absorbed GL energies
and used them for his own evil purposes.  He wouldn't be much of a threat
if the power only lasted for a few hours...


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From: sbc@po.CWRU.Edu (Scott B. Casteel)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: JLA #72
Date: 23 Jan 1993 19:31:26 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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As I was reading this issue, I was reminded about something. In
one of the panel, Jordan refers to this League as a "task force".
Does anyone know if this storyline will lead up to the new JL title, 
JL Task Force? I seem to recall seeing a promo for JLTF a while back
with J'onn on the cover with shadows in the background. I even think 
it had a symbol on the cover very similar to the lightning shield the
"Dark League" was wearing in this issue. It seems like this could 
partly explain this story. If anyone has any info, it would be 
appreciated.
					 -Scott-
-- 
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   "Wanna make somethin' out of it?"
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From: genef@netcom.com (Gene Fornario)
Subject: Re: artists who draw themselves
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 06:29:14 GMT

Next week: Artists who draw themselves...on the next Geraldo!  : ) )

I remember Joshua Quagmire who did a series waaaay back called Cutey Bunny,
used to sketch himself in that book...he seemed a bit self conscious about
that though, he never showed his face, just sketched himself in the
background or off to the side...

Come to think of it, Kirby and Lee did a cameo appearance in an old issue of
the Fantastic Four, number 10, I think it was.  In fact they did several
appearances in the old FF books.

Gene--
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From: hs0sagg@sunlab1.bath.ac.uk (S A G Granville)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: SPOILER: SUPES BE BACK (was (RE: Action Comics 686 (clones)))
Date: 25 Jan 93 10:58:45 GMT
Organization: School of Social Sciences, University of Bath, UK

In the referenced article, juan_e@spcvxb.spc.edu writes:
>                                 Thanks,
>                                    Ned
>                                    St. Peter's College
>
>PS - The concensus agreed that he be back in April.
>  


Adventures of Supes  is definitely shipping in April.

Confirmed by a preview of 'Previews'

Simon.
From: jh20+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joe Nathan Haralson, II)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: PAD books this week (Hulk, X-Factor)
Date: 26 Jan 93 22:17:09 GMT
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The way I understand it the Juggernaut found a msytical gem which gave
him increased strength, accelerated healing, and an a mystic force field
to protect him from harm.  Later he got the armor made and enchanted to
protect him from his half-brother Charles.  The only other time that the
Juggernaut's mystic shield has been penetrated was by Shatterstar's
enchanted blade.  I can remember if Shadowcat ever tried to phase
through him, if you assume its possible the Vision should have had some
problems when he tried to solidify his hand inside of the Juggernaut's
head. 

Possibility A) Since the Juggernaut's mystic field will not allow solid
matter to pass, the Visions hand should have
A) been cut in half by the field leaving the visions hands inside the
"Jug's head".
B) The mystic energys should have forced the visions solidifying hand of
"Jug's Head".

Of course the wizard that created the spells which protect Juggy may not
have considered density controlled attacks just like he didn't think of
psionic attacks.  In other words the wizard didn't through in the extra
bat's ear to protect against psionics so apparently he/she forgot the
frog lips to protect against phasing.

My $0.02 worth.

Joe II
From: maguire@zappa.jpl.nasa.gov (Kevin Maguire)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Cerebus
Followup-To: rec.arts.comics.misc
Date: 21 Jan 1993 23:59:00 GMT
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Distribution: world
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In article <C0xAMJ.8py@cs.dal.ca>, castle@cs.dal.ca (JULIAN GUTHRIE CASTLE)
wrote:
> It was my understanding that aardvarks have an ... internal penis
> with a sheath.   I'm probably wrong about this
> 
> (To my knowledge a sheath can be inconspicious (spelling?) and
> 'blend' in with the surrounding fur and skin.
> 

Hey!  No fair bringing real-world animal facts into a discussion of
Cerebus' sex life!  Next you'll be telling us that it's easy to give 
someone a superhuman physique as long as you can find a subject stupid
enough to exercise at the peak of human performance all day every day
without getting bored or stopping because of the pain.

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maguire@zappa.jpl.nasa.gov          I'm a rocket scientist, not an artist
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From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (The Napoleon of Crime)
Subject: Re: Enigma is excellent; Sandman, okay
Reply-To: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (The Napoleon of Crime)
Organization: The Institute for Criminal Science, Gizmonics Control
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:31:59 GMT

Well, in the "let's throw the bell curve out on its ear" dept.: I decided to
drop ENIGMA after the first issue (sorry, too disjointed for me (and I like
SHADE)), was fairly pleased with SANDMAN (though I'm with Jym -- I prefer
the single-story issues the best; this is more of an involved detective
story, though I like detective stories), and have really enjoyed Ennis' run
on HELLBLAZER (I thought John's party and the ghosts of the bar-owners
stories a bit weaker than some of his other work.)

Go figure.

                           "We are America.  These other people are not
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From: lf7z@ellis.uchicago.edu (Bob the Glennlizard)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: JLA #72 and a SERIOUS CASE OF DEJA VU!
Date: 23 Jan 93 22:43:29 GMT
Reply-To: lf7z@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago

In article <1993Jan22.202759.470@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> dvandom@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Dave Van Domelen) writes:
>I'm a big fan of Squadron Supreme, and beyond the superficial plot similarity 
>and of course the similarity coming from the SS characters being ripoffs of the
>JLAers used this issue, I don't really think they are the same story.

This and the rest of Dave's article should have been painfully
obvious, this "company-loyalist" bickering is really silly.

Well, I grew up with this particular JLA, and I thought it was great
fun.  And my circle of similar-age friends and I had a great time
reminiscing on the old JLA 75-100 stuff.  It was the '68-'72
connections that were obvious to us, and we got a big kick out of it.
I really don't understand why it's getting so universally panned, but
to each his own.  In fact, I would say that, apart from the JLA
"armband" issue itself, this is the only title trying to capitalize on
the captive Supes audience in anything resembling an interesting
fashion.  Jurgens has seemed to inch by inch return some of the best
qualities of the original series, it's the first time I've found the
JLA interesting in a very long time.  I would heartily recommend it,
at least for older DC fans.  And if they did this sort of thing with,
oh say the Avengers, I'd might pick it up too :)

Pax ex machina,
Glenn
......................................................................
"As soon as Roger saw the costume, his mind assumed the proportions of
 an industrial revolution unaware of the ecological damage it was
 causing"
   --- Enigma
g-carnagey@uchicago.edu, if you must know
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