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From: dcowell@jarthur.claremont.edu (Doug Cowell)
Subject: Re: adamantium
Summary: advances
Keywords: marvel, adamantium, Gaurdians
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 08:27:21 GMT

In article <167C9424.RCARR00@ricevm1.rice.edu> RCARR00@ricevm1.rice.edu (Rick Carroll) writes:
>In article <1992Apr13.213623.11013@ms.uky.edu>
>uk02700@nx05.mik.uky.edu (mitchell e french) writes:
>
>>
>>In article <1992Apr13.183731.6138@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
>>rymarz@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Daniel Rymarz) writes:
>>> What is the tensile strength of adamantium?
>>> Brinnel hardness?
>>> Izod impact?
>>> Modulus of elasticity?
>>> Melting point?
>>>
>>> How do you sharpen adamantium claws?
>>>
>>> How unbreakable is unbreakable? Could you drop a tank of Wolverine and
>>> have him come out smelling like a rose?
>>>
>>>
>>> 	
>>	According to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe, adamantium just
>>doesn't change after it hardens.  It can't break, it can't bend, it can't
>>be screwed with in any fashion.  They even say that it won't flow if it
>>does melt.
>>	Thus, adamantium claws never get dull, so they need no sharpening.
>>	You could drop a tank on Wolvie and he would be smushed somewhat.
>>His bones would not break.
>>
>Of course, in the most recent Guardians of the Galaxy, Rancor threatens one
>of the Guardians with "the severed claw of her ancestor", i.e. Wolverine.
>Fire that continuity man.  ;-)
>
>RIC
They have also explained that by their time Adamantium isn't the hardest
substance made anymore. You may remember Vance getting shot through his
adamantium suit.(I still don't understand how they made a flexible suit
out of the stuff, but....)

Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 20:46:03 -0400 
From: "James D. Zelenka" <jz1j+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: META: split

Uh, while all you people who care lots about this split are arguing,
howabout you do it over a mailing list or something? Seems to me that
the only truly bogus traffic here is the (perpetual) split discussion.

-jim
jimz@cs.cmu.edu
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From: uk02700@nx30.mik.uky.edu (mitchell e french)
Subject: Re: Powerpax
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 18:24:40 GMT
Distribution: na
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In article <1992Apr9.185424.619@midway.uchicago.edu>  
gmf2@quads.uchicago.edu (gary michael feldman) writes:
> Could someone give a summary of who Powerpax are and their 
> powers? I know they are a bunch of siblings each with a  power
> and that Franklin Richrds hangs out with them.
> 
> Once Ir ead a story with them and one of the kdis looked like
> i horse???????
> 
> Specificlaly, who is Julie Power, and why would this new
> one in the x-force annual get all the powers?
> 
> Gary

	Ok, here's the way it works.

	Power Pack (with a 'ck', not an 'x'....Powerpax is a character in  
the latest X-Force annual) is a group of silblings who were given their  
powers by a Kymillian (spl? I dunno...this is from memory), a member of an  
alien race with heads like horses.  Their powers have been moved around,  
since they also "inherited" the ability to give their powers to someone  
else.
	The oldest boy was named Alex.  (He's the horsehead you saw.  More  
later.)  He originally got the power to control gravity and took the name  
Gee.  Then he got the ability to disintegrate matter by touch and fire  
balls of plasma from the absorbed energy and called himself Destroyer.   
Now, I have no idea which power he has....
	The next oldest is Julie.  She started with flight and called  
herself Lightspeed.  Then she got the mass-control powers and became  
Molecula.  (ugh...the names sucked...) Current power, uknown.  
	Next is Jack.  He started with the mass-control powers.  He could  
shrink or become cloud-like by controlling his density.  He started as  
Mass Master.  Later he got the gravity power and was Counterweight.  I  
think he now has the disintegration/powerball power and took the name  
Destroyer.
	Youngest (except for Franklin, aka Tattletale, who isn't one of  
the original sibs) is Katie.  She started with the disintegration power as  
Energizer and then got the flight power as (some other name which I can't  
remember...Lightspeed again?).  Dunno what she has now.
	Franklin Richards/Tattletale joined after a while.

	The thing with Alex being a horse-head was possibly *the* lamest  
story I have ever seen in a comic.  It came right before the cancellation  
of the Power Pack title, and I think it might have been retconned out in a  
one-shot.  Can't recall.

	Hope this helped somehow.

Mushroom
	(the last fan of Power Pack)
From: marks@castle.ed.ac.uk (Mark Steyn)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: MARVEL: Spider-Man is great, but...
Date: 16 Apr 92 13:17:27 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

awai@warp.UWaterloo.ca (Alex Wai) writes:

[Stuff Deleted]

>What's worse, ever since Todd McFarlane was given "free license" to do what he  
>pleased with the characters, and in doing so, gave Mary Jane this stupid  
>looking perm, no one else has had the boldness to change it back to the way she  
>looked originally. Pick up any Mary Jane drawing from 1988 and back, and you  
>will see the difference.

>Today, Mary Jane has become a snivelling idiot nagging wife who won't shut up  
>with only one line to say, "Oh, I hope Peter's alright".

I meant to post on this myself - It's TRUE!!  Mary Jane has undergone a
complete personality transplant.  Whatever happened to the strong-willed
(straight haired) spider fiance that we came to know and love?  Look up
some old issues for yourself, this lady was not destined to become a
super model bimbo!  

With luck she's been replaced by a skrull who will in a future storyline
help spidey rescue the original MJ :-)

Til I write (type, sing...) again,

	Mark


-- 
? As long as the youngest child is free to dream,  ? Mark Steyn :          ?
? In the forest that we call imagination,          ? marks@castle.ed.ac.uk ?
? There shall always be a Unicorn.                 ? mpjs@dcs.ed.ac.uk     ?
From: ckc1@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (CEDRICK KIT CHAN)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: MARVEL: How I'd Reform It
Date: 10 Apr 92 14:04:59 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

>Then, I'll start getting talent back. Beg Walt Simonson to work for
>Marvel, offering him whatever title he wants. If he wants the FF back,
>then he can ignore all of the crap DeFalco was responsible for.
>
   Great!!  But let him fix up the mess Defalco has created on Thor also.


>Fourth, I'd increase the stature of writers, making them at
>least the equivalent of artists in salary and "pull." I'd also
>cut down on the people that do both, making them prove themselves
>with fill-in issues, mini-series and minor new titles, before they
>get a major assignment.
>
    I agree that writers should have more pull, but I disagree about making
their salary the equivalent.  Remember it usually takes twice as long to draw
a book than it does to write it.

>Fifth, I'd limit character exposure. No more than two comics for each
>team or character, and limit crossovers to two per year per group or
>character.
>
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>Arthur C. Adams - E-Mail acadams@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu
>

   You wouldn't happen to be THE Art Adams that illustrates for Marvel and DC
occasionally?


                
-- 

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From: bell@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics,rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Wildcards
Date: 6 Apr 92 19:57:12 GMT

In article <1992Apr3.101759.2577@vax1.umkc.edu>, bjuland@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
> Are the comics based on the "Wildcard" series any good?  HOw many issues were
> ever published?  I've seen the graphic novel in the store, but it had plastic
> sealing it up.  
> 
>  Also,  does it really matter the order to read the books in after number 1?  I
> can't find number two, and I was thinking of skipping to number 3 and waiting
> to read #2 later.  Will this mess up the time flow?
> 
> +===============================================+
> |Chris Bjuland                                  |
> |                                               |
> |bjuland@umkcvax1          bjuland@vax1.umkc.edu|
> +===============================================+
> 

	The series does take place chronologically.  Therefore I wouldn't 
recommend skipping any but that's up to you.

		Shane L. Bell
From: Montague_Kevin @Tandem.com (Kevvy Kev)
Subject: Re: Flash year 1 --- yawwwnnn
Organization: In Effect Enterprises
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 21:29:30 GMT

In article <11189@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>, albert@chain.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu (Rick Jones) writes:
> 
> In article <1992Apr10.220746.17388@tandem.com> Montague_Kevin @Tandem.com (Kevvy Kev) writes:
> >PS: Wouldn't it be nice if someone took over this title that could actually
> >draw, and someone else wrote some stories about what would realistically 
> >happen if a man could run/move at incredible speeds?
> 
> 	Well, if you postulate that a person can run/move at the speeds
> demonstrated in Flash, and then postulate he lives in a world where 
> its fashionable for folks like him to dress in silly leotards and 
> fight crime, then Flash does a pretty good job.  
> 
> 	The supporting cast were all well rounded people, with lives
> and motivations more than just being potential hostages.  
> 
> 	The pseudo-science babble for how Wally can run so damn fast 
> was much better than in most comics (like Legion, where the laws 
> of physics are beaten senseless on a regular basis).
> 
> 	Wally himself changed over Loebs' tenure, and developed naturally
> from the Mike Baron version.
> 
> 	For a super-hero comic, Loebs did a pretty good job, and Mark
> Waid is doing a good job with "Born to Run."

FIRST of all:

I was being more than a little flip with "could actually draw."  I keep 
forgetting how inflectionless this medium is; and I don't speak smiley.
Let me be more clear: the art is competent, and that's it.  I happen to
like both the character and the concept of Flash, so I'd like to see Much
more talented folks handling it.  And let's face it; there Are a lot more
talented artists, not to mention writers, out there these days.  Segues r
for kids. . .Speaking of writers, None Of You Listened to what I said.  I 
said, ". . .wrote stories about what would realistically happen If A Man
Could Move At Incredible Speeds."  Get it?  My point is: *Given* that a man 
can run at great speeds, what would happen?  _Flash_'s answers to this question
are unrealistic, and often downright silly. 
It comes down to this: sure, you'll have to suspend disbelief a bit. The amount
will depend on who you are. But the best stories are those that bear the lion's
share of that willing suspension. _Flash_ does not do that - - I'll go further:
_Flash_ *consistently* does not do that.  Examples?  Sure.  Email me and I'll
post you reams. From the physics of it (Why try to explain it at all?) to the
logic of it to the logistics of it. 
In terms of "Born to Run," the storyline isn't doing much for me.  Solidly 
mediocre; I wonder what the point is in this recap.  Again, I will invoke past
glory: Year One in _Batman_ did an Incredible job of logically adding texture,
character, and preserving the continuity of Batman's formative years.  *That's*
the type of effort I'd like to see on another of my favorite characters: Flash.

To Call My Opinions Humble Would Be Arrogant,
Kevvy Kev
From: stougheric@bvc.edu (The Wease)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: Rogue and Cyclops Questions
Date: 13 Apr 92 16:05:37 CDT
Organization: Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, IA

In article <92102.202814SXS133@psuvm.psu.edu>, <SXS133@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
> 
> Actually, the loss of control was linked to Mr.Sinister's tampering with
> Scott.  Back in the earlier days of the blessed INFERNO, Scott "regained" parts
>  of his childhood memory and realized that Sinister had operated on him.  This
> was presumably for the use of control by Sinister (eg. You can't go out in
> society without my help Scott, so just obey me.)
> 


--	ACTUALLY, Sinister was trying to find a way for Scott to 
control his optic blast...eventually he decided that it was beyond
his capabilities (something I don't understand, given his cloning
expertise) and had to resort to ruby quart glasses...
	Cyke's inability to control his blasts WAS caused by the
jump from the plane...the parachute didn't open on time, if I 
remember right, and he instinctively used his optic blasts for
the first time to slow their fall...


	Eric  


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From: kogutt@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (SCAVENGER)
Subject: Re: Powerpax
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 20:39:55 GMT

I think that ya'll are making way too much out of this character.  Claremont
decided that Power Pack was important to mutant history (New Mutants 49 maybe?)

Because of this, a power packer, new or old, had to be included.  This is because rather than create something new and different, it's easer for Harris to have 
his "team" take other's idea's a screw with them.


----SCAVENGER


-- 
If some unemployed punk in New Jersey, can     |kogutt@ucsu.colorado.edu <-I.NET
get a cassette to make love to Elle McPherson  |
for $19.95, this virtual reality stuff is going|No matter where you go,
to make crack look like Sanka. -  Dennis Miller| there you are."-Buckaroo Banzai
From: vanyel@camelot.bradley.edu (Alan Williams)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: Best/Worst PAD
Date: 10 Apr 92 17:27:56 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Bradley University

In <1992Apr9.190000.8661@spool.cs.wisc.edu> rawdon@cabrales.cs.wisc.edu (Michael Rawdon) writes:

>In <1992Apr8.194621.14843@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> fal20643@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Capt. Frank A. Lauro) writes:
>>Even if you're right about the failure of the humor of JL[x], don't blame
>>Peter.  He had no part in *anything* related to the League, pre- or post-
>>Crisis.
>Really?  I thought for sure that he'd written that origin story.  Oh, well.
>(I must move my collection closer to me some day. :-)

No, you're right: It was written by Peter David and illustrated by Eric
Shanower.  (And personally, I thought the humor worked well in the story.)

>In that case, as I've been thinking about it a little more, I think I'd
>place his Dreadstar series as my least favorite of his work.

Again, I disagree.  Everything I've read from Peter David shows me that the
man has a flair for injecting humor at appropriate spots in his work.  (And
I freely admit that I haven't had that MUCH exposure to PAD's work, since
he generally doesn't write too many of the books I read. . . .)

My least favorie PAD story, though, has to be either "Cal and Guido" (too
moralistic at the end) or _Vendetta_ (I didn't like the way Guinan and
Picard just _happened_ to know the same person, though they'd never
discussed her before. . . .)
--

================== Alan Williams | vanyel@camelot.bradley.edu =================="Don't move!  Or I'll strike with this fork on the end of a long pole!"
"You do, and I'll attack with this kipper!"
("Napoleon's Piano," _The Goon Show_)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
From: mcollins@isis.cs.du.edu (The One and Only Killans)
Subject: Re: SANDMAN: At long last, #26
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: Wed, 15 Apr 92 16:04:16 GMT


Re: 'Pooey man'. Well, in Britain, 'pooh' or 'poo' is a child-word showing
disgust or contempt, similar in meaning to 'yuk' or 'ugh'. It is also
sometimes used as a euphemism for faeces. The term 'pooey man' would be
simply a child's way of saying she doesn't like him much...

Mike
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
From: ac985@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Joel Tscherne)
Subject: MISC: New Books-4/15/92,4/17/92
Reply-To: ac985@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Joel Tscherne)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 92 17:49:56 GMT


Here are the books released by Capital City Distribution in Cleveland,
OH on Wednesday, April 15th and Friday, April 17th:
 

AC COMICS
Jungle Girls #6                     Wall of Flesh #1

ALPHA PRODUCTIONS
Totem: Sign of the Wardog Special Edition #1

ARCHIE
Betty & Me #199                     Jughead #35
Jughead Digest #76                  TMNT Adventures #34 

ATOMEKA PRESS
A1 #6A

BURCHAM STUDIOS
Chamber of Evil Limited Edition #1

CONTINUITY
Megalith #9

DARK HORSE
Cheval Noir #29                     Young Indiana Jones Chronicles #3

DC
Batman: LOTDK #31                   Doctor Fate #40
Flash #64                           Green Lantern: Mosaic #1
Green Lantern: Road Back TPB        Hawkworld #23
JLA #63                             My Name Is Chaos #4
Question Quarterly #5               Shade #24  
Star Trek #32                       Superman: TMOS #12
Wonder Woman #63

DC/IMPACT
Black Hood #6

DISNEY
Uncle Scrooge #268 

DRAWN & QUARTERLY
Drawn & Quarterly #8

FANTAGRAPHICS
Adventures on the Fringe #2 

FLEETWAY 
2000 AD #768

GOODWILL INDUSTRIES
Scrap City Pack Rats #1

HARVEY
Baby Huey #4 

INNOVATION
Lost In Space Annual #1

JADEMAN
Blood Sword #45                     Blood Sword Dynasty #32
Drunken Fist #45                    Force/Buddha's Palm #45
Iron Marshal #22                    Oreintal Heroes #45

MALIBU/ADVENTURE
Rust #1 

MALIBU/IMAGE
Youngblood #1

MARVEL - Wednesday 
Alpha Flight #109                   Conan Saga #62
Ghost Rider #26                     Punisher War Zone #4
Wolverine #55

MARVEL - Friday
Amazing Spider-Man #363             Barbie #18
Bill & Ted's Comic Book #7          Captain Planet #8
Marvel Comics Presents #104         Pirates of Dark Waters #7
Quasar #35                          Silver Sable #1
Silver Surfer Annual #5             Sleepwalker #13
Thing #3                            Wonder Man #10
World Championship Wrestling #3

MARVEL/EPIC
Groo #90                            Hellraiser #13

MAX NORTH'S ALASKA COMICS
Big Race #1

MILLER PUBLISHING
Trial Run #7 

MU PRESS
Skye Blue #1

NIGHT WYND
China Sea #4                        Kimura #4
Stardusters #4                      Stratonaut #3

RIP OFF PRESS
Freak Brothers: Idiots Abroad #8

TUNDRA
Frank in the River #1 

VALIANT
Harbinger #7                        X-O Manowar #6 

VIZ
Striker: Armored Warrior #1

MAGAZINES
Amazing Heroes #201                Comics Scene #27

Next list: Wednesday, April 22nd.



-- 
          JOEL TSCHERNE - Internet: ac985@cleveland.Freenet.edu 
=============================================================================
                      Snappy quote on religious holiday 
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
From: bike@athena.mit.edu (Michael Y Fan)
Subject: Re: Can Spidey fight? (was Re: Over used lines)
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 16:47:22 GMT

In article <1992Apr10.075955.28465@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> c60a-dy@amazon.Berkeley.EDU (Mikey likes it) writes:
>In article <1992Apr9.183014.1@camins.camosun.bc.ca> comp138w142@camins.camosun.bc.ca (Scott) writes:
>>> Anyone else got any Marvel lines that they're sick of hearing?
>>
>>
>>All right, how about Dear old pete and his oft used "You can't hit me, I 
>>have my Spider-Sense" True, he uses it less than he used to and he doesn't 
>>allways say it the same way twice but it still bugs me.
>>
>[ other overused lines deleted ]
>
>  This reminds me about a trend I was noticing with the Friendly neighborhood
>web-slinger.  It seems that everytime he loses his trusty/handy-dandy spider
>sense, he gets mopped up by the opposition.  This always tends to make me
>lose faith, in whatever skills I had believed spidey to possess. I think
>that maybe there should be a series where he loses his spider sense for a 
>whole bunch of issues and has to learn some real defensive skills.  What do
>you all think about this?
>

Well, there was the "powerless" within series in ASM a little while back.
Spidey didn't do TOO badly.

						Mike Fan
From: matmnb@lure.latrobe.edu.au
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: Darkhorse :lone slone
Date: 7 Apr 92 23:16:13 GMT
Organization: VAX Cluster, Computer Centre, La Trobe University

In article <1992Apr7.174314.4570@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>, phys241@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz (A.J. Curzon) writes:
> Does anybody know where to get Lone Slone : Delerius which I thing is a Darkhorse publication. There was a complete book of it hanging around about 10 years ago.
> I would appreciate some help. Thanks, James

The English translation of this work was published more than ten years ago
by a French publisher called Dragon Dreams Inc. (I think..) in association
with Heavy Metal. Presumably it's long out of print, so you would only be 
able to find a copy second-hand. I can look up further details (ISBN etc.)
if you're interested.
                     ........Marcus Brazil......
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
From: morrow@fnalb.fnal.gov (I Elmo)
Subject: Re: The Little Mermaid #4: Submerged in Horror
Organization: bim bim bim!
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 04:57:39 GMT

	The disturbing subtext I get from _Mermaid_ and pretty much every other
Disney film is this:
	Everyone falls in love forever at sixteen.  Love lasts forever.  Once
you're in love, your life will be perfect.
	Contrast this to the actual life that six-year-olds see:  divorced
parents, loveless marriages, domestic violence, parents who dominate or
manipulate or play mind games with their children.  I can't possibly blame that
on Disney, but Disney is not giving children anything resembling realistic
expectations for their future.  Instead of learning how to love, children are
being taught that they will fall in love and live happily ever after.
-- 
"On the campaign trail, the President tends to jerk his arms around a lot and
 speak in little bursts of sentence fragments that sound as if they might be
 part of some other conversation carried on by two other people somewhere else 
 on a different subject."
--Calvin Trillin

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