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From: Omega.Man@fquest.FidoNet.Org (Omega Man)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: WONDERWOMAN
Date: 27 Sep 92 20:38:47 GMT

...the "alter-ego", as it used to be called, was "Diana Prince". However,
she hasn't used that since before the Crisis.

Personal observation: The book has suffered tremendously since Perez left
for "other ventures". Diana's character is beginning to revert to the old,
pre-Crisis sort of banality that caused me to pick up the book once every
other year that ended in a 3. It's a whole lot less than I would have 
expected from Bill Messner-Loebs, and while he did remarkable jobs with
_Journey_ and _The Flash_, it appears that he may have bitten off not so
much more than he can chew, but something that just isn't to his tastes.

Of course, there is this month's gaffe that everyone's failed to mention
so far.

...since when is Daxam a "destroyed planet" in the *20th* century?


                                                OM
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From: jimh@pacdata.uucp (Jim Harkins)
Subject: Re: REBIRTHING THE BIG RED S
Organization: Pacific Data Products
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 00:35:04 GMT

In article <1992Sep28.204733.25352@u.washington.edu> gwangung@milton.u.washington.edu (Just another theatre geek.....) writes:
>In article <Qekovt_00awNA4eVJH@andrew.cmu.edu> js06+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jason Lee Smith) writes:
->>Think about it - as bad as Lex hates Superman, wouldn't it be logical
->> for him to assume the stance of "You can't kill him! *I* am going to
->>have that privledge for myself!!"
->No. Sorry, but this is an overused cliche. I think its just a really
->doofy plot device.
-
-	Yah, but what would be really twisted would be for Lex to resurect
-Supes--and leave it at that, knowing that Supes is now HIS hero. Would add
-a whole 'nother level to their confrontations....

My own personal theory is that they are going to leave him dead, re-name him
to 'Super-Stiff' and move him over to their upcoming adult titles line.

jim

-- 
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From: arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
Subject: Re: Presidental Candidates (was Re: Lobo... & Various Stuff)
Organization: Johns Hopkins University CS Dept.
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 06:16:31 GMT

In article <1992Sep28.112057.2115@bvc.edu> daikerjohnc@bvc.edu writes:
>>First off, if yer gonna elect a comic book character from DC's Mature Titles, 
>>go for broke:  AMERICAN SCREAM for PREZ!

Not a mature title, but:

PREZ FOR PREZ!
--
"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)
From: c60b-3fe@web-3f.berkeley.edu (Mikel Bancroft)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: sm 2099
Date: 26 Sep 1992 21:21:07 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: web-3f.berkeley.edu

In article <18531.2ac31697@ecs.umass.edu> masulliv@ecs.umass.edu (Michael Sullivan) writes:
>
>You may want to check out Peter A David's Post on Mon Sept 21, with the 
>subject RE: sm2099 where he himself says that the print run was up around 
>a million, and that buying the #1 issue of any big name comic for
>collecting value is pretty much a waste of time.  (although see a followup
>to that post for an imaginative way to prove PAD wrong :)  

  I believe that Dani -wrote- that post.  Anyway, ever consider sending
a donation to the HUMOR RESEARCH INSTITUTE?  An $11.95 donation can
go a long way to helping the humor impaired. :)

Mikel B.
The incredible man... life included.
From: marcs@yang.earlham.edu (Marc Seebass(Thunderbolt))
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: Infinity War
Date: 28 Sep 92 03:23:35 GMT
Organization: Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana

In article <rdippold.717555760@qualcom>, rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
> raboles@eos.ncsu.edu (RODNEY ALLEN BOLES) writes:
> Spoilers:
> 
>>In the last panel, we see Adam's good-side, which as predicted is female.
>>I figure her to play prominently in a storyline in the future.

I'm not sure, but I think Her is Adam's good side. Her, fromerly Paragon, 
was Enclave's second attempt to make an perfect being. She is a 
preexisting character and looks like a female version of Adam. Read 
current issues of Quasar to find out more about Her.

---Marc Seebass

I'm not sure, bnut I got the impression that "Her" is Adam's good side. 
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From: vanichth@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Mitri Van)
Subject: Re: Batman: TV series
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 16:22:42 GMT

houchin@sunshine.Kodak.COM (Scott Houchin) writes:

>In article <1992Sep29.132623.4962@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> ckt4x@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Curt Tsui) writes:
>>A friend of mine and I think that by introducing Robin without
>>bothering with any origin the show can still get away without

	<stuff deleted>

Well, I was just curious because it seemed like they were telling each 
story in a kind of chronological sequence.  Granted, I haven't seen enough
episodes to be sure, but that's what it seemed like.  Also, they introduced
Tim Drake (I think that's his name :) in the comic books at the same time 
that the Scarecrow was fighting Batman.

-- Mitri
From: isbell@ai.mit.edu (Charles L Isbell)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: Various Stuff
Date: 28 Sep 92 15:54:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: panther.ISBELL.92Sep28115445
Distribution: na
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
In-reply-to: dvandom@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu's message of 28 Sep 92 13:16:45 GMT

dvandom@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (David VanDomelen) writes:
|Third, one of the good things about the way Supe's powers were restructured
|is that Niven's "Woman of Kleenex" article is totally invalidated.
|Besides, in any case, Supes must have normal strength involuntary muscles, 
|since he does still eat occasionally and must excrete waste, which if Niven's 
|hypothesis about superstrong involuntary muscles is true, would lead to large 
|holes in the bathrooms of the Planet.  And of course, no superpowered sperm 
|flying about...they haven't absorbed any solar radiation yet. }->

Remembering One Throwaway Sentence Lad here to point out that very
early in the Byrne years Supes (who must think of this of this stuff
constantly) reflected that his body is od efficient that he uses all
of his food intake 100% (ie no waste).

So, that doesn't tell us about his involuntary muscles.
--
Peace.
            "Look! An X-man movie's coming out!"
                    care of a 10 year old in a Tulsa movie
                    theater, looking at a poster for _Malcolm X_
                                   -\--/-
    Don't just adopt opinions     |  \/  |       Some of you are homeboys
          develop them.           |  /\  | but only I am The Homeboy From hell
                                   -/--\-
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From: billaud@greco-prog.fr (Michel BILLAUD)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics,rec.arts.comics.misc,alt.folklore.computers,comp.misc
Subject: Re: "Any" key
Date: 2 Oct 92 14:42:34 GMT
Reply-To: billaud@geocub.UUCP (Michel BILLAUD)
Organization: LaBRI - Universite Bordeaux I - France

In article <1992Sep28.162148.16256@newshost.unh.edu> rgt@kepler.unh.edu (Richard G Tomasso) writes:
>In addition to the "Any" key mistake. One of my favorites has always been
>when (on PC's usually) the user is promted "Please press <F1>" or something
>similar, so they press F ... then press 1 ... and wonder why nothing happens.

This reminds me about "sam" (System Administration Manager under HP-UX),
a nice menu driven shell to add/remove users, peripherals and so on.
You really have to type ctrl-F 1, ctrl-F 2 ... as "function keys"...

M Billaud

-- 
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Departement d'Informatique     :  phone W: 56.84.57.92  // 56.84.69.22
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From: conty@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (OtakuRoach)
Subject: Re: Analysis of Superman's mating techniques as told by Larry Niven
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 16:28:19 GMT

In article <1992Sep28.044240.3379@news.columbia.edu>, pw15@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Philip  Wang) writes:
> I'm not sure if you've ever read this, but I thought it was quite
> funny. It's copied from Larry Niven's IN SPACE (and no, I didn't ask
> for permission to copy it. So don't sell this thing unless you want me
> to get in trouble. I didn't sell it to you.)
		     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Makes no difference.  You still can be sued to hell and back for posting this.

Sweat.
-- 
			    E n r i q u e  C o n t y
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From: bxp1628@hertz.njit.edu (Brian Perler)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics,rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: I liked YOUNGBLOOD
Date: 29 Sep 92 03:49:53 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1a8cqdINN7kg@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> intruder@cats.ucsc.edu (Isaac Truder) writes:
>
>> I loved Liefeld's early NM work, and his Hawk & Dove pencils.
>
>Pick up the CABLE TPB that's come out from Marvel recently.  (No, ya, sillies,
>I don't mean BUY it... just pick it up and flip through it in the store!)
>
>It's weird.
>
>...It actually looks like it was drawn by a comic book artist, and not my
>sister!

Your sister drew the Cable TPB?

-- 
"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: aodn307@bongo.cc.utexas.edu (Joshua Henry Geurink)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: x-Crossover?
Date: 29 Sep 92 05:22:50 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX


	They're only four of the X-cutioner's song books out thus far, and as
you asked for spoilers, here goes...









The X-Men, still brooding over recent developments in their overly complex
lives serve as passive bodyguards to Professor X as he makes a speech.  During
this speech, Cable stands up in the back of the audience and blasts Xavier in
the chest with one of his hideously large guns and then announces to the world:
"Hey!  I did it!  I shot Professor X! Me!  Cable!  C - A - B - L - E.  Got 
that? Good.  Bodyslide by one."  Of course, that may or may not have actually
been Cable (read: not) but either Stryfe, Cable's mirror image, or Mr.
Sinister in disguise.  Archangel has a cow.  Xavier has a technovirus.
	Meanwhile Scott is in some bar fantasizing about Psylocke when Jean
walks in and the two have a spat, which is interrupted by a much larger than
normal Caliban.  (Did anyone out there collect his X-Men card by the way?  
He's listed with a pathetic strength of one while drawn with Schwarzennegerain
muscles.  >>Really<< good muscle tone perhaps?)  Caliban is now one of 
Apoclaypse's four horsemen, and he proceeds to deliver an unconscious Scott 
and Jean to Apoxy's feet, only it's not really Apocalypse, but Mr. Sinister!
	Sinister delivers SS and JG to Stryfe in exchange for some genetic
material (?) while X - Factor beats the snot out of X - Force.  X-Force 
retreats, gets shot down by Havoc in an overdramatic manner, and sets up for
another battle royal.  Meanwhile, Cable returns from the future and is 
quite surprised to discover that he shot Professor Xavier.  
	Back at the mansion, Jubilee attempts to serve Bishop some coffee only
to be swatted like a bug as Sinister breaks in to deliver some message (?) 
in an overdramatic manner.  Sinister is actually the T-1000 in disguise!!!
	Somewhere in Texas, X-Factor and some of the X-Men beat the snot out of
X-Force >again<, and this time take them prisoner.  Meanwhile, Cable gets 
ticked, loads up with enough weapons to personally outfit three South
American millitary forces (I'm not kidding here) and talks about taking
on Stryfe once and for all.  Stryfe is busy calling Scott and Jean "Dad" 
and "Mom."  The other X-Men are hunting Apocalypse.
	And that's where things stand.  Confusing?  Of course.  This is Marvel,
these are X-books, and the writers are different.  And to all those who don't
like reading about X-books off the x-books line...
	put a sock in it!!!  The question was asked here and will be answered 
here.  To the guy that posted the original, try rec.arts.comics.xbooks next
time.  Lotsa people are real touchy here.

			Until Superman returns as the man of Steam!

				King Rat signing off!
.
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From: dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig)
Subject: Re: Analysis of Superman's mating techniques as told by Larry Niven
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 16:42:18 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

pw15@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Philip  Wang):
>I'm not sure if you've ever read this, but I thought it was quite
>funny. It's copied from Larry Niven's IN SPACE (and no, I didn't ask
>for permission to copy it. So don't sell this thing unless you want me
>to get in trouble. I didn't sell it to you.)
>
>MAN OF STEEL, WOMAN OF KLEENEX

Cancel it.  I know it's too late, but do it anyhow.  And don't try this
again.  And abandon the notion that posting this article is less illegal
because you didn't do it for money.

Philip, times have changed.  This sort of breach of copyright is
considered unethical, as well as being illegal.  It can also have some
nasty repercussions -- the *least* of which would be your losing net 
access (which you may, in the event that someone chooses to formally
complain about this posting).

There are a number of reasons to take this sort of thing seriously:
1. It's theft.  The author makes his living by getting people to pay
to read his writing.  2. Incentive to take legal action is stronger
than it used to be, because turning a blind eye to this sort of thing
can actually endanger a copyright.  3. It's a violation of copyright
law and net regulations.

If I'm going on at greater length than this seems to warrant, it's
because I'm also addressing others who might in the future make the
same mistake.

-----
Dani Zweig
dani@netcom.com

   God helpe the man so wrapt in Errours endless traine  -- Edmund Spenser
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From: mamcconnell@happy.colorado.edu (Mark (Sidewinder) McConnell)
Subject: The end of the RAC era
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: 30 Sep 92 12:43:09 MDT

Well, it's not really goodbye, but see you on the otherside of.info
and .marketplace.  Still, this was the first haevyduty newsgroup that
I tuned into, and have stayed on since I started subscribing to 
Usenet.  It is sad to see rac go.

On to rac.misc.

Die young and go broke.
		-mirror-Spock

mam

-- 
Mark (Sidewinder) McConnell  | When children give wrong answers, it is
mamcconnell@uccs.edu         | not so often they are wrong as they are
mamcconne@colospgs.BITnet    | answering another question.  The job is
                             | to find out what question they are, in 
                             | fact, answering.             David Page
From: sasha@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (David A. Tumarkin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: REBIRTHING THE BIG RED S
Date: 29 Sep 92 22:34:45 GMT
Organization: Cybernet BBS, Boca Raton, Florida

acadams@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Arthur C. Adams) writes:

> In article <717257079.1@fquest.FidoNet> Omega.Man@fquest.FidoNet.Org (Omega M
> >...Now, you have just been called in to replace Mike Carlin, Weezie Simonson
> >Dan Jurgens, Brett Breeding, and everyone else who was responsible for deali
> >the death-blow to Warner's #2 cash cow. However, before you can hire the
> >artistic talents, you've been told to come up with a way to REALISTICALLY
> >bring Kal-El back from where all Kryptonians went about 29 years ago.

To begin with, if I was in the ground floor of Supe's death, I'd have him 
die on October 31 where the barriers twixt the two worlds are made more 
permeable.  Having died in such a violent manner on All Hallow's Eve 
would render Kal-El into a ghost (or a more easily retrievable spirit
anyhow).  Wait and mourn one year and on the 1st anniversary of his 
death (on Halloween) take a coven of noted magicians and poof! instant 
resurrection of Warner's No. 2 cash cow.


                                        - Sasha

P.S:  Either that or have a tribunal of heavenly hosts sentence Kal-El 
      to life on Earth effective Easter Sunday.  =)

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From: 4mckenzie_m@spcvxb.spc.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: Image Comics
Date: 29 Sep 92 00:52:52 GMT
Organization: St. Peter's College, US

In article <92272.082419U51115@uicvm.uic.edu>, U51115@uicvm.uic.edu writes:
> In article <27SEP92.13845768.0039@UNBVM1.CSD.UNB.CA>, R39R000 <R39R@UNB.CA>
> says:
>>
>>Don't know if the first message was sent but,
>>
>>Any comments about Image?
>>
>>I think Spawn and WildCATS are the best of the bunch.
>>
>>Jim Cyr.
>>
>    I have to totally agree with you on that. IMHO, I think Lee and McFarlane ar
> e the two best artists today. Liefeld is pretty good but his drawings are a
> little sketchy. As for the plots and stories, Lee is a better writer than McFar
> lne and Liefeld and his characters are more interesting. Todd though has a futu
> re for Spawn because he's really different and mysterious. When I started
> Spawn I was really hooked, but he's just one character. What I like most about
> Lee and his Wildcats are that none of them are Godlike like the X-MEN were with
> Jean Grey and Wolverine. This is just MY opinion so don't flame me or get defen
> sive.
No, I agree with you.  Spawn is very good because he's an entirely different 
concept (plus the fact that he's been the ONLY Image book that's past #2!!), 
and McFarlane is handling him well.  WildCats was also good, but I'm a little 
confused by the first issue.  Ah, hell, back to the real world...
M. Mckenzie
St. Peter's College

"I'm the Violator...and if I don't kill you today, I'll try it LATER!!"
                                        --the Violator
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From: rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Subject: Re: Infinity War
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 01:02:40 GMT

raboles@eos.ncsu.edu (RODNEY ALLEN BOLES) writes:
Spoilers:

>In the last panel, we see Adam's good-side, which as predicted is female.
>I figure her to play prominently in a storyline in the future.

Infinity Crusade?
-- 
Mixed Emotions: Watching your mother-in-law back off a cliff in your
brand new Mercedes.
From: olemo@dhhalden.no (OLE-MAGNUS OLSEN)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: DC:Crisis and who remembers it.
Date: 27 Sep 92 18:31:54 GMT
Organization: Ostfold College

In article <1992Sep25.085048.2647@wkuvx1.bitnet> barnejd@wkuvx1.bitnet writes:
>In article <1992Sep24.225740.1@hamp.hampshire.edu>, jlmiller@hamp.hampshire.edu writes:
>> 
>> Interesting observation....Some people in the DC universe _DO_ remember
>> the Crisis as it happened in the maxi-series.
>
>  Harbinger (don't remember if you mentioned her) also does, I'd bet.
>  A question - why don't these people who were at the dawn of time
>remember the Crisis?  They did at the end of CRISIS.  Did it like fade
>from their minds gradually, get erased all at once, or what?
>
One thing you've gotta remember is that there's no REASON involved in post-
Crisis DC continuity...

The JSA remembered in The Last Days Of The Justice Society Of America 
Special, but obviously not in the new JSA series (when was it gonna be 
cancelled again?)

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From: clc@kepler.unh.edu (Llamist Lliason)
Subject: Re: Needed: Source for Computer comics/cartoons
Keywords: comics cartoons computer
Organization: Holy Church of the Llama
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 21:21:41 GMT

In article <1992Sep28.151609.29722@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> michaelb@cse.fau.edu (Michael Rogero Brown) writes:
>Also check out Scott Adams' "Dilbert" books.  Not necessarily all computers,
>but some of it is and its hilarious.  The first is "Build a better life by
>stealing office supplies".  the second just came out.  title is something
>like "Avoid meeting with life-sucking morons" or some such.
>
The best one I ever saw featured Dilbert suspecting the inability of his 
dog to program effectively, which is confirmed by his discovery that the pooch
is doing it in BASIC.

Awesome cartoon.
						Christian
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From: dhenry@plains.NoDak.edu (David Henry)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: Choosing a cabinet....
Date: 28 Sep 92 23:37:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: plains.20768
Distribution: na
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

>     Dave Van Domelen, trying to figure out where Agent "!" will fit in....I 
>got it!  Press Sec'y!

THE SCENE OPENS, THE CROWD QUIETS...

	"It should come as no surprise what I am about to say..."

Has possibilities... Get Danny the Street on HUD and you'd really be rolling!
-- 
David R. Henry - Rogue Fan Club - CTHULHU in '92! Why vote for LESSER evils?
For Kate is a jealous God, and requires sacrifice./What was your question?--K
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From: front242@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Geoffrey D. Wessel)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: Presidental Candidates (was Re: Lobo... & Various Stuff)
Date: 29 Sep 92 06:25:22 GMT
Organization: Malice=

Hey, I like Lobo, BUT.........









CEREBUS FOR DICTATOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111
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