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From: dougm@hal.com (Doug Moran)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: San Diego Comic-Con
Date: 27 Jul 92 16:55:54 GMT
Reply-To: dougm@hal.com (Doug Moran)
Organization: HaL Computer Systems, Inc.; Campbell, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: gizmo.hal.com
In-reply-to: wmorgan@stsci.edu (Windsor A. Morgan)

In article <1992Jul27.041226.25863@stsci.edu>, wmorgan@stsci (Windsor A. Morgan) writes:
>From Comics Buyer's Guide #975, July 24, 1992, page 38:
>
>    "... Here is the guest line-up:
>    (...)
>    William Shatner, Star Trek's Captain Kirk, who is being brought by
>    Marvel Comics, which is adapting his TekWars novel for comics.

The horror, the horror.
-- 
    Doug Moran        | Heck, picture if aliens ever landed in California.
   dougm@hal.com      | Instead of running away or even inquiring about the
 {...}!hal.com!dougm  | secrets of the universe, *Californians* would probably
 HaL Computer Systems | ask the BEMs if they had any new cuisine!
From: tpjg9663@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (The Tomfool)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Blue Devil & Showcase (was Re: Crisis on Inf)
Date: 31 Jul 92 16:17:29 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

tyg@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Tom Galloway) writes:

>In article <1992Jul30.053813.2991@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> jogle@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Jim Ogle (Ks. Jim)) writes:
>>It was mentioned in that editorial page thing you find at the back of
>>most DC books these days; basically it is going to be a place for
>>characters who probably cannot support a book themselves to be featured.

>Except that each issue will have a Batman character in the lead slot...

Well, I'm not thrilled by the idea of a Bats character in the lead slot, but
if it helps to keep the book alive, I'll accept it.

Have they announced any specifics?  Number of pages per feature, number
of features per issue?  I've seldom enjoyed any short superhero slots
from DC.  Most of their 8-page backups have been lame.

Tom
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From: bv446@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (James S. Ottaviani)
Subject: Dave Sim/Cerebus -- The Usenet Interview Mini-comic
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 21:07:37 GMT


The mini-comic is finished, and is advertised for sale in 
rec.arts.comics.marketplace. I won't tell you much about 
it here since I dare not risk the flaming. What I will say 
is it turned out well, we sold a lot at DaveUs Detroit 
appearance, the first four orders of 5 (or more) minis will get 
a free Diamondback deck, all proceeds go to the Comic Book 
Legal Defense Fund, and Dave said nice things about it. 
Thanks again, Dave.

We're ready for round two (or VIII, rather), by the way. 
Any questions for Dave? (You should get a copy of the 
mini to be sure your questions arenUt repeats. Heh heh.)

Agh!
The flames are starting to lick at my heels. Better stop 
for now. See you over in rec.arts.comics.marketplace.

                           ***

Upcoming tour dates:

  August 23
  Atlanta, Castlegate Hotel & Conference Centre (Oxford 
Books on August 21)

  November 15
  New York, Ramada Hotel, 33rd & 7th

  December 13
  Houston, Sheraton Grand, Westheimer exit at I-610 (Paper 
Heroes in Killeen on December 11)

seeya
jimO
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From: gls@windmill.att.com (the Colonel)
Subject: Re: SANDMAN: Annotation 32
Organization: Kentucky Fried Fox
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 01:19:37 GMT

In <1992Jul18.164113.1@fnalo.fnal.gov>, morrow@fnalo.fnal.gov writes:
> 
> Page 2 panel 1:  Colonel Knowledge may be equivalent to "carnal knowledge".

Then again, I may not!

> 	Panel 5:  First appearance of Foxglove.  She is describing, of course,
> how one milks a cow.  Since we later find out that Fox is a writer, perhaps 
> "eighty" indicates her number of sales.

Your wish is granted, long live Jambi!  But as Foxglove is not living on
five acres in Connecticut, it's more likely to be pages.

> 	Panel 5:  "Rowley" is a reference to an old folk song about "Anthony
> Rowley", which I only know through the comic strip _Pogo_, so my knowledge is
> probably highly inaccurate.

It's in Mother Goose: "With a Rowley, Powley, Gammon and Spinach/Heigh-ho
for Anthony Rowley." And it has nothing to do with the dog, who is called
Rowley because of the sounds he makes.

> Page 14 panel 3:  "Barbie-Bubullah":  The "Bubullah" part rings a bell....

Perfectly good Yiddish.  Not that Wanda is a Jew, but in New York it's
hip to be Jewish.

-:-
	"Take a message to Garcia,
	   Address it from my wife,
	 Say I won't be coming home,
	   Gonna start a new life."

		--Ollbert MacNubbard, "William
		  McKinley's Visit to Buffalo"
-- 
G. L. Sicherman
gls@windmill.att.COM
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From: dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig)
Subject: Re: New Titans #90
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 01:08:00 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

mlj44080@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael Lee Jacobs:
>Its amazing before that no one considered gliders for NightWING...though they
>are way to small for flight....

Hardly amazing:  Would *you* think of sewing some strips of cloth under
your arms as a cure for the normal consequences of jumping off of roofs
or out of helicopters?  Comic book physics at its finest, though probably
to an audience more willing to put up with it.

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

   The inability of snakes to count is actually a refusal, on their part,
    to appreciate the Cardinal Number system. -- "Actual Facts"
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From: dvandom@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (David VanDomelen)
Subject: Re: DC screws up Doom Patrol TP
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 19:36:27 GMT

I just reread my copies of #22-25, and 5 pages of Dada foreshadowing exist in 
them.  Sleepwalker gets two pages in the middle of an issue, all the rest are 
one page at the end.  Unless #21 has a page of Morton going to the doktor's, 
#22 is the first foreshadow of the BoDada.  Maybe they'll reprint all the 
BoDada's appearances in the World Of No Tradepaperback, and include all the 
foreshadowing pages.  You'll notice that all such foreshadows are integral page
length, including the Dr. Silence ones in the late #40s.
     Dave Van Domelen, there are no new ideas, just new people
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From: tyg@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Tom Galloway)
Subject: Re: Help wanted: comics trivia questions
Organization: Interleaf
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 12:21:18 GMT

In article <1992Jul31.071510.8257@csc.ti.com> a905576@tiuk.ti.com writes:
Not bad questions btw, but comments on a couple...

> 184) Who looks best in a mini-skirt?
>      a) Jimmy Olsen
>  *** b) Magnus Robot Fighter
>      c) Aunt May

Sorry, but I'd have to go with Jimmy on this one, at least pre-Crisis. In one
of the many "Jimmy Olsen, Transvestite" stories where he disguised himself
as a "girl" with the help of the ol' disguise trunk, a gangster who judged
theater dance auditions fell for Jimmy based partially on how great his legs
looked. No, I'm not making this up. This was the Mort Weisinger era after all,
and the same story included the dilemma of Jimmy having to kiss the gangster
good night. He turned out the lights and substituted his roommate's pet chimp
for his lips. The gangster really enjoyed kissing the chimp, showing that the
Comics Code would accept beastiality but not homosexuality.

> 208) Which of these characters has NEVER had a
>      sex change?
>      a) Lois Lane
>  *** b) Mister Mxyzptlk
>      c) Doctor Midnight

Strictly speaking, Dr. Midnight has never had one as she's always been female.
Her male predecessor was named Dr. Mid-Nite.

"Oho, my sainted aunt, have I become a victim of brain fever, the curse of
academia...?" --Jonathan Crane
tyg   tyg@hq.ileaf.com
From: tyg@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Tom Galloway)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Blue Devil & Showcase (was Re: Crisis on Inf)
Date: 31 Jul 92 02:39:41 GMT
Organization: Interleaf

In article <1992Jul30.053813.2991@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> jogle@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Jim Ogle (Ks. Jim)) writes:
>It was mentioned in that editorial page thing you find at the back of
>most DC books these days; basically it is going to be a place for
>characters who probably cannot support a book themselves to be featured.

Except that each issue will have a Batman character in the lead slot...

>right now).  The name is from the original Showcase title, which ran
>back in the 70's I believe (that's what I get for just skimming the

Sigh...Showcase did have a run in the 70s (and was cancelled in the '78 DC
Implosion), but it was a revival of a much longer run during the 50s and
60s. Characters who debuted in Showcase and went on to their own books included
Flash, Green Lantern, Atom, Lois Lane (for her own feature at least), Creeper,
Hawk & Dove, etc.

"Too bad men aren't like computers. Predictable, compliant, full of answers but
no questions...yet able to deliver an occasional delightful surprise." 
  --Brenda Starr
tyg   tyg@hq.ileaf.com
From: s1082919@giaec.cc.monash.edu.au (T Hankinson is YODA)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Green Lantern Stuff
Date: 30 Jul 92 02:19:06 GMT
Organization: Monash University College Gippsland, Churchill, 3842, Australia


  I'd just like to say that I am so glad Hal is Green Lantern of Earth and
  that he beat Guy Gardner at his own game.

                                             Just a Hal fan

                                                             Templar
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From: harry@dnlunx (Harry Fluks)
Subject: Re: Duckburgh 
Reply-To: H.W.Fluks@research.ptt.nl
Organization: PTT Research
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 17:57:11 GMT

euaaen@eua.ericsson.se (Anders Engwall) writes:

>What I'd like to know is where Duckburgh is supposed to
>be located.

>Any Carl Barks fans out there?

Of course, lots of them. But you hardly notice them in the bulk of the
r.a.comics-group...

Duckburg (without h) is located in the American state Calisota. Allthough
the exact location of this state is unknown, it is somewhere at the west
coast (Duckburg has beaches).
Don Rosa has made an interesting story that states that Duckburg was 
originally founded by Cornelius Coot at the place of fort Drakeborough,
then renamed to Fort Duckburg. Scrooge McDuck bought the land of this
fort from the grandson of Coot, after he made his fortune in Klondike.
He then built his money bin on the spot. (This history is consistent
with most of the Barks stories.)

Harry Fluks
PTT Research, Leidschendam, Netherlands
H.W.Fluks@research.ptt.nl
(Sorry, no fancy signature)



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From: lf7z@ellis.uchicago.edu (glenn alan carnagey jr)
Subject: DC: The Heckler
Reply-To: lf7z@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 06:03:15 GMT

In article <4086@news.duke.edu> eja@north8.acpub.duke.edu (Eric Akawie) writes:
>In article <7djm_!g.dani@netcom.com>, dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig) writes:
>|> Keith Giffen seems to have taken his artistic propensities to their
>|> logical conclusion:  Instead of drawing facial features which are hidden
>|> by shade or angle of view, he has created characters lacking half their
>|> facial features.  Efficient, I suppose.  The extreme example of this is
>|> El Gusano, who looks just like some of Giffen's thirtieth-century aliens.
  ....
>
>I saw a strong Joe Simon influence, in both the characters and the art.
>Substitute Boss Smiley for the Mob boss in this comic, and you've got a 
>lost issue of Prez.
>By th....

What I want to know is what the hell happened to M Jones III, I've never
his inks look this bad before, can't blame it all on the penciller.  And
these guys missing various face parts don't do a thing for me, either.
I'm *really* beginning to hate this 9-panel format. (I don't read the latest
incarnation very often, my only recent exposure was Ragman, where it seemed
to work better).  Having panned the art, I kinda liked the supporting cast
and the "Simonesque" quality.  The dialogue and story, while thin, seemed
allright, I'll think I'll give it a few issues.  But my chief reaction was
a renewed wish for the return of the Creeper, as Ditko wrote him.  This
guy seems like he could easily degenerate into a cheap ripoff version.

Pax ex machina,
Glenn
......................................................................
"Quick, Chas --- to the Piss-upmobile!"
   --- Kit (Hellblazer)
g-carnagey@uchicago.edu
......................................................................

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From: mlj44080@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael Lee Jacobs)
Subject: DC:TITANS: The mysterious leader is revealed (Spoilers)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 16:46:46 GMT

No they havent out and out said it in Team Titans numbers 1, but 
in the main story and particularly in Terra's story we see the Leader as
having Orangish Red hair....this cnfirms in my mind that the Leader of
the Team Titans is indeed......Donna Troy's Son.  No Not Lord 
Chaos but the son she just gave birth to...who through some odd time thing
manages to exist in the same time-line as Chaos, but without the madness
that drives Chaos's powers.  So he grows up knowing the Titans in this
time-line and then gets thrown over into the next time-line where he starts
the resistance....

	All in all I am really beginning to like the Total Chaos storyline
I only wish they would have gone into this and not the Wildebeest garbage.


P.S. for the observant in Terra's issue at the graveyard you can see a
marker for Raven, interesting considering she didnt have one at the funeral.
(doubly interesting since we all know that she isnt dead afterall and is due
to come back in a few issues)

-- 
  "If the best things in life are free, then my current price is
   $37k with a 10% downpayment."
From: ghost@ra.nrl.navy.mil (G. Host)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Crisis on Infinite Earths, 6 years later
Date: 28 Jul 92 01:55:01 GMT
Reply-To: ghost@ra.nrl.navy.mil (G. Host)
Organization: Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC


> Article <1992Jul25.084629.311@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> From: jogle@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Jim Ogle (Ks. Jim))

> In article <mumble> albert@chain.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu (Rick Jones) writes:
> >In article <grumble> sf034281@owl.cellb.bcm.tmc.edu (Shurron M. Farmer) writes

> >>1. Is the series History of the DC Universe (By Marv Wolfman and George Perez
> >>   still valid?

> >	Parts of it are, parts aren't. Of the top of my head, the bits about
> >Hawkman and Captain Atom need to be changed.  For the most part, it's okay.

> As I recall they also had a team shot of the Justice League that
> included some characters who were supposed to be/have been members but
> never were, like Blue Devil.  (But, I could be remembering something
> else; it's so long ago!)

You are definitely remembering wrong.

Not even the Joke League America or Joker League Americaa
had the Blue Devil had a member.
Even Giffin did not step that low!

If the Blue Devil is going to be used in a team I suggest
that he be traded to the Doom Patrol for one wierdo and
another to be named later.

I mean you have a team of wierdo's and it seems natural
that someone with a house of wierdness would be attracted to it....

-- 
Glenn Host          | Moving soon; watch this space for new address!
12307 Tigers Eye Ct |
Reston, VA 22091    |
(703) 620-1141      | I will public post abusive email! Be warned!
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From: mbvg9741@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (plain)
Subject: !mpact (More Questions)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 00:45:29 GMT

  Okay, you all answered most of my questions about !mpact, but then
  you raised some new ones.  Some one (I forget who) suggested that
  the !mpact heros were descended from another comic line, like Red
  Circle or Disney (Maybe Archie?).  I also got the impression that
  the characters had been fully developed over in the other company
  and then were switched over to DC where they were started out fresh
  again.

  Can someone please tell me about their early incarnations.  Also, 
  were they at all interesting in their earlier forms?  Or were they
  duds?  How did DC end up with them, etc.

  -Vincent
From: sl859@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: MISC: CBG Awards results
Date: 28 Jul 92 15:36:07 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

> Favorite Character
> 
> 121 Spider Man
> 118 Wolverine
> 106 Batman
> 73 Gambit
> 53 Death
> 50 Sandman
> 48 Rogue
> 42 Superman
> 39 Lobo
> 38 Hulk

I like the 5th one there.  But I ask you, is it Death of which comic?
DC or Marvel or What?  Hmmmmmmm... Perhaps Death of Marvel I suggest 
although Death of DC doesn't sound that bad >;-) ...
					wReam...
P.S.  This posting sure could be read and interpreted strangely now 
that I think of it.  Certainly, I did not intend to word it that way
now did I ???  ;-)





Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 01:02:05 -0400 
From: Vernon H Harmon <vh00+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Crisis on Infinite Earths, 6 years later
	<3147@ra.nrl.navy.mil>

>
If the Blue Devil is going to be used in a team I suggest
that he be traded to the Doom Patrol for one wierdo and
another to be named later.

I mean you have a team of wierdo's and it seems natural
that someone with a house of wierdness would be attracted to it....
>

Actually, the Doom Patrol should at least have him guest star, since he
is a "weirdness magnet"! Also, since the House of Weirdness has a door
to Dream's Realm, shouldn't he make an appearance in Sandman, too?

--Vernon.
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From: dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Hulk #397
Date: 25 Jul 92 05:47:29 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

A fifteen-page fight.  I think that's overdoing it.  It's not as though
the fight ends differently from your standard five-page fight, and
it's not as though there is any plot advancement or character development
occurring.

I'm also not clear on why the fight was necessary.  The Pantheon's
stronghold is, among things, a major communications nexus:  I'm sure that
if the Leader wanted to talk to Agamemnon, a phone call would have
sufficed.

Voodoo science:  Lead blocks x-rays, therefore an x-ray-emitting villain
is vulnerable to lead weapons.  

It was nice to see Rick Jones benefit from a mother's care...

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

   God helpe the man so wrapt in Errours endless traine  -- Edmund Spenser
From: isbell@ai.mit.edu (Charles L Isbell)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Crisis on Infinite Earths, 6 years later (was Re: JSA#1:BUY IT...)
Date: 24 Jul 92 04:32:48 GMT
	<1992Jul23.164626.23580@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
	<1992Jul23.182721.1853@midway.uchicago.edu>
Followup-To: rec.arts.comics.misc
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
In-reply-to: mss2@quads.uchicago.edu's message of 23 Jul 92 18:27:21 GMT

Well, I wouldn't call it a failure, really but it could be confused.
It seems to me that there are two kinds of fans we need concern
ourselves with:  those that knew and understood the DC multiverse &
Crisis and those that didn't.

For the first group, well, they can figure out the doublethink
necessary to foloow the current continuity.  And for the last group,
well it's all new to them and so it doesn't really matter.

Someone emailed an interesting note to my waves-resulting-from-paradox-
"pressure" theory:  the universe is getting less stable, not more and
eventually the pressures will force the recreation of a multiverse.
Which, basically, is a pseudo-scientific analog for the real-world
"pressures" of the new continutity for DC.  Eventually, they will be
"pressured" to recreate the multiverse to maintain continuity.
--
Peace.
      "I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my
       plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn't make you a
       diner.  Being here in America doesn't make you an American."  
                                --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: sta2534@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: Just wondering...
Reply-To: sta2534@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 20:09:44 GMT

OK, I got a question here:

If Superman fought Dr Manhattan (the blue guy in Watchmen),
Who would win?

I imagine Manhattan would kick his ass.



Steve A.
From: sf034281@owl.cellb.bcm.tmc.edu (Shurron M. Farmer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Crisis on Infinite Earths, 6 years later
Date: 24 Jul 92 15:32:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: gazette.13547
Reply-To: sf034281@owl.cellb.bcm.tmc.edu (Shurron M. Farmer)
Originator: sf034281@owl.cellb.bcm.tmc.edu


I've read opinions on this subject, and I'm not sure how I feel about it.  I like
the way some things are now (like Wonder Girl's transformation into Troia), but I
wish that a lot of things would have stayed the way they were pre-Crisis (the 
multiverse, not retconning Batman, Hawkman, the LSH, Superman, and Wonder Woman, the JLA/JSA team-ups, and epescially the original Justice League).  This would
probably be impossible, but in one way, I wish DC would create a series where eveything could be just as it was pre-Crisis.  At the same time, this would cause
confusion among post-Crisis readers.

A few questions:
1. Is the series History of the DC Universe (By Marv Wolfman and George Perez) 
   still valid?

2. In JLE #37 (I think), Batman mentioned to Sue Dibny that he doesn't do teams.
   Does this mean that the Outsiders were never formed in the post-Crisis
   universe? 

3. Was Batman one of the original founders of the original JLA?

4. Where does the Legion fit into it all?

Any comments?
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From: jogle@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Jim Ogle (Ks. Jim))
Subject: Re: Crisis on Infinite Earths, 6 years later
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 08:46:29 GMT

In article <mumble> albert@chain.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu (Rick Jones) writes:
>In article <grumble> sf034281@owl.cellb.bcm.tmc.edu (Shurron M. Farmer) writes

>>1. Is the series History of the DC Universe (By Marv Wolfman and George Perez
>>   still valid?
>
>	Parts of it are, parts aren't. Of the top of my head, the bits about
>Hawkman and Captain Atom need to be changed.  For the most part, it's okay.

As I recall they also had a team shot of the Justice League that
included some characters who were supposed to be/have been members but
never were, like Blue Devil.  (But, I could be remembering something
else; it's so long ago!)

>>2. In JLE #37 (I think), Batman mentioned to Sue Dibny that he doesn't do teams.
>>   Does this mean that the Outsiders were never formed in the post-Crisis
>>   universe? 
>
>	Nope, it means that in Bats' opinion, the Outsiders was a mistake.

Maybe that's why the new Outsiders book has been promised for
something like three years and the first issue is still nowhere to be
seen.  Bruce Wayne is pressuring Time-Warner to keep it off the market
because he doesn't like the idea!  

Ok, maybe not.  8-)

-- 
Kansas Jim (Jim Ogle, TORG guru)
jogle@nrao.edu (NRAO-VLBA, Socorro New Mexico)
"I'd be apathetic if I cared."

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From: ckb@athena.mit.edu (Christopher K. Brown)
Subject: Unity #1?
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 19:30:57 GMT

Well, I can't verify the following nth-hand information - and I have no
idea whether or not it's actually true.  But, here goes...

I just heard that the reason Unity #1 is late has alot to do with the fact
that Shooter took the plot with him when he left Valiant.  (Can you say
stole the plot, maybe?)

Since Valiant has storylines planned out well into next year, I would imagine
it was very purposeful on Jim's part.

Again, I can't verify how accurate the above is.
Chris
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