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From: naam@cecer.army.mil (Ramez Naam)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: SANDMAN:Lucien's Library
Date: 5 Jan 93 21:27:00 GMT
Organization: US Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Labs

roshne@faerun (Rod Shelton) writes:

>naam@cecer.army.mil (Ramez Naam) writes:

>> It's a bit stronger than that.   Fermat claimed that he had proven that
>> no three number x,y,z fit x^N + y^N = z^N where N is an integer larger
>> than 1.
>> 
>        Well it must be N>2 because otherwise The Pythagoren (sp?)
>theorm would  be invalidated, you know a^2+b^2=c^2 which definately fits
>the bill of x^N+y^N=z^N for a=x b=y c=z N=2


Duh, yeah.  That's what I meant.  Finals have fried my brain.

--
Ramez Naam
naam@terra.cecer.army.mil
From: kreider@axon.ee.upenn.edu (Greg Kreider)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Cerebus #165  <SPOILERS!!>
Date: 12 Jan 93 02:23:14 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <1993Jan9.192214.12153@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> dvandom@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Dave Van Domelen) writes:
>Well, as I said last week when I got my copy of #165, Elrod fires 21 shots and 
>kills 20 Cirinists.  The 21st either missed or one Cirinist ate two.  Elrod is 

Anal retentiveness coming up ...

If I remember the count from last week, I think there were some 5 extra 
cartridges than "k-chunks" (or whatever the sound was) falling to the ground.
The numbers may be off (and I'll be off the net before I can get back to the
issue to check), but they weren't equal.


Followed by a random comment ...

One problem I have noticing things like Po's mixing king and queen is that
I'll just assume that it's carelessness in the writing.  Sim, for example,
has corrected his text in the letter column more than once, so when I see 
something that doesn't make sense I don't read too much significance into it.
When it happens the effect is more one of incongruity, one of wishing that I
could trust the wording enough to extrapolate mindlessly from it.

Greg K.
kreider@axon.ee.upenn.edu
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From: djdaneh@pbhyc.PacBell.COM (Dan'l DanehyOakes)
Subject: Re: Why Vertigo? Was: Marvel copies DC... again
Reply-To: djdaneh@PacBell.COM (Dan'l DanehyOakes)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 21:53:35 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.145905.13727@schbbs.mot.com> Chagnon_A@msm.cdx.mot.com (Andrew Chagnon) writes:
>
>Given the discussion that last month Sandman was ranked #75 in sales and
>Hellblazer wasn't in the top 100, why is DC creating the Vertigo line?


There's a Marvel flavor to comix, and a DC flavor, and the comix moving to the
Vertigo line have increasingly *NOT* felt like DC comix.  And, with DC 
apparently about to retrench the superhero line and become more Marvel-like,
my guess is that they don't want to cross-pollute the "feel" of the DC line and
the Vertigo line.

God save us all, it may be a deliberate positive -- something to preserve the
"purity" of the "prestige" (as opposed to Prestige[tm] format) comix.  I doubt
it, though; there are no other signs of the Millenium.

Of course, it's sound marketing, too.  I believe it's called "niche marketing."

Each of the Vertigo line is intended to support the others in sales.  "If you
like this, you may also like that..."  You get the idea.

Sometimes esthetic and commercial considerations drive towards the *same*
decision.  That's the best possible situation.


			I'm your only friend.  I'm not your only friend,
			but I'm your little glowing friend, but actually
			I'm not your friend.  But I am
				--TMBG

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes, Net.Roach
My opinions do NOT represent Pacific Bell,
Professional Development, or anyone else.
But I'm willing to share.
From: maguire@zappa.jpl.nasa.gov (Kevin Maguire)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Cerebus
Followup-To: rec.arts.comics.misc
Date: 12 Jan 1993 23:30:59 GMT
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Distribution: world
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In article <1993Jan12.042024.18000@thinkage.on.ca>, dat@thinkage.on.ca
(David Adrien Tanguay) wrote:
> 
> dvandom@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Dave Van Domelen) writes:
> >     If Cerebus isn't in violation of good taste by not wearing any pants, how 
> >can he have sex? (Okay, maybe this doesn't belong in the FAQ. }->)
> 
> 	1) Fur
> 	2) Maybe that's *not* a tail...

Dave has done this joke, in the "Mrs. Tinsdale's Tea" issue.  Earlier in 
that issue Cerebus had been fitted for a morning coat outfit, and wore
said outfit to the tea.  On the way he had been complaining about how
tight his britches were.

At the tea Cerebus sat there looking bored, and eventually stood up for
some 
reason or another, and his tail burst through his pants and stuck out
between 
his legs, pointing forward.  Mrs. Tinsdale fainted.

Later in the issue, there's a couple panels of Mrs. Tinsdale whispering
with a couple other old ladies;  she stops, and holds her hands up
about shoulder's width apart, and all the other ladies gasp.

I believe this issue was in Church and State somehwere, and that Cerebus
attended the tea with Mrs. Henrot-Gutch (bless you).

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Kevin Maguire                       No, not THAT Kevin Maguire
maguire@zappa.jpl.nasa.gov          I'm a rocket scientist, not an artist
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From: dvandom@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Dave Van Domelen)
Subject: Why I watch Entertainment Tonight
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:33:32 GMT

So I can catch this kind of information.  Seriously, ET is a better source of 
info on the entertainment industry than any other available on broadcast TV.  
Every so often a really important (to me) piece of news comes down the pipe 
from ET.
     Also, as a Jeopardy/College Bowl type person, I need a regular fix of pop 
references and entertainment news.
     Dave Van Domelen, has taped the ET articles on Supes, Ren & Stimpy and 
BTAS....
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From: conty@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (E. Kontei)
Subject: Re: Harvey does Ultraman (recommended!)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:13:53 GMT

In article <1ijfcdINNoee@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, intruder@cats.ucsc.edu (Isaac N. Truder) writes:
> 
> And, on the one hand we have
> pretty sophisticated sets, model hi-tech planes, and very dramatic
> music, a dramatic-voiced narrator... and then we have ultraman fighting
> rubber monsters that are only marginally better than the old ones.  It
> just doesn't seem to work.

It works for me.  For camp to work, you have to crank up the melodrama
and angst waay up to *here*, and THEN hit them with the silly confrontation,
be it guys in rubber suits or a paunchy "Caped Crusader" in a tafeta
outfit.  :-)

> Anyway, on the earlier question of who we should get to write the
> Ultraman comic book.... I vote Michael T. Gilbert, of MR. MONSTER fame!
> I bet he could write an epic, campy story for Ulty...

That's a very good choice!
-- 
			    E n r i q u e  C o n t y
			       Master of Science!
			      jester@ihlpm.att.com
		    Disclaimer: You're not dealing with AT&T
From: goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Best Death
Date: 11 Jan 1993 03:24:12 GMT
Organization: The Sinister Icy Black Hand of Death Club
Reply-To: goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb)
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Originator: goldfarb@tornado.berkeley.edu

In article <paul.a.webb.10-100193162018@hesmac11.hesburgh.lab.nd.edu> paul.a.webb.10@nd.edu (PW) writes:
)Although I do realize it was Byrne himself that
)resurrected Jean Grey in the pages of the Fantastic Four.  But maybe Marvel
)editors pressured him into doing it.
)
)PW

	From what I've heard, this is in fact the case. If you look at
the credits for that issue of FF, Byrne didn't put his name on it --
under "writer" and "artist" it simply read "You Know Who". This certainly
suggests that Byrne was doing it under protest.

-- 
   David Goldfarb          | 
goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu  |      "Hey, mister! Your ninja's dragging!" 
goldfarb@UCBOCF.BITNET     | 
goldfarb@soda.berkeley.edu |
From: Peter_A_David@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Futuristic Pseudocussing
Date: Sat,  9 Jan 93 06:52:03 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: world
  <73174@cup.portal.com> <DAN.93Jan8152254@spiff.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
  <1993Jan9.084105.27623@midway.uchicago.edu>

Keep in mind, when it comes to "hell" and "damn," that in Marvel Comics 
they don't let you say that anyway.  My reasoning was that, since we've got
stuff set in a future society, why not develop a future profanity to
work with.

So much of profanity is subjective.  I mean, "Bloody" in America doesn't 
have all that much impact.  But in the U.K., I once saw a British kid 
get slapped by his mother when he said "Bloody" and his mother cursed him
out (well, scolded him) for using "that foul language."

Of course, I did have a British character say "Bugger" a couple of times
before the editors eventually found out what it means.  And in SM 2099 #5,
the Specialist uses mild (very mild) transliterated Japanese profanity.

You always have to proceed with extremely caution when it comes to profanity
at Marvel.  Which is why I get a kick out of some of the younger readers
actually incorporating "shock" into their vocabulary as something they can
say around their parents, and it means nothing to the parents and something
to the kid...so everybody's happy.

PAD
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From: dhenry@plains.NoDak.edu (David R. Henry)
Subject: Re: What if...
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 07:26:23 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

>> Wait! The Marvel Sandman already exists!
>> 
>> What do you make of Nightmare?!
>> 
>> He is white, skinny, and is the ruler of the dream dimension. Well, right,
>> I know that Nightmare existed for far longer than Dream, but I very much doubt
>> it was a ripoff from Gaiman.
>> Even then, I would call it a major improvement, and I am understating.

Oh, Nightmare's been around since the Doc's first appearance in the early
60s -- Strange helps out this woman who was suffering from bad dreams, and
fights her "Nightmare." Simple, eh?

I noticed the Nightmare/Morpheus similarity about two or three years ago,
and worked it into the Richard Darwin story/expose I was finishing at that
time. The entire plot is a bit much to get into, but suffice to say that the
Church of the Limping Light didn't summon Satan, like they thought they
would, but were actually dupes of Nightmare all along, to finally allow him
to manifest on the real world.

Meanwhile, an astral conjugation/odd-Fortean-thingie called a Hyperstation
had resulted in the manifestation of (Marvel) Death in Manhattan. Plots
being what they are, Death and Nightmare end up in the same warehouse that
my mercilessly persecuted rock musician, Darwin, was being held captive in.
Just as Nightmare was gloating over the shattered remnants of the Limping
Light, Death manifests, and Nightmare cowers before her.

The Hyperstation is realigning Eternity, New York is in flames, hundreds
of crazed cultists from nearly every cult on Earth are stalking around him,
and Richard Darwin still has the presence of mind to ask:  "What are you
worried about? Isn't she your older sister?"

"Last time I trust *anything* someone tells me in a London pub."
	--Richard Darwin, "Hyperstation"

-- 
David R. Henry - Rogue Fan Club - "I have a pullchain in my head." -- RIII
My mind is a jackal.--Richard Darwin // What was the question? --Kate Bush
"All you of Earth are IDIOTS!"-P9fOS // Thanks... for the memories.--Rogue
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From: tyg@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Tom Galloway)
Subject: Re: Did Ya' Notice in Future Imperfect
Organization: Interleaf
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 04:53:40 GMT

In article <C0KEzq.7nH@panix.com> carlf@panix.com (Carl Fink) writes:
>  Actually, She was a very uninteresting Marvel character, as I 
>recall an artificial woman who spend all her time looking for a perfect
>mate, annoying such heroes as Thor and Adam Warlock. 

Wrong pronoun; the character you're thinking of went by Her, given that
she was originally created by the same process that created Him aka Adam
Warlock (although originally Her was male and went by the currently much
in demand name of Paragon). Her recently adopted the name Kismet and has
been hanging out in Quasar.

"Aha! Pronoun trouble!" --Daffy Duck
tyg   tyg@hq.ileaf.com
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From: jcowling@ophelia.UVic.CA (Scowling Jim Cowling)
Subject: Re: Harbinger?: Is Peter aka. Sting gay???
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 17:34:51 GMT

In article <93010.013321U38134@uicvm.uic.edu> Noel B. Lorenzana <U38134@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
>I just read Harbinger #8 and realized Sting's true feelings are
>of a homosexual nature. In the wormhole he was saddened by his
>inner thoughts and admitted to being in love with Torque. So I
>figure ol' boy peter is a pumpkin eater(bi-sexual). Anyone know
>more about this? Thanks,
>

I think you're off base.

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Creative Writing Department, University of Victoria (opinions disassociated)
GEnie:  J.COWLING	Internet:  jcowling@ophelia.UVic.CA
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From: goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: MISC: Comics Readers' Ages (was Re: PAD & Pros)
Date: 9 Jan 1993 12:19:30 GMT
Organization: The Sinister Icy Black Hand of Death Club
Reply-To: goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb)
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Originator: goldfarb@earthquake.berkeley.edu

In article <C0GLJu.xA@matilda.vut.edu.au> jed@matilda.vut.edu.au (Jed Bowtell) writes:
)I think McFarlane shows a degree of contempt for his audience
)in his Comics Journal (I think) interview where he basically
)says he doesn't care if his writing is good, the only thing
)that matters is that people buy it\like it. It is either
)contempt or stupidity.
)
)jed

	I read that interview, and I'll vote for stupidity. Anyone who
hasn't read it and has the least bit of interest in McFarlane or in 
Image should try to do so. It's truly amazing: the man can barely frame
a coherent sentence. 

--
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goldfarb@UCBOCF.BITNET     |Tenzil Tenzil Tenzil Tenzil Tenzil Tenzil Tenzil 
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From: Damian.Cugley@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Damian Cugley)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Cerebus #165
Date: 10 Jan 93 13:59:48 GMT
Organization: Computing Laboratory, Oxford University, UK
In-reply-to: dani@netcom.com's message of 8 Jan 93 22:14:42 GMT

<1993Jan8.221442.7983@netcom.com> dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig) writes:

> Cerebus #165 is certainly a dense issue.  Lots of things are happening
> and, as usual, we come away with more new questions than new answers. 

This is about all that keeps me reading -- curiosity as to what each new
hint will lead to.  For the last half-dozen issues or more I've decided
to give up buying Cerebus (and consider buying the phonebook when it
arrives) but absent-midedly picked up the next issue anyway.

The reason for this is that Sim's obsession with the idea that vocal
feminism == matriarchal feminism == evil is begining both to piss me off
and to bore me.  Up til now I was willing to give Sim the benefit of the
doubt and assume that while the Cirinists are *a* loony female-dominated
society, Sim was not using them to say that all feminists are monomaniac
crypto-fascists who want to eat men's balls.  

But now Sim has introduced Greer and Dworkin as two of Cirin's generals,
it seems to me that one of his themes is "sensible feminist" Astoria vs
"crypto-fascist matriarchal feminism" (Cirinists), with the latter being
the majority.

His use of Margaret Thatcher as a Cirinist threw me for a while, till I
guessed that to foreign eyes, Thatcher might look like a feminist.
Those of us who've had some exposure to her ideology know that this
isn't so -- she espoused all sorts of family values, women-in-kitchens
nonsense, but considered herself exempt from it.

I am not excited by the prospect of 150 issues of Sim bemoaning the
short-comings of silly little women who don't have his profound and
far-ranging insight into the politics of gender.  Your mileage may vary,
of course.

Damian
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From: panda@Micor.OCUnix.on.ca (Elizabeth Holden)
Subject: Re: Happy Squid Appreciation Day -- the SQUIDDIES are here!
Organization: M.B. Cormier INC.
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 07:47:44 EST

rogerk@queernet.org (Roger B.A. Klorese) writes:

> >	Surely the Endless are a family, not a team.
> 
> Surely the Fantastic Four are a family, not a team.  ;-)
> -- 
> ROGER B.A. KLORESE                                              +1 415 ALL-AR

....Quite seriously, this has been one of the problems with the FF for a 
while now: the creators (or editors) haven't figured this out and they 
treat the characters as if they were a team, not a family.

Wrong approach entirely.

Namaste,
Elizabeth



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From: Chagnon_A@msm.cdx.mot.com (Andrew Chagnon)
Subject: Re: Why Vertigo? 
Organization: Motorola_Codex
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:24:04 GMT


>
>Sandman ranks as really good literature most times.  The Vertigo line is an
>attempt to give the Sandman/Hellblazer/Shade fans even more of the style
>that they like.  Sure, grouped into the rest of the "superhero" comics, 
>the mature audience comics might not do so well in sales, but they sure make
>for better reading and brain food.
>

No question....but this newsgroup is by no means a representative part of the
comic reading population. 

But what if the experiment fails? What if the sales numbers for Sandman don't
cross-over to Shade, Hellblazer, etc.? Do we really believe that DC, which
seems to be coming under increasing pressure to gain market share, is
benevolent enough to keep the Vertigo line alive for our 'brain food.'
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From: lsmith@deci.cs.umn.edu (Lance "Squiddie" Smith)
Subject: Re: SANDMAN: a question... and thought... and a spoiler
Organization: The Little Squids of the Endless
Distribution: na 
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 05:32:02 GMT

In article <ZONKER.93Jan7234030@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu> zonker@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu (     Regis     ) writes:

Something about upcoming issues. Enough to warrant a SPOILER warning:


>so, we're supposed to get a family reunion within the next couple of
>issues...

It's hard to say how big a reunion it will be. I have sworn off trusting 
DC/Vertigo preview blurbos. However, the way they are written it may 
be no more than Dream, Delirium and Destruction. They may be using the 
word "reunion" a little too liberally. 

It would be nice to see the whole family together again, but I don't know
if this will happen or not.

>do any of the other endless have offspring that we know of (besides
>Dream (perhaps the family reunion will involve orpheus as well?  I
>assume we were shown him for a reason... either this storyline or the
>next major story arc...))?

Hmmm, other than Rose and Orpheus I'm not sure we know of any. Does 
Daniel Hall count? 

I don't know what Orpheus's purpose was or will be. It may have just been 
to show how brief mortal lives are to those who are immortal. That or to let
us know where Lady Johanna Constantine ended up. (Illinois?) We probably
will see him again before the end of the story.

>also, in the special "orpheus marries and visits hell" issue, i think
>it is, delirium says she almost got married...  i wonder if this was
>as delirium or as delight...  maybe having her heart broken was part
>of her Change?

This is a popular guess. Sort of like the wealthy spinster in _Great
Expectations_ who had gone a little scooters when she was jilted at the altar.
At least they both have stopped time pieces. I can't really see Delight 
wearing the fishnet bodysuit to get married in, but who can say with these
anthropomorphisms. 

(Sorry. Didn't mean to bring out the Dickens. I'm not about to try spelling
Miss Havershom's last name.) 

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From: crisper@deeptht.armory.com (Crisper Than Thou)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: SUPERMAN:  No new life in sight.
Date: 7 Jan 93 16:51:34 GMT
Organization: The Armory

In article <1hpqibINNjb@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> albert@chain.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu (Rick Jones) writes:
>In article <1992Dec29.044128.20293@njitgw.njit.edu> ddl1542@hertz.njit.edu (Derek Lee!) writes:
>>	According to the latest CVM, Superman is coming back in Adventures 
>>of Superman #500 in April 1993. Ick.
>

Easter. Disgusting.
Anyone else notice you never see Superman and Jesus at the same time,
 in the same place? :)

>
>	Darn, that means that I won't be a famed net.psychic.  I predicted
>that he'd be back by March.  Guess I just have to be satisfied as the
>net.sidekick.
>-- 
>Rick Jones				Systems Support Center
>albert@bcm.tmc.edu			Baylor College of Medicine
>Voice: 713-798-7352			standard disclaimers apply
>One jump ahead of the slowpokes, One skip ahead of my doom. - Aladdin

My shot at prediction time:

Clark Kent will reappear as a bedraggled homeless person or some other
 sort of transient, uninspiring-looking guy. Unshaven, dressed in rags,
 nobody recognizes him. He appears before several friends and allies from
 his life (i.e. Jimmy Olsen, some of the superheroes, etc.) and none of them
 know him, yea, even though he doth walk amongst them and all that rot.
 And eventually he will reveal himself in all his glory, etc. etc. and
 either he'll retake the mantle of Earth's Defender or he'll ascend into
 Heaven (i.e. leave Earth for a while again).

Religious analogies from DC? Methinks I shall puke.

	--The Elder Dan
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From: sweide@uceng.uc.edu (Steven Weide)
Subject: Venom trashes Image
Organization: University of Cincinnati
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 16:42:47 GMT


I was just reading Venom #1 and noticed something interesting.  On page 8
(including the ads), in the last panel when Eddie Brock (Venom for those of 
you who don't read Spidey) is trying to check into a hotel.  In the background
there is the typical sign that says "No partying, pets...".  The final
line is "No Youngbloods".  Nice touch.

Overall, I thought this wasn't a bad comic.  It could be because I like 
Venom's sick and twisted sense of honor.  The scene where he saved the woman
and then she ran screaming.  It was beautiful.

Just MHO,
   Steve
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From: kehandle@unix.amherst.edu (KEITH EDWARD HANDLEY)
Subject: Re: Kirby, Claremont and rights
Organization: Amherst College
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 05:44:09 GMT

JOHN LAROCQUE (larocqu@gaul.csd.uwo.ca) wrote:
: Steve Ditko is a true nut. His "public service" package was VERY lame. His
: art has gone to shit and all he does is spout that Ayn Rand propaganda shit.
: The Comics Journal thinks that it is the ravings of a madman (or genius).
: You decide. 

You may be right about the "nut" part, but the Public Service book was
VERY good, art-wise.  The text was very Ditko. 

Keith Handley  kehandley@amherst.edu
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