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From: kieran@cmatter.physics.indiana.edu (kieran)
Subject: Re: Sandman #43
Organization: Indiana University
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 18:31:57 GMT

Spoilers, perhaps...



    Did you notice that Capax died while reminiscing about a dream?
And that Etain is nearly distracted enough by a dream that she is
almost killed by the gas explosion?  And how about Dream's statement
that he was sure that Delerium would not find anything on their 
trip?  Perhaps he has to go along to make sure?  In the panel where
Delerium retrieves the list of names of people who might know where
Destruction is, Dream is shown as holding the *same list*.  But that
may just be artistic license (showing two successive actions in one
panel even though they are not simultaneous).  

    It might be that Dream knows more than he is telling...

                              Kieran Mullen
From: bn510@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Matthew L. High)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Hepcats
Date: 29 Sep 1992 07:54:38 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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Sorry Sorry Sorry!

I've been meaning to write up the latest scuttlebutt on Hepcats
for a couple weeks now!  I'll post it here soon!  Trust me...

Sorry Sorry Sorry!

 - net.spy!  (bn510@cleveland.freenet.edu)

Official Double Diamond Press Net Spolesman
                                     ^(make that a 'k')
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From: dhawk@well.sf.ca.us (David Hawkins)
Subject: SANDMAN: New Destruction! (SPOILER)
Keywords: gallery
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 05:31:03 GMT

SPOILER WARNING for issue 3 or 'Brief Lives'


OK, bear with me on this.  I was re-reading the three Brief Lives
stories and noticed that when Delirium uses Desire's gallery that the
symbol for Desire is Desire's lips.  So what? you say.  Hold on.  So I
went back and checked where the galleries had been used.   Dream uses
his (1) when he calls Death about what to do with Hell, and (2) when
he calls Desire about the end of Doll's House, and (3) to call Desire
when Delirium shows up in this series.  Each time the symbol for Dream
is a mirror image of Dream.  Each time Desire uses  her gallery the
symbol for her/him is herself/himself.


The only other gallery we'd seen ws Destiny's in Season of Mists #0,
and the symbol for each of the Endless is a full statute of each.

(As far as I know we've not seen Death's, Despair's or Delirium's
gallaries.)

So now we get a new gallery -- or 'family room.'  And instead of a
blank for the Prodigal, we have a sword.  Which leads me to conclude
that the Prodigal has appointed a new Destruction to take over.  The
Prodigal can call the new Destruction with the sword.

Thoughts?

later, david
--
David Hawkins  -- dhawk@well.sf.ca.us -- dhawk@netcom.com
"Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do
not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously." 
                    -- Booth Tarkington
From: sl859@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: CEREBUS recommendations?
Date: 6 Oct 92 15:01:18 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

>      Dave Van Domelen, Waiter from hell, homeboy from hell....feh.  I am the 
> GRADER FROM HELL!

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						wReam...
					Ultimate Ninja of LNH!

P.S.  Is this a new LNV Villain???  I believe we have met our Match!!

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From: Montague_Kevin@Tandem.com (Kevvy Kev)
Subject: Re: Miracleman #23: Afterthinks
Organization: In Effect Enterprises
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 23:06:19 GMT

In article <1992Oct3.071351.27031@netcom.com>, dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig) writes:
> 
> I reread Miraclemen #23 the other day, and had a couple of minor
> afterthoughts.  I'd missed noticing, the first time I read it,
> that "kidding" was an all-purpose swear word because, like "what
> the kid", it was a reference to Bates.
> 
> It also struck me, even more forcibly than it did upon first
> reading, that Miracleman would have been hard put to come up
> with a *less* gentle or effective way to introduce YM to the
> twenty-first century.  Was he *trying* to create an enemy, or
> has he really lost that much touch with what he was?

Thanks, Dani!

I looked it over again, too, but didn't want to be the one who brought it up
again. (Yes, I'm a woos.) My observations:

1 I don't think MM was trying to make an enemy; it seems much more likely that
  Gaiman is trying to show how disconnected he's become.  (Don't know if I buy
  it or not, yet. . .) But what really struck me about this scene is his lack
  of native intelligence. . .or you could call it common sense, or creativity
  even.  Whatever.  It's a curious lack that comes up often, and drives certain
  of the events in the book.  I mention this because it seems to be one of the
  few things that Moore incorporated which Gaiman continued.  
  Of course, I could be over-analyzing.  (Nahhh. . .)

2 YM's last comment: "I want my Muh-muh-mother!"  My first reaction was to the
  pathos, but almost immediately cynicism slapped me in the back of the head:
  This kid never knew his mom.

3 Why doesn't MM reconstitute Bates?  NOT KM, but Bates?  As long as the cloned
  KM body is taken out of infraspace, or whatever that region is called, then
  Johnny's no threat.  And MM seemed to geniunely like the kid.

4 MM and Moran *are* the same person.  I got tired of arguing with you mutton-
  heads before, but I'm refreshed now.  Bring it on. . .

Kevvy Kev
". . .We're only guessing.  We aren't dealing with reality."
  -Lance "William Blake?" Smith
From: bxp1628@hertz.njit.edu (Brian Perler)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: YEARGH!  The PLayboy returneth!
Date: 5 Oct 92 01:51:54 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Oct2.011559.8921@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> dvandom@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (David VanDomelen) writes:
>I've been reading thru the same mag that has the Ren & Stimpy stuff, and what 
>do I find?  Iron Man #289, Tony Stark returns!  AAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!
>Couldn't he stay dead even 6 months????
>     Dave Van Domelen, this post was probably generated by a buggy newsreader
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Probably.  It sure bugs me.

Sorry.  Bad joke.

Anyway, one would think that Marvel would've waited until IM #300 to bring
Stark back.  That's what I was expecting.  *Sigh*  Why can't anyone in
comics stay dead?

-- 
"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
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
From: pautler@ils.nwu.edu (David Pautler)
Subject: Re: Sandman dream artists (no pun intended)
Organization: The Institute for the Learning Sciences
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 13:54:14 GMT

In article <senuwfW00WB4ADHfJB@andrew.cmu.edu> "Steven M. Stadnicki" <ss7m+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>again.  Who would you *most* like to see do an issue (or issues) of Sandman,
>and on what theme?  (Assuming you could find a theme for said artist)

artist: Vincent Van Gogh
theme:  Delirium's realm

Remember, you heard it here first.

	-dp-
From: dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig)
Subject: So long and fare
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 18:35:02 GMT

I'd better hurry.  They're going to rmgroup r.a.c. any minute now, and 
before they do, I have to say th


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From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (The Napoleon of Crime)
Subject: Re: What happens when a newsgroup dies?
Followup-To: rec.arts.comics.misc
Keywords: Goodbye.
Reply-To: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (The Napoleon of Crime)
Organization: The Institute for Criminal Science, Gizmonics Control
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 20:33:20 GMT

In <1992Sep29.191600.26112@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> conty@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (Enrique Conty) writes:
>Someone should write an epitaph for r.a.c.  Preferably someone with
>more experience with it (and better memory!) than me.

            "It's been a lark."

[Besides, this is rec.arts.comics.  It'll return from the dead.]

                           "Dead?  No excuse for laying off work."

                                        Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
INTERNET:     moriarty@tc.fluke.COM
Manual UUCP:  {uunet, uw-beaver, sun, microsoft}!fluke!moriarty
CREDO:        You gotta be Cruel to be Kind...
                 **>> Keep circulating the tapes <<**
From: gwangung@milton.u.washington.edu (Just another theatre geek.....)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: REBIRTHING THE BIG RED S
Date: 28 Sep 92 20:47:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Sep28.204733.25352
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

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....


-- 
Roger Tang gwangung@milton.u.washington.edu
Executive Producer Emeritus, Asian Theatre at the UW;
	The definition of having balls is a non-singer who goes karaoke singing 
with the cast of a musical revue.
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From: Hofbrau@cup.portal.com (Robert N Brauer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: r.a.c. RIP (M-O-U-S-E)
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 21:45:33 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: na

<lines deleted>
>"rec.arts.comics was just too beautiful for this net."
>           - Lake Elmo, _Requiem for a Newsgroup_
>
>"The group is dead. Wrapped in plastic."
>                               - David Lynch, Twin Geeks.
>
>"The Marvel zombies. They're the ones that done it!"
>                               - P.D. James, _Death of an Expert Inker_

"At this I stepped aside, and in the scabbard
let my long sword ring home to the pommel silver,
as he bent down to the somber blood. Then spoke
the prince of those with gift of speech:
'I shall make it clear
in a few words and simply.
Any dead men you allow to enter where the blood is
will speak to you, and speak the truth; but those
deprived will grow remote again and fade.'"
                                - Homer, _The Net Odyssey_

Soon all shall fade and grow remote, deprived of r.a.c. blood.

>--
>     Lance "William Blake?" Smith     |   "Bring me my bat of burning gold!
>         (lsmith@cs.umn.edu)          |    Bring me my pine tar of desire!

Hofbrau - The House Of Brauer          hofbrau@cup.portal.com
From: solovay@netcom.com (Andrew Solovay)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: Best exit lines?
Summary: Captain America
Date: 29 Sep 92 21:10:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.mz+p+x+.solovay
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

This is a classic from an old Capt. America comic (I forget which issue).

Capt. to bad guy:
"Only one of us is going to walk out of here on his own steam...
<throwing punch> and it won't be me!!!"
-- 
Andrew M. Solovay       "Work is the curse of the drinking class."
solovay@netcom.com			--Wilde

#include <disclaimer.h>
From: jng53092@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jon Gad)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: Best exit lines?
Date: 29 Sep 92 20:29:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.BvCwwy.D23
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana



Personally, I prefer the last entry in Rorshack's Journal:

"I have lived my life free from compromise and step into the shadows without
 complaint."



Jon Gad 
jng53092@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
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From: dvandom@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (David VanDomelen)
Subject: Superman pregnant....
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 01:15:59 GMT

First I'll give you a second to replace your lower jaw after reading the 
subject line.
     Okay? Okay.
     The discussion of Kryptonian reproduction and the possibility of asexual, 
or even solo birthing brought a rather bizarre idea into my already twisted 
mind.  What if Supe's reproductive processes have been stimulated by his 
'bonding' with Lois?  I mean, he never got any Kryptonian "Sex Ed", he may not 
know how his race reproduces.  Hence, he didn't 'take precautions' (which in 
this case would probably be meditative in nature) and got himself pregnant.  
The life cycle need not involve obvious physical changes in the parent until 
near birth (he himself formed pretty quickly from the genetic matrix, I 
recall), so the birth may be imminent.  This leads to two ways for Superman to 
live on.
     The more obvious would be that his child is 'born' Caesar-like from 
Superman's corpse.  Icky, but doable.  The other idea is that in the last 
stages of childbirth, as nature's way of compensating for such an unnoticable 
term of pregnancy, Superman goes into one hell of a Labor shock during the 
fight.  His body shuts down to devote resources to protecting and "birthing" 
the child, and he is to all outside appearances, dead.  The injuries sustained 
from the fight leave him unable to give birth unassisted for a great time while
his body slowly repairs itself, a task not helped by being buried away from 
the Sun.  Then some villain with ideas of cloning Supes or something unearths 
the casket, bringing it into the sunlight, and Superman gets the last bit of 
energy he needs to give birth and recover from labor (and the villain has a 
heart attack from shock }->).  Of course, this speculation is so damn weird it 
has no chance in hell of being the way things happen, but it makes for 
interesting thinking, eh?
     Dave Van Domelen, Kryptonian Obstetrician
From: lawrence@ctron.com (Gary St. Lawrence)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: Batman Cartoon 9/17
Date: 30 Sep 92 12:26:15 GMT
Reply-To: lawrence@olympus.ctron.com (Gary St. Lawrence)
Organization: Cabletron Systems INc.

Did anyone also notice that Two-Face's thugs looked mysteriously
familiar ... red hair, green jackets and bowties? Hmmm, makes one
kind of wonder what kind of guest appearances we might be seeing 
on B:TAS in coming weeks and months?

Also, wasn't it kind of stupid for the debut of the Bat-cycle to
take place in a rainstorm? I really thought Batman's helmet was
cool though. Of course, I'm probably overlooking the fact that
Batman probably has ultra-grip Bat-treads on the cycle's tires.
How novice of me. Sheeesh!

					Saint

P.S. Schizophrenic Unite!
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From: 00gdwessel@bsu-ucs.uucp
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics,rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Image Question:  How do you subscribe to Image Co
Date: 6 Oct 92 21:57:55 GMT
Distribution: usa

In article <1992Oct2.124509.19@kirk.msoe.edu>, narlochn@kirk.msoe.edu writes:
> I am sorry for asking a minor question such as this, but:
> 
> How do you subscribe to Image Comics?
> Or isn't there a way to do it.
> -- 
I don't believe there is one.....



But while we're on the subject, as well as the Neil Gaiman and Alan Moore
issues, there is a rumor that DAVE SIM is doing a _Spawn_ issue....

Any comments???   Being a TRUE _Cerebus_ fan, i obviously NEED TO KNOW!!!
> Who else is still waiting for "Naked Gun Part (Pi) | |  "
> 
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> /''/'(Enforcer Burp)'/''/''/''or'/'"NARLOCHN@KIRK.MSOE.EDU"'/''/''
> ''/''/Milw, WI 53207/''/'"Join'the'Official'Psycho/Team..."/''/''/
> '/''/''/''/''/''/''/''/''/''/''/''/''/''/''/''/''/''/''/''/''/''/'
-- 

===============================================================================
NAME: Geoff Wessel  ALIASES: Weasel, Cerebus, f**khead, schmuck, "Hey you," etc.
00GDWESSEL       00GDWESSEL@BSUVC.BSU.EDU       UNIX: front242@bsu-cs.bsu.edu
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"I hate you/Talkin' to myself/Everybody's starin' at me/I'm only bleedin'".....
						-- FAITH NO MORE
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From: Robert.Wood@f37.n19.z1.FidoNet.Org (Robert Wood)
Sender: UUCP@p0.f1060.n391.z1.FidoNet.Org
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: non-English Dr. Strange
Date: 26 Sep 92 09:27:00 EST


I am looking for non-English comic books that have Dr. Strange in them.  I
have a hard cover French book, but I would like to have any others that are
out there (Spanish, German, whatever).  What is availalble?

  Robert

 * Origin: I want APA mailings! Karate & Comics &... (501)968-3910
(1:19/37)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics,rec.arts.comics.misc,alt.folklore.computers,comp.misc
From: tyg@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Tom Galloway)
Subject: Re: Needed: Source for Computer comics/cartoons
Organization: Interleaf
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 04:08:33 GMT

In article <1687013F3C.REBECCA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu> REBECCA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Rebecca Drayer) writes:
>There was a collection published awhile back called _What's So Funny About
>Computers?_, with a great deal of wit about computers and databases and
>the society that gave rise to the computer age.  I forget who wrote it at the

Sidney Harris (presumably different from the dead columnist of the similar
name). Another possibility is The Cartoon Guide To Computers by Larry Gonick.
A number of Bloom County strips with Oliver Wendell Jones are computer
related, and an early Doonesbury series had Mark freaking out over being
a DP type during a summer. Several Fox Trot strips also deal with computers,
and Funky Winkerbean used to feature an intelligent high school administration
computer.

I also have a copy of a collection titled The Computer Is Also Human,
an international collection of computer cartoons. However, as it was printed
in Budapest in 1988 I suspect you'll have trouble finding a copy of your own.

"And there ought to be something about computers and artificial intelligence.
Surely somebody somewhere said something memorable." --Justin Kaplan, compiler
of the next edition of Bartlett's Quotations
tyg   tyg@hq.ileaf.com
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From: bz978@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Charles E Gibbs)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics,rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: I liked YOUNGBLOOD
Date: 27 Sep 92 15:32:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: usenet.1a4k5iINNrir
Reply-To: bz978@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Charles E Gibbs)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu



I know I've missed the deluge of postings.  However, I finally got a 
copy of YOungblood 1 and I liked it.  Call me demented, but I liked it.

Charles Gibbs
gibbsc@ac.grin.edu
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From: raboles@eos.ncsu.edu (RODNEY ALLEN BOLES)
Subject: Re: I liked YOUNGBLOOD
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 14:36:16 GMT

In article <92273.090929U16244@uicvm.uic.edu> <U16244@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
>In article <1a8cqdINN7kg@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, intruder@cats.ucsc.edu (Isaac
>Truder) says:
>>
>>> 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!
>>
>
>Uhhh, maybe that's because an artist with real talent, and actual genetic
>ability to draw has worked on it.  I of course refer to John Romita Jr, who
>while he is no Will Eis, er, Todd Mac, uh no, Erik, nah, John Romita Sr,
>is still good and workmanlike.
>

Er, um, maybe you need to go to your local comic store and take a
peek at the CABLE TPB (hmmmm, maybe you didn't realize that
TPB means Trade PaperBack, not Limited Series). The TPB is a
collection of Cable's New Mutants appearances.

ciao,
Rodney Boles
From: intruder@cats.ucsc.edu (Isaac Truder)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: WIZARD: GOOD OR BAD?
Date: 29 Sep 1992 01:47:39 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu


>         It's for the fanboy.  In the past 2-3 months, their cover
> stories are have ONLY been about Image/X-Stuff.  At every turn is the
> constant talk of "issue #1s!" and "hologram cards!" with that "You
> need to get these collector items" attitude that sickens me.  The
> basic backing behind Wizard are those 10-12 year olds in the local
> comics shop who lament how great Wolverine is and how they're gonna
> get 12 copies of Youngblood 2.  If you either agree with this (or
> enjoy some good entertainment, as is the case with me), I'd recommend
> it.  

I've heard various grim sounding rumors regarding the folks at WIZARD.  One
such rumor says that the WIZARD people have signed some kind of agreement
with Image Comics, agreeing to hype their comics through the roof.  Can't
think of any reason why they'd do this, though one was given when I heard
this rumor, though I don't remember what it was.  The other rumor I've heard
is that WIZARD is being investigated by some government organization,
presumably for possible involvement in price-fixing.

The bottom line, as I see it though, is that WIZARD is basically total
fanboy fluff.  You can tell right off EXACTLY the market they're aiming for.
COMICS BUYERS' GUIDE is an excellent publication on comics and the industry,
but it lacks the "flashy", slickly produced look that appeals to the Image
crowd.  WIZARD is shooting straight for this market, and to the same type
of investor/"collectors" that fall for the holograms and other bullshit as
gimmicks to get you to buy ten copies of a comic book.  Whether this is
really some conspiracy to milk the fanboy of his hard-earned (taking out
the garbage, mowing the lawn) dollars or not, doesn't concern me too 
terribly much.  I just see WIZARD as another nail in the coffin of good
comics, as the market continues to plummet headlong into the pit of
investor mania.
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
From: dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig)
Subject: Re: sm2099
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 92 06:07:27 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

wkaufman@us.oracle.com (William Kaufman):
>I think it's actually much worse than that.  Look at the stuff in
>SM2099: holographs, AI constructs, air scooters, genetic code
>editors,... All this stuff exists in the Marvel universe *now*, in 1992.

Especially editors.
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