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From: hoey@zogwarg.etl.army.mil (Dan Hoey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: HELP, shops in Washington D.C.
Date: 5 Oct 92 19:30:26 GMT
Organization: Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC

CARLOSLI@auvm.american.edu (Carlos Li) writes:
>There are a bunch more out in the suburbs, but my comic needs are simple and
>I'm too lazy to go too far.

If you acquire more complex needs or shed some indolence, the Closet
of Comics is worth a trip.  I can't speak for its mainstream coverage
but its indy selection is impressive.  It's on Route 1 in College
Park, a couple blocks north of Calvert Road, beside the 'vous, on the
east side of the street.  Open until 7 except 6 on Sunday.

Any other good indy outlets in the burbs?

Dan
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From: tyg@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Tom Galloway)
Subject: Re: Why does everyone hate MacFarlane?
Organization: MIT Chapter of the Yale Precision Marching Band
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 05:03:05 GMT

In article <1992Sep23.203615.29264@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> kyrie@coos.dartmouth.edu (Thomas S. Marlowe) writes:
>y> tap1040@sigma.tamu.edu  wrote:
>|> Why do you go to Dartmouth?
>However, as to me personally, I am in love with intellectual stimulation
>and that is why I am here.

And sheep. Don't forget the sheep. [old Ivy League joke about Dartmouth]

"Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. Are you fond of virgin wool?
Well, you won't find any in Hanover, NH. That's why all the Dartmouth
fans flocked to New Haven..." --Yale Band pre-game, 1981 Yale-Dartmouth game
tyg   tyg@hq.ileaf.com
From: EAO102@psuvm.psu.edu (Ernie Oporto)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: LNH personas?
Date: 6 Oct 92 22:56:32 GMT
Organization: The Pennylvania State University

OK...I haven't been playing the LNH game, but I'm ready to jump in.
Give me the details.  I've posted on rac quite a bit in the past, and
older readers of rac should remember me as being in the group for the past
couple of years.  So what's the scoop?

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                               __       __    Computer Lab Attendant
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From: ST701816@brownvm.brown.edu (RE: VALIANT)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: VALIANT
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 11:39:50 EDT
Organization: Brown University - Providence, Rhode Island  USA
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>In article <003605t.1.717186475@ace.acadiau.ca> 003605t@ace.acadiau.ca
(JEFFREY
>ROBERT THOMPSON) writes:
>>I learned from them that there will never be any magic in the Valiant
>>Universe.  The Valiant Universe will only have about 15 titles going at one
>
>Um, I'd be real interested in just how they explain the Geomancers
>then...we're not just talking communicating with inanimate objects,
>but said objects exhibiting memory, sensory input from unknown
>sources, etc. And Solar's powers are effectively magic in result
>if not in rationalization.

Also, how does that explain the D'Arque Power (Master D'Arque) appearing now
in SHADOWMAN? Looks like Voodoo to me. And even if it's something masquerading
as Voodoo, the character M. D'Arque himself refers to his actions as the
casting of spells. Sounds like magic, looks like magic, tastes like magic.
So, if it's not magic, then What is it?

>"What is the name of the hero Billy Batson transforms into when he says his
>magic word, 'Shazam'?"

    Captain Marvel

>"Gomer Pyle." --Double Dare
>tyg   tyg@hq.ileaf.com

    -  A confused Valiant fan,
       Arshad Ahsanuddin, st701816@brownvm.brown.edu
From: v129j6ed@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (This is F.U.N.)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: LNH : Form Application Question
Date: 6 Oct 92 13:38:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

What is meant by Word Character and Non-Word Character?
And when will I get Alt.comics.LNH?
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!!!!!

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From: goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Sandman #43
Date: 4 Oct 1992 04:32:11 GMT
Organization: The Sinister Icy Black Hand of Death Club
Reply-To: goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb)
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Originator: goldfarb@whirlwind.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Oct2.211522.12121@netcom.com> dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig) writes:
)I wonder whether we'll see that little girl again.  She has a good head
)on her shoulders.
)
)Dani Zweig

	And is it just me, or was she drawn as a dead ringer for 
John Tenniel's version of Alice? Note that both of the "Alice"
books turned out to be dreams at the end...

	"He was just a thing in my dream, of course, but I was 
a thing in his dream too." (Probably a misquote.)

-- 
   David Goldfarb          | "Think of the ragged poverty of a language that 
goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu  | has to make one word do the work of six, and a
goldfarb@UCBOCF.BITNET     | poor weak thing of three letters at that."
                           |  -- Mark Twain, "The Awful German Language"
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc,rec.arts.comics,rec.arts.comics.xbooks,alt.comics.lnh
From: tpjg9663@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Tom Johnston)
Subject: Re: Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy ---Scav's day
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 16:03:55 GMT

kogutt@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (SCAVENGER) writes:

>This has been a pretty good day.  I found an every thing's a dollar store
>that is true to its name,  I didn't have to wait long for the bus 
>and I din't get fit by a charging rhino.
Get fit?  For a new suit or something?

>I found the Cap Atom with Death in it.
Was it any good?  Or are you experiencing a completist's high?


>AND TOMORROW I'll get to meat JOEL HODGESON.
                          ^^^^
Now, now, cannibalism is not considered acceptable in polite circles.


>oh and I read a preview of DOOM 2099.  It's not bad. 

This I want to know more about!  I haven't read any fanzines, etc.
about it.  Is this Doom primarily a political figure, rather than
an action-oriented one?  Good guy or bad guy or somewhere in between?
Etc. ?

Tom
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From: wogg0743@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (William Shakespeare)
Subject: Re: Sandman #43
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 02:36:29 GMT

>Hmm... "Demolition"?
>
> Robert Sandiford's essay "Myth Maker" in the Comics Journal #152 says
>that the 7th Endless is "Dissipation."  Maybe he's on to something.
>Or
>not.  From what we've seen of his modern activities, his name is
>now probably "Dabbling-in-painting" or "Dog's-best-friend" or
>"Do-not-disturb."

Maybe, since he's turned artsy, he has become Deconstruction.

Jeez, I hope not.
-- 
William ("Shakespeare") Gulstad          /  So where are the C.S. babes?
wogg0743@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu                /  Joni Mitchell for President!
I vote, so I can complain!               /  Did you vote?  Then don't complain!
Republican is the opposite of democracy! /  Tune in, drop out, log on.
From: jl57+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jay Laefer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Sandman #43
Date: 4 Oct 92 03:25:18 GMT
	<1992Oct4.015708.5992@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
Organization: Senior, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

I was rereading the scene that takes place and I noticed that the
child's mother thought that *both* Morpheus and Delirium were
familiar.  Of course, Morpheus should be familiar to everyone
(including the flight attendant).  The only reason I can spot for
Delirium being familiar to the woman would be her reference to "doing
a lot of coke".

Just an observation.

	-Jay Laefer
	laefer+@cmu.edu
From: lsmith@myria.cs.umn.edu (Lance "Squiddie" Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Howarth Overload
Date: 1 Oct 92 00:09:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: myria.lsmith.717898184
Distribution: na
Organization: Little Squids of the Poor

I was looking over the new titles for this week and it looks like we're
facing a serious Matt Howarth overload. The collected Changes from Heavy
Metal that Tundra is putting out and two issues of Those Annoying Post Bros.
(issues #26 and #27). Frankly, I don't think I can be held responsible after
reading that much Post stuff in one day.
--
     Lance "William Blake?" Smith     |   "Bring me my bat of burning gold!
         (lsmith@cs.umn.edu)          |    Bring me my pine tar of desire!
 "The Cat. He walked by himself, and  |    Bring me my glove! O clouds unfold!
    all places were alike to him."    |    Bring me my fastball of fire!"
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
From: speterse%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (soren--Ms. Jackson if you're nasty)
Subject: Re: Sandman #43
Date: 3 Oct 92 23:41:55 MDT
Organization: The Erland Cult

In article <1als4bINN96u@agate.berkeley.edu> goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb) writes:
>	And is it just me, or was she drawn as a dead ringer for 
>John Tenniel's version of Alice? Note that both of the "Alice"
>books turned out to be dreams at the end...

Yup.  I noticed that at once--especially the last page she appeard
on where she's telling her mother what Dream told her....

>	"He was just a thing in my dream, of course, but I was 
>a thing in his dream too." (Probably a misquote.)

--
    "From your signature it is obvious that you are a homosexual"
soren f petersen           :        i AM NOT          :    --Doc
speterse@peruvian.utah.edu :  THE university OF utah  :
"How could I dance with another/When I saw him standing there"  --Tiffany
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From: dpearson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Pearson)
Subject: Re: batman/green arrow cb
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 03:05:27 GMT

akhale@pollux.usc.edu (Abhijit Khale) writes:

>Poison Ivy's first appearance was in Batman #181, way back in 1966. 
>Since then, she has turned up in a number of stories : notably, she
>was a member of the Secret Society of Super villains in the late 70s.
>In the early 80s she was involved in a fairly long plotline in
>Batman/Detective in which she tried to take over some part of
>Wayne's holdings.

>Recently, prior to the TPB, shes appeared in Black Orchid and in a Secret,
>Origins issue (both written by Gaiman) and in a Swamp Thing annual. 

>Abhijit

THanks to every one who has responded.  I must've missed them, 'cause I didn't
start really getting every issue until mid-80's.  I was sporatic up until then
and I seem to have misplace a lot of the early ones. (I was such a stupid kid.)

When was the Secret Origins issue.  I don't remember it.  How did I miss it?
Unless it sold out really fast(which is possible, on this campus I s'pose.)

The earliest Batman cb I have (it's in pretty bad shape and I was given it by 
a friend of mine who found it in the back of his closet) was around the time 
of the Crime Olympics, or something like that.  I only have one of that series
and I know there were more(I don't remember which part I have)  Does anyone
remember those?  What they were about and what not.  Now I wish I had my cb's
here at school with me(*sniff*).


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From: pautler@ils.nwu.edu (David Pautler)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: MISC: Endless poster on Roseanne 9/29
Date: 1 Oct 92 14:47:57 GMT
Organization: The Institute for the Learning Sciences

In article <1992Sep30.183633.5761@news2.cis.umn.edu>, lsmith@myria.cs.umn.edu (Lance "Squiddie" Smith) writes:
> In article <1992Sep30.135942.3029@ils.nwu.edu> pautler@ils.nwu.edu (David Pautler) writes:
> >The subject line says it all.  When Roseanne went up to Darlene's
> >room to chastise her for allowing David to sleep over, we see an
> >Endless poster on the wall over her shoulder.  We knew Darlene and
> >David were collaborating on a comic and had been to a convention in
> >Chicago.  Now we know she's a Sandman fan, too.
> 
> Oh hell! Not only am I buying issues of Spawn, now I have to watch Roseanne.
> I may be taking this fan thing a bit too far.

Ye who have not purchased the Graphitti Designs t-shirt, cast the first
Sandman statue!

	-dp-


BTW, I only bought the poster.  Really, I did.
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
From: morrow@fnalo.fnal.gov (Inherit the Elmo)
Subject: Re: LSH - Omnicom?
Organization: Stephen Jay Gould Fan Club
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 01:05:12 GMT
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NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <1992Sep26.223004.22198@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, klein@frith.egr.msu.edu (Jeffrey Klein) writes:
> In elmo's and Dani Zweig's LSH posts, there have been a number
> of references to "Omnicom" - is this an LSH fanzine?

	Omnicom is an electronic fanzine devoted to the LSH.  It is distributed
via e-mail.  Contact Vernon H Harmon <vh00+@andrew.cmu.edu> to be added to the
list (for his convenience, put LSH ADMIN: in the subject line).
	Omnicom is a "next-generation" APA--with the convenience of electronic
mail, the minimum-activity requirement and mailing costs have been eliminated.
	Omnicom features reviews and discussions about current, past, and
upcoming LSH issues; recently, fanfic has become a welcome addition to the
list.
	And, of course, Omnicom is justifiably famous for being the home of
most of my anti-T&M&K tirades, in my secret identity of Frothing-at-the-Mouth
Lad :-)
-- 
"My father is the last of the Mohicans."--John Gotti's daughter Victoria       
  
elmo (morrow@physics.rice.edu,morrow@fnal.fnal.gov)
From: ac985@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Joel Tscherne)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: What's up with !mage??
Date: 27 Sep 1992 15:36:41 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: ac985@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Joel Tscherne)
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In a previous article, c60b-3fe@web-3f.berkeley.edu (Mikel Bancroft) says:

>
>Have all the image comics except for Spawn decided to go
>bimonthly on us or what???  Seems like the only person trying
>to keep up Image's image is McFly.

What do you expect?  When you spend most of your time doing book
signings and blowing your own horn, when do you have time to do a book?

-- 
===============Joel Tscherne:  ac985@cleveland.freenet.edu===============
Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Monday, 28 Sep 1992 21:10:10 EDT
From: Society for Creative Solipsism <IK20001@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Today's villians...what went wrong?
 <1992Sep28.130845.8555@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
 <92272.111019U16244@uicvm.uic.edu>

The Department of Public Works...er...DPW says:

>Okey Dokey.  I admit that Taskmaster is not a new new character, but he isn't
>considered one of those classics since he's only been around for fifteen
>years. (Do you consider She-Hulk a classic character?  They came out about the
>same time as well.)


Well, *I* don't consider the She-Hulk a classic character, but I *would*
consider the Taskmaster one.  There are a couple of reasons for this --
one, villains never get the exposure that heroes do (with a couple of
exceptions).  As a result, a few memorable moments are usually enough
to make a `classic' for these guys.  Secondly, She-Hulk, no matter if
you like her or not, is a derivative character.  "Hey, they Hulk's
popular -- let's make his female cousin a Hulk too!"  In the old days,
she even got mad (excuse me, `Savage') and was uncontrollable, as well.
The Taskmaster was essentially unique.  Oh sure, we had Nemesis Kid
and Duplicate Boy over in the Legion Canon -- but they duplicated
powers, whereas at the time, the Taskmaster was a `rare human' (I think
they call him a mutant, these days) who could duplicate normals with
his photographic reflexes -- and he ran around with Captain America's
moves, Hawkeye's skill, and so forth and was *good!*

Remember, the U.S. Government let Taskmaster work off some of his sentence
training John Walker, the replacement Captain America, to be identical
in combat style to the original (is it me, or would using Taskmaster
as Capt. America -- say with a Suicide Squad era wrist bomb to keep
him in line -- have been a much better storyline.  Especially if Taskmaster
began to slowly believe in the cause...  It would have made more sense
for the Red Skull to use him too -- since his ultimate plan was to tarnish
the image of Captain America....)

In closing, to use another Legion allusion, the Great Darkness Saga
is considered a Classic Storyline (Darkseid, of course, was already
a classic character), and that happened more recently than 15 years ago.
--
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Society for Creative Solipsism            When Gentlemen can *see* --
"It's all in your mind"                   But *Microscopes* are prudent
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From: dardiswa@cda.mrs.umn.edu (Wayne A. Dardis 1500099)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: UPC stuff
Date: 30 Sep 92 03:25:07 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Minnesota - Morris

Ok, oops guess i was close but not quite there with it's meaning
universal price code/ universal product code see it's kinda close :)
thanks for clearing it up tho David! 
 
Not to beat this to death but i see one little part of the question 
that is still not completely answered.  Why do some have the code
and others don't (David Henry did a good job of explaining what
the code was for) and that direct sales have pictures.  This is also
for the stores to know which can be returned.  The picture in the
corner means that it was a direct sales and thus cannot be returned
like the bar code ones can to a paper agency for credit on future
periodicals (or is that stating the obvious?)  oh well, even if it
is i've spent the time to type it up so i might as well send it out :)


Shawn -looking to make himself a .sig real soon
dardiswa@cda.mrs.umn.edu
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From: dvandom@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (David VanDomelen)
Subject: Cerebus games....
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 18:47:12 GMT

Now, if Cerebus had played a game of Diamondback against Po the results would 
have been quite different, no?
     Dave Van Domelen, LaidRoach will fire automatic crossbow bolts at anyone 
who tries to keep him from Blossom....
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
From: dvandom@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (David VanDomelen)
Subject: Characterization of Mxyzptlk in recent issue
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 18:09:00 GMT

I'd have to disagree with Abhijit (gosh, I have an easier time remembering how 
to spell Mxyzptlk!) on this point.  If you see Mxy as a petulant child type 
(naive at first, then gaining knowledge and experience), right now he has 
learned to be petty.  He has been disillusioned by being lied to, and now wants
petty revenge on Luthor for lying to him.  Also realize that Mxy *wants* Supes 
to outwit him, since that's the whole challenge.  After all, with his powers, 
Mxy can always win if he wants...it's the 'interest' brought by losing that he 
craves.  So he pretty much expects Supes to win in the end, and Luthor would 
probably be restored to life after that (hey, if he can retconn 50 years, he 
can raise the dead).  Mxy has been mainly stepping on anthills so far...now 
he's been bitten by one and stomps it (psychologically).
     Dave Van Domelen, would like to see a child psychologist try to deal with 
Mxyzptlk.
From: jordan@castor (USENET's Chuck)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Milligan Request
Date: 6 Oct 92 22:43:03 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia

In article <1992Oct6.161633.20263@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mcollins@nyx.cs.du.edu (Killans - First And Last And Always) writes:
>>Peter Milligan is doing Shade: The Changing (Wo)Man right now.
>Bad Company (Fleetway, originally in 2000AD)
>Animal Man (between Morrison and Veitch)
>Skreemer (6-issue DC ltd series)
>probably loads of other stuff for 2000AD
>and, most recently, Skin, a one-off from Tundra UK.

Milligan also wrote a few (I don't know how many) issues of Detective comics,
I believe around issue number 641?

They're pretty good, especially one titled "Death wore Stiletto Heels," the
number of which I've forgotten.  He brings in the weird side of Batman and
Batman's villains, which I think is a good idea.

Chuck


-- 
                  Chuck Jordan | jordan@castor.cs.uga.edu
SPY Magazine's 1,000 Reasons Not to Vote for George Bush:
NO 895: He can't remember a single book that has influenced him.
NO 896: He has two middle names.
From: morrow@fnalo.fnal.gov (Ganthet Elmo Gu)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: elmo in LSH lettercol?
Date: 26 Sep 92 21:35:44 GMT
Organization: Guardians of Elmo
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In article <v30nrzc.dani@netcom.com>, dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig) writes:
> a) The final version of Greg's criticisms that appeared in Omnicom
>    was not what I'd characterize as 'blistering'.  It was coherent,
>    constructive, and polite.  Either they're misrepresenting it, or
>    Greg sent them the earlier, foaming-at-the-mouth, version instead.

	They got the foaming-at-the-mouth version, which makes the same points
as the adult version, but in a less constructive way
> 
> b) It's not meaningful to say that people do or don't prefer Greg's
>    fiction to theirs, as the gap between "If I were writing it, I'd
>    do it this way" and twenty-four actual pages a month is too great
>    for comparisons to be reasonable.

	I sent them a copy of my Nura and Thom story; in the cover letter, I
mentioned that I had posted it to USENET, and that the feedback I had gotten
as generally along the lines of "God, this is so much better than the
Bierbaums' crap".  I used those responses to ask them to consider changing
their focus, since it seemed evident that they really weren't pleasing the
audience.  In retrospect, I could have gotten across the same concept in a much
better way.

	My writing has grown up a lot in the last year, and I'd like to be able
to take back a lot of the things I've said before and fix them.
	For instance, I really really want to find the time to gut and rewrite
the first twenty Annotated Sandmans; I look at them now and see FANBOY all over
them.
-- 
"Money can't buy love, but it certainly improves your bargaining position."    
--Opus and Milo, "Bloom County"                                                
  
elmo (morrow@physics.rice.edu,morrow@fnal.fnal.gov)
Organization: Carnegie Mellon Action Project, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA