From: dethomas@amherst.edu (The Human Torch)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: random long comments
Date: 31 Mar 92 03:22:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: amherst.1992Mar30.232255.1
Organization: Grucci Fireworks Inc.

In article <11436@tamsun.tamu.edu>, rdm5312@tamsun.tamu.edu (Reid D. M.) writes:
> 
> From reading this group I've found that I am younger than many regular
> posters.  I'm... over 20 and been reading comics literally since I could.
> I've developed a fairly exhaustive reprint collection of origin
> and "best of..." stories.  This puts me in an interesting position...

I don't think your age is all that far from the majority of the readers here.
It just seems that way because the more vocal posters are older. Most of the
people I have had contact with have been from colleges and universities, i.e.
around your age (I happen to be 22 myself...)

> Rob Leifield (sp?):  Sad.  Just sad.  I continue to see references to his
> Youngblood setting record sales... how successful Rob's new book HAS been.
> Crap!  The thing's not even out yet and it is being referenced in the past
> tense.  I should be hesitant to call anything a success until I've seen it.
> But, perhaps I'm too skeptical.

Youngblood is a success in terms of sales. Malibu is a direct sales company,
meaning that the comic shops buy the issues outright, and can not return them,
so Malibu may as well have the money in the bank, based on the orders they have
recived already. Personally, based on my viewings of X-force, I would say it's
going to be a piece of crap. Someone needs to send Liefield to art school and
tell him to take perspective 100. 

By the way, X-force was the first comic to be voluntarily dropped from my
subscription list in well over three years. Gives you my opinion of it... :-)

> V for Vendetta:  Someone out there (don't remember who) wrote that one should
> read this book for the story and not the art.  WHAT!?!  The art in V was a
> perfect compliment to Moore's writing.  TOGETHER they comprised the story of V.
> Think what that story would have been like with another's art.  V would not
> have looked the same.  The character's look was almost entirely the artist's
> conception.  With another artist, no matter how talented, the story would have
> been different and very possibly less.

As the person who made the comments on the art (I'm posting from my own account
now! :-) I have to say that the art was great. I loved it, but I think it was
not the point. V would have worked almost as well with many other artists
without a significant loss of quality. Heck some people might have been able to
go better! I would have loved to see Simon Bisley do it (but then again, I love
all of his work. So I'm biased.) or some other talented artist. The point is
that Lloyd is not perfect, and I still think that V could be read without ever
looking at the artwork.

> Hal Jordan:  Seems that Green Lantern is slowly rising in cult status as a
> fovorite character with tremendous potential.  I've looked at Emerald Dawn
> but never found it entiely compelling.  The potential is still there in the
> character.  Jordan's character seems to contain the same nobility as Marvel's
> Silver Surfer did in the classic SS stories.  I've just never found an author
> who could really bring it out, say, as Frank Miller did with either Daredevil
> or Batman.  (Starlin does GL! ;-) ;-) ;-)

I like the new Green Lantern series. I'm not sure why, but it really appeals to
me. (Starlin on GL would make my year! Nobody does cosmic adventure like Jims
Starlin!! Nobody!)

> LSH:  Though I am an admirer of this new run, I have problems with it.  I

My only problem with the new LSH is that I wish they would get on with the
bloody story!!! Do something for heaven's sake! Sheesh!

> Sandman:  _A_Game_of_You_ seemed to be a story that lost its inspiration.
> But, hey, that's ok.  At least Gaiman wrapped it up with satisafaction, which
> is far better than many have come to expect from the title's regularly 
> published by Marvel and D.C.  I'd also like to second another poster's 
> comment that the greater part of people's attention should be focused on
> Thessaly and the consequences of her actions (of which the character seems
> unaware).

Haven't read the conclusion yet. I can't wait! Gotta go to the shop tomorrow!

> Sandman:  I'd like to see this JSA hero return.  I'd like to see Gaiman do
> something with that in his title as the character hs already been mentioned
> with some importance.  The hero is an interesting concept with potential.

Hey for a minute there, I was about to yell about the Kirby Sandman, (he made
an appearance sometime during the current Sandman run didn't he?) and all of a
sudden I remembered the "golden age" Sandman. What did happen to him with all
these JSA types coming back? 

> Ray:  If I had to start collecting as a child today.  This would probably
> be my favorite comic.  I've not purchased an issue.  But it has been very

I thought The Ray was good superhero fluff. None of this angst ridden junk that
we seem to get so much of these days! I liked it, and am heartily buying it!

later days!
--dt

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Dennis E. Thomas, Vagrant	   |    Amherst _still_ hasn't figured out 
dethomas@amhux1.amherst.edu 	   |     what do do with me, how could I 
roach@aux1.amherst.edu		   |    possibly presume to speak for them?
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