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From: vehaag@crocus.waterloo.edu (Viktor Haag)
Subject: Re: Marvel's overused lines
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 14:59:55 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.064752.13080@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu> arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee) writes:
>In article <1992Apr7.185716.17967@njitgw.njit.edu> bxp1628@hertz.njit.edu (Brian Perler) writes:
>>How about this overused line: "I'm the best there is at what I do, and what I
>>do best isn't very nice.  I have an adamantium-laced skeleton and claws and a
>>mutant healing factor..."  This one's used more often than the psychic knife
>>bit.
>
>Describing one's own powers, however, is necessary simply to get the new
>readers to know what's going on....

This is, quite plainly, crap.  Better comics did away with Stan Lee Memorial
Expository Dialogue long ago.  Personally this is the main reason why I 
stopped reading X-Puppies and most Marvel Titles.  They still don't have any
titles that catch my interest, but DC on the other hand ---
	Swamp Thing
	HellBlazer
	Sandman
	Dr Fate
	Shade, the Changing Man
	the odd Legends of Dark Night
	Legion of Super Heroes.

None of these titles depend at all on SLMED (or SLiMED as we frustrated
comic readers with literary aspirations refer to it), and occurances of
said SLMED are very rarely found in these books.

The new readers will catch on after two or three issues.  There are more 
inventive ways to leave clues for the unwary reader (Gosh, TorchMan just
leveled a small duplex with a bolt of fire/plasma, I wonder why he didn't
say, "I, TorchMan will use my incredible mutant control over plasma to
level this duplex with a superheated blast of pure energy!")  And if the
10 year olds get frustrated, 'cause they don't "get it" then too bad.
Reading anything should make you think, and all Marvel is levelling at the
audiences these days is mind candy.  With the possible exception of
Hulk (I hear he is well written, although I have not bothered to look, as
I never liked the Hulk much).

In my opinion, picking up a new title should make you want to go out and
buy a large slew of backissues.  At least enough to catch on to what's
really going on.  All X-Muffins and their ilk are doing with this sad
excuse of "if we didn't include SLMED every issue, the new readers would
be lost" is sneering at their readers and boring those of us who like to
collect and read good books for an extended period.  On the other hand,
if all you want is to see Wolvie cut open yet another wall, and Jim Lee
draw semi-pornogrpahic mutant babes in every issue, be my guest, pick
up the latest X-Toasters issue ... or last month's ... it doesn't matter,
'cause their both the same anyway.



-- 
Viktor Haag 
		            |  "We are not thugs.  We are not fanatics.
vehaag@crocus.uwaterloo.ca  |   We are vitamin supplements to justice."   
viktor@watdcs.uwaterloo.ca  |				: a Selector
From: breitzsp@cnsvax.uwec.edu (Scotty B at UWEC)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re:MARVEL:X-Men Traitor
Date: 9 Apr 92 10:52:31 -0600
Organization: University of Wisconsin Eau Claire

I don't believe that the tratior is Gambit or Bishop but the evil
doplanghger(sp?) of... you guessed it!

Suicide Squid!!

It would be a touching story a a brave young squid forced to go bad by the
air breathing society that scorned him.

I myself wait, breathlessly.
Scotty B
From: ckc1@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (CEDRICK KIT CHAN)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: dr.doom
Date: 7 Apr 92 01:50:17 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

>i was wondering is thier any info on why doc doom is always shown in his
>old armor lately when he has that really bad silver futuristic type one.
>(as seen at the end of the war between kristoff and the rogue doombot)
>they never really done much with that story line either.
>if i've missed a issue where these are explained then please tell me which.


    Well, its a matter of Walt Simonson leaving that book and Tom Defalco
bringing that book the the depths of hell!!  Defalco can't write for *($# and
managed to pee of Simonson so that the current Doom is another one of those
sorry shades of Doom.

    I sure hope the current Doom's a robot.  If this is the real Doom, he must
be getting senile in in his old age.

-- 

--------------------------------------
| The Nation Dictates:  Look Good!!! |
--------------------------------------
Cedrick  Chan,  a lost demented soul
From: charyma@wkuvx1.bitnet
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: DC: LSH: Editorial Plans for '92
Date: 16 Apr 92 03:39:15 GMT
Organization: Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY

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What's say we "Blackdawn" the Bierbaums, get Kieth some therapy, and just
shoot Eury!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From: cegarcia@hagbard-celine.MIT.EDU (Carlos E Garcia)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: MUTANT: Rogue and Sexual Harassment
Date: 14 Apr 92 20:42:30 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

I'm familiar with Rogue's background and her fear of being touched/entering a relationship is justified.  What I would like to propose to any X-MAN or X-WOMAN who would like to show Rogue the joys of physical pleasure is to get that Leech kid to stay adjacent to whatever room she wants to use for about an  hour or so.  Leech's power has cancelled Rogue's back in the Morlock sewers a few yrs back.  So we get Rogue without any powers and she and Gambit can get it on.

			Sincerely,
			____fully,
			BruceLee,


			Carlos Garcia
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
From: comp138w142@camins.camosun.bc.ca (Scott)
Subject: Re: X-notes
Organization: Camosun College
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 00:46:17 GMT

>>  5) Where did the X-men get such advanced techology...this is still the 20th
>>     century...
>> 
> 
> The same place they got their mutant abilities:
> 
>                 The minds of their creators and writers. 
> 
> This is FICTION after all.  Let's not lose our grip on reality.
> 
I believe the question was where in the Marvel universe? 
                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Come on, no need to be dense :-)

Scott.
From: ralf@cs.uq.oz.au (Ralf Muhlberger)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: Flash year 1 --- yawwwnnn
Date: 9 Apr 92 05:50:51 GMT
Reply-To: ralf@cs.uq.oz.au

In <1992Apr8.221243.18332@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> tpjg9663@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Thomas P. Johnston) writes:


>The first two issues of Flash year 1 have been pretty darned
>boring.  Does anyone have any idea what the next two issues
>will be like?

I agree, but I guess if you didn't know how Wally got his powers, or any of
the Barry / Wally relationship stuff, it may be a bit more interesting for
you. (Though I _LOVED_ the page where Wally runs after the baseball and it
stops still for him, with Barry timing him.)

As to the next issues, dunno.

>Also, is Mark Waid going to continue writing after the year
>1 story wraps up?  Is there any information on what direction
>is planned for the book re: supporting cast, future plotlines,
>etc.?  The only thing I've heard is that there is an
>upcoming 2-part crossover with Hal Jordan, with Grodd and
>Hector Hammond.

I guess Mark is the new writer for Flash, until he gets old and goes to some
other comic the same way every other writer goes.

>Tom

Ralf

-----Ralf Muhlberger-----(ralf@cs.uq.oz.au)-----University of Queensland------
I wonder if other people can hear voices in their head. I certainly can. I can
hear one now. It's saying: "I wonder if other people can hear voices in ... "
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
From: wall@ra.csc.ti.com (Raj Wall)
Subject: Re: Deathlok - ?
Organization: TI's Risible Technology Branch, Dallas
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 14:22:03 GMT

In article <1992Apr7.022709.27960@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> klein@kira.egr.msu.edu (Jeffrey Klein) writes:
>Just wondering, could someone summarize the origin and end of the
>original Deathlok?  I have no clue.

(Background summary based on piecing it together over the course of
the run of the comic, which was done much more dramatically with a
series of flashback/forwards, oblique references, etc)

Gen. Ryker had engineered a limited nuclear exchange with The Enemy
which had knocked out most of the US Command and Control apparatus,
leaving him and his FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Administration
-- look up this legislation for some scary bedtime reading) team in
defacto control.  Deathlok was originally the tactically brilliant but
politically naive Col. Manning, unable to see Ryker's strategic
duplicity.  Ryker had Manning "killed" on a training exercise and
extracted his "tactical lobe" to give his killing machine the
unpredictability that all good tacticians have.  Deathlok's first
missions were to kill the only people capable of restoring "him" to
his original body.  Col. Manning's personality began to assert itself
and a three way struggle ensued over the direction of the cyborg: the
computer, Col. Manning, and a sick, death-and-violence-loving combo.

Deathlok busted up Ryker's cyborg lab (or so he thought), and tried to
help free the United States from Ryker while he tried to find
Manning's clone.

After finding it, and having Manning's "brain" restored, Luther
Manning and Deathlok went their separate ways.  Deathlok appeared as
the villian de jour in a couple comics but his entire milieu had been
eliminated.  The future world that Rich Buckler had devised was deemed
"too complex" for the "average Marvel reader", and I suppose by
definition, it was.

In final ignominy, the "concept" was resurected by a couple
incompetent hacks who homogenized and emasculated Deathlok into a
namby-pamby wimp that DIDN'T LIKE KILLING!

Regards,
Raj

OBDeathlokQ: "He smashed his face! Like it was nothing!"
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: Hulk Annual: A Question for Peter..
From: Peter_A_David@cup.portal.com
Date: 8 Apr 92 12:21:26 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

I hate to disillusion you folks, but the "666" reference in the Hulk annual
was really aimed at the biblical significance of 666 being the sign of the
beast.  The fact that it's DC's old address is incidental--I would have used
the same address even if DC had never been at 666 5th Avenue (although,
admittedly, folks in the industry used to refer to DC's HQ as "The Building
of the Beast.")

No, I'm not writing any other chapters in the sequence.  My contribution was
to come up with a basic overview of the entire storyline, although the
other writers were giving a lot of leeway to do whatever they wanted (I don't
believe in hamstringing other writers).  And I'm the one who decided the
order of the annuals...or at least suggested the order that was used.  In
a totally marketing-calculated move, I figured we wrap the thing in the 
Dr. Strange annual because that's the book with the lowest sales, and I 
wanted that to be the gotta-see-how-it-ends issue.  

PAD

                                      "It's the Brood!  I...I think I'm
                                       gonna hurl!"
                                                --"Rahne's World"
                                                   X-Factor #80
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
From: stailey@hawkeye.comm.mot.com (Mike Stailey)
Subject: Re: SpiderMan Movie??????
Reply-To: stailey@hawkeye.comm.mot.com
Organization: Motorola Land Mobile Products Sector
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 20:21:26 GMT

(novotndj@ucbeh.san.uc.edu) writes:
 

* What is going on with Spidey's movie?
* I haven't heard much about it.
* Lately, that is.
 
* I know that it is being filmed in L.A.
* and the James Cameron (sp) is the director and
* writer.


  Nothing is going on. Cameron is finishing up his current project and
  will then do another film before starting work on SPIDERMAN.

  A recent Amazing Heros stated that the project has been pushed back to
  late '93 and possibly even later depending on the financial status of
  Cameron's production company Carolco.

  So all the talk about scripts, plots, and casting is all bogus.

  --
  Michael                      
  stailey@hawkeye.comm.mot.com     


Xref: sparky rec.arts.comics:13345 news.groups:10409
From: michaele@nsg.nsg.com.au (Michael Edwards)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics,news.groups
Subject: Re: SPLIT: Proposed charter and poll
Summary: Do it properly!
Date: 15 Apr 92 23:28:26 GMT
Organization: Network Solutions Group / GEC Alsthom, Sydney

In article <sdusfwu00VB357UFEt@andrew.cmu.edu> aw1s+@andrew.cmu.edu
(Andrew David Weiland) writes:

> While I'm in favor of a comics.superheros split, I don't think
> discussion should begin until the .manga issue is resolved.  It's a bad
> idea to have two heirarchy discussions about the same group at the same
> time.

NOW is the time to discuss this - it makes sense to split rec.arts.comics.

	rec.arts.comics.manga
	rec.arts.comics.misc
	rec.arts.comics.super-heroes

This would stop alot of the arguments that run "rec.arts.comics.manga"
means that manga is less important than western comics by putting below
comics. 

No-one is "less" than another!

Michael
--
Michael J. Edwards                               Network Solutions Australia
michaele@nsg.nsg.com.au                          328 High Street
Phone: 61 2 415 0500                             Chatswood NSW 2067
Fax:   61 2 417 8635                             Australia
Xref: sparky rec.arts.comics:13465 rec.music.dementia:594
From: dascoser.bbs@cybernet.cse.fau.edu
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics,rec.music.dementia
Subject: Re: Billy Mumy (WAS Re: DC: Doom Patrol Annotations (long))
Date: 17 Apr 92 03:03:44 GMT
Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton

sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Stelter) writes:

> fal20643@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Capt. Frank A. Lauro) writes:
> 
> >rjung@aludra.usc.edu (Robert A. Jung) writes:
> >>>More Billy Mumy trivia: he wrote/sang a very strange song called "Fish
> >>>Heads", sometime in the early eighties (I think).
> 
> >>  Even more Bill Mumy trivia: He's half of the comedy music group "Barnes a
> >>Barnes", which is where he did "Fish Heads" originally. B&B have also done 
> >>bunch of other stuff, including "Touch Yourself" (a bouncy number about...e
> >>safe sex) and "Goodbye Old Friends" (a farewell to STAR TREK VI).
> 
> >Yet *more* trivia:  the other half of Barnes & Barnes was Miguel Ferrer,
> >Albert Rosenfield of TWIN PEAKS.  
> 
> 
> Still more Bill M. trivia: As a kid, he had a few parts on "The Twilight
> Zone."  One of his roles was the psychokinetic kid in "It's a *Good*
> Day," an episode which later found its way (in altered form) into the
> "Twilight Zone" movie.
> 
>                                             --Steve Stelter
>                                            sjs28257@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu

In which he had a cameo. BTW another 
episode he was in was "In Praise of Pip" with Jack Klugman and he also 
appeared in a Flash episode that no one on the East Coast evr saw all of 
because of Bush's heart problem.

Dascoser
Xref: sparky rec.arts.comics:12514 alt.manga:1228
From: schaaje@wkuvx1.bitnet (James E. Schaad)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics,alt.manga
Subject: Re: Ninja High School and LUM URUSEI YATSURA
Date: 9 Apr 92 04:06:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: wkuvx1.1992Apr8.230602.1270
Organization: Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY

In article <1992Apr6.233534.21701@amhux2.amherst.edu>, dethomas@amhux1.amherst.edu (Cerebus in '92!) writes:
> madjdsad@aludra.usc.edu (Zagros Madjd-Sadjadi) writes:
> : Anyone else interested in these two comics?  
> 
> Well, I don't know about LUM, never having read it, but I can say that
> NHS is possibly the funniest thing I have consistenly read outside of
> Groo the Wanderer. Classic cartoon-like stuff. The furry stuff is great
> too! (Dog Supreme! Bwah-hah-hah-hah!) The pure absuridty of it makes my
> day. I don't know if I could put up with the Manga crowd without my
> (somewhat) monthly shot of NHS.
> 
> : Are there any other
> : comics out there like these two (you know, Teenages from Outer Space genre)
> : especially with strong female casts?
> 
> I've been sitting here for about 10 minutes and suddenly realized that I
> can't think of a single comic I read that is similar to NHS. How odd.
> Are there just not that many out there or am I just reading the wrong
> stuff? 
> 
I cross-posted this to alt.manga, because I'm sure some folks there can come
up with some titles to answer the above question.  However, I haven't found
anything that compares to my favorite comic, "Ninja High School."  Someone
recommended "The Tick" to me once, but I thumbed through it and wasn't too
impressed.  Still, it may be something to check out...I'm notorious for
having very narrow, specific tastes.  "Metal Bikini" was pretty good, but
the main character was kinda distracting.  If you pick up an issue, you'll
find out what I'm talking about.
-- 

James E. Schaad						<SCHAAJE@WKUVX1.BITNET>
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"This community means about as much to me as a festering bowl of DOG SNOT!!"
R. J. Fletcher, UHF
From: mwinston@lust.reed.edu (Michael J. Winston)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: Ray #4
Date: 11 Apr 92 05:34:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: reed.1992Apr11.053446.21162
Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR

In article <1992Apr11.035614.14571@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>  
kesidis@moonlight.berkeley.edu (George Kesidis) writes:
> I just read The Ray #4. This is turning out to be a very good
> read. The story is fast-paced not stupid,  and the art is excellent.
> This mini series should keep me happy until new the Lobo mini-series
> starts. Anybody know when that will happen?

Lobo should be out in two or three weeks.  I heard it's not as  
ultraviolent as the Christmas Special, which is pretty disappointing.

Michael J. Winston
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
From: jrd@frame.com (James Drew)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: MARVEL: X-ODUS replacements part II
Date: 9 Apr 92 18:11:39 GMT

Dani Zweig (dani@netcom.com) writes:

>ror1@midway.uchicago.edu:
>>[Fabian Nicieza]'s not a wretched scripter, but I know from the above books
>>that he can't script his way out of a box.
>
>How's that different from being a wretched scripter?

I expect it's more of a case of no *wanting* to script his way out of a box,
rather than not being *able* to.  Fabian seems quite happy doing what he's
doing (even if it doesn't stretch his creative muscles a whit).  He may not be
wretched, but he may not be very good, either.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
                             |     Every time I go to the beach, I have to
Jim Drew                     | smile when I see how ridiculous people look with
jrd@frame.com                | vivid white sunscreen just on their noses.  That
(Furry: Randy Puritan)       | smile is the only way I can keep from laughing
"Innocent, but not naive."   | out loud.  When I went to the nude beach, and
B2h t w- c k s g+(p) rv p    | saw where else that sunscreen goes, I almost
S8/5 g l+ y+ o+ a+ u++- j++  | went into convulsions.
{opinions: mine != frame's}  |        - Marc Lynx, "Once More Into the Briefs,
                             | 				Dear Friend"
From: afarrell@maths.tcd.ie (Andrew Farrell)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: Sandman Movie?!?
Date: 14 Apr 92 11:49:54 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

In <1992Apr13.105114.5652@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> acadams@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Arthur C. Adams) writes:
>In article <1992Apr13.084229.17180@maths.tcd.ie> afarrell@maths.tcd.ie (Andrew Farrell) writes:
>>
>>PS: Let's not forget David Bowie for Desire, Lucifer, *and* John Constantine!
>The first two I'll give you.  But _David Bowie_ as John Constantine!
>NOT!
>John Constantine _is_ Sting. His artistic creator, whom I believe
>was John Totleben, has said that he directly modeled JC after
>Sting.

Back in Swamp Thing, maybe, but John's look depends on the artist. The first two
suggestions were taken from the net, but the last came to me in a vision, whilst
reading the last issue in the "Deadly Habits" storyline. On page 2 (or 4?) John
walks out into a rainy day, and bares his teeth. This reminded me instantly of a
picture of Bowie I'd seen a few days earlier, and that's the way it goes, I 
guess.

Andrew.

The funny thing is, Bowie was *Smiling*
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Tuesday, 7 Apr 1992 17:46:39 EDT
From: <MSH109@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: X-Men Traitor i.e. Gambit

In article <6APR199223505827@rigel.tamu.edu>, j0d7858@rigel.tamu.edu (DABELIC,
JERKO) says:
>
>
>Wolverine - too popular
>Cyclops - Original member wouldn't betray dream
>Jean - ditto

Ahhhhhh, but where's the White Queen's psyche? Emma is *still* in a coma, and
Jean "oh so suddenly" manifested a possesion power, much like Emma's.
MY THEORY: Emma, now  living down the hall from all the other personalities  in
           Jean's head, asserts control and wipes out ye olde X-Men.
           She is, after all, the one who calls for help (perhaps into ambush?)

>Hank - ditto
>Iceman - ditto
>Archangel - ditto

What about his "Evil Wings"(tm)? Doubt it tho...

>Jubilee - too young and too ignorant
>Storm - former leader - again wouldn't betray dream
>Rogue - maybe, but doubt it ... 'side she's the hottest X-chick
>Collosus - maybe - but somewhere deep down he's a pacifist still

Shades of Monarch. Bleah!

>Forge - quite possibly - he created a gun to zap Storm's power - why not
Rogue's powers. (Nitpick)

>Banshee - sure - boring character why not make him exciting

Back off,  Sean's cool.

>Psylocke - nah. well then again she could snap back to an Elektra complex

She should die. They farked up a cool character with all this ninja crap.

>Longshot - nope too lucky

Who cares about Lameshot? Let him go back to MojoVerse. Yuck.

>Dazzler - *shrug*

See above, with Lameshot.

>Xavier - Now there would be the ultimate plot twist in Marvel history!!!

Yeah, right...and maybe mutant monkeys will fly out my butt!
>
>Just some ideas folks.  So don't get in a huff.

I *like* being in a  huff.

ObXComment: (re:X-men8) A Mutant PIE FIGHT! LOVE IT!!!

Rebis
From: a0v6282@rigel.tamu.edu (Art Velasquez)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics
Subject: Re: MISC: Abortion in Comics
Date: 9 Apr 92 21:48:00 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <12055@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>, fzhedric@hamlet.ucdavis.edu writes...
>Hello,
>	Considering all the hoopla in the Supreme Court over the most
>recent attempt by pro-lifers to recall the rights of a woman to choose
>if she is to have a baby.  I was wondering if at any time in comic history
>did the topic of abortion ever come up.  I have very strong doubts that
>Marvel would have the guts to ever bring up this sensitive topic but
>maybe a more gutsy/desperate publisher may have.
      [...]
>					Thanks,
>					Mike Oda
>					fzhedric@hamlet.ucdavis.edu
> 
     I believe that there was a set of issues of _Animal Man_ 
(#28-29 or thereabouts) with a particularly nasty set of villains led by
someone called the "Notional Man," a man made up entirely of aborted
feutses.  At the end of #27, he bombed a packed discoteque trying to
get Buddy, then kidnapped his daughter in #28.
     (It was the last interesing storyline to appear in that book, IMHO.)

#     Art Velasquez                         a0v6282@rigel.tamu.edu     #
#     Nuclear Engineering Department          Texas A&M University     #
#----------------------------------------------------------------------#
#     "You're pretty uppity for a sidekick.  Watch it, or I'll         #
#      start calling you Artie, or...or, SOMETHING-LAD!!"              #
#                                    _The Tick_, issue 10              #