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From: crd55611@ihuxk.UUCP (Chuck Dobrovolny)
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Subject: Re: Whats going on?
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Date: Fri, 10-Feb-84 09:08:42 EST
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I ask myself that, too, once in a while.  Sometimes with American Flagg!,
but moreso with Thriller ("Forward shields on maximum, Mr. Sulu.  We're
being bombarded with flames....").  Thriller has lots of potential and
yes, it does make the reader think, but it also demands that the reader
Pay Attention to a greater degree than almost any comic.  Sure, it helps
to concentrate to some degree with almost any task--work OR pleasure--but
reading Thriller is more like an exercise in literal and symbolic
interpretation rather than an entertaining shot of escapism in somebody
else's universe.  I'm not looking for super-hero fluff, mind you--just a
compromise between read-between-the-lines dead serious and if-you-show-me-
your-super-power-I'll-show-you-mine.
As far as Somerset Holmes goes, that plot will get a lot thicker before
anything major (who she is, who's after her, and why) is revealed.  Good
mysteries sell, and if PC wants to ensure SH's popularity, they'll work
in another mysterious plotline before they resolve this one.


                                         ....somewhere under a pile of 
                                         to-be-read comics, allowing
                                         only occasional trips to the
                                         bathroom and refrigerator,

                                         Charles Dobrovolny
                                         ihuxk!crd55611