Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxk.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxk!crd55611 From: crd55611@ihuxk.UUCP (Chuck Dobrovolny) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Re: Whats going on? Message-ID: <557@ihuxk.UUCP> Date: Fri, 10-Feb-84 09:08:42 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxk.557 Posted: Fri Feb 10 09:08:42 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Feb-84 08:08:29 EST References: <1692@rlgvax.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 26 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