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From: crd55611@ihuxk.UUCP (Chuck Dobrovolny)
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Subject: Re: Fast Furry and Fractile
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Date: Thu, 23-Feb-84 10:24:41 EST
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Welcome to net.comics, Evelyn!  Sounds like you're into some good titles.
I'm going to have to pick up a copy of Cerebus just to see what everyone's
raving about--I've previously avoided no-color comics, but exceptions have
to be made.....
Can anyone recommend a good issue--one that would give me a good idea of
what the characters are like without dropping me into the middle of an
intricate storyline?

A few comments of defense (my own and others', I think).

I don't think that net.comicers of late have been picking on Secret Wars
and Chris Claremont because it's fashionable or to jump on a bandwagon!
I, for one don't like Wars because it tends to reiterate heroes' and
villains' powers to the extreme.  Sure, it's probably for the sake of
attracting newer and younger readers, but I don't have to like it.  The
art isn't bad, though.  As for Claremont, he's written some terrific stuff
in the past (Avengers Annual #10 is one of my favorites) and most of his
X-Men stuff with Byrne was great!  Lately though, mutants are coming out
of the woodwork like cockroaches in a cheap hotel!!!  Secret powers of new
characters are getting pretty contrived and latent mutant abilities are
a dime a dozen!  Amara (Magma of the New Mutants) is really a joke.  The
ability to cause eruptions of magma, earthquakes, and shoot "magma blasts"???
Puh-lease!!  Enough already!!!  And as for Kitty Pryde's boyfriend what's-his-
name, the latent mutant ability to understand languages seems to be HIS forte--
computer languages no less (how timely!).

Uh, flame off.  Time to get to work.....


                                         ....still under a pile of to-be-read
                                         comics, somewhere in Chicago,

                                         Chuck Dobrovolny  ATT-BL
                                         ihuxk!crd55611