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: Fast Furry and Fractile Message-ID: <568@ihuxk.UUCP> Date: Thu, 23-Feb-84 10:24:41 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxk.568 Posted: Thu Feb 23 10:24:41 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 24-Feb-84 00:41:09 EST References: <167@wdl1.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 39 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