Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: re: Moriarty's reviews Message-ID: <3386@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Aug-84 12:03:48 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3386 Posted: Thu Aug 16 12:03:48 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Aug-84 01:14:39 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 77 > **************************************************************************** > |==>A< One of the best of the year. Example: Byrne/Claremont's Starlord | > |==>B< A very good issue, one of the best of the month (usually 6/month) | > |==>C< A well done, entertaining issue. Satisfying. Example: Jon Sable | > |==>D< Rather boring, or a few good spots mixed with more bad ones. Ex:Mars| > |==>F< Boring AND stupid or childish. Example: Secret Wars. | > |==>Z< Actually offensive. Example: Several of Haney's UNKNOWN SOLDIERs | > **************************************************************************** Interesting way of rating. Mind if I use it? > P.S. ("The next question is > for YOU, Jerry Boyajian: Who won the Dorchester cup in 1953?....") Hunh?? What is the Dorchester cup, and what has it got to do with the STAR TREK comic? > Is the artist at all connected with the now-defunct CAPTAIN CANUCK? Looks > familiar. Nope (well, he may have had *something* to do with it). George Freeman, who drew the JACK OF HEARTS mini-series, and who's going to be working with Mike Gilbert on ELRIC, did the art for the Canajan Captain. > MACHINE MAN #2 [D+]: > > Humor and adventure here don't seem to mix, though I like the > artwork and MM's lines when he's out on his feet. And of course the art > is pretty good. "Pretty good"???? "Pretty good"???? Sigh. I suppose this is what makes you, you, and me, me, and not us, us. Personally, I think MACHINE MAN is the best thing Marvel is producing these days (the novelty of THOR has worn off; I'm no longer surprised by *its* excellence). I think the humor is just light enough to not get in the way of the drama. And the art is *terrific*!! > LEGION OF SUPERHEROES #3 & TALES OF THE LEGION #84 [C+]: #84??? Been hitting the back issues lately? > VOID INDIGO [F]: > > ...the gore level in this book negates much of his [[Mayerik's]] talent, > and he's one of those people I enjoy more in Black and White anyway (like > Lucille Ball :-) ). Now, unless Gerber has a weirder sense of humor than I > think, this is meant to be taken seriously; in which case it's kaa-kaa. No > originality, words without emotion, and a seeming love of cynical violence. Here, I have to agree 100%. The violence put even *me* off. And there didn't seem to be any point to anything that went on. > MEDUSA CHAIN [A] > > Now just to prove I don't mind gore when their are PEOPLE, PLOT and > DIALOGUE firmly behind them, look at the grade above... you won't see many > of those. Now, I don't know about art, but Ernie Colon knows 1) empathy, 2) > characters, 3) humor, 4) horror, 5) narrative storytelling, and 6) science > fiction. And he has that touch, that rare, unusual behavior to put so much > of himself into the story that you really (REALLY... no exagiration) step > back and say, "Wow. This is GOOD. This almost belongs with the great comics > of my past." How often do you see something that looks like the writer/author > really spent time sweating over it? You will here, and you'll see how > talent and ability are nothing unless you have the drive to want the story > to work... it is written all over this. Ah, well, back to disagreement. This was really frustrating because it had so many good ideas, and the plot was really intriguing, but it read like Colon didn't put *enough* work into it. I thought the story had too many gaps in it, leaving it too incoherent. I never did quite have a good grasp of just what the hell was going on. I would swap the grade you gave this with the one you gave MACHINE MAN. --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA