Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 Fluke 1/4/84; site fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!zehntel!tektronix!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!fluke!moriarty From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Re: New Mutants #21 Message-ID: <1172@vax2.fluke.UUCP> Date: Fri, 27-Jul-84 11:30:47 EDT Article-I.D.: vax2.1172 Posted: Fri Jul 27 11:30:47 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 30-Jul-84 00:01:46 EDT References: <387@hou2a.UUCP> <930@shark.UUCP> Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Everett, WA Lines: 27 I should probably respond to this in my 365-line review article (coming soon to finer net sites everywhere) but... I have no argument with your review of the art... it is original, and in many ways I enjoy it more than other artists (certainly other artists on NM); but NM has gotten to be a case of one hand clapping. Bill S-word (I'm sorry, my spelling program hasn't gotten his name yet) is doing interesting work, but it seems very removed from Claremonts writing. I would tend to blame CC for this... I'm enjoying the art on this book MUCH more than the writing (and I'm not enjoying the art THAT much). It seems every picture is barely related to what the character are saying... I can just see Chris getting the pages and saying "Oh, OH! I'll change Sam's statement there and..." -- and eventually you have a very disjointed comic. And before you say I have it in for Claremont, uh-uh; it's just that I've been reading his earlier X-Men work (plus his Iron Fist and Marvel Team-Up); he can do much, much better than this. "Wink-Wink, Nudge-Nudge, Know-what-I-mean, Know-what-I-mean?" Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc. UUCP: {cornell,decvax,ihnp4,sdcsvax,tektronix,utcsrgv}!uw-beaver \ {allegra,gatech!sb1,hplabs!lbl-csam,decwrl!sun,ssc-vax} -- !fluke!moriarty ARPA: fluke!moriarty@uw-beaver.ARPA