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!mgnetp!ihnp4!houxm!houxz!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!zehntel!dual!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Some Comments Message-ID: <3162@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Aug-84 05:23:18 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3162 Posted: Wed Aug 8 05:23:18 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Aug-84 02:27:13 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 45 Comments on a couple of Laurie's postings: > You don't expect Marvel to print any letters that say 'Secret Wars stink. > All they are is self-aggrandisement for J. Shooter' do you? [sic] Actually, yes I do expect Marvel to print letters that say "Secret Wars stinks". Negative comments about their comics are all over their letters pages. Maybe it *is* just an ego-stroke for Shooter, but I don't recall *any* Marvel comic ever getting as much hype as SECRET WARS. And I also don't recall any other Marvel comic getting 100% praise. Even Simonson's THOR has gotten some negative com- ments. Don't get so worked up over Marvel. Sure, maybe they think their shit smells better than everyone else's, but there's still hope for them. Any Editor-in- Chief who has the balls to say in an editorial that (paraphrase), "Sure, we're probably making more money than we need to on the limited series by charging $.75, but it's enabling us to keep from raising the prices on our other books," can't be *all* bad. > LSH: ...some really nice fight scenes (I can't wait to see if they clean up > some of the blood for the comics code people. > TNTT: Oh my, won't the comics code have a good time with this one. Maybe > as long as it's at least one alien in the bed (and you have to agree, > that with Raven in her current mode, she would definitely be classified > as 'alien'), you don't have to worry. I, too, will be very interested to see what the CCA does with these two books when the Baxter stories get reprinted in the Mando books. Actually, I didn't think the bedroom scene with Raven and Wally was any worse than the one with Dick and Kory. Personally, I was more shocked by the panel with Gar holding the heart in his hand and with blood dripping out his mouth. > All > S S: I guess you didn't want to go totally with the initials, like you did with the LSH and NTT, eh? --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA