Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 Fluke 8/7/84; site fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!microsoft!fluke!moriarty From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Re: This weeks goodies (spoilers) and kiddie companions.. Message-ID: <1219@vax2.fluke.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Aug-84 17:28:17 EDT Article-I.D.: vax2.1219 Posted: Wed Aug 8 17:28:17 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Aug-84 01:12:22 EDT References: <254@pucc-k> Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Everett, WA Lines: 31 >The Dr Who book also brings out another pet peeve I have about mainstream >comics. The #$%$&)(0"#$ kiddie companion. I don't mean one like Cap'n >Quick (thats a good integration of a child into a comic story), but ditsy >little cretins whose only function is to get themselves into trouble. >I mean, if you had some wonderous super-power, would you want some sniveling >little creature around you? Getting into your way? Creating trouble wherever >he/she goes? Yechh... > >I didn't like the kiddie side-kicks when I was a child, either. I thought >they were 'stupid'. I still think they are 'stupid'. > >What do you think? Well, there are two cases where the "kid companions" are interesting: when they are done with unerring accuracy, or with great innocence (the latter is much tougher... I can only think of one case where I thought it was REALLY well done, A LITTLE ROMANCE (which is, of course, another medium altogether ("another medium" :-) ))). Otherwise, I'm not crazy about 'em either -- Bucky in particular (should have renamed him "The Sniveller"). But why do you think there is a outbreak of 'em know? There are a lot of kids, but not many kid sidekicks... I think it's a trend that is dying out. "Silver bullets MY ASS!" 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