Article-I.D.: lll-crg.895
Posted: Sat Oct  5 07:19:29 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 6-Oct-85 06:31:52 EDT
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Reply-To: petrick@lll-crg.UUCP (Jim petrick)
Organization: Lawrence Livermore Labs, CRG Group
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In article <691@decwrl.UUCP> boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN) writes:
[color=blue]> 	As far as my opinions on it, my review of the graphic novel echoed[/color]
[color=blue]> what Don Thompson of CBG said about it. He described it as a Ukrainian Easter[/color]
[color=blue]> Egg --- beautiful art on the outside, a rotten egg on the inside. Kaluta's[/color]
[color=blue]> art is top-notch (I think my review gave the art an A-), and I buy each issue[/color]
[color=blue]> for no other reason than to look at the art. But I found the writing to be[/color]
[color=blue]> totally incoherent. Only in brief snatches could I even hazard a guess as to[/color]
[color=blue]> what was going on. In the comic issues that have appeared so far, some of them[/color]
[color=blue]> exhibit this same problem, while others read remarkably well.[/color]

	Oh well, to each his own.  I found the writing refreshing.
Imagine, a story line you have to think about for once.  This is not a
comic for casual perusal.  You have to pay attention!   The artwork got me
started on this series, but the wild story line has kept me hooked. 

	BTW, I haven't seen any reviews of MAGE.  I don't go for many of
the mainstream comics anymore -- MAGE is anything but that.  Fantastic
artwork, intriguing characters and a storyline that has me going down to
the local comics store weekly to see if the next issue's out yet (even
though I know it's only published once every two months).  Issues 1-4 are
pretty much nonexistant, but I've seen MAGEBOOK, (issues 1-4 bound together
with a new cover).  If you haven't caught this story yet, you owe it to
yourself.

					-- jim petrick
					petrick@lll-crg.ARPA