boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN) (01/25/86)
>From: soren@reed.UUCP (Soren Petersen) > Any ideas on what the teaser at the end of #366 means? > (The King is dead, long live the king (or should it be the other way round)). > It is depressingly easy to interpret this to mean that Odin is returning-- > more proof that nothing ever changes at the Marvel house of ideas. No, "The King is dead; long live the King" is a fairly common expression when someone ascends to the throne upon his predecessor's death. It has the understood meaning of "The (old) King is dead; long live the (new) King". >From: laurie@isieng.UUCP (Laurie Sefton) > Magneto has come from being one of the typical Kirby-esque villians, to > someone > who has much more depth than some *real* people I know. He has motives > behind his actions (and sympathetic motives), and has run the whole gamut of > emotions.... He's no longer a one-note player-- > and that's what makes a successful characterization. > > How does the rest of the net feel on this? I agree. Magneto had always struck me as a second-rate Doctor Doom until Claremont got a hold of him. Even Claremont's first crack at him (~#104) wasn't all that hot. It was the next meeting (~#112) that really made me admire and respect Magneto as a character. I think the progression from bad-guy to good-guy feels both right and natural. I also think that what makes him an interesting character is his internal struggle between his old, evil nature and his desire to reform. >From: ronc@fai.UUCP (Ronald O. Christian) > Speaking of which, has Puddle-gulp's story been told elsewhere? > I seem to recall back in the mists of time a story in one of those > Marvel horror mags about a man being turned into a frog by a fortune- > teller. Am I imagining this? I wouldn't be at all surprised, though I don't recall any such story. >From: jbtubman@watdragon.UUCP (Jim Tubman) > After not doing so for about 5 years, I resumed reading comics in the > last year or so. My tastes run to the super-hero genre, so I didn't > notice this until quite recently: I don't see any Harvey comics > (Richie Rich, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Sad Sack, etc.) or Gold Key > comics (the Disney line) anywhere. Not at comics stores, nor at the > drugstore in my home town (which used to carry them). Have these > companies gone under, been bought out, lost Canadian distribution, or > what? Gold Key folded a number of years ago. For a while, they were calling themselves "Whitman", and in addition to their regular line, they were also marketing 3-comic bags of Marvel & DC comics with their Whitman logo. Eventually, they decided to give up the comic business. Their Hanna-Barbera properties went to Marvel for a while, though no one has them right now. The Disney titles were in limbo for a while, but are now published by Gladstone Comics (a small outfit) and distributed through Archie Comics. I'm not sure when Harvey folded as a comic publisher. For a while, they were only publishing reprint (I think) digests of their material, but I think they've even given that up now. --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...} !decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.DEC.COM