ronc@fai.UUCP (Ronald O. Christian) (01/15/86)
Gee, this group has been a little dry lately. You people still out there? I'd like to comment a little about a few titles. Web of Spider Man: I dropped this comic after the very first issue. Another marketing ploy, says I, get SM's face, er, mask out there as often as possible and sell lots of toys. The plot going at that time was amazingly mediocre. Well, I picked up last month's issue, and the mag has improved considerably. I should say that I quit buying Amazing Spider Man shortly after dropping Web for (at the time) the same reasons. Since I don't follow the names of writers and artists as much as I used to (back in the early seventies) I can't point a finger and say "That's the reason the mag improved", but it has. Daredevil: I tried to buy the last 3 or 4 issues of Daredevil after buying the "pariah" issue, and found to my dismay that they were fetching high prices if you could find them at all. This title is my current favorite. Thor: More examples of good writing, so good I wasn't bothered by the silliness of it all. Frog-thor was a little shocking, but was a natural direction for the plot to go. Lots of little things to like about this story, including Puddle-gulp's surprise at the end and Thor's conversation with his goats. 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? Ron -- -- Ronald O. Christian (Fujitsu America Inc., San Jose, Calf.) ihnp4!pesnta!fai!ronc Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: "If you are seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it."
slrichte@uok.UUCP (01/21/86)
/* Written 7:37 pm Jan 14, 1986 by ronc@fai.UUCP in uok.UUCP:net.comics */ Web of Spider Man: > ...I can't point a finger and say "That's the >reason the mag improved", but it has. You can point your finger at Peter David, who has been writing mostly Peter Parker, but occasionally does Web. His writing has been very good, and if there are other net readers who have given up on Spidey (like I had), take a look at David's issues. >Daredevil: >I tried to buy the last 3 or 4 issues of Daredevil after buying the >"pariah" issue, and found to my dismay that they were fetching high >prices if you could find them at all. This title is my current favorite. > Ron I'm unclear on which issues you tried to buy. Both Miller's recent issues and the ones immediately previous to his are selling well. DD dropped in sales after Miller left initally, and dealers responded by ordering just what they could sell of issues #198-225. The prices you encountered were unexpected by me, but I guess that I shouldn't have been surprised. (Yes, I know that Miller left earlier that #198, but it takes several months to readjust ordering quantities and so on.) --Steve Richter USENET: {ihnp4,allegra!cbosgd}!okstate!uokvax!uok!slrichte "Could be a Marvel title soon."--American Comics on TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES