laurie@isieng.UUCP (Laurie Sefton) (11/09/85)
I'm having a little trouble these days with the reactions of readers of
Infinity Inc. to the group of villians known as Helix. A lot of people
seem to be writing in andgushing over them, and I can't quite figure out
*why*.
When I first came upon them, they appeared to be a hallucination out of
a bad Joe Staton comic--that I can handle; in fact I thought that *maybe*
they were going to be played as a take-off on a group of super-villians.
The more I read, the more I became disturbed, and a bit disgusted with
the characters. They seem to be written up as a group of immature sadists,
who can barely look beyond the next moment. I didn't even feel anything
when I read their origin (which was straight out of Dr. Strangeglove via
the Metal Men these past years) For example, the killing of Fury's
pet Kanga was a reasonable part of the plot, having jokes made later about
it wasn't. That was just plain sick.
Maybe I just happen to prefer to have my villians with a little purpose, a
little character, and not just be a bunch of psychotic brats, but I can't
understand the majority of the people who wrote in to Infinity Inc. preferring
their villians this way. How do *you* feel about Helix?
Laurie Sefton
{Integrated Solutions has no opinions on the characterizations of
super-villians}scott@hou2g.UUCP (Colonel'K) (11/11/85)
I heartily agree with Laurie--these villians look like something out of the old Batman TV series, though with a lot of gratuitous violence thrown in. I seriously considered not buying Infinity Inc. again after this abomination. Fortunately, they were only there for a few issues--if they return often, it's bye-bye Roy... (Actually, I think the writing HAS dropped off recently in this book. I still like McFarlane's art, however.)