moriarty@fluke.UUCP (The Napoleon of Crime) (09/20/85)
Lotsa news this week: Elementals are back with Comico; Willingham says next issue out at Christmas. After the fiasco with MIRACLEMAN #1, Eclipse will be prining it and DNAgents in North America, not Europe. Frank Miller says his Batman "Dark Knight" series is going very well, and that he feels this is his "best work ever". After reading RONIN, this makes me VERY optimistic... >>FLAME ON Just saw Deni Loubert's lineup for Renegade press, and I am disappointed and angry in some of the titles. Two are strips which seem to be reprinted from other books: Ditko's "Star Guider", and Ernie Colon's "manimal". I'm sure I saw the Ditko series somewhere, and Manimal is from HOT STUFF, one of those infrequent comic magazines that pop up here and there. It wasn't a great story, from what I can remember about it, but I find Loubert's claim that it is a "statement" about the holocaust, and that they are "proud" to print somewhat of a schlocko marketing technique. Again, fading memories intrude, but I distinctly remember this using the camps as a story element, not an end to itself; sounds to me like Deni is trying to sell copies by saying it was done to tell everyone about the holocaust. Pfui. >>FLAME OFF DOC SAVAGE will be on National Public Radio by this october. Starts out with "Fear Cay" (not one of the best ones, I fear), but the second is "THe Thousand-Headed Man", which IS a good 'un. MOVIE NEWS FOLLOWS ON MOST OF THESE USENET STATIONS! "LOOK at them! Helpless, tender creatures, relying on ME, waiting for ME to make my move!" "Move your ASS, Fat-head!" "It is a MANDATE, and I am DUTY BOUND to OBEY!" Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer ARPA: fluke!moriarty@uw-beaver.ARPA UUCP: {uw-beaver, sun, allegra, sb6, lbl-csam}!fluke!moriarty <*> DISCLAIMER: Do what you want with me, but leave my employers alone! <*>