moriarty@fluke.UUCP (The Napoleon of Crime) (01/26/85)
Reading through the Amazing Heroes' 85 preview is dangerous...
I don't want to find out what my favorite titles hold in store for me;
on the other hand, I'd like to know about mini-series and new titles,
and some of the quotes are excellent. So, without further ado, I noted
a few intersting things that will be occuring over the next year...
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One of my favorite characters from the 70's Superman comics was a
character called Captain Strong, a wonderful pastiche of Popeye, in the
April issue of Action.
Alan Moore should be getting his own comic, probably an anthology
series, from Fantagraphics books sometime this year. No title yet.
Quote: "Howard Chaykin promises that in 1985 AMERICAN FLAGG! will
remain 'the same wonderful combination of snotty dialogue, nasty
characters, venal attitudes, petty motivations, and sex and violence,
with a bit of my newfound prejudices, which won't fit in, but what
the hell.'" What a guy!
I imagine most of you know, but Frank Miller has 1) a three-part
Batman mini-series and b) two DD stories, one about Elektra, and the
other about the Kingpin (with Bill the S-word drawing).
Dave Sim says, "I am trying to get some people pissed off, because if
they're not pissed off, they're probably bored." Judging from the
letters page, it's working... (how come you never see Dave Sim and Ken
Ardnt together in the same place?).
Mark Evanier bubbles, "CROSSFIRE is the the comic that I enjoy the most
of anything I've ever written in comics...", probably because of Dan
Spiegle's art, which is excellent...
Trivia: G.I. JOE is Marvel's #1 Newstand seller, and #2 Direct
Distribution seller. As Penfold might say, "Ooh, Ick..."
Sergio Argones swears we shall see, in GROO, "the same type of
stupidity." And there's no stupidity like Groo Stupidity...
Oh, and Harlan Ellison is doing a bi-monthly book called "The
Vegenauts" for Fantagraphics. All the main characters are vegetables
fighting in a galactic war, and they roam around the universe in their
ship, called the Corn Husk. "It's the cutest thing," says Ellison.
"It's shaped like a corn husk." Potential (it will also have backup
text pieces by the like of J.D. Salinger and Saul Bellow), but will he
do it? Will Harlan do the job, or will he punk out? Probably the
latter...
And several butcher's aprons...
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A very well spent $3.95. Looks like an interesting year (to list all
the titles with potential would have taken several articles...).
"Well, Penfold, it looks like we'll have to save the world again."
"Ooh, Ick..."
Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.
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