moriarty@fluke.UUCP (The Napoleon of Crime) (12/31/84)
A good topic... I don't know if anyone remembers out "What I'd like to do to
Dondi" contest that ran in net.flame last year... appropriate.
As to adventure/continuity strips, I agree... there is little out there. I
enjoy "Annie" quite a bit, and "Prince Valiant" in the Sunday section has
always been good -- one of the best-written things around. Unfortunately,
we don't get Steve Canyon out here, and the b*st*rds cancelled "Latigo",
which is one of the finest adventure/western/humor strips around. "The Lone
Ranger" was also very good for a while. Others are just not up to it...
"Star Wars" was fun, but never very engrossing, and despite ulterior motives
for bad puns, "Star Trek" was, well, drek...
The super-hero ones have always been poor; the only good thing I can say
about "Spider-Man" is that everytime I think of the name "Dr. Mondo", I
start giggling (one cannot help seeing such a person as a guest VJ on
MTV...).
"Dammit, man, that's unprofessional! A good bartender laughs anyway!"
Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.
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