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. UUCP: {cornell,decvax,ihnp4,sdcsvax,tektronix,utcsrgv}!uw-beaver \ {allegra,gatech!sb1,hplabs!lbl-csam,decwrl!sun,ssc-vax} -- !fluke!moriarty ARPA: fluke!moriarty@uw-beaver.ARPA