afo@pucc-k (sefton) (08/26/84)
Well, let's see what's in the bag... X-Men: A very interesting postscript to the story. A *lot* of character development for Storm, and Peter finds out about Illyana's, umm talents. So, Jean Grey was Rachel's mother....Did anyone notice, that in the 'flash-forward' (our time), that Amanda appeared to be pregnant? Or was that just Romita's art? I take it that Marvel has just decided that the story wherein Amanda tried to become Dr Strange's apprentice, and it was revealed that she and her mother were actually 'posessed' by the wand of Margali, is to be ignored, or something. Beauty/ Beast: ARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH! (okay?) TNTT #49: Is Wally going to spend the next ten years or so busily dying? He is currently appearing in the 'one year from now' version of the mag. Looks like Fran may be up to something interesting. Is it my imagination, or do the characters look a little 'scrawny'? Nice Infantino art for the mid-section. Flash: The *TRIAL*, finally. I hope this doesn't last as long as the preamble. Why has DC decided to make the Flash the whipping boy? He always had one of the more upbeat books. Now it's like reading a soap opera. Did anyone notice the blurb in the DC plug-zine for the JSA mini-series next month? And Dr Fate? Now all they have to do is bring the Spectre back, and I will be very, very happy. The Aparo stuff from a few back (oh could it actually be ten years?) had a perverse charm to it. Gangsters being eaten by huge ducks, murderers being turned into wood, and being run through jigsaws: great fun. Laurie pucc-k:afo
hsut@ecn-ee.UUCP (08/27/84)
#R:pucc-k:-27400:ecn-ee:24800008:000:425 ecn-ee!hsut Aug 27 10:23:00 1984 Re: X-men review A little bit of a mix-up here. Amanda never tried to become Dr.Strange's apprentice. The issue of Strange you're referring to involves Margali Szados and her daughter, who were possessed by the wand. Obviously all very confusing since they knew Nightcrawler as a kid... Amanda's last name is Sefton. Bill H. pur-ee!hsut
hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison) (08/29/84)
< We SHOULD pelt them with rocks and garbage! > | X-Men: ... I take it that | Marvel has just decided that the story wherein Amanda tried to | become Dr Strange's apprentice, and it was revealed that she | and her mother were actually 'posessed' by the wand of Margali, | is to be ignored, or something. | | Laurie (Sefton) Ah, I betcha you're just interested because Amanda used to use your last name, so there! Marvel hasn't forgotten Dr. Strange, but CLAREMONT might have. I have a theory about ol' Chris. See, CC (Hmm ... an AI project?) suffers so intensely from womb envy that he absolutely CANNOT conceive of any human female who could possibly be actually EVIL. They might be misguided, of course, as is Mystique. But never e-vile, like a mere (ick) MALE. (Selene doesn't count, she's not really a human.) Also, ALL women are secretly the descendants of long lines of sorcerous witch-queen-mother-protectors. (And no man is worthy to carry their machine guns :=) Anyway, the thing about Chris is that he MUST make a female character more powerful than is reasonable or even likely. Therefore, Ilyana, and Margali Szardos (who Dr. Strange WOULD have known about were she really what she represented herself as being!!) and 'Roro, and Binary, and so on. Not that I mind powerful female characters, and Claremont definitely acts as a counter to Shooter. Anyway, I think Claremont is deliberately ignoring the implications of the story in Dr Strange because DS is not a "wide audience" magazine. And now for something completely the same, BYRNE HAS STOPPED INKING HIS OWN WORK IN FF AND AF!! Huzzah, huzzah, let the BELLS RING OUT!! now if he could only find someone else to plagiarize . . . er, write his stories, for him! Hutch (see ya in the funnies, kids)
hsut@ecn-ee.UUCP (08/29/84)
#R:pucc-k:-27400:ecn-ee:24800009:000:1 ecn-ee!hsut Aug 29 10:27:00 1984
afo@pucc-k (Flidais) (11/03/84)
{so? You look through my files, I look through your mind..see any differences?} Opening this week's bag of goodies.... Crossfire #5: Okay, maybe I went a little to far when I say this book was depressing. Probably more real-life than I would care for at times would be more like it. The main story was as gritty as anything else I have seen from this title, and the story-line to be appears to be as good. No mention of the fluorocarbons, though. Kitty Pride & Wolverine #4: Well, I didn't buy any of the Secret Wars, so I can be absolved of this one, can't I? Actually, I'll buy just about anything with Wolverine acting like Wolverine, and Yukio is *such* a good characterization. Kitty books to the US, leaving a semi-healed Wolvie to take on the Yakuza. I think this issue was *much* better scripted than the first three, but the artwork didn't do much for me. Kitty's father is a gold-plated wimp... Justice Society #2: Bizarre artwork in this one.. I don't know whether meant to have the grainy effect, or what. Wonder Woman appears to be aging rapidly throughout, and you have to wonder how bad off the Sandman is (I think worse than we realise). The Spectre seems to be bordering on the line of totally cosmic and totally out to lunch. Infinity Inc. #11: We do find out what has happened to Stripsey after all these years. Has the Star-Spangled-Kid aged immensely lately? I mean he was 18 years old when he popped up a few years back, and he seems to have aged along with real time rather than Earth-2 time. Blue Devil #9: Yes, Virginia, a mainstream comic can be fun, and include all those villians from the other comic books. What I like about this book is that it follows the same precepts as Zot, the artwork is not the most realistic I have ever seen, but it doesn't need to be. I can't believe that Dan Cassidy is just finding out that the Trident comes when it is called, or that it has a life of its own. Maybe this will be more fully explained (embellished?) in the next few issues. The Trickster seems to be a completely different character than he is in the Flash, though. (BTW, if you buy a copy of this issue, you will notice a letter from a certain netter who happens to like this comic a whole bunch....) That's it for this week..... Laurie Sefton {harpo,ihnp4,allegra,decvax}!pur-ee!pucc-h!afo "Lifemate! Friend of my body and my soul! I will be with you forever!" -- Laurie Sefton {harpo,ihnp4,allegra,decvax}!pur-ee!pucc-h!afo "Lifemate! Friend of my body and my soul! I will be with you forever!"
rick@uwmacc.UUCP (the absurdist) (11/12/84)
In article <551@pucc-k> afo@pucc-k (Flidais) writes: >Kitty Pride & Wolverine #4: { omitted } Kitty books to the US, leaving > a semi-healed Wolvie to take on the Yakuza. Ahem. The panel captions & Kitty's internal monologue say she's gonna chicken out and go home. The pictures say something else. In the background, the speakers are announcing flights to the US (what she's thinking she'll get on) and to Tokyo (where Ogun is). She tells herself that giving up is ok -- but we see her walking past the gate to the US and towards the flight to Tokyo. I just LOVE stories where they put worthwhile information into the pictures; if I wanted a story told in words, I'd read a novel. By the by, I'm glad to see Kitty & her father in the story; Wolverine ripping his way through adversity is too old a story to stand by itself. What is important here for me are elements like (1) Wolverine taking on Ogun for Kitty's sake, when he believes that it means his own destruction; (2) Wolverine's mixed harshness/gentleness in training Kitty; I've always liked his view that children can't be protected from reality forever; (3) Kitty's father's complete inability to deal with a world of sudden death and mystic/mutant/techie powers that he knows nothing of : gives me a viewpoint I can identify with; (4) Kitty's being forced (throughout the last 2 years) to deal with becoming an adult; not in some simplistic "Rite of Passage" where she has the "adult" bit set in her brain, but in a mixture of stories where she does the right or the wrong thing, and doesn't always remember what she learned the last time. Kitty is my favorite member of the X-Men. -- "I feel like some dummy from a TV show asking this, but... who ARE you, Masked Man?" Rick Keir -- MicroComputer Information Center, MACC 1210 West Dayton St/U Wisconsin Madison/Mad WI 53706 {allegra, ihnp4, seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!rick