dwc@hou2b.UUCP (D.CHEN) (10/10/84)
okay, now i'm calm enough to really talk about secret wars objectively. i'm not going to get into the inconsistencies involved with dr. doom defeating galactus and the beyonder in one issue. never mind that dr. doom once tried to steal the silver surfer's power and couldn't even hold onto that. never mind that one of dr. doom's stooges (albeit unwitting), terrax, suffered burn-out from an overdose of "power cosmic" (which now looks like "power comic"). i'm not going to mention that ascension to godhood has been handled gracefully in the past (the korvac/michael series in the avengers; the ancient one in dr. strange, etc). i'm going to talk about obsessions and addictions. what drives reasonable people to go out and waste 3/4 of a dollar on something that they know will make them sick? more importantly, what drives people (perhaps not reasonable) to write and try to sell such garbage? the answer is addiction. we are poor comic book addicts and jim shooter is the junkie - selling stuff he knows is no good for anyone but as long as he can make a mega-buck. and how do i justify my "habit"? i pretend that i'm paying $1.35 for thor and i'm getting secret wars for free.
moriarty@fluke.UUCP (10/14/84)
>what drives reasonable people to go out and waste 3/4 of a dollar >on something that they know will make them sick? more importantly, >what drives people (perhaps not reasonable) to write and try to sell >such garbage? the answer is addiction. we are poor comic book addicts >and jim shooter is the junkie - selling stuff he knows is no good for >anyone but as long as he can make a mega-buck. I think you mean that Shooter is the pusher... I doubt he reads his own stuff. :-) Seriously, why do people watch "Three's Company" and go to "Friday the 13th" movies and read/watch/listen to crap in general? Well, probably because they don't think it's crap, for one thing. This "junkie" business is a pretty poor analogy, I think. Every one of us who buys comics has free will; no chemical compulsion makes us keep up with the exploits of characters. Why do I read "Secret Wars" when I think it's crap? Because I love to discuss it over net.comics, that's why! Every issue outdoes the previous one for stupid plot/characterizations/dialogue. It is living proof to me that Shooter may finally be the thing which allows DC to surpass Marvel. Not that I am supporting Shooter -- garbage is garbage, and that's what he's putting out. But if you don't want it printed, DON'T BUY IT. Say no. Just read the reviews in net.comics... we'll fill you in on the details. Say, if comics books are an addiction, then Nancy Regean will have to commission George Perez and Marv Wolfman to produce an anti-comic comic! The Teen Titans Defeat Themselves! "Hey kids, quit reading this thing and go outside and play!" "There's more hoods than we thought!" "Then shoot MORE BULLETS!" 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
ayers@convex.UUCP (10/17/84)
> no chemical compulsion makes us keep up with the exploits of >characters. You mean that mild narcotic in the ink doesn't count? blues, II (Don't ask him, he has a wife and 13 dimwitted children at home)
ciaraldi@rochester.UUCP (Mike Ciaraldi) (10/17/84)
> Say, if comics books are an addiction, then Nancy Regean will have to > commission George Perez and Marv Wolfman to produce an anti-comic comic! No, no, what they have to do is produce an anti-comics DRUG. Mike Ciaraldi ciaraldi@rochester seismo!rochester!ciaraldi