ciaraldi@rochester.UUCP (Mike Ciaraldi) (09/06/83)
From: Mike Ciaraldi <ciaraldi> How many of you have seen this new quality-paper series from DC? I read the first issue twice trying to understand it. Then I read Mike Tiefenbacher's review in The Comic Reader, and find he seems to feel the same way I do: 1) the story is much too vague, with too many unexplained things going on, to make you feel you are really being introduced to the characters. 2) The art is confusing. Many times I could not tell in what order I should be following the panels, or who was speaking, or even who some of the characters were (there is an actor who impersonates one of the others). There were flashbacks, hallucinations, etc., but it was hard to tell which were which! There were a few interestimg touches, e.g. a character named Data, who lives in a car with license plates "4-TRAN", who claims to have access to the power of "several 64**7 kilo-byte computers". (actually, they use a superscript). 64**7 is 2**49, which is an awful lot of memory, even if you express it in such an unusual way. But this might be acceptable when you consider the story is supposed to be taking place some unspecified time in the futre, despite that not being mentioned in the first issue! Whatever happened to eeditors?