firby (03/20/83)
Net.FUNNIES???!!! Where have you been the last 20 years?!? The only really funny comics around these days are E-MAN and CEREBUS. Sorry, but the term just doesn't apply. As to what we could discuss, why the possibilities are endless. For example: 1. Why is Marvel going down the tubes? 2. Are the Alternatives really alternative? 3. What is/should be the place/responsiblity of the fan press? 4. Why does Gary Groth persist in publishing his magazine when he hates comics? 5. Why is an incompetent boob like Bill Mantlo apparently given free rein to carry on the way he does? Now, I have a feeling that not everyone here really cares about any of these burning issues. However, I can tell by browsing the net that there are lots of fans out there somewhere. Hope we hear from them, joanne
porges (03/26/83)
#R:sask:-22400:inmet:7000004:000:650 inmet!porges Mar 24 16:58:00 1983 And while we're at it: Does anybody else find Marvel's idea of anti-mutant prejudice totally weird? How can "racial prejudice" form against a group that only has ~ 100 people? How do people come to yell out "stinkin' mutie" all the time? Do mutants take jobs away from blue-collar workers? Do they move into non-mutant neighborhoods and lower property values? Does racial prejudice form against a group that by definition does not breed true? Or am I asking too much? (There, now they'll start our news group...) -- Don Porges ...harpo!inmet!porges ...hplabs!sri-unix!cca!ima!inmet!porges ...yale-comix!ima!inmet!porges
nyles (04/02/83)
#R:sask:-22400:zinfandel:8900002:000:515 zinfandel!nyles Mar 28 09:49:00 1983 Only ~100 mutants? You must be kidding. In on of the latest X-Men, there were (it looked like) over a hundred mutants living in this underground tunnel. Take that, with the Hellfire Club, X-Men past and present, Magneto's old crew, and all the incredible powers wielded by just about every one of these mutants, wouldn't YOU freak out? Good grief. I wouldn't care to be on the bad side of even ONE of them. Lord Morgon (decvax!sytek!zehntel!zinfandel!nyles) Walnut Creek, CA 415/932-6900
faustus (04/03/83)
And when you're counting up mutants, don't forget about the Inhumans. They had a whole city in the Himalays. But then were they really mutants, or just inhumans.... Wayne
guest (04/05/83)
For one, there are more than 100 mutants around the good 'ol world. Their numbers are increaseing everyday! Another thing Marvel is only making a point,dislike for a person because he/she exist is wrong!! For example, what is the differenc if you are hated because you are Black , White ,like computers or can walk through walls? Simple none. You are being hated for the same reason - you either look differently, have a special talent or like unusal(??!!?) things. How many of our non- computer friends REALLY understand our love for the machine? How many of our friends tend to 'shy' away and give you strange looks when you sit at your terminal and from scratch you create a fantastic program and wonder why on Earth is he/she sitting there when the could do something really fun and go bar hopping? Or Fail to understand why this IS FUN?? Don, in a way WE too are mutants, well - not in the Marval sense, but in the eyes of our fellow humans. Just ask a close friend whose NOT into computers and see what they say(if you have any whose not into computers) Please post flames here - (if any - I hope not though) The "Mutie-Lover"
raz (04/07/83)
That MARVEL is trying to make an anti-discrimination point is obvoius. The problem, as I see it, is that they are creating muties right and left (as Shaw would say 'almost common-place'). This aids the anti-mutant fever plot line because average citizens imagine a plague of mutants taking over, but takes the fun out of most of the other stories because there are just too many mutants running around. Additionally, there are so many latent mutants (see Graphic Novel 5) running around, that the total number should be closer to about 5000 in the country. (assume 50 in Madison Square Garden / 20,000 and average across the country) [OOPS that should read 500,000]. Now, whay are all of these mutations beneficial? Shouldn't some be harmful? Awaitng further discussion, Robert A Zimmermann p.s. Network controllers: you can get this discussion moved out of newsgroups by creating net.funnies.
bernie (04/07/83)
The premise that Marvel uses to explain anti-mutant prejudice assumes that a hostile agency is actively encouraging said prejudice, for reasons known only to them. Nevertheless, they do assume that the idea is seductive enough to be appealing to many.