[net.news.group] Funnies?

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.