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From: egy@sdchema.UUCP (Eugene G. Youngerman)
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Subject: Re: Comics getting more obscure?
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Date: Mon, 15-Aug-83 19:23:26 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 15 19:23:26 1983
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    I heartily agree with your observation.  I myself judge
whether or not to purchase a comic, as whether or not I will
read it twice.  The three titles in particular you mention
are all of particular interest. (by the way, did you see the 
new American Flagg?  It just arrived this week, and I am finally
starting to see where Chaykin is going.)  
     I also find that while a poorly written but well drawn 
story is no prize, a well-written, poorly drawn story is
nigh upon useless.  I refer in particular to Defenders, wherein
I can not stomach Don Perlin's pathetic chickenscratch
which somebody at Marvel has the audacity to call art.
     By the same token, unless a story progresses, and by this I 
don't mean individual stories, but overall change in the
environment of the series, it becomes boring.  My examples here
are Superman, by Bates and Swan, and Conan, drawn by Buscema and
Chan.  While I won't argue that Swan and Buscema/Chan are 
masters of their craft, I know for a fact, that I will see nothing
new in these series.
     In response to the question about Baxter books, I don't know,
but I will make an attempt to find out.  If you people are
in a position where your stores get anything from 
Pacific Comics, the distributors, and not the publishers, although
they are but two arms of the same Schanes enterprise, they have been
getting shorted badly out of Sparta of late, and some titles
are not showing up at some stores until a week or two late.

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