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From: eric@aplvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.comics
Subject: Re: Alternate comic companies
Message-ID: <244@aplvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Aug-83 09:55:50 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 17 09:55:50 1983
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	I continue to find myself getting more and more of the
alternate comics. FIRST Comics seems to have pulled off a feat
unparalleled in my memory, a new comic company that continues to
meet its deadlines, and with monthly titles at that! Some of
Pacific's titles are good (Dave Stephens continues to grow on me),
while others strike me as silly. The Kirby titles seem to be
faltering to me. The horror book seems to be poor plots with
gratuitous blood thrown in (this may have changed, I have stopped
getting it). On the other hand, the Elric title seems to be going
well. The main problem with Pacific seems to be that their 
definition of "every other month" seems to translate to "February 29th".

	Back to FIRST's titles, I really enjoy the new E-MAN (I was
an E-MAN freak during the first run). Grell's Sable seemed to be
going very well, particularly the four issue origin, but I did
not particularly care as much for the latest issue. And Starslayer
seems to be suffering without Grell to guide it. American Flagg has
great promise, but the jury is still out. Sorry to say, I never got
started on Warp, and am too lazy and cheap to go back and pick up
the back issues. (Wife: You spend $25 a month on COMICS?!!? Me: Yes,
but I have to keep up the collection, and they are a good investment.
Wife: Sure they are, but you never sell any. Ah, well)

	Well, I have rambled about these titles long enough. I would
be interested in hearing what others think of these new books.

					eric
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