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Subject: Recent comis reviewed
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Date: Thu, 19-Apr-84 05:09:09 EST
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Time is short, and I'm going on vacation for a while, so:

MYTH ADVENTURES #1: I've never read the Bob Asprin books that this is based on,
	but this comic inspires me to try them. The characters and situation are
	wonderfully funny, and Phil Foglio's art matches the story perfectly. I
	highly recommend this one!

POWER PACK #1: I have no idea what the reaction to this comic wil be from comics
	fans in general, but I found it delightful. June Brigman is another real
	find, not quite as good an artist (new) as, say EVANGELINE's Judith Hunt
	but it's nevertheless quite satisfactory. This is the first comic I can
	recall reading by Louise Simonson, and it won't be the last. The charac-
	ters (all? pre-teens) are engaging and act just like real kids. They
	combine that rare combination of excitement at finding an alien space-
	ship and its pilot, and later receiving super-powers from him, and the
	special brand of solemnity that kids adopt when faced with a truly seri-
	ous situation. The plot feels like something right out of Madeleine
	(a favorite of mine) L'Engle's A WRINKLE IN TIME, and though it starts
	out slowly, is quick to pick up the pace as things start happening. If
	you are fond of serious "young adult" stories, you should definitely
	pick this one up. I hope that such books as POWER PACK and ZOT! are the
	beginning of a wave of "kid" books that can be enjoyed by adults.

ALL-STAR SQUADRON #whatever: An All-Star dies! Big deal. After being hit with
	Guardian and Terra's deaths in the course of a month (actually it was
	only a week between their releases, and another week until this), it's
	getting to be an old, tired trick. To further rub it in, Thomas cheats:
	is it really fair to kill off a hero only a couple of pages after he is
	revealed as being still alive from a previous battle in which everyone
	thought he was killed? (can you make sense out of that convoluted sen-
	tence?)

				  --- jayembee
				      (Jerry Boyajian, DEC Maynard)
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