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From: moriarty@uw-june (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: net.comics
Subject: Re: DC stands for... (generalities of the shoddiest kind)
Message-ID: <1445@uw-june>
Date: Tue, 15-May-84 03:54:26 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 15 03:54:26 1984
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It's after midnight, please excuse me, but....
 
How is it we get twits like this on the net?  I just love blanket
generalities, don't you?  Here, let's take a look at a few (can you say
"Stuck in a 1960's time warp and very ignorant and writes like a
5-year-old"?  Sure you can!):
 
>Though D.C. has
>always had the "Perfect" people, you can't learn from them at all.
 
1) If you're trying to learn behaviour patterns from comics characters,
good luck.
 
2) Marvel has quite a few "perfect people"... it depends on the writer.  And
I'd hardly call Blue Devil, Batman, or Thriller perfect.  Gad, such banal
generalities!
 
>Marvel can proudly boast of some of the best and longest running magazines.
 
Gosh, I think DC's have been running, oh, about 45 years.  Pretty long, eh?
And Camelot 3000, Blue Devil, Star Trek and others ARE among the best
(according to many of us).  "The best" is a subjective term.
 
>So, to all those Distinct Crap readers who only read their
>D.C., they have no idea what they're missing.  The Marvel Universe
>has tastes for everyone, from the Avengers to the mighty Thor.
 
I (and I imagine many others) read both, and in fact agree that many Marvels
ARE among the best (I probably buy more Marvels than any other company's).
The trick is, we a) don't limit ourself to rooting for one company, no
matter what they print, and b) don't put down people's choice of comics on
the basis of the company.  C'mon, if you're going to contribute, do it in a
constructive way.  This group is a fantastic service to me as a comic reader
because I can get opinions from other people on specific comics... this
points me towards comics which I might miss otherwise, or warns me away
from comics which might be (in the reviewer's opinion, and with
substantiation) be gobblers.
 
>How many of you out there in Netland can actually say D.C.
>is really worth the money?  Can you really say that their titles
>and material are really interesting?
 
I'd say the same thing about DC, Marvel, First or A-V: In many INDIVIDUAL
cases, YES!!!
 
Lights out to the Peanut Gallery.  I'm going to bed.
 
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