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Subject: This Week's Goodies (SPOILERS!!!)
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Date: Sat, 30-Jun-84 14:30:00 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 30 14:30:00 1984
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A few comments on this week's bagful..

Green Lantern:	Well, Hal tells the guardians to find another stooge.
And guess who has just been hired at Ferris Aircraft?  I wonder if 
asking if you are, or have been associated with any super-heroes, on your
employment application would be contested by the EEOC?

Amerian Flagg:	Hmmm,  June must be 'bad art month'. This one looks
exceptionally bad.  Ever notice that on the good paper, the artist just
cannot get away with  sloppy work as on the old newsprint?

X-Men:	If I want angst, I'll go to a Swedish movie.  (note to people at
Marvel:  I'll be getting my psych degree next year, how 'bout hiring me
to help your *WRITERS GET OVER THEIR BLOODY PROBLEMS*!!!!) The colouration
wasn't that great, either...


Blue Devil:  Boy, do I like this comic!!!!! Mostly upbeat story, good style,
(there is a difference between style in art and sloppiness in art), and
you find out that those horns are good for something (hee-hee!).  Now, what's
going on with that trident?

Alpha Flight: More loonies from Marvel.  I think Puck is great, though.
Why do the Marvel super-heroes have to be raving cases? A few flawed
heroes aren't bad for spice, but when the majority act like they need
intensive therapy, it gets rather depressing.  Why be good at anything,
if all you will get is pain?


And now a brief editorial:

I know that *someone* from Marvel is out there listening.  I am getting
very tired of you people promising a new series, and then delaying it 
for six months to a year.  You are running a business, and in any other
industry, you would have been out of business a *long* time ago.  Your
marketing practices have always edged on the irresponsible: you tend to
blow your own horn, a little longer, and a little louder than anyone;
and you've been caught in your own devices more often; and, you seem
to have problems in the delay of you books more often.	I'm not saying
that you are the only offender (DC has had some incredible time lags
with their books), but you appear to be the most blatant offender.
When you decide to come out with a new product, get your artist,
your writer, your colourist, your printer, and whatnot.  Get your
marketing people together, select a timetable, and then *stick to it*!!!
Don't go about announcing your *wonderful, new, concept*, and then
leave the readers hanging for a year or two, while you try to figure out
how to manufacture it!!!

(thats better)

Laurie
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