Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pur-phy.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Physics:dub From: dub@pur-phy.UUCP (Dwight U. Bartholomew) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: re:xmen annual (mild spoiler) Message-ID: <1419@pur-phy.UUCP> Date: Fri, 7-Sep-84 14:39:36 EDT Article-I.D.: pur-phy.1419 Posted: Fri Sep 7 14:39:36 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 13-Sep-84 07:34:41 EDT Organization: Purdue University Physics Dept. Lines: 28 > Well, I just read the X-Men annual, which was the absolute worst comic I > have read in years. Unbelievably bad art, and a moronic story. > > David London > ...!ihnp4!oddjob!london Well, I, for one, liked the new X-men Annual. The artwork looked different because it was intended to be different. It seems to me that annuals, in general, are drawn by people who do not draw the regular series and, as a result, the artwork looks terrible. Why? Cause they're trying to draw the characters we know and love, but they don't draw these characters all the time. Anyways, in the X-men annual, this failure is evident right at the beginning and the ending (where the X-men are supposed to be drawn in the usual manner.) As soon as Illyanna's story starts up, the characters take on the resemblance of Saturday morning cartoon shows, but that's ok! It was supposed to be a make-believe story and the way the X-men were drawn reflected this. The end result was an annual that I enjoyed looking at (relative to other annuals I've read.) To top it off, the whole point behind Illyanna's story was very serious (unlike in "Kitty's Fairy-tale" which was just supposed to fun and off-the-wall. ) I particularly liked the panel at the end where Kitty and Lockheed at staring at each other. Dwight Bartholomew UUCP: { decvax, icalqa, ihnp4, inuxc, sequent, uiucdcs } !pur-ee!Physics:dub { decwrl, hplabs, icase, psuvax1, siemens, ucbvax } |purdue!Physics:dub