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From: drforsey@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Forsey)
Newsgroups: net.comics
Subject: a new kid kvetches
Message-ID: <220@watcgl.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Oct-84 12:12:36 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 24 12:12:36 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 25-Oct-84 02:49:14 EDT
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Hi,
I've been following the net for awhile and finally decided to
toss in a monkey wrench, in hopes of locating like-minded
iconoclasts out there somewhere. <deep breath> Here goes:

1: Does everyone else *worship* the Big Two or something? Well,
take *this*: I don't buy ANY DC except the NEW GODS reprints and
CAMELOT 3000 (both soon-to-be-defunct), and I don't buy ANY
Marvels except the Ditko reprints in MARVEL TALES. I was buying
X-MEN and NM but have finally had enough --- I won't let Claremont
do that to me anymore. Doesn't anyone else have the guts to 
abandon this trash were being buried with?
   I buy hole-in-the-wall stuff, THAT'S what's happening! LOVE
   AND ROCKETS (absolute best stuff on the market), MR X (aren't
   there any other Jaime Hernandez fans in netland?), the A-V
   stuff, THE ROCKETEER, some of First (yay NEXUS!!!), MAGE,
   there are so many SUPERIOR alternatives....

   2: I picked up SWAMP THING ANNUAL #2 on the net's say-so.
   Alan Moore is competent and interesting, but not God. His type
   of writing becomes its own triteness after a while, certain
   tricks used to elicit a knee-jerk sense of "good writing".
   The same thing happened to Miller and Claremont (I remember
   when Claremont could WRITE! I must be getting old...)
   STA #2 was not particularly moving or dazzling. I prefer
   the Hernandez brothers, or Mike Baron, or Scott McCloud (ZOT!).
   Another good example of Alan-Moore-as-formula can be seen in
   that new Canadian indie NORTHGUARD: good writing, a good comic,
   but you can see certain conventions ossifying in it.

   3: I HATE MARVEL for its obvious plot to monopolize the comics
   industry! By flooding the market and undercutting prices they
   can bury DC and then have the power to destroy First, Eclipse,
   etc. like gnats! What a GODDAMN MEAN, PETTY, ROTTEN thing to
   do!! Doesn't anyone else *mind*?! Do you all WANT to see
   nothing but SECRET WARS and Claremontian strong-but-oh-so-
   sensitive women threatening to turn into a Phoenix every
   other month? Miniseries about every new movie or Japanese toy,
   regardless of quality or aptness? U.S. 1, DAZZLER, STARRIORS,
   ROM... if Marvel wins, that's all you'll get, and you'll pay
   through the nose for it.

   4: And I'm sick of Claremont's %*&#ing *sorcery*!! Illyana's
   soul-armor, Dani's demon bear, people always turning into
   something else... *I DON'T CARE!!!!!* (There, now I feel better.)


   P.S.: Please don't blame this on the addressee, I'm using a
   friend's account. Hope I ruffled SOMEONE'S feathers....

					  The Gray Mouser