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From: haeckel@stolaf.UUCP
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Subject: Re: GENERAL COMMENTS #2 (responses solicited!)
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Date: Thu, 1-Nov-84 13:04:33 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  1 13:04:33 1984
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Very true indeed Jerry! Naturally there are a few exceptions brought on
by capitalistic greed and probably a little lack of self-pride (eg Super
Powers and Secret Wars), but certainly the quality of writing and art has
improved tremendously. Continuity is stressed much more, and the level of
comics in terms of the audience being aimed towards has gone up. Look at
some old comics and you will see what I mean. I have some old JLA's that
I picked up a few years ago that were dated about 15 years before that, and
I frankly was rather disappointed in the books. I mean, here were these
heroes that I had come to know and love spouting forth all sorts of worn-out
cliches in their speech. How dissapointing!

On a more recent note, the Super Friends comic started by DC a number of
years ago showed a lot of these same sorts of problems at the very beginning.
The first few issues (about 6 or 7, actually) were almost pathetic in terms
of the cr*p they were trying to pass off as art - not to mention the dialogue!
However, I stuck with the mag through the 20th issue before I had to cut down
on my habit :-) for financial reasons, and the whole book had a much better
look to it by then. It seems that around the 8th or 9th issue, the people in
charge of it finally got the hang of it. All in all, a remarkable example of
the standards of comics these day, especially since the entire Super Friends
concept was rather juvinile to begin with. Talk about an uphill climb - sheesh!

Any way, I think we can all agree that the quality of comics is up these days,
although a lot of this is probably due to the trial-and-error process that
went on in the early days of all of the books. After all, it takes time to
become perfect...


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                                              Paul Haeckel 
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