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From: lmaher@uokvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Tue, 30-Oct-84 22:21:00 EST
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Nf-From: uokvax!lmaher    Oct 30 21:21:00 1984

This reply is about a week old, but since I've got no time for
further revision before I leave for Fermilab, here goes:

uokvax wasn't recieving news for the last two weeks, and
they all arrived today.  So I read all 100 or so of them
in one setting. With that as a possible alibi, ...

>vax2!moriarty
>
>SWAMP THING ANNUAL #2 [A+]:

After a review like this, I guess I've *got to* look into this,
although the two issues I've tried so far were only good (liked
Pog, tho).

>last things to get a tingle going along the spine was X-Men #175, the X-Men
>graphic novel ("God creates, man kills"? -- truly one of the best endings in
>a long time (the progressive frames going from the wounded Rev. to the
>policeman who shot him... that STILL gets me!)),...

The Marvel Graphic Novel "God Loves, Man Kills" is one of my
favorites too.  Who can forget the opening scene?  And Anne is
one of my five favorite villains in all of comics, on sheer guts
alone.

>X-MEN #189 [B-]:
>
>...The '-' is for a
>mistake I think I found: In the X-Men annual, hasn't Kitty just gotten back
>from Japan with Logan?  Because if this is true, then why is she in Japan
>when Ororo leaves?  

Perhaps Ororo gets caught up in the Kulan Gath return to yesteryear,
(her ship didn't get far enough away?) and doesn't leave for good
until 192.  [This has come out since I wrote this and does just that]

>	One thing:  I believe that "newscast" on the Sony Watchman shown at
>the end must have been a paid political broadcast.  I cannot believe that
>America has devolved enough in the X-Men's world where fascist propoganda
>could go out over the airwaves as a newscast.  

During the World Wars, how did commentators discuss the enemy?
Or how are mass murderers treated in the news?  (I mean, other
than selling the rights to their story for big bucks to pay 
lawyers with. :-) )

>A paid political broadcast,
>yes (Lyndon LaRouche does it ALL the time!), but the newscaster doing it
>would indicate a general rottenness at the core -- I just don't think it
>could go over so blatantly.  

Maybe it was an unpaid commentary, inviting spokesman for the
opposite side to apply for equal time. Or maybe the newsman let
his own prejudices slant his delivery and spoke out of line, in
which case he'll no doubt be hearing from the Mutant Defense
League.  Speaking of which,...

>I mean, there must be a Moriarty clone on
>Earth-Marvel... what the hell's HE up to?  Organizing Pro-Mutant-Rights
>marches, I'll bet... :-)

Probably flaming about it in net.super.villains! :-)  But we all know
that Earth-Marvel's Moriarty *IS* a mutant... 

>THE P.I.'S #1 [D]:
>
>	Well, back to the drawing board....

Hey, this was great fun!  I love the way they get on each other's
nerves; just wait and see as they grow fonder of each other
(grudgingly), and wind up getting married.  (If anyone *needs* the
:-) on this, I don't think I wanna know.)

>DREADSTAR #14 [C-]:
>
>	"I~Imagine the announcer for Bullwinkle:
>
>	"Well, it looks pretty grim for the boys this time!  Stay tuned next
>week for 'Growing Old Gracefully', or, 'You Broke My Sword In San Francisco'!"
>
>"Gosh, Bullwinkle, what'll we do now?"

I gave up Dreadstar around #6, in hindsight it seems a wise choice.
But the quotes certainly brought back some fond, if irrelevant,
memories.

>TIME SPIRITS #1 [C-]:
>
>	I believe this is still germinating... but Yeates is as spooky as he
>ever was in SWAMP THING, and the creature who inhabits the chief's body is
>pretty scary... 

That's intriguing enough to con me into picking up an issue.
[I wasn't sorry I did so.  The Bloodless Gheebe is indeed chilling.]

Carl
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