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From: gino@sdchema.UUCP (Eugene G. Youngerman)
Newsgroups: net.comics
Subject: Re: a new kid kvetches
Message-ID: <269@sdchema.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Nov-84 10:26:57 EST
Article-I.D.: sdchema.269
Posted: Thu Nov  1 10:26:57 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 3-Nov-84 05:18:39 EST
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Reply-To: gino@sdchema.UUCP (Eugene G. Youngerman)
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In article <220@rlgvax.UUCP> oz@rlgvax.UUCP (THE GREAT AND POWERFUL OZ) writes:
>Horray for the Mouser!  Yes, Virgina, there are people out there in netland
>that believe that the things being written by the ALTERNATE comics are WORTH
>reading, instead of reading the big two and bitching.  The entire FIRST line
>is outstanding!  The COMICO line is worth looking in to.  The WORST of the
>alternate comics is better then 80% of the stuff being put out by the big two.
>If we keep buying mediocrity, we only encourage mediocrity.  Remember that
>SECRET WARS is one of the most successful MARVEL comics EVER!  This might
>encourage Jim to (lord, no!) keep writing.
>
>		The comic industry seems to worship Salieri,
>			patron saint of medocrity.
>
>			OZ

Yes, the alternatives are putting out some of the finest comics
available.  BUT...  there is something to be said for adhering to 
a regular schedule.  And to revere the independents as opposed to
the big two is somewhat akin to worshipping J.R. (Ewing) for 
standing up and championing the cause of the little guy over
the major oil companies.  I am not saying that the independent
comics are evil. ( I just wanted to clear that up.)

     NOT ALL the stuff by the alternatives is better than 80%
of the big two.  Anybody remember Wild Animals.  I agree that
the Comico stuff is excellent.  But, a somewhat more regular
schedule would be nice.  Scorpio Rose has all the makings of 
an excellent comic.  Good Art, Good Script, Good Artist, Good
Scripter, Good Paper.  etc.   But how do you judge a three
part mini-series when the time gap between #2 and #3 is
more than 8 months.
     While I'm complaining.  I think that the use of good
paper in the Eclipse and Pacific Comics line may have been
their undoing.  I just can't help feeling that Twisted Tales
or Alien Worlds might have done a little better if they had been 
$.50 or $.75 cheaper, and done on regular stock, or the 
paper that First uses.

                         I am 
			 GINO
p.s. I don't mean to be attacking anyone, but some of the
best comics are coming out of Marvel and DC.  And nobody is
saying don't read the independents.  But don't not read
Teen Titans, or Thor, or Dreadstar, or Camelot 3000 (where is
#12) just because they are published by Marvel or DC.