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From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer)
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Subject: Re: Love and Rockets
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Date: Wed, 14-Nov-84 11:49:39 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 14 11:49:39 1984
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My goodness, Gino, I do not flame simply because of a difference of opinion.
If you feel this way, fine.  What I think I'd like to do is explain why I
consider it to be one of the best comics out on the market.

ART:  Let's get this out in the open first.  Yes, I do feel that the
brothers' (EXCEPT Jaime's ("Mechanics")) is somewhat crude... but that's
because it's different than what we're used to.  I really love Jaime's art
-- I think he uses shadowing on a par with Sim.

But I don't read this magazine for the art... I read it for
CHARACTERIZATION!  I read it for DIALOGUE!  I read it for HUMOR!
"Heartbreak Soup" and "Mechanics" have some of the most innovative,
interesting, FEELING characters in comics today.  My God, who can't
empathize with Maggie (with me, it more Hopey...) or enjoy the dialogue of
the kids growing up in the "Soup" strip?  I certainly don't think either
story in #2 was incomprehensible; it just wasn't filled with the bang-bang
rock-'em-sock-'em attitude of 90% of comics (Note: I'm not knocking this...
I enjoy lots of titles that are made up of these elements).  It's different,
and at the risk of sounding cliche, it is REFRESHINGLY different.  I always
feel, after reading an issue of LOVE & ROCKETS, that I've entered, and
enjoyed, a visit to another person's life.

But, to each his/her own tastes (STRENGTH THROUGH DIVERSITY!)...

					"Chuckles the Clown is dead."

					Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
					John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.
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