Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaero!pesnta!amdcad!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Ketchup Comments #2 Message-ID: <432@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Feb-85 09:26:45 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.432 Posted: Fri Feb 1 09:26:45 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Feb-85 05:34:08 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 109 > From: Pucc-H:pur-phy!dub (Dwight Bartholomew) > 1) The previous issue leaves us with Prof. X critically mugged. > This could have lead to some very interesting situations. > Unfortunately, the whole episode is brushed aside with the help > of that stupid Morlock healer. That guy just takes all of the > reality out of dangerous situations. Who cares if you've > gotten half a dozen ribs, your skull or your back broken in some > battle. Just call in the healer and then get on with some other > plot line. The healer is one mutie that I wouldn't mind seeing > permanently removed from the Marvel Universe. I can see your point, and agree with you there. The possible ramifications of Charly getting seriously hurt like that had too much potential to get pushed aside like that. On the other hand, I can see why Claremont wanted to get Charly into a position in which he couldn't help the X-Men against Empath and the others. If Charly was A-OK, the story wouldn't have been half as long. This still doesn't excuse the problem, though. > a) Just where the hell did Starfire come from? Yes, I know > that the character is on Spidey's Friends. Big deal! > There is absolutely NO explanation of what she is capable > of doing. Are we supposed to be telepaths as we read > about her? Why do you feel that you need to have everything explained right off the bat? The fact of the matter is that there is a Firestar mini-series coming, and it seems obviously that Claremont didn't want to spill all the beans about her (no, he's not writing it, Tom DeFalco is), since the mini-series deals with her origin. And BTW, this isn't her first comic book appearance. She appeared along with Iceman and Spider-Man in a giveaway comic from the DALLAS TIMES HERALD newspaper. And note: it's Firestar, not Starfire; Starfire's in the Teen Titans. > b) Just why are Roulette and Empath the only Hellions around > during Thunderbird's little revenge trip? Maybe the others are home on vacation. Not all the X-Men or New Mutants are around all the time, why should it be true of the Hellions? > f) I presume they just left Empath and Roulette at the > mountain. No, Charly said on page 38 (bottom left panel) that they were "sedated and sleeping upstairs". > 3) Now when Storm got her new hair cut I thought that was strange, > but seeing as it was just a reflection of her new outlook on > life I accepted it as character development. In this issue > Rogue gets a new hair style. It kind of looks like a mop. > Yuck! There is no explanation for it. In the past atleast > one team-mate would have asked "Hey Rogue, why the new hair style?" > It would seem that even that courtesy to the readers is absent. Again, *why* does it have to be explained? Back in #183, when we all thought Kitty cut her hair (and it turned out to be a wig --- just to consistify that issue with the KITTY AND WOLVERINE series. blechh!), no explanation was asked for or given. Maybe one of the other X-Men *did* ask her --- off-panel. As for the style itself, well, I'm not thrilled with it, but I wasn't all that thrilled with her old style, either. > 4) Since I'm on the topic of styles... Kitty's mask looked horrible. I agree. You should take a look at the drawing of Shadowcat in the AMAZING HEROES 1985 PREVIEW by Arthur Adams. It looks dynamite! When I saw her in the X-Men, my first reaction was to want to barf. Let's face it, JRJR just isn't that good an artist (the only time I've liked him is when he was doing IRON MAN for a while, but there he had Bob Layton to do layouts and inks). He also seems to have a thing about large wedge-shaped jackets. > From: CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Pucc-I:Pucc-K:afo (Laurie Sefton) > I just happened to buy the DC-Universe beastie (you know the > equivalent of their encyclopedia),... > noticed that the writers that be are being rather vague about > whether most of the characters will be seen in the future or not > (far future, as in at least one year down the road, or something of > permanence). > > Well, at least it isn't as bad as the Marvel version..... I don't find that either one is any better or any worse than the other. The one thing I noted was that they don't mention which Earth the character belongs on (I especially noted this with Batman). > From: rlgvax!oz > (now there > is an interesting idea for a net.comics contest: guess how much moriarty > spends on comics a month! O.K., maybe it needs work) Well, I don't know about Jeff, but I spend about $100-125 a month on comics. > I had been wondering for a while who the "larry" was that [The Badger] > kept referring to. > After reading the famous martial arts concentration cry of "Nyuk-nyuk-nyuk" I > think I have figured it out. As a person that has named his four office > automation machines "moe, curly, larry," and "shemp" I was delighted. Well, yes, I figured out that he was probably referring to the Stooge, but why? It's not like it's a specific reference to any of the Stooges flicks. --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA