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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC
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Subject: re: RE: X-Men for Ethiopia
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Date: Tue, 7-May-85 06:54:20 EDT
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> From:	uwmacc!rick	(Rick Keir)

> In article <1826@decwrl.UUCP> boyajian@akov68.DEC writes:
>> The volunteer talent is impressive (list courtesy of AMAZING HEROES):
>
>	(long list of everyone who is anyone in comics)
>
> The volunteer talent is depressing.
>
> I'll undoubtedly buy this book, but I predict that I'll be sifting
> through it, going "Frank Miller drew this arm.  Good.  Al Milgrom
> did the face.  Bad.  Gray Morrow must be the one who...."
> If all of these people get to do something in only 48 pages,
> there isn't going to be any coherence to this puppy at all.  
>
> Is a good cause an excuse for bad art?...

(1) That's not the way this is going to work. Basicly, they're going to
match one writer with once penciller and one inker, and have that team
do 2-3 pages of the story, with the overall plot by Claremont. As far
as distinguishing artists goes, the previous two times that I can recall
such a jam session, there was a list of artists and what pages they did.
One of these two times was the X-MEN ANNUAL (#7?) in which the Impossible
Man went around stealing things for a Interstellar scavenger hunt. The
other time was the Great Spirit Jam in, I think, the 30th issue of the
black-and-white Spirit magazine from Kitchen Sink. Everyone and his uncle
was in that one (including writers); I thought it worked rather well.

X-MEN FOR ETHIOPIA may be a real artistic dud, but I won't count it out
until I see it. Besides, it'll be worth it to see if Richard Corben can
draw starving Ethiopians who don't look like they're 400 pounds of ugly
fat. :-)


--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA)

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