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From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (The Napoleon of Crime)
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Subject: Re: More Moriarty Reviews Reviews
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Date: Wed, 15-May-85 04:19:52 EDT
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In article <2103@decwrl.UUCP> boyajian@akov68.DEC writes:
>> STAR TREK #17 [B]:
>>
>	Ah, Jeff, I hate to break this to you, but if you'll look at that
>issue again, you'll notice that Barr didn't write it, L. B. Kellogg did.

mrwrdtt ppdtrnmq  frwfrw (excuse me, my foot seems to be squarely inserted
in my mouth).  Actually, I still like this issue, though the Uhura love
sequence was pretty poorly done.  The details you mention seem more
trivial to me, but I could see how they could prove annoying.  For me, the
little touches, like Kirk and Bone's fake interogation, and Kirk giving his
"justice for all" speech on the slaver planet; that got me.  I guess what I
enjoy is a story that can take me back, and make me feel like I'm watching
a TV episode again.  And that's what I found this one to do.

>What *have* Darkseid and High-Father been up to while this was
>going on, anyway?

Aren't they going to answer this in a future issue?  I have to admit, a
classic 70's Kirby Darkseid would be great, but it looks like no one at DC
is willing and/or able to come up with one.  I'm getting tired of seeing him
carted out when DC needs a Dr. Doom clone for the general public (which is
why I love these Ambush Bug closings so much!).

>> POWER PACK #13 [D]
>
>	A "D"?? A "D"!!! I know, you're just getting me back for giving POWER
>PLAYS A "C", aren't you? 

What, me, revenge?  Savage, pulse-pounding revenge?  Revenge, something to
keep me going during all those dark days of defeaaaat
[Excuse us, Moriarty was reading Stan Lee's biography again.]

>While I'm thinking of POWER *PLAYS*, perhaps I should explain my grade. You
>shouldn't really complain, you know, Jeff. You came up with the grading system
>in the first place, and at one point, you commented that you thought I was
>inflating the grades a little. Anyways, I thought the "C" description fit
>POWER PLAYS to a T --- "A well done, entertaining issue. Satisfying." As you
>could see from my review, I like it a lot. It's better than the majority of
>the comics put out by Marvel & DC, and most of the other independents, but I
>hardly think it's the creme, let alone the creme de la creme. Raw milk is
>more like it --- not quite refined, but a hell of a lot richer than the
>homogenized variety.

Quite right.  Saying "You should have given that a higher/lower grade" is
silly; I should have stated that "I disagree with your 'C' grade of Power
Plays".  I'll get it straight someday (just the facts, Ma'am).

But I still give Power Pack #13 a D.  I expected Louise Simonsin to have the
kids consider that their actions have repurcussions; I've seen Claremont do
it in the New Muties.  I just had a problem with the pace of this issue; I
enjoy the stories which have the standard super-hero scenario slightly
twisted to the kids' point of view.  I was somewhat bored with it.

Oh, well, on to other things...

        "For I perceive that behind this seemingly
         unrelated sequence of events, there lurks
         a singular, sinister attitude of mind."
                                                "Whose?"
        "MINE! HA-HA!"

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