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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN)
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Subject: re: X-MEN and headsucking
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Date: Thu, 20-Jun-85 06:23:06 EDT
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> From:	sdcc3!ee171ael	(Larry G. Kim)

> In article <2573@decwrl.UUCP>, boyajian@akov68.DEC writes:
>> But tell me, how do you *know* that "every issue after about 150 sucked"
>> unless you've read them? And if that's the case, why do you read a
>> comic that "sucks head"?
>
> I read it because the masses (who are asses) value this comic alot.
> I have every issue of the new XMEN, and it is going to be worth a
> fortune someday.

It doesn't bother me particularly that you buy THE X-MEN for investment
purposes. It's your money. But why do you feel compelled to *read* it
if you dislike it so much?

>                  But come on Jerry, how can you like a comic that
> started kids saying things like "Take that back BUB, or I'm gonna
> have ta scrap you.  I'm the best at what I do and what I do isn't
> very nice"

Should I not like Dirty Harry movies because every other person in the
country says "Make my day"? What you describe is a problem with the
kids, not with the comic. Any comic (or book or movie or whatever)
should be judged on its own merits and failings, NOT by how its audience
reacts to it!
	I never said there wasn't anything wrong with the comic. But like
every comic, there is a balance between virtues and flaws. I like THE X-MEN
in general, because *what I find good in it outweighs what I find bad in it*.
If you want to disagree with this, fine by me, but why do you find this
concept so alien?

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

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