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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN)
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Subject: Comments on Moriarty Reviews
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Date: Thu, 18-Jul-85 06:08:50 EDT
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> From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer)

> X-MEN #197 [D-]:
>
> This might well mark the X-Men issue I finally got pissed enough
> at Claremont to think about taking this book off the list (yeah, I
> know, not until after #200...).

While I wouldn't go *that* far, yeah, this was one of the worst issues
since...well, since...well, since the Kulan Crap story 5-6 issues ago!

>  Several things get me right off: 
> Kitty has turned from an interesting, three-dimensional youthful
> character into some caricature of a new-wave hipster.  The
> majority of her dialogue no longer talks about how she feels; it's
> used to remind us how cool she is, the Spider-Man wisecracks, the
> tough talking from the side of her mouth.  Apparently we need a
> 16-year-old version of Wolverine to bring sales up, eh, Chris? 

Right on the dot. Kitty used to be one of my favorite characters. Now,
she seems like something of a stranger. A result of her experiences in
Japan, maybe? Whatever's the cause, I don't like it.

> SOLOMON KANE #1 [D-(?)]:  Sorry, Jerry, but next to the Chaykin's
> MARVEL PREMIEREs of the same story, this pales in comparison. 
> Chaykin made lines like "Men shall die for this" so starkly
> menacing that I am unable to judge how good this version is -- I
> just know it to be far inferior to Marvel's previous effort.

Well, I took a look-see at the previous version, which Chaykin drew,
but Roy Thomas scripted. Chaykin's art was certainly more powerful
than Blevins' is here, and the scene you describe certainly stood
out because of Chaykin, but Thomas added too much extraneous horse
puckey to the story, whereas Macchio did pure Howard.

> SUPERMAN ANNUAL #11 [B]: I have little to add about Moore's
> writing; I would note that Gibbons is one of the few artists who
> seems able to draw Wonder Woman looking like an Amazon.

Not as long as he draws her with both.....ah.....um....oh....

tracts of land!! :-)


> THE ORIGINAL E-MAN #1 [B-]:  I think this has to have one of the
> freshest new issues around... it makes me hope for good things
> from Cuti in the current E-Man book.  A really delightful style....

As I understand it, the "current" E-MAN is under suspension for at
least the length of the reprint book's run. But, yeah, that there's
good stuff, wot?

--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA)

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