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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Laurie Sefton, C/O chuqui)
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Subject: This week's bag o' goodies (spoilers!)
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Date: Sat, 3-Aug-85 01:42:12 EDT
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Stuff to review this week:

JLA Annual #3	The New Teen Titans #14		DNAgents #24	BATO #27


JLA Annual #3:  Well, we finally get rid of Red Tornado in this one,
although how he went from Crisis #8 to this is rather unclear.  I bought
this mainly because I saw Black Canary and Green Arrow on the cover, and I
had hopes.  The best part is where Green Arrow knocks Vibe to the ground
with a left cross.  I wish this had been done sooner....Anyway, Red Tornado
gets free of his trappings, becomes the tornado spirit, and after trying to
"cleanse the earth of human desecration" (and isn't that an old  plot
device), leaves until the next time the writers need a god-spirit-whatever
to mess with the JLA... *sigh*

The New Teen Titans #14: Koriand'r leaves earth with Nightwing and Jericho
to go get married to the rebel leader (as if we haven't seen enough ads in
the various DC books about this).  Mento totally freaks out--we'll see him
in future issues, and Blackfire is back... and oh, yes.. apparently Raven
is back.. the DC people are a little nicer to heroines who make the
"ultimate" sacrifice (after nibbling a few worlds or souls) than Marvel is.
So what sort of plot device are they going to use on her now?  The old "I
can't feel emotion because of my father Trigon is waiting to get me if I
do" schtick no longer applies.

DNAgents #24:  Winner of the tastiest cover of the year award.  Dave
Stevens has *really* outdone himself on this one.  People will buy this on
the cover alone.  I'd like to see what he can do with the inside of the
book...The Detonator is still blowing up Matrix buildings, Sham is still
massively neurotic, Tawny and Lucius are finally admitting that they feel
something toward each other, Crossfire finally gets some kissy-face with
Rainbow, and Rainbow decides to be a centerfold for the  High Hefner clone.
That in itself raises *all* sorts of interesting questions, but this is a
family show....

BATO #27:  Batman and the Outsiders do in Kobra again, Halo gets a little
kissy-face, and we see the beginnings of the origin of Looker.  Why does
she look like Rachel (of the X-Men) with glasses?  Alan Davis is finally
getting the feel of this book, though...

That's it for this week...

Laurie Sefton

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