Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pur-ee.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!bellcore!petrus!sabre!zeta!epsilon!gamma!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!hsut From: hsut@pur-ee.UUCP (Yuk Hsu) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Reviews Message-ID: <3331@pur-ee.UUCP> Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 19:11:37 EDT Article-I.D.: pur-ee.3331 Posted: Mon Sep 23 19:11:37 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 27-Sep-85 06:55:37 EDT Reply-To: hsut@pur-ee.UUCP (Tsun-Yuk Hsu) Organization: Electrical Engineering Department , Purdue University Lines: 57 Some interesting items came in over the past two weeks or so that will definitely be high on my "Best of 1985" list next year: AZTEC ACE #15 FINALLY this gets to the stores. I was really worried for some time, figuring that since Zot! has been put on hold for a while (at least), what's going to stop Eclipse from "cancelling" temporarily Ace? I mean #14 only came out 3 months ago... This is a fairly wild issue even for this book. Moench has a good feel for the absurd that keeps Ace from becoming a self-indulgent, slow-moving mess. While I haven't been too happy with the art lately (bring back Nestor Redondo on inks!), at least Dan Day is back this issue. The chase sequence with the six doxie-Bridgets was terrific. I loved the film trailing across the two-page spread and the explosion of images. So now we know who Bridget REALLY is (or do we? I suspect there's more going on...) Moench has Ace make a typically cryptic remark at the end, about loving Bridget forever, since she turned out to be who she is. So who is Ace? Caesar...? Mark Antony? (Uh-oh, that's almost a spoiler.) After a few pleasant, leisurely issues, Moench has introduced a plethora of new questions. This continues to be a most intriguing book. MOONSHADOW #5 Well, if Jerry Boyajian liked this one enough to review it, it must be good!! :-) Seriously though, this is probably the best Moonshadow since #1 and #2. The art is, as usual, moody and beautiful, mostly in shades of concentration camp gray this time instead of the lurid reds of the war scenes of #4. Ira further emphasised his "wookie-ness" by ripping out somebody's arm. The sequences with Barry were extremely well-done, thought-provoking and moving. Heck, any comic book which has a character with a bullet hole in his head walking around and making serious statements about life AND MAKING THE WHOLE THING WORK has to be one of the best of the year. CEREBUS #76 This is a slower issue than the last few, but very well-done nevertheless. The shot of young Cerebus in the first few pages almost made me jump out of my chair (of course it was only a dream...) The repeated panels of a sleepless Cerebus were perhaps a tiny bit excessive... The dream sequences were very revealing of the pain and confusion Cerebus is going through, and I don't envy the aardvark. Can't wait for the next one and Cerebus Jam #2. (By the way, did anyone notice the two-page Cerebus sequence in normalman #10? Not very exciting, but it was Sim's Cerebus...) Bill Hsu pur-ee!hsut at the Department of Eccentric Esoterica, Purdue University Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com