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From: mcewan@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: Heavy winds and heavy talk (Tim
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Date: Thu, 10-Oct-85 01:09:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 10 01:09:00 1985
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Nf-From: uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU!mcewan    Oct 10 00:09:00 1985


I really think that you're overreacting to this. I'm a lifelong comics fan,
I still collect several super hero comics, and I agree with Tim; conversations
in the middle of whirlwinds are silly. Does that make me a bigot? Just
because I dislike many of the cliches of super hero comics (and I wish you
would stop talking as if super hero comics == all comics. You know better
than that.) doesn't mean I don't find things to like about them.

I don't understand your reaction to this comment at all:

>     However, after making snide
>   comments in his original article like:
>
>>[...] The writer is unsure of his
>>(ordinarily I'd say "her or his", but this is comic book writers we're
>>talking about)
>
>   I don't want to let that go by with no comment.  Some of these articles
>   get to Eclipse, some of them get to Marvel, and there are writers there
>   who I think are doing a good - to - excellent job; I don't want them (and
>   Henry Vogel) to think I agree with Tim by silence.  Besides, this is a
>   newsgroup for comics fans; people making broad condemning statements
>   about comics are about as pleasant and useful as writing to net.motss and
>   saying "All gays will burn in Hell".  So, gotta say something.  What?
>
>		...
>
>     And maybe suggest that making a general
>   statement that all comic writers are sub-human is not very nice.

Implying that all comics writers are men says that they're sub-human?!? You've
been reading too much Claremont stuff. Take my word for it, men are human too.


			Scott McEwan
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 horrid undersea slime creatures."

"NO!"

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