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From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (The Napoleon of Crime)
Newsgroups: net.comics
Subject: Re: Why buy garbage? (Also, retraction -- I SCREWED UP)
Message-ID: <2784@vax4.fluke.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 14-Oct-85 13:51:45 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 14 13:51:45 1985
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In article <1995@reed.UUCP> ellen@reed.UUCP (Ellen Eades) writes:
>I, for one (and admittedly I'm not sure whether anyone will back
>me up) think that Tim is going too far here.  Several folks (I
>believe Jayembee was among them, maybe Jeff as well) have said
>that the writing in FF 286 was good enough to make them *almost*
>ignore the bad premise (Jean is back).

Actually, haven't reviewed this yet (read it last night), but that's a
pretty concise description. I really *hate* having Jean brought back, but I
doubt anyone could have done a better job of it than Byrne.  I'll leave the
rest for the next collection of reviews.

As to buying these comics, the point is, you can't *really* find out if a
comic is any good until you buy it.  My general rule-of-thumb is that two
or three bad issues I put the title on probation; two issues more, and I
stop buying it (this period may extend or contract, depending on prior
quality of the title and the level of decline).  And the fact is, I still
think Byrne does pretty good work.  Not up to the level of the people doing
MAGE, SWAMP THING, POWER PLAYS and others, but still good stuff.  And I
don't like the analogies made to drooling idiots buying Byrne.  But then
that's MY opinion (thanks, Ellen).

And now for something Complete Different:

Public apology to Tim Maroney: according to Scott McEwan, I have apparently
taken a quote of his the wrong way.  I assumed the quote about comic writers
not being called "him or her" was supposed to be a offhand comment about
comic writers (i.e. they're all "its").  Scott pointed this was not the
case, and he's right, apparently Tim is implying that comic writers are
almost entirely male.  My apologies, I read it wrong, and pulled a really
stupid stunt by flaming (first time in six months, which shows why the heck
I should avoid it).  It was a dumb move on my part.  I still find his style
of comment snide (I always have), but that's just his choice, and just my
opinion.  I'd prefer to see the discussions in net.comics more academic
without hints of name-calling, but I'm just one person, with one opinion; on
an uncensored net, you basically can only control one person's output:
yours.  And I didn't do a very good job in the aforementioned article...

                        "When in doubt, tell the truth."
                                                Mark Twain
                        "When in doubt, book 'em."
                                                Steve McGarret, Five-O

                                        Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
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