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From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (The Napoleon of Crime)
Newsgroups: net.comics
Subject: Re: John Byrne/DC rumor
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Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 10:56:36 EDT
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In article <607@k.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA> tim@k.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA (Tim Maroney) writes:
>This article just goes to show how literarily impoverished Byrne is.  The
>Bible is hardly full of infallible characters; in fact, only Yahweh and Jesus
>are supposed to have made no mistakes.  Another in the seemingly endless
>list of Problems I See In Comic Today is that people think they can write
>comics if comics are all they know.  Not a chance; not well, anyway.

I don't think that's what Byrne's problems have been.  I still think he's
able to handle dialogue and characters adequately; his plots are the problem
(at least lately -- I agree that the first year-and-a-half of the FF was
quite good, and that he has paled to sporadic good issues).  He seems to
have a sense of "dredging nostalgia", in that he looks at how the character
was done XX years ago and trys to take this basic premise and revitilize
things through this.  However, you can bring The Skrulls back just so many
times.

The reason I look forward to his work on Superman is that the comic has been
(to me) a consistent mediocrity for so long; I never collected it, even in
those forgone days that I used to buy bloody anything.  I don't think it'll
be that much of a challange -- it would be tough to make them less
interesting than some of the recent Cary Bates stories.

                        "Actually one of the biggest reasons I have for
                         doing Cerebus is to give wives and girlfriends of
                         comics fans at least one comic book they can read."
                                                -- Dave Sim

                                        Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
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