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From: ronc@fai.UUCP (Ronald O. Christian)
Newsgroups: net.comics
Subject: This and that
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Date: Tue, 14-Jan-86 20:37:29 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 14 20:37:29 1986
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Gee, this group has been a little dry lately.  You
people still out there?

I'd like to comment a little about a few titles.

Web of Spider Man:

I dropped this comic after the very first issue.  Another
marketing ploy, says I, get SM's face, er, mask out there
as often as possible and sell lots of toys.  The plot going
at that time was amazingly mediocre.  Well, I picked up last
month's issue, and the mag has improved considerably.  I should
say that I quit buying Amazing Spider Man shortly after dropping
Web for (at the time) the same reasons.  Since I don't follow
the names of writers and artists as much as I used to (back in
the early seventies) I can't point a finger and say "That's the
reason the mag improved", but it has.

Daredevil:

I tried to buy the last 3 or 4 issues of Daredevil after buying the
"pariah" issue, and found to my dismay that they were fetching high
prices if you could find them at all.  This title is my current favorite.

Thor:

More examples of good writing, so good I wasn't bothered by the
silliness of it all.  Frog-thor was a little shocking, but was
a natural direction for the plot to go.  Lots of little things
to like about this story, including Puddle-gulp's surprise at
the end and Thor's conversation with his goats.

Speaking of which, has Puddle-gulp's story been told elsewhere?
I seem to recall back in the mists of time a story in one of those
Marvel horror mags about a man being turned into a frog by a fortune-
teller.  Am I imagining this?

				Ron
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