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From: gasarch@umcp-cs.UUCP (William Gasarch)
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Subject: mild comments on the year II
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Date: Thu, 23-Jan-86 18:40:07 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 23 18:40:07 1986
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DAREDEVIL:
Great stuff, haven't had a bad issue in quite some time.
One wonders how this Kingpin series is going to end,
it is fascinating, but either the kingpin has to die
or Matt Murdock has to die.  I can see two way out-
if the kingpin gets amnesia (Cheap trick- I hope they
don't use it)
or for some reason the Kingpin owes Matt for something.
	Heather's suicide REALLY surprised me, which is good.

SPIDERMAN:
With 3 comics its hard to keep track of him.
I like that MaryJane know who he is, if not for anything else
just for a permanent change.  He's been one of the least changing
charaters over the years.  Also, one of his problems has
been not having someone he can talk to about his problems.
Was it ever revealed how whe knew, except perhaps her saying
(paraphrase) ``It was so F**kin' obvious.''
	I like the Hobgoblin, but again they didn't even bother
explaining how he survived the previous battle.  It wouldn't make
sense for him to be Ned Leeds or Flash Thompson, he might be Norman
Osborns old Business Partner Mendel Strom.  I really can't think of
any other reasonable candidate.
	One of the best fun issues of the year was 
``Where stalks the commuter'' (or some variation of that title)
which explored how hard it would be to be a superhero in the
suburbs (what do you swing from?)
	
FANTASTIC FOUR:
Haven't had an interesting issue in the longest time.
the one where a boy sets himself on fire to emulate the
human torch had potential, but didn't really pan out.
	I am happy to see that the thing really seems to have
left.  All previous membership changes seemed to be temporary.
Anyone know if this is the longest time one of the original four
has been gone.
	Iritating point- When Sue was pregnant they had various Docters
who were experts on radiation and other topics- and ALL of them were also
either superheros or supervillians or somthing.  Are there ANY real people
left in the world? (there must be, or else who would those anti-mutant folks
be)  Point is- did they really need to recruite Doc Ock, I'm sure that 
somewhere there was someone else who could have helped them.
Reminds me of two quotes
``At the current rate there will be more gods
 	than people in the Marvel Universe''

``It seems as thought very few people actually did die when Kryton exploded''

							gasarch@maryland