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From: zarifes@bnrmtv.UUCP (Kenneth Zarifes)
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Subject: Re: God Loves, Claremont Kills [No personal attacks here, B'wana]
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Date: Fri, 7-Feb-86 17:23:52 EST
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> here).  And as to a "punch-out", by FAR the best thing about this book is
> the conclusion, with the X-Men and Kitty refraining from attacking Stryker.
> His own fanaticism leads him to draw on her, and the rescue comes from
> OUTSIDE the group of heroes -- from someone not involved in the conflict,
> someone who has seen that the prejudice Stryker believes in is wrong --
> from someone ORDINARY (the implication: "like us").  This moment is
> effective due much to the frame-by frame pull-away from Stryker to the
> close-up of the cop -- but I find that this scene almost always makes me
> release tension, due partly to the effective build-up in tension in the
> frames before that, but due mostly to the feeling that this IS still a
> society that believes in right and wrong, and has not let fear dull its
> humanity completely.  I'd almost call it a moral K.O., or a re-affirmation,
> after all the fear and bigotry in the rest of the book, that there is still
> a right and wrong in this country; that the fanatics are not in control, and
> that the reason of the masses is still there.
> 
This is the best analysis I've read/heard about this story.  
Way to go Moriarty!!


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