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From: moriarty@uw-june (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: net.comics
Subject: Re: No comments on THE SPIRIT?
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Date: Thu, 21-Jun-84 16:37:54 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 21 16:37:54 1984
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I think the trick here is that I (and perhaps others) went through my Spirit
period some years ago.  The symptoms of someone going through such a phase
are fairly explicit.... immense purchases of old Spirit strips, gluttonous
reading & re-reading, and the attempt to grab people in the vicinity and
say, "Why the hell aren't you reading this?  It's the best thing in years!"
Which it is, of course... if you had to put someone in the labeled box of
"great masters" of comics art, Eisner'd be it.  The thing is, I became such
a Spirit zealot that I found microfilm copies of the sunday newspapers it
was published in, and read them that way.  So new reprinted Spirits don't
get examined by me much (I believe the last issue I bought was the Spirit
Jam, which was well worth twice what I paid for it).
	Oh well, I'm just rattling around... as Oz points out, I think, if
you haven't read the Spirit, you're cheating yourself.  Look into the old
Warren reprints, also.... much of the best stuff is there.

    "Cheese it, cheddar-breath, you can't fight America's Action Hero, see?"

					Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer

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