Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site uw-june Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!uw-june!moriarty From: moriarty@uw-june (Jeff Meyer) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Re: No comments on THE SPIRIT? Message-ID: <1626@uw-june> Date: Thu, 21-Jun-84 16:37:54 EDT Article-I.D.: uw-june>.1626 Posted: Thu Jun 21 16:37:54 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 23-Jun-84 04:24:51 EDT References: <2017@rlgvax.UUCP> Organization: U. Washington, Computer Sci Lines: 21 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 UUCP: {ihnp4,cornell,decvax,tektronix}!uw-beaver!uw-june!moriarty ARPANET: moriarty@washington