Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site houca.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!hogpc!houca!victorf From: victorf@houca.UUCP Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Secret Wars #10 (spoilers) Message-ID: <502@houca.UUCP> Date: Wed, 10-Oct-84 13:13:23 EDT Article-I.D.: houca.502 Posted: Wed Oct 10 13:13:23 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Oct-84 07:42:39 EDT References: <3876@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems, Holmdel NJ Lines: 34If Jim Shooter was going for the 2-year-old and under audience for this lastest Stupid Wars Epic, then he was still shooting too high. This was, in my opinion, the stupidest most unbelievable piece of garbage to ever be put between two covers. The plotline of the last two issues makes me think that Shooter just couldn't think of a good way to bring the series to the end so he bailed out and took an easy route. Doctor Doom is making his play for BIG power. He cuts up that guy who is made of sound, Claw. He assumes that Galactus' power will have an affinity for Claw's body, so when Galactus turns on the juice the power will make a quick U-turn and head right for Claw's sliced up, properly conditioned body and Doom will have all the power he wants. How come Doctor Doom can do this, and there is nothing that Galactus can do about it? Seems to me that the Big G should be able to undo Doom's insignificant works with a passing thought. Anyway all this power streaks toward Doom and he's waiting for it. It hits him. He lives. Why? The total power of Galactus' ship is pumped into Doom and he bounces up and is suddenly 'omnipotent'. Yeah. Makes me think I could be a writer. Doom of course is now second in power only to the Beyonder. No good, gotta get that Beyonder. Has a fight with the Beyonder. Loses. Pushes a button on his chestplate. Wins. Now Doctor Doom is the supreme being in the Cosmos. Seems like Galactus and the Beyonder were never really a match for the great Doom. They certainly weren't nearly as intelligent, which is kinda strange considering they were omnipotent. Why does this bother me so? Because it tells me that Jim Shooter, the editor in chief of Marvel Comics, has no grasp of accurate storytelling. I won't burn this issue because there may be a day when I need a good laugh, or maybe just an example of how comics ought NOT be done. Scott Thompson