Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site aplvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!aplvax!eric From: eric@aplvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Re: Ketchup Comments #1 (The JEMM Contoversy) Message-ID: <774@aplvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Oct-84 08:34:32 EDT Article-I.D.: aplvax.774 Posted: Mon Oct 8 08:34:32 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Oct-84 19:49:47 EDT References: <3755@decwrl.UUCP> <1431@vax2.fluke.UUCP> Organization: JHU/Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD Lines: 24 Since I brought it up in the first place, I'll take a crack at the review. I don't quite know what to expect of Jemm. As I said, it is definitely not a "boy and his alien" plot. The first two issues were deeply tied up in Jemm wandering around a ghetto area, and meeting Luther, a young black boy. Seems Jemm is a "red" Saturnian (he thinks he is the last), a prince, and has a gem on his forehead that only the great ones have had (it was there at birth). Later, we learn that the Saturnians were divided into the "reds" and the "whites", and a great war decimated most of the population. The remaining "whites" are actively hunting Jemm down. All of this has a pretty gritty realism associated with it (hard to believe, isn't it). Well, then things get stranger. We have at least a couple of groups on Earth looking for Jemm, and one of them (definitely a bad one) contacts Superman to search him out (still with me?). That's about where the story is now. The "whites" have captured Jemm (which led to the scene that started all of this), Superman is starting to think the wool has been pulled over his eyes, and the story seems to be leaving the ghetto in favor of a space setting. I have no idea where it is headed next. Not a great story, but an intriguing one. Just one man's opinion. -- eric ...!seismo!umcp-cs!aplvax!eric