Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site milo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxle!harpo!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!seismo!umcp-cs!aplvax!milo!eric From: eric@milo.UUCP Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Re: Ketchup Comments #1 Message-ID: <743@milo.UUCP> Date: Sat, 29-Sep-84 09:21:45 EDT Article-I.D.: milo.743 Posted: Sat Sep 29 09:21:45 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Oct-84 04:25:11 EDT References: <3755@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: JHU/Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD Lines: 21 What I was trying to get across about "Jemm", and apparently failed, was not how the content is presented, but rather how the series was advertised. I had, in fact, noticed that there was no seal on the series. I have no problem with comics that are geared towards an older audience, in fact I generally prefer them. But two things stand out about "Jemm". First, the initial advertising read like "the adventures of a boy and his alien". Sounded suspiciously like a popular movie, and I was planning on dropping it as soon as the kid feed the alien some Reeses Pieces (TM). Second, there is no indication on the comic that it is for more adult audiences. Most of the popular "older" comics are available only through direct distribution. The few exceptions, such as "Swamp Thing", have some kind of disclaimer on the cover ("sophisticated horror"). Now, I doubt that anyone is going to grow up terribly warped from reading about male subjugation at an early age (or at least, no worse off than reading the "Gor" novels), but with the increasing trend by DC and Marvel, I wonder where we will be five years down the road? -- eric ...!seismo!umcp-cs!aplvax!milo!eric