Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rlgvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!rlgvax!oz From: oz@rlgvax.UUCP (THE GREAT AND POWERFUL OZ) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Comics and addiction Message-ID: <186@rlgvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Oct-84 08:08:28 EDT Article-I.D.: rlgvax.186 Posted: Fri Oct 12 08:08:28 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Oct-84 04:03:15 EDT Distribution: net Organization: CCI, Federal Sales Office Lines: 49 An interesting point was made in a recent article, that we are addicted to comics and that we will read things that we know disgust us, and that Jimbo will continue to write things that disgust us, just because of this addiction. Well, right off the bat, I doubt that we can get Nancy Reagan to come and visit us at our rehabilitation homes, nor do I think that the NEW TEEN TITANS will ever do a story on it. That aside, I think that there is some truth to that. I have been reading comics for over 20 years now (a frightening thought for it proves that I have been reading them for a long time, and that *I* have been around for a long time! In the 60's I used to buy every comic that MARVEL put out. I remember the day that my brother, Broome, and I bought 6 copies of CONAN #1 (at $.20 per if memory serves me correctly) because we were so excited about it and we knew it would be a hit. In some ways comics have matured, in other ways they have digressed. I find it strange that there is so much discussion about MARVEL on the net. Now, in the 1980's, they have become what DC was in the 60's, a comic company that is primerally resting on its laurels, rather then producing superior product. Yet because they are the biggest, we discuss what we liked about them, and spend a lot of time discussing what we don't like about them. The only thing that keeps my interest in comics going STRONG is the alternative comics, and even among the netters, they don't get much discussion. I am curious as to why this is so. FIRST comics has such an excellent line that I buy just about everything that they produce. COMICO has some EXCELLENT comics. Even stately Disneyesque DC is producing some comics that take some chances and are interesting. Jim Shooter and crew are not going to change, unless they hear from us (in sales) that we are not interested in the types of comics that they are producing and that we want something else. For all our complaints, SECRET BORES *is* one of the best selling MARVEL comics. Why? Because so many of us are being BLACKMAILED in buying it as we are afraid that we will miss some "continuity" in the "MARVEL universe." FSCK the MARVEL universe, I'd rather take the METRO into downtown DC for my $.75 then let Jimbo take my money and say that his TRASH is a success. There are many GOOD comics out there. Let us demonstrate with our letters, and with our money that this is what we are interested in and that we will not continue to support inferior products. Since everyone else is busy with "cute" sign offs, I shall accomodate: "Dear Auntie Emm: Hate You. Hate Kansas. Taking the dog. - Dorothy" OZ seismo!rlgvax!oz