Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hou2b.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!hou2b!dwc From: dwc@hou2b.UUCP (D.CHEN) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: secret wars and drugs Message-ID: <355@hou2b.UUCP> Date: Wed, 10-Oct-84 15:47:53 EDT Article-I.D.: hou2b.355 Posted: Wed Oct 10 15:47:53 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Oct-84 08:11:29 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 20 okay, now i'm calm enough to really talk about secret wars objectively. i'm not going to get into the inconsistencies involved with dr. doom defeating galactus and the beyonder in one issue. never mind that dr. doom once tried to steal the silver surfer's power and couldn't even hold onto that. never mind that one of dr. doom's stooges (albeit unwitting), terrax, suffered burn-out from an overdose of "power cosmic" (which now looks like "power comic"). i'm not going to mention that ascension to godhood has been handled gracefully in the past (the korvac/michael series in the avengers; the ancient one in dr. strange, etc). i'm going to talk about obsessions and addictions. what drives reasonable people to go out and waste 3/4 of a dollar on something that they know will make them sick? more importantly, what drives people (perhaps not reasonable) to write and try to sell such garbage? the answer is addiction. we are poor comic book addicts and jim shooter is the junkie - selling stuff he knows is no good for anyone but as long as he can make a mega-buck. and how do i justify my "habit"? i pretend that i'm paying $1.35 for thor and i'm getting secret wars for free.