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From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.comics
Subject: Re: secret wars and drugs
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Date: Sat, 13-Oct-84 22:23:46 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 13 22:23:46 1984
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>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.

I think you mean that Shooter is the pusher... I doubt he reads his own
stuff. :-)

Seriously, why do people watch "Three's Company" and go to "Friday the 13th"
movies and read/watch/listen to crap in general?  Well, probably because
they don't think it's crap, for one thing.  This "junkie" business is a
pretty poor analogy, I think.  Every one of us who buys comics has free
will; no chemical compulsion makes us keep up with the exploits of
characters.  Why do I read "Secret Wars" when I think it's crap?  Because I
love to discuss it over net.comics, that's why!  Every issue outdoes the
previous one for stupid plot/characterizations/dialogue.  It is living proof
to me that Shooter may finally be the thing which allows DC to surpass
Marvel.

Not that I am supporting Shooter -- garbage is garbage, and that's what he's
putting out.  But if you don't want it printed, DON'T BUY IT.  Say no.  Just
read the reviews in net.comics... we'll fill you in on the details.

Say, if comics books are an addiction, then Nancy Regean will have to
commission George Perez and Marv Wolfman to produce an anti-comic comic!
The Teen Titans Defeat Themselves!  "Hey kids, quit reading this thing and
go outside and play!"

                                "There's more hoods than we thought!"
                                "Then shoot MORE BULLETS!"

					Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
					John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc.
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