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From: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (the absurdist)
Newsgroups: net.comics
Subject: Re: Kitty and Wolverine (spoilers and alternate plot.....)
Message-ID: <539@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Dec-84 19:31:09 EST
Article-I.D.: uwmacc.539
Posted: Wed Dec  5 19:31:09 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 8-Dec-84 06:00:31 EST
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Reply-To: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (Rick Keir)
Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center
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Summary: 

In article <663@pucc-k> afo@pucc-k (Flidais) writes:
>off to Professor Xavier's.  So, I thought I would provide a plot
>synopsis on how I would have liked it to go.... (switch into heavy
>fantasy mode)
>
>	....  Now, Wolvie, Puck, and Yukio break up to attack the
>	headquarters.  
	
	What follows is an orgy of destruction; Yukio filling
	someone with poisoned blades, Puck hacking and shooting
	a bevy of female bodyguards, Wolverine popping his claws
	into several people...
>	..., he obligingly dies.  Wolverine, Yukio, and Puck
>	quietly survey the scene before they hear the sirens of the
>	Tokyo police, who arrive to investigate just in time to see
>	the threesome leap off into the night.
>
>	I figure after this, Wolverine decides to stay in Japan, and
>	he, Puck and Yukio decide to go (back?) into the mercenary
>	business. The continuing exploits of the three would make a
>	great series ...
>Comments? (do I get my script-writng badge now?)

Nice comment :  Kudos for writing an alternate ending;  it's a nice
change from the reviews everyone writes.  

Alas, a comment which no one likes to hear: But, I really disliked what
you wrote.

	Gee.  First of all, I LIKE KITTY and am glad they are keeping
	her around.  As a genuine teenager (not some super-powered
	teen-titan punk) she is both believable and interesting.

	Then:  What is so interesting about a 6-page no-dialog fight
	scene?  One page, yes:  I could see someone like Spain drawing
	it in a fashion similar to his "Trashman:  Agent of the Sixth
	International" pages.  But six?  VERY hard to keep up
	one's interest:  it's almost impossible to show plot
	development in a protracted fight scene WITHOUT dialog.

	I know of many places where I enjoyed a moment of comic book
	violence which would never have gotten past the Comics Code
	in the old days.  
		For example, Daredevil dropping Bullseye onto the
	tracks (very out of character for DD);  Elektra stabbing 
	the reporter in "Spiked" .  Everyone's favorite killer, 
	Wolverine, in the "God loves, Man kills" graphics novel,
	threatening to spike one of the anti-mutant death-squad
	if they didn't talk.  This violence is effective because it
	is EVIL.  
		DareDevil spends most of the Elektra/Bullseye 
	subsequence on the edge of sanity, trying to reconcile his
	belief in the law with his emotional tendency to vigilante
	action.  
		Elektra kills a perfectly normal, middle-aged man
	with a wife, after we've spent the whole issue becoming 
	acquainted with him (actually they moved the panel showing
	him in the hospital and confessing that he'd "spiked" the
	Kingpin story to the next issue, but we BELIEVE he's dead).
		Wolverine has said, many times "I'm the best at what I do.
	But what I do isn't very nice.", and given indications of
	a very strong sense of honor and personal responsibility
	for his actions.  I like Wolverine because he restrains what
	he is capable of, not because he generally acts like a
	berserker for hire.

		Violence is not enough.  Trite as it sounds, you need
	"good", "love", "honor" and all those other concepts
	to make the story interesting.
-- 
"But Dinsdale...Dinsdale used  sarcasm!"
	we all know where this quote came from, don't we?

Rick Keir -- MicroComputer Information Center, MACC
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