Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2.fluke 9/24/84; site fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!microsoft!fluke!moriarty From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (The Napoleon of Crime) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Re: Why do we even read comics anymore Message-ID: <117@vax2.fluke.UUCP> Date: Thu, 6-Dec-84 11:47:39 EST Article-I.D.: vax2.117 Posted: Thu Dec 6 11:47:39 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 8-Dec-84 04:58:16 EST References: <5737@brl-tgr.ARPA> <43@cmu-cs-k.ARPA> <50@vax2.fluke.UUCP> <1325@sdcc7.UUCP> <649@watcgl.UUCP> Reply-To: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (The Napoleon of Crime) Organization: Somewhere in Soho Lines: 22 Well put.... Without re-posting my "Comics are better than ever" harang, because there is some well-written entertainment out there -- with the exception of St. Elsewhere and Hill Street Blues, I'd give you the opinion that the average comic book I read is wittier, and better written, than any entertainment program on TV (and that includes most Masterpiece theatre episodes (which have been going downhill lately anyway)). For the list I read, see the self-same article mentioned above. Oh, conversely: If SECRET WARS was any good, we wouldn't have the great fun of kicking it all over the bar room floor... "Take that, you hostile sons-of-bitches!" (Can you identify this one?) Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc. UUCP: {cornell,decvax,ihnp4,sdcsvax,tektronix,utcsrgv}!uw-beaver \ {allegra,gatech!sb1,hplabs!lbl-csam,decwrl!sun,ssc-vax} -- !fluke!moriarty ARPA: fluke!moriarty@uw-beaver.ARPA