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From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (The Napoleon of Crime)
Newsgroups: net.comics
Subject: Re: Newspaper strips in general
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Date: Sun, 30-Dec-84 17:03:38 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec 30 17:03:38 1984
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A good topic... I don't know if anyone remembers out "What I'd like to do to
Dondi" contest that ran in net.flame last year...  appropriate.

As to adventure/continuity strips, I agree... there is little out there.  I
enjoy "Annie" quite a bit, and "Prince Valiant" in the Sunday section has
always been good -- one of the best-written things around.  Unfortunately,
we don't get Steve Canyon out here, and the b*st*rds cancelled "Latigo",
which is one of the finest adventure/western/humor strips around.  "The Lone
Ranger" was also very good for a while.  Others are just not up to it...
"Star Wars" was fun, but never very engrossing, and despite ulterior motives
for bad puns, "Star Trek" was, well, drek...

The super-hero ones have always been poor; the only good thing I can say
about "Spider-Man" is that everytime I think of the name "Dr. Mondo", I
start giggling (one cannot help seeing such a person as a guest VJ on
MTV...).

	"Dammit, man, that's unprofessional!  A good bartender laughs anyway!"

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