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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Laurie Sefton, C/O chuqui)
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Subject: This week's bag o' goodies (spoilers!)
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Date: Sat, 10-Aug-85 22:15:47 EDT
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Hmm... pickin's are slim this week...


Amethyst #11	All Star Squadron #51	Detective Comics # 556
New Age Comics #1 			Comics Journal #100


Amethyst #11:  Other than one of the better covers I've seen in the last
few months, this comic doesn't have much to recommend it.  It looks like,
one way or another, Dark Opal is back (when in doubt of a story line,
revive old characters), and Amethyst has a perfectly natural reaction to
Topaz and Turquoise being in love with each other. The Topaz/Turquoise
romance keeps getting further out of character (the ones that were put
together in the maxi-series), and although I can understand the little push
they received from "Fire Jade", the sheer nastiness of Turquoise (take a
look at the cover for a graphic description) is hard to believe... 

All Star Squadron #51:  The Shazam universe does a little leaking into the
Earth-II universe, and vice-versa.  Mr Mind makes an appearance as the
force behind the  Monster Society of Evil.  Not a lot about the JSA, and
their little problem of being rocketed into space, but a nice little teaser
about Johnny Quick, Liberty Belle, and Green Lantern upon arriving on
Earth-Shazam...


Detective Comics #556:  Well Nocturna is back, in one of the more confusing
little stories in awhile. I think the problem here is that  COIE has put a
few stories (and books) on hold, while their characters are altered (or
killed, or tranformed into who knows what).  Editorial note--- Where the
#^&&*#$$#* is the Catwoman?  The problem with the smaller Robin is
discussed (and Bullock appears to be slowly stumbling his way to the truth,
with perhaps a few detours along the way).  The Green Arrow story is
*there*-- let's hope that Black Canary's appearance next month will liven
things up a bit (even in that dreadful outfit--UGH).


New Age Comics #1 :A plug for numerous independent comics; an interview
with Jan Strnad, one with Donald Simpson, and various short plugs and
explanations.  For $0.35, it's not bad.  At least it's a lot more truthful
than the Marvel equivalent...


Comics Journal #100:  This is the first issue of The Comics Journal I've
bought in quite awhile.  I had become tired of Gary Groth trying to explain
why "he really didn't hate comics--he just had high standards" and the
monthly libelous shot at Cat Ironwode.  Things haven't changed much--too
bad.  For a magazine that could be a way of showing the non-comics reading
public that comics aren't for the insipid, they seem to be bent on dragging
their opinion in the opposite direction; "if you don't like what I consider
to be an amazing piece of comics literature. you are a brain-damaged fool"
seems to be their battle cry. Too bad....



Laurie Sefton

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