Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!nsc!chuqui From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Laurie Sefton, C/O chuqui) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: This week's bag o' goodies (spoilers!) Message-ID: <3105@nsc.UUCP> Date: Sat, 10-Aug-85 22:15:47 EDT Article-I.D.: nsc.3105 Posted: Sat Aug 10 22:15:47 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Aug-85 23:49:20 EDT Distribution: net Organization: The Warlocks Cave Lines: 59 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 -- Chuq Von Rospach nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA {cbosgd,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui