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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, 17-Aug-85 21:54:10 EDT
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Another slow week....


The New Mutants #34	COIE #9		DC Challenge #1


The New Mutants #34: You know, at least Sienciwicz's (whatever..) art, even
though it wasn't realistic, had the feel that he had *worked* at it.
Leialoha's art gives the feeling that he really isn't that interested, he'd
just like to get the 17 pages out and go.  Some of this artwork looks like
George Tuska on a *very* bad day--wide set eyes, wide mouth, and a couple
of slashes where the cheekbones would be... We do find out that it is
Farouk that is the force behind Karma's sudden change (as in posession of
her).  We also get a lead-in to the New Mutants Annual--and lets hope that
it fits into the continuity *somewhere*, and that Marvel can get it on the
shelves in the correct order (something they haven't been able to do, at
least to my satisfaction). At least there wasn't any Secret Wars trash in
this issue....


COIE #9: Hmmmm. the Earth-2 style Harlequin shows up both in the group of
villians, and the group of heroes.. is there more than one of her running
around (earth-1's harlequin is busy being retired) ?  Other than that,
we'll have to wait until next issue to see who is dead, and who was merely
down for the count this issue.  Oh, yes, another question-- I thought that
Wally Wood (Kid Flash) couldn't run faster than a normal human being
without being in massive pain.  I realize he might have been caught up in
the moment, but i would have thought he would have felt *something*.
Brainiac's physical self has been trashed to little tiny bits, and Psimon
is turning out to be a much stronger character than when he was first
introduced.  Nice crossovers into Green Lantern and Teen Titans.  I see the
difference between the COIE crossovers and the SW crossovers in being that
COIE makes you *want* to find out what is going on in the title, and that
if you read the main title only (for some reason), you can go on reading
the main title without losing a lot, or suddenly coming into the middle of
the story.


DC Challenge: This is the start of a 12 issue round robin story, as created
by some current and former writers and artists.  To see how Gene Colan does
Superman is worth the price of admission.  This is also occuring outside of
the normal DC continuity, which gives the writers a *lot* more leeway.  It
looks like a book that was done because the people behind it wanted to do
it, not because they had to do it.  It shows....

That's it for this week...

Laurie Sefton

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