Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pur-ee.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!cornell!vax135!houxm!mhuxt!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!hsut From: hsut@pur-ee.UUCP (Yuk Hsu) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Recent Reviews Message-ID: <3154@pur-ee.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 22:30:36 EDT Article-I.D.: pur-ee.3154 Posted: Wed Aug 14 22:30:36 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 00:03:06 EDT Reply-To: hsut@pur-ee.UUCP (Tsun-Yuk Hsu) Organization: Electrical Engineering Department , Purdue University Lines: 44 Looks like things got straightened out here at Purdue Usenet-wise (thanks, Phil!) so here again are a few books no one else reviewed yet... MOONSHADOW #4 Rah! Recognition at last for one of my favourites: the letters column contains excerpts of letters from Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut. Certainly didn't expect Vonnegut to admit he reads comics (he didn't use to admit he wrote science fiction either.) While I feel the series has been on a slight decline since the first two excellent issues (still marvelously entertaining tho; no pun intended), the end of this one hints of a welcome change of scene from the Machovia storyline. A few scenes stand out in this one: Moonshadow's confrontation with war, and the "Icarus" sequence, for instance. Ira was a little out of character this time, but maybe he was meant to be more complex than what I expected. TIMESPIRITS #6 Tom Yeates' art just gets better with each issue. Some of the panels are close to sublime (cover and some of the Hendrix scenes.) Not one of Steve Perry's better issues though; the script tends to be a little heavy-handed in its polemics. Character development is, as usual for this book, economical and well-done. CEREBUS #75 Yeah, yeah, I know somebody else has reviewed this one. But I can't resist putting in my own two bits about what a great book this is, and how well Dave Sim handles the subtle little things that go on when his characters interact. Cerebus is one of the most human (!) characters in comics these days. Has anyone on the net met Dave Sim? Is he really a jerk or is he just pretending to be one? How can a jerk write and draw such a beautiful, sensitive book? Bill Hsu pur-ee!hsut