Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2.fluke 9/24/84; site vax4.fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!fluke!moriarty From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (The Napoleon of Crime) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Old! Unimproved! MORIARTY REVIEWS (Part 5 of 5: Selected Shorts) Message-ID: <2557@vax4.fluke.UUCP> Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 03:14:11 EDT Article-I.D.: vax4.2557 Posted: Tue Aug 20 03:14:11 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 00:38:39 EDT Distribution: net Organization: The Institute for Criminal Masterminds Lines: 90 A whole buncha very short reviews... ------------------------------------------------ "There *are* standards. If you can't see one, you *make* one and stick to it come Hell or high water -- until you see a BETTER one." -John Gaunt "Well, if you can't believe what you read in a comic book, what *can* you believe?!" -Bullwinkle J. Moose **************************************************************************** |==>A< One of the best of the year. Example: ZOT #8 | |==>B< A very good issue, one of the best of the month (usually 6/month) | |==>C< A well done, entertaining issue. Satisfying. Example: Jon Sable | |==>D< Boring, but with a few good points. Example: SQUADRON SUPREME | |==>F< Boring AND stupid or childish. Example: Secret Wars. | |==>Z< Actually offensive. Example: Several of Haney's UNKNOWN SOLDIERs | **************************************************************************** VISION & THE SCARLET WITCH #1-2; WEST COAST AVENGERS #2-3 [Writing: C]: Lots of nice touches here, though a few get somewhat maudlin. Englehart can handle emotions very well (see the latest Green Lantern), but in group books I find it a little rushed. Better are the ideas that he's throwing in -- Hank Pym as the caretaker/tech person at the headquarters, and Ben Grimm as the missing sixth member. Looks good enough to follow for a while longer, though the Vision comic needs a better artist badly (WCA will manage as long as Joe Sinnott inks...) THE SQUADRON SUPREME #3 [C-]: Fallible, if stereotypical (and rather dull) characters, but I am enjoying the concepts. Things Gardner Fox would have a seizure over if they happened in the JLA going on all over the place. Still, Marvel has no right to go around heckling Moon Roach or any other Marvel satire after this... A DISTANT SOIL #6 [D] GRIMJACK #15 [Munden's: B] : The best Munden's in quite a while. Phil Foglio is getting a real reputation for humor, and Gordon has never been done so well... BATMAN AND THE OUTSIDERS #27 [C-]: So Bats is on the outs with the government, hmm? And I've always assumed that he could take Kobra, though it may be I'm underestimating K after his Ambush Bug stint. BALDER #1 [C]: Just gol-durn entertaining... and Jerry's idea that Balder will be the next ruler of Asgard makes more sense all the time. NIGHTCRAWLER #1 [C]: Fluff? Yah, but entertaining fluff, thanks to Cockrum's art. As long as ya know what's you're gettin' inta, mate, ya gots no right ta mutter, arf, arf... STAR TREK #20 [D-]: Hope Barr gets back soon, because this is slowly going down the tubes... It would help the plotters if the next movie didn't have to be planned for every year, but life's tough all over... FF #284 [D+]: The... whah? In.. Invisible WOMAN? Pfffffttt.... X-MEN #199 [C]: Competent. Not great, but Competent. MARVEL FANFARE #23 [C+]: Good story, excellent art, but the ending is TOTALLY unrealistic -- I mean, there is not one waiter with any sense of humor left in the entire city of New York... IRON MAN #200[D+]: The new logo sucks, and not enough follow-up to the other characters in the book. I'll probably buy #201, also, but that's it, unless things improve... THE SWORD OF SOLOMON KANE #2 [C+]: Without the Chaykin/Thomas version to compare it to, this is much better in perspective. Very moody and atmospheric, no cliches, and a very complex character -- certainly Howard's best. I'll keep up with the rest of the issues... STAR WARS #101 [D+: story & art; F: continuity]: Huh? This issue takes place BEFORE last issue? It must, because Bey turned traitor in SW #100. What kind of shit is this? Ridiculous... "The word is no, therefore I am going anyway." Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer ARPA: fluke!moriarty@uw-beaver.ARPA UUCP: {uw-beaver, sun, allegra, sb1, lbl-csam}!fluke!moriarty <*> DISCLAIMER: Do what you want to me, but leave my employers alone! <*>