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From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (The Napoleon of Crime)
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Subject: Old! Unimproved! MORIARTY REVIEWS (Part 5 of 5: Selected Shorts)
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Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 03:14:11 EDT
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A whole buncha very short reviews...

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"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
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|==>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   |
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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
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