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From: hsut@pur-ee.UUCP (Yuk Hsu)
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Subject: Reviews
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Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 19:11:37 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 23 19:11:37 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 27-Sep-85 06:55:37 EDT
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	Some interesting items came in over the past two weeks or so that
will definitely be high on my "Best of 1985" list next year:


AZTEC ACE #15

	FINALLY this gets to the stores. I was really worried for some
time, figuring that since Zot! has been put on hold for a while (at least),
what's going to stop Eclipse from "cancelling" temporarily Ace? I mean
#14 only came out 3 months ago...

	This is a fairly wild issue even for this book. Moench has a
good feel for the absurd that keeps Ace from becoming a self-indulgent,
slow-moving mess. While I haven't been too happy with the art lately
(bring back Nestor Redondo on inks!), at least Dan Day is back this issue.
The chase sequence with the six doxie-Bridgets was terrific. I loved
the film trailing across the two-page spread and the explosion of images.
So now we know who Bridget REALLY is (or do we? I suspect there's more
going on...) Moench has Ace make a typically cryptic remark at the end,
about loving Bridget forever, since she turned out to be who she is.
So who is Ace? Caesar...? Mark Antony? (Uh-oh, that's almost a spoiler.)
After a few pleasant, leisurely issues, Moench has introduced a
plethora of new questions. This continues to be a most intriguing book.


MOONSHADOW #5

	Well, if Jerry Boyajian liked this one enough to review it,
it must be good!! :-) Seriously though, this is probably the best
Moonshadow since #1 and #2. The art is, as usual, moody and beautiful,
mostly in shades of concentration camp gray this time instead of
the lurid reds of the war scenes of #4. Ira further emphasised his
"wookie-ness" by ripping out somebody's arm. The sequences with Barry
were extremely well-done, thought-provoking and moving. Heck,
any comic book which has a character with a bullet hole in his head
walking around and making serious statements about life AND MAKING
THE WHOLE THING WORK has to be one of the best of the year. 


CEREBUS #76

	This is a slower issue than the last few, but very well-done
nevertheless. The shot of young Cerebus in the first few pages almost
made me jump out of my chair (of course it was only a dream...) The
repeated panels of a sleepless Cerebus were perhaps a tiny bit
excessive... The dream sequences were very revealing of the pain
and confusion Cerebus is going through, and I don't envy the aardvark.
Can't wait for the next one and Cerebus Jam #2. (By the way, did
anyone notice the two-page Cerebus sequence in normalman #10? Not 
very exciting, but it was Sim's Cerebus...)


					Bill Hsu
					pur-ee!hsut

	at the Department of Eccentric Esoterica, Purdue University