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From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (The Napoleon of Crime)
Newsgroups: net.comics
Subject: Re: X-Factor review (and spoiler)
Message-ID: <2427@colossus.fluke.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 00:33:14 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 11 00:33:14 1985
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Keywords: mutants, money, Marvel

In article <2127@reed.UUCP> soren@reed.UUCP (Soren Petersen) writes:
>And while we are on the subject,  I am getting sick of all this dumping
>on X-Factor.  I agree that it is stunningly mediocre at best, but that 
>still makes it better than at least half of the Marvel line--as good as
>Defenders was, and much better than current Avengers.  However, that is
>not the point.  Were X-Factor #1 the greatest comic in history, the
>net reaction would be just as negative.  Nobody wastes time putting down,
>for instance, The Thing, although it is much worse than X-Factor--it
>isn't worth the effort, and neither is X-Factor.

I doubt that the reaction to X-Factor #1 would be unceasingly negative if it
was a great comic.  I haven't read it yet, but I suspect the reason for the
large number of reviews are 1) it's a first issue, and one of the main uses
of these reviews is so we can let each other know what comics we think are
good buys (even I, with a budget far too devoted to comics, could not come
close to buying all the titles out there -- nor would I want to (eck!  G.I.
Joe!)).  Lots of publicity usually follows a first issue.  The reason you
don't see a lot of people dumping on The Thing is that when it first started
turning bad, a lot of us said "Hey!  It's rotting!  Drop it like a
radioactive spud!"  2) It contains the X-Men, some of the most popular
characters in comics today, which brings in a lot of opinions.  As to their
mainly negative nature, well.... I suspect it may be because it's bad!  I'll
have to read the first issue to find out, though (I haven't heard from Jerry
on the quality, yet, but I seem to remember Laurie Sefton saying it stunk,
and I find that our opinions on comics usually run parallel).

Not everyone has a MLLL, Soren...

                        "Monks in their cowls shall be forced into marriage
                         and their lamentation will be heard on the
                         mountain-peaks."
                           The Prophecies of Merlin, Geoffrey of Monmouth

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