Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2.fluke 9/24/84; site colossus.fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!fluke!moriarty 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 Article-I.D.: colossus.2427 Posted: Mon Nov 11 00:33:14 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Nov-85 04:42:15 EST References: <679@ihlts.UUCP> <172@isieng.UUCP> <2127@reed.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: The Institute for Criminal Masterminds Lines: 37 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 Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer ARPA: fluke!moriarty@uw-beaver.ARPA UUCP: {uw-beaver, sun, allegra, sb6, lbl-csam}!fluke!moriarty <*> DISCLAIMER: Do what you want with me, but leave my employers alone! <*>