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From: laurie@isieng.UUCP (Laurie Sefton)
Newsgroups: net.comics
Subject: Re: X-Factor review (and spoiler)
Message-ID: <174@isieng.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 21:01:37 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 11 21:01:37 1985
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References: <679@ihlts.UUCP> <172@isieng.UUCP> <2127@reed.UUCP>
Reply-To: laurie@isieng.UUCP (Laurie Sefton)
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Organization: Integrated Solutions, San Jose, CA
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Keywords: mediocre, complaints

In article <2127@reed.UUCP> soren@reed.UUCP (Soren Petersen) writes:
>Wait a minute.  How would *you* react if the one person you truly loved
>but thought dead came back to life.  Yes Scott is no doubt aware he is
>being cruel, but he is under one hell of a lot of stress.
>
>I don't approve of a lot of the stuff that is going on in X-Factor, but
>the portrayal of Scott's indecision seems quite well handled to me.

Really? I certainly don't think so.  It looks like another throwback to
the "Oh, I love Jean, but I just can't tell her so" of the mid-60's.  And
being cruel to both your former lover and your wife isn't being a bozo?
He has shown *a lot* more maturity in the past, and this seems to wash it
all away.  Besides, his *friends* don't seem to be offering much advice
*or* consolation.  Maybe if they just ignore it, it will go away?

>  
>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.
>

How would you feel if they took "Gone with the Wind", and did a sequel which 
was a mediocre product?  How about a nice little mediocre re-hash of "War
and Peace"?  I get the distinct feeling that *this* is how our reading
audience feels about what has been done to X-Factor. And if Byrne messes
up Superman next summer, we'll probably complain about *that* too.  If it 
drops down to the level of say, Flash 320-345, will we say "Oh, well,
it's mediocre, so we'll accept it." NOT LIKELY

Besides, who out there reads The Thing? Is anyone pointing a gun to our
heads and saying "accept mediocre {or worse!} comic books, that's all
that we think you want and deserve".  Not the last time I checked, anyway.
I know I have dropped quite a few books in the last two years because they
dropped to below my standards (and before you go on a "she only reads
eclectic independent stuff" flame, read my reviews--you'll see I read
a pretty wide variety of stuff).


>			Have a nice day
>				Soren Petersen

I will now.....



Laurie Sefton
{I'll bet that Integrated Solutions doesn't read The Thing, either--and
that they have no opinions on it}