Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site isieng.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!nsc!pyramid!isieng!laurie From: laurie@isieng.UUCP (Laurie Sefton) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Helix-*why* do the readers like them so? Message-ID: <173@isieng.UUCP> Date: Sat, 9-Nov-85 01:46:16 EST Article-I.D.: isieng.173 Posted: Sat Nov 9 01:46:16 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 08:36:38 EST Organization: Integrated Solutions, San Jose, CA Lines: 25 Keywords: sadistic, immature, disturbing I'm having a little trouble these days with the reactions of readers of Infinity Inc. to the group of villians known as Helix. A lot of people seem to be writing in andgushing over them, and I can't quite figure out *why*. When I first came upon them, they appeared to be a hallucination out of a bad Joe Staton comic--that I can handle; in fact I thought that *maybe* they were going to be played as a take-off on a group of super-villians. The more I read, the more I became disturbed, and a bit disgusted with the characters. They seem to be written up as a group of immature sadists, who can barely look beyond the next moment. I didn't even feel anything when I read their origin (which was straight out of Dr. Strangeglove via the Metal Men these past years) For example, the killing of Fury's pet Kanga was a reasonable part of the plot, having jokes made later about it wasn't. That was just plain sick. Maybe I just happen to prefer to have my villians with a little purpose, a little character, and not just be a bunch of psychotic brats, but I can't understand the majority of the people who wrote in to Infinity Inc. preferring their villians this way. How do *you* feel about Helix? Laurie Sefton {Integrated Solutions has no opinions on the characterizations of super-villians}