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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
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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}