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" C O M I C B O O K E - M A G " __________________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Issue 1 - Volume 1 - February 27, 1995 Brought to you from the fine folks at the ComicBook Network! __________________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [-1-] The Bullpen ........................ Ed Dukeshire [-2-] The 25th Hour ...................... Mike Imboden [-3-] Notes From Underground ............. Chris Oarr [-4-] Reviews Sinnamon #1 ..................... David Leblanc Paul Pope's THB ................. Chris Oarr [-5-] Top 200 B&W Books .................. David Leblanc [-6-] CSNsider ........................... David Leblanc [-7-] Comicunications .................... Ryan Brewster [-8-] Feedback ........................... Readers [-9-] BBSes Linked into CBN .............. CBN Staff __________________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- /--[-1-]--/ THE BULLPEN /----------------------------------------------/ By: Ed Dukeshire Welcome to the first issue of THE COMIC BOOK E-MAG!! Thanks for D/L'ing and checking it out. Make sure you let us know what you think! We can be reached via the addresses listed below in the FEEDBACK section or directly through the many bbses linked into the ComicBook Network. What is the ComicBook Network? Good question, glad you asked. <g> It's the free exchange of messages shared between many systems across the USA and Canada. Each echo contains a comic book specific theme (ie; Marvel, DC, Image, Back Issue Bin, etc.). Now that you are aware that such a network exists, perhaps you may be tempted to log onto one of the 50 systems linked in and participate? We'd love to hear from you! In this issue, you will find many interesting articles from the most active posters in the network. These guys are great! In future issues, we're hoping to show you current message threads, more news, rumors, reviews, and various other things. So, keep your eyes open for some wild issues! Distribution - I will personally upload this e-mag (electronic magazine) to the commercial networks I visit, as well as getting it passed through the E-MAG filebone on FIDOnet. As of right now, we don't have a mailing list on the internet, maybe someone will step forward and lend us a hand in that department? Each issue will be available from the CBN systems as they are released, and we're hoping you will spread this to each bbs you visit (everyone out there will apprieciate it). Read and enjoy! -- ed __________________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- /--[-2-]--/ THE 25TH HOUR /--------------------------------------------/ By: Mike Imboden Hey, I guess I better make this interesting otherwise you'll figure you wasted a download grabbing this thing and you'll probably be pretty POed if it sucks and you'll never read it again. So first, a little background. I've been collecting comics for the better part of a decade and a half. I know that's not long to some folks and yet it's eternity for some of the new kids out there. I run a BBS dedicated to the comic fan in all of us and run a comic subscription from the board. I'm married, have a three year old son and drive a 1995 Plymouth Voyager minivan. Comics have changed a lot since I first plunked down a quarter for a copy of Sgt. Rock. We've gone from crappy newsprint paper to really nice glossy, slick stuff that makes the computerized colors jump out at you. We've gone from ads hawking Sea Monkeys and 100 piece soldier sets to ads pushing CDs and chromium, prismatic, gold foil, 3-D in your face sports cards (sans a stick of crumbly gum mind you). Hal Jordan is a bad guy now, Superman has long hair, Spider-Man may or may not be a clone, Wonder Woman is a busty, leggy red-head, Iron Man is into his 3678th suit of armor, Doctor Doom is Reed Richard's half brother, The Hulk turns into Bruce Banner when he gets mad and worst of all, the average price of a comic has gone up almost two bucks since I bought that issue of Sgt. Rock at the corner drugstore up in Ann Arbor, Michigan. I don't pretend to know everything there is about comics - I'd be a fool if I tried. I don't bother with fluffy reviews or critical essays. No, what I'm going to do each issue is sit in front of the keyboard here and for the final sixty minutes of my twenty-five hour day and just ramble. Maybe it won't even deal with comics. Maybe I'll give you some tasty recipe for a wonderful dish I had for dinner that week. Maybe I'll whine and moan about my crappy first year instructor at college. Or maybe I'll just sit here and stare at you. _ _ 0 0 v [===] Then again, maybe not.... What I =WILL= do is be up front with you. You may not like what I'll say and that's good. You may LOVE what I say and that's better. If something is really bugging me when I sit down to write this piece you can be sure you'll hear about it. Until next time.... Read what you buy! -- M!ke !mboden __________________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- /--[-3-]--/ NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND /------------------------------------/ By: Chris Oarr Teeth grittin' closet cases are good for laughs, but for something worth reading I look to comix. This column is about what I like and what I hate. Sometimes it's about both. Today is one of those times. WHY I HATE THE COMICS JOURNAL (BUT READ IT ANYWAY) I only started reading THE COMICS JOURNAL (Fantagraphics) about eight years ago, shortly after discovering life outside the Marvel bullpen. I hate TCJ and have since I first read it, but I still buy it. Why? Because the interview subjects are usually important enough to grab my attention, and you can get the occasional hot "tip" on new titles you might not find elsewhere. Unfortunately, any useful information you might get from TCJ is despite their best efforts. Very, very few of TCJ's features live up to its pretentions as "the magazine of comics news and criticism." Most are pretentious and sophomoric, without a kernel of insight to buoy the tangled prose (which apparently is never edited). TCJ's reviews are particularly offensive, because their poor execution seems to prove the point that comics don't deserve serious criticism. The better the book, the more asinine the review. A couple recent examples: the review of INTRODUCTION TO KAFKA, where the critic references nothing but Crumb's recent satire strip "When the Niggers Control America" and asserts that Crumb is out of his depth interpreting a great literary figure. Even if he had concrete points to make about ITK's execution, you'd think the kid would reference Crumb's earlier (brilliant) adaptations of Sartre and Samuel Johnson, to name just a couple. I got the distinct impression he had never read them. Even more recently, there was the review of Gilbert Hernandez' LOVE & ROCKETS book, POISON RIVER---one of the most challenging and engaging stories of the past few years. The review ran something like 15 column inches and said absolutely nothing about the work, other than, "This is a very complicated story, too complicated for most people to follow, which is a shame, because they should." What the hell good is that? How about engaging Gilbert's use of point of view, intersecting storylines, or erotic imagery? What is he trying to tell us about memory, passion, sin, expiation? Anything worth commenting on there? Of course there is, but it's just another case of a reviewer out of her depth (despite the fact her doctoral dissertation was on the iconography of Mexican comics---go figure). If I thought the reviewer even tried to deal with the difficult issues posed by POISON RIVER, I wouldn't be so pissed, but carelessness is something I can't forgive in a magazine with TCJs pretentions. The interviews are almost as badly executed as the reviews. Their great length is a byproduct of bad interviewing. It's also a blessing: in a scattershot way, you might find out everything you want to know about an artist, but not before wading through rafts of meaningless tangents, browbeating, and not-so-hidden agendas. Gary Groth, Fantagraphics publisher & TCJ bigshot, sets the tone on this score. All too often, his interviews become a pissing match between the interviewer and his subject. Who knows more about what obscuro trivia? Who cares? There should be only one subject in an interview. That's why it's called an interview and not a "dialogue." (And if they called these dialogues by their proper name, they would be just as boorish, because there's never more than one participant whose opinions are worth reading---the artist's.) The worst aspect of the interviews, however, is how they underscore the pettiness, incestuousness, and provinciality of the "comix community." Look at the recent Jeff Smith interview, where Groth tries to browbeat Smith into denouncing Dave Sim. Why do that? And why not edit out that dead-end exchange before bringing TCJ to print? Because the JOURNAL is, above all else, Groth's rant sheet. I'm not even going to go into Groth's editorials, which are masterpieces of wooly-headedness. Apart from the bile, his essays are distinguished only by a perverse interpretation of English syntax and a penchant for quote dropping that would make even the most pompous coffeehouse scholar blush. I don't read the COMICS BUYER'S GUIDE, because if I want to read press releases I can get them on-line. For the "news" I need, e-mail gossip and the JOURNAL suffice. The news section of TCJ is usually the most lucid and interesting part of the magazine, although it suffers from a heavy lead-time. TCJ wins high marks for its consistent coverage of censorship issues and retailer intimidation across North America. But even TCJ's news suffers regular lapses in readibility and content. For example, coverage of the Kitchen Sink/Tundra merger was shrill and amateurish. The subsequent tizzy fit over the JOURNAL's Managing Editor leaving Fantagraphics for Kitchen Sink (and her alleged "sabotage" of TCJ's merger coverage) epitomized the tinyness of our hermetically-sealed world---and almost made me embarrassed to be a fan. It was because of feuds like this that I stopped going to sci fi conventions 10 years ago. There are many things to criticize about TCJ's current state of affairs. Maybe the most heinous is its non-treatment of Scott McCloud's groundbreaking UNDERSTANDING COMICS. On the one hand, TCJ devoted something like four or five column inches to McCloud's book. By a witless hack, no less! A year later, Fantagraphics solicited the barnyard satire FILIBUSTERING COMICS. You don't have to be a Groth-hater to see the relation between these two things or to understand the petty motivation behind it. He and his set want to be the gatekeepers of comics criticism, but they have neither the wit nor gumption to enter into a serious dialogue with McCloud's paradigm-setting book. I read somewhere that TCJ has a McCloud interview coming up. I'll bet my last sheckle that Groth conducts it, and it becomes yet another petty pissing match. The sad fact about TCJ, however, is that for a very long time it's been the only game in town. The good news? The first issue of the new journal CRASH (Fall 1994, Crash Communications/Drawn & Quarterly, a quarterly publication) is better than the best JOURNAL. I also think that the comix sections of SUBLIMINAL TATOOS (Robert DuPree Writes Pictures, bimonthly) are superior to anything TCJ has put out. INDY shows promise too, as does COMIX CULTURE. With all these new outlets for reviews, interviews, and serious discussion of complex comix, it may be only a matter of time before TCJ becomes completely redundant. It can either implode under the weight of all that clannish vindictiveness or live up to its pretensions. Either way, I'll be happy. Your pal, Chris Oarr Host, Small Press Comix ComicBook Network NEXT TIME: "Why Roberta Gregory Ain't All Dat" or "The Phenomenon of the Overrated Cartoonist" *** ■ SLMR 2.1a ■ Support the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. __________________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- /--[-4-]--/ REVIEWS /--------------------------------------------------/ By: David Leblanc SINNAMON #1 - Catfish Comics, B&W $2.50 Mature Readers (nudity) Writer - Angelo Furlan Art - Michael Delaney If you haven't seen this yet start asking, it was on the Capitol list of top B&W titles for January at #59 but may have not hit your store yet. It is a self-publishing effort (I got mine by mail) by Angelo Furlan whose former work is The Bruiser for Anthem Comics which will soon be back on the shelves again (coming in May). Not being a fan of most black and white comics in general, and sexy babe B&W in particular I would have passed this one up on the rack. That is just me. It is not normal in both regards because the art is exceptional and it is not the "bloody" slasher type of bad girl comic that seems to be prevalent these days. Micheal Delaney has a very nice style and puts a lot of effort into his work. There is so much detail in the shading alone that one glance through should be enough to convince you to buy it. The ladies are not out of proportion, and in fact look more realistic in black and white than most color comic females from the "hot" artists. The faces of the characters are distinct and unique and the backgrounds are sufficient when they need to be. One small flaw is the lettering which needs to be darker to stand out. ***SPOILER WARNING*** plot elements revealed. o /|\ / \ \o/ | / \ _ o /\ |\ _\o /) | _| \o ( \ \ / | /o\ |_ o/ / ) O/_ | (\ o_ /\ / | \o/ | / \ o /|\ / \ Angelo's story is fun. Our heroine shows up to stop a very sexy bank robber called Infama who can create stuff like giant pliers, and ribbons, and combs and vises out of nothing. The initial conflict is a draw and we learn just how tough Sinnamon is when a mugger tries to have some fun with the wrong muggee. After delivering her would be rapist to the local cops she is off to the tub for a "steamy" few pages that prove Delaney can draw a perfect female. There is a mysterious stranger from her past that she clearly hates, the new neighbor who wants to jump her bones, and something from her past she wants to forget. A rematch with Infama the bank robber finishes the issue but promises to open future plot twists with the mention of the "sisterhood". But wait, that's not all! We still have 8 pages of text, a lot of which were contributions from fans and friends on the various networks like Fido, Rime and Intelec. The personal ads are filled with inside jokes and you too can join the fun in the future by sending in kooky personals. There is an ad for Bruiser #2 (Yeah!), a full page from the next issue and a really stunning cover in full color by Delaney. Give this one a try folks, it has a lot of class. Can't find it? Your store says they can't order it? No problem, write to Angelo Furlan at angelo.furlan@canrem.com or drop in on the Fido or Rime Comic conference and he will let you know how to order direct from Catfish Comics. Rating: I don't *do* ratings! Buy this book! ····────════*David LeBlanc> DAVIDL129@AOL.COM david.leblanc@gaquatic.iii.net RIME->15 FIDO 1:322/518 ... Fed up with Bill Clinton. (Retroactive to January 1, 1993.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------/ By: Chris Oarr THB Writer - Paul Pope Art - Paul Pope By now just about everyone should have heard about Paul Pope's current title, THB. Since its appearance in Cerebus "Preview" some months back, THB installments have been coming out every 30 days like clockwork. Where Pope gets his energy I'll never guess. These are hefty books, more than 50 pages a piece. They're mostly story, but also include letters, back-up features, and his own essays. Because they're printed on a heavy paper with an even heavier, coated cover, every issue of THB literally bulges with Pope's creativity---the thing just won't lie flat. Pope's clearly having fun with all the bells and whistles. A different dramatic photo of the author dominates each inside cover, for instance, and issue 2 (?) even included a small poster of a very pretty girl resembling the main character. Every time I open a new issue, I'm careful to check whether anything like a Cracker Jack prize has fallen out. I mention the bells and whistles first, because I can't get over the fact that THB is a self-published book on a monthly schedule. Whatever his methods are, they deserve careful scrutiny by anyone interested in writing, drawing, and publishing their own comic. Dave Sim might chalk Pope's success up to simple hard work, and he might be right, but I suspect there's more to it. Factor in the all-too-reasonable price of $2.95 a pop, and THB is truly an anomoly in today's comic marketplace. More noteworthy than his accomplishments as a publisher, however, are Pope's accomplishments as an artist. THB is a work of rare depth and vitality, playful and deadly serious all at once. The Comics Journal compared his bold inks to Eddie Campbell, David Mazzuchelli, and Jacques Tardi. Giardano has said that he must be a European. An idiot friend of mine summed him up as "a scratchier version of Chester Brown." They're all off, in my opinion. Paul Pope is America's answer to Hugo Pratt, the Italian master who took Milt Caniff's classic style and broke new ground in the "high adventure" genre. Like Pratt, Pope is a storyteller first and an artist second. Given the beauty and richness of Pope's panels (which often exceed Pratt's own fine drafting), this might seem like splitting hairs. But when I read one of Pope's stories, I'm reminded of something Frank Miller once wrote in an introduction to Pratt's CORTO MALTESE: "The impatient beauty of his line could only be a product of a man who has a great deal to tell, and is, perhaps, in a bit of a hurry to tell it." That statement might easily apply to THB, with its "exquisite use of black, flawless sense of staging, and underlying mysticism" (again, borrowing from Miller re: Pratt). What makes THB work so well is Pope's timing and command of dialogue. He empitomizes the dictum that an artist should "show, not tell" what is happening at any point in time. There are no text insets, thought balloons, or other crutches to prop up Pope's narrative, because he doesn't need them. He has a cinematographer's command of point of view---panel composition is always exactly as it should be to convey time, space, and dramatic tension---and his figures are so expressive even the most ambiguous mood comes across crystal clear. An economical scripter, Pope's characters often speak with a deadpan wierdness that makes the bizarre seem commonplace and has the immediate effect of suspending one's disbelief. This is how people talk, albeit in a fantastic setting and in different idioms. Nearly every important idea in THB is conveyed in this sort of understated fashion. Things are left to be discovered (or ignored) by the reader, with very little crammed down our throats. As the story unfolds, it's a pleasure to go back and look for all the nuances that give THB its fullness and texture. THB is not a demanding read necessarily, but it can be if you want to spend the time at it. There's so much more that can (and will) be said of Paul Pope's style, but I'd hate to belabor my impressions here. What, then, is THB all about? Our main character is HR Watson, daughter of a rich and powerful Martian industrialist with even more powerful enemies in the government. Sinister forces are after his robot technology, so Poppa Watson goes underground in the midst of moving his factories to a friendlier city. Before he does, however, he has his friend and colleague Dr. Yukimoto develop THB to watch over HR. In his inert form THB is about the size of an acorn, but a glass of water causes him to expand into a 10 foot tall super-powered android. Eventually, the effect wears off and he shrinks back down to marble size. HR wears him on a locket around her neck most times, and his existence is supposed to be a closely-guarded secret. No one but Dr. Yukimoto and Poppa Watson understand how THB works. Predictably, government agents go after HR to get to her father, forcing HR to call THB into service more than once. She goes on the lam, during which time her robot valet, Augustus, is a constant source of support (and comic relief). At this point in the story (#4), HR is in hiding with Mars' most popular musical group in another city, ostensibly out of harm's way. Taking advantage of the lull, she begins unravelling the secrets of THB's psyche. The mystery unfolds. THB is a mini-series of nine issues and will be collected in book form sometime soon after the series' completion. Apparently, supplies are extremely limited (and getting moreso day-by-day). If your retailer doesn't carry it, you can obtain THB directly from the publisher. Write Paul Pope for a catalogue at: Horse Press P.O. Box 3112 Columbus, OH 43210-0112 While I'm at it, let me heartily recommend his drawn novel "The Ballad of Dr. Richardson" and mention his other early novel "Sin Titulo." I haven't yet received my copy of ST, so I can't recommend it, but if it's half as good as "Dr. Richardson," it's well worth the $9.95. Expect a review of both of these works right here ASAP. *** ■ SLMR 2.1a ■ Support the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund __________________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- /--[-5-]--/ TOP 200 B&W COMICS IN 1994 /-------------------------------/ By: David Leblanc TOP 200 BLACK AND WHITE COMICS IN 1994 Courtesy of Antarctic Press This is a listing of the top 200 black and white comics, by DOLLAR VALUE, that were scheduled to be released in 1994. Comics with two colors (such as black and red) are included, but comics with partial color (such as 24 pages in B&W, 8 pages in color) are not. This list includes comic books only, and does not include TPBs, graphic novels, or comic-related items (as defined by Capital City Distributors). **For a key to identify each line, please see the bottom of the chart. RANK TITLE (Publisher, Month, Rank that month) SALES INDEX 1 Sin City: Big Fat Kill #1 (Dark Horse, Nov, 1) 105.8 2 Sin City: The Babe Wore Red (Dark Horse, Nov, 2) 102.2 3 Sin City: A Dame to Kill For #6 (Dark Horse, Apr, 1) 100.0 4 Sin City: A Dame to Kill For #5 (Dark Horse, Mar, 1) 95.4 5 Sin City: Big Fat Kill #2 (Dark Horse, Dec, 1) 94.4 6 Sin City: A Dame to Kill For #3 (Dark Horse, Jan, 1) 92.8 7 Sin City: A Dame to Kill For #4 (Dark Horse, Feb, 1) 91.9 8 Bone #15 (Cartoon Books, Jul, 2) 69.3 9 Bone #16 (Cartoon Books, Oct, 1) 66.5 10 Bone #14 (Cartoon Books, May, 2) 63.8 11 Bone #17 (Cartoon Books, Dec, 2) 61.6 12 Razor/Shi Special #1 (London Night, Aug, 1) 58.6 13 Bone #13 (Cartoon Books, Mar, 2) 49.5 14 Kabuki: Fear the Reaper #1 (Caliber, Nov, 4) 45.5 15 Cry For Dawn Lingerie Book (CFD, Aug, 2) 43.1 16 Bone #10 (Cartoon Books, Feb, 12 & Jan, 20 & Sep, 19) 39.4 17 Zen: Starquest #1 (Express, Mar, 3) 35.7 18 Appleseed Databook #1 (Dark Horse, Mar, 6 & Dec, 34) 34.5 19 Appleseed Databook #2 (Dark Horse, Apr, 11 & Dec, 31) 33.3 20 From Hell #5 (Kitchen Sink, Jun, 8) 32.7 21 Tyrant #1 (Spiderbaby Grafix, Sep, 2) 30.3 22 From Hell #4 (Kitchen Sink, Mar, 11) 30.3 23 Power Rangers Activity Book #1 (Diehard, May, 3) 29.8 24 From Hell #6 (Kitchen Sink, Nov, 16) 29.5 25 Bone #7 (Cartoon Books, Feb, 9 & Sep, 18) 28.5 26 Bone #8 (Cartoon Books, Feb, 7 & Sep, 20) 28.2 27 Bone #9 (Cartoon Books, Feb, 8 & Sep, 21) 28.2 28 Vamperotica #2 (Brainstorm, Aug, 7) 27.1 29 XXX #1 (Dark Horse, Dec, 9) 26.8 30 Power Rangers Activity Book #2 (Diehard, May, 5) 26.7 31 Nightcry #2 (Cry For Dawn, Jul, 12) 26.7 32 Helina #1 (Lightning, Sep, 4) 25.5 33 Vamperotica Swimsuit 1994 (Brainstorm, Oct, 4) 25.3 34 Zen Summer Special: V #1 (Express, Jun, 4) 25.1 35 Northstar Presents: J.O. Barr (Comico, Aug, 4) 24.4 36 Vamperotica #1 (Brainstorm, Aug, 18 & Dec, 50) 24.2 37 Bone #1 (Cartoon Books, Aug, 9) 24.2 38 Oh My Goddess #1 (Dark Horse, Aug, 5) 23.7 39 Zen: Intergalactic Ninja #3 (Express, Jan, 5) 22.8 40 Ranma 1/2 III #7 (Viz, Jun, 5) 22.6 41 Ultraman Classic Battles #1 (Viz, Jan, 13) 22.3 42 Tyrant #2 (Spiderbaby Grafix, Nov, 10) 22.2 43 Ranma 1/2 III #11 (Viz, Oct, 5) 22.2 44 Instant Piano #1 (Dark Horse, Aug, 21) 22.1 45 Cerebus #183 (Aardvark-Vanaheim, Jun, 2) 22.1 46 Dark Horse Presents #90 (Dark Horse, Oct, 3) 22.1 47 Dark Horse Presents #91 (Dark Horse, Nov, 6) 21.9 48 Razor #12 (London Nights, Nov, 13) 21.9 49 Ranma 1/2 III #9 (Viz, Aug, 11) 21.7 50 Ranma 1/2 III #12 (Viz, Nov, 8) 21.7 51 Xenya #2 (Sanctuary, Jul, 6) 21.7 52 Bone #2 (Cartoon Books, Aug, 12) 21.6 53 Vamperotica #3 (Brainstorm, Dec, 6) 21.6 54 Ranma 1/2 III #10 (Viz, Sep, 6) 21.6 55 X-Men Ashcan (Marvel, Jul, 1) 21.5 56 Cherry #16 (Kitchen Sink, Nov, 11) 21.5 57 OJ Simpson Story #5 (First Amendment, Oct, 8) 21.5 58 Cerebus #178 (Aardvark-Vanaheim, Jan, 3) 21.4 59 Cerebus #184 (Aardvark-Vanaheim, Jul, 3) 21.3 60 Ranma 1/2 III #13 (Viz, Dec, 5) 21.3 61 Bone #3 (Cartoon Books, Aug, 13) 21.2 62 Cerebus #186 (Aardvark-Vanaheim, Sep, 3) 21.2 63 Ranma 1/2 III #8 (Viz, Jul, 5) 21.1 64 Cerebus #181 (Aardvark-Vanaheim, Apr, 4) 21.1 65 Cerebus #187 (Aardvark-Vanaheim, Oct, 2) 21.0 66 Cerebus #185 (Aardvark-Vanaheim, Aug, 6) 21.0 67 Cerebus #180 (Aardvark-Vanaheim, Mar, 4) 21.0 68 Cerebus #179 (Aardvark-Vanaheim, Feb, 2) 20.9 69 Dark Horse Presents #88 (Dark Horse, Aug, 8) 20.8 70 Lycanthrocope Leo #1 (Viz, Mar, 7) 20.8 71 Bone #4 (Cartoon Books, Aug, 14) 20.8 72 Dark Horse Presents #89 (Dark Horse, Sep, 5) 20.7 73 Bone #5 (Cartoon Books, Aug, 15) 20.4 74 Johnny Dynamite #1 (Dark Horse, Sep, 9) 20.2 75 Iczer One #1 (Antarctic, Apr, 7) 20.1 76 Xenozoic Tales #13 (Kitchen Sink, Dec, 8) 20.0 77 Razor Annual #2 (London Night, Oct, 12) 20.0 78 Savage Sword of Conan #219 (Marvel, Jan, 4) 20.0 79 Amazing Spiderman Ashcan (Marvel, Apr, 2) 19.9 80 Savage Sword of Conan #224 (Marvel, Jun, 3) 19.8 81 Nausicaa IV #1 (Viz, Jun 6) 19.8 82 Oh My Goddess #5 (Dark Horse, Dec, 4) 19.6 83 Zen: Spring #1 (Express, Apr, 6) 19.5 84 Oh My Goddess #4 (Dark Horse, Nov, 9) 19.5 85 Cerebus #188 (Aardvark-Vanaheim, Nov, 7) 19.4 86 Promise #1 (Viz, Feb, 26) 19.4 87 Bondage Fairies #1 (Antar, Mar, 25 & Sep, 45) 19.4 88 Oz #1 (Caliber, Oct, 13) 19.3 89 Oh My Goddess #2 (Dark Horse, Sep, 6) 19.3 90 Cherry's Jubilee #4 (Kitchen Sink, Apr, 9) 19.2 91 Cerebus #182 (Aardvark-Vanaheim, May, 6) 19.2 92 Razor #11 (London Night, Oct, 15) 19.2 93 Savage Sword of Conan #222 (Marvel, Apr, 5) 19.1 94 Bone #12 (Cartoon Books, May, 9) 19.1 95 Dark Fantasies Mature #1 (Dark Fantasies, Nov, 14) 19.0 96 Cerebus #189 (Aardvark-Vanaheim, Dec, 3) 18.9 97 Rebel Sword: Part One #1 (Dark Horse, Oct, 14) 18.9 98 Savage Sword of Conan #221 (Marvel, Mar, 5) 18.9 99 Bone #11 (Cartoon Books, Apr, 10) 18.8 100 Return of Lum #1 (Viz, Dec, 10) 18.8 101 Ranma 1/2 III #5 (Viz, Apr, 8) 18.7 102 Savage Sword of Conan #220 (Marvel, Feb, 3) 18.7 103 Oh My Goddess #3 (Dark Horse, Oct, 7) 18.6 104 Eo #2 (Rebel Studios, Aug, 16) 18.5 105 Force Works Ashcan (Marvel, Jan, 2) 18.5 106 Vanity Angel #1 (Antarctic, Sep, 14) 18.5 107 Savage Sword of Conan #225 (Marvel, Jul, 4) 18.4 108 Omaha #20 (Kitchen Sink, Jun, 10) 18.2 109 Ranma 1/2 III #6 (Viz, May, 8) 18.2 110 Savage Sword of Conan #226 (Marvel, Aug, 10) 18.1 111 Bondage Fairies #2 (Antarc, Apr, 25 & Oct, 51) 17.7 112 Razor: Suffering #3 (London Night, Oct, 18) 17.7 113 Razor #10 (London Night, Aug, 19) 17.7 114 Omaha Cat Dancer v2 #1 (Fantagraphics, Jun, 7) 17.6 115 Nightcry #1 (Cry For Dawn, Feb, 23) 17.4 116 Savage Sword of Conan #227 (Marvel, Sep, 8) 17.3 117 Battle Angel Alita III #8 (Viz, Jun, 9) 17.3 118 Ranma 1/2 III #4 (Viz, Mar, 10) 17.2 119 Macross II: Micron Conspiracy #1 (Viz, Nov, 15) 17.0 120 Savage Sword of Conan #228 (Marvel, Oct, 6) 17.0 121 Battle Angel Alita III #10 (Viz, Aug, 17) 17.0 122 Dominion Special #1 (Dark Horse, Mar, 8) 17.0 123 Animal Mystic #3 (Sirius, Oct, 11) 17.0 124 Savage Sword of Conan #223 (Marvel, May, 7) 16.9 125 Dark Fantasies Adult #1 (Dark Fantasies, Nov, 18) 16.9 126 Ranma 1/2 III #2 (Viz, Jan, 6) 16.9 127 Zen: Starquest #2 (Express, May, 10) 16.8 128 Girls of NHS 1994 (Antarctic, Apr, 22) 16.8 129 Ultraman Classic Battles #2 (Viz, Feb, 25) 16.8 130 Battle Angel Alita IV #1 (Viz, Dec, 11) 16.8 131 Dark Horse Presents #87 (Dark Horse, Jul, 7) 16.7 132 Hate #15 (Fantagraphics, Mar, 9) 16.6 133 Nausicaa IV #2 (Viz, Jul, 8) 16.6 134 Battle Angel Alita III #12 (Viz, Oct, 17) 16.6 135 Eightball #13 (Fantagraphics, Mar, 12) 16.5 136 Battle Angel Alita III #11 (Viz, Sep, 11) 16.5 137 Razor: Suffering #1 (London Nights, May, 11) 16.4 138 Savage Sword of Conan #229 (Marvel, Nov, 12) 16.4 139 Ranma 1/2 III #3 (Viz, Feb, 4) 16.4 140 Wiindows #16 (Cult Press, Apr, 13) 16.4 141 Nausicaa IV #3 (Viz, Aug, 20) 16.2 142 Battle Angel Alita III #9 (Viz, Jul, 9) 16.1 143 Love and Rockets #44 (Fantagraphics, Mar, 14) 16.1 144 Battle Angel Alita III #13 (Viz, Nov, 17) 16.0 145 Zen: Starquest #3 (Express, Jul, 11) 15.9 146 Eightball #14 (Fantagraphics, Oct, 20) 15.9 147 Zen: Mistress of #1 (Express, May, 12) 15.7 148 Xxxenophile #10 (Palliard, Dec, 14) 15.6 149 Dark Fantasies #2 (Dark Fantasies, Dec, 15) 15.6 150 Savage Sword of Conan #230 (Marvel, Dec, 7) 15.6 151 Bondage Fairies #3 (Antar, May, 28 & Dec, 57) 15.5 152 Instant Piano #2 (Dark Horse, Dec, 25) 15.5 153 Mermaid's Promise #1 (Viz, Aug, 22) 15.4 154 Flaming Carrot #31 (Dark Horse, Oct, 16) 15.4 155 Nausicaa IV #4 (Viz, Sep, 13) 15.3 156 Razor/Dark Angel: Final #2 (London Night, May, 15) 15.3 157 Outlaw Nation #1 (Cry For Dawn, Oct, 40) 15.3 158 Oz #3 (Caliber, Dec, 16) 15.2 159 NHS Yearbook 1994 (Antarctic, Oct, 31) 15.2 160 Nausicaa IV #5 (Viz, Oct, 19) 15.1 161 Razor: Suffering #2 (London Night, Aug, 26) 15.1 162 Love and Rockets #45 (Fantagraphics, Jul, 13) 14.9 163 Dark Horse Presents #92 (Dark Horse, Dec, 12) 14.9 164 Trencher Guide to Comics #1 (Blackball, Apr, 12) 14.9 165 Battle Angel Alita III #6 (Viz, Apr, 15) 14.8 166 Bone #6 (Cartoon Books, Sep, 15) 14.7 167 Love and Rockets #46 (Fantagraphics, Nov, 19) 14.7 168 Dark Horse Presents #86 (Dark Horse, Jun, 11) 14.7 169 Ironwood #10 (Fantagraphics, Aug, 23) 14.6 170 Ultraman Classic Battles #3 (Viz, Mar, 36) 14.5 171 Maison Ikkoku III #1 (Viz, Jul, 17) 14.4 172 Negative Burn #13 (Caliber, Jul, 18) 14.4 173 Mermaid's Scar #1 (Viz, Apr, 16) 14.4 174 Bondage Fairies #6 (Antarctic, Aug, 27) 14.4 175 Generation X Ashcan (Marvel, Sep, 1) 14.4 176 Sanctuary II #9 (Viz, Jan, 29) 14.4 177 Vanity Angel #2 (Antarctic, Oct, 30) 14.3 178 Oz #2 (Caliber, Nov, 21) 14.3 179 Omaha Cat Dancer v2 #2 (Fantagraphics, Jul, 10) 14.3 180 Maison Ikkoku II #6 (Viz, Jun, 17) 14.3 181 Hulk Ashcan (Marvel, Apr, 3) 14.3 182 Battle Angel Alita III #7 (Viz, May, 13) 14.2 183 Ninja High School #40 (Antarctic, Jun, 14) 14.1 184 Bio-Booster Armor Guyver #1 (Viz, Oct, 21) 14.1 185 Battle Binder Plus #1 (Antarctic, Nov, 34) 14.0 186 Young Zen: City of Death #1 (Express, Aug, 31) 14.0 187 Maison Ikkoku III #2 (Viz, Aug, 28) 14.0 188 Zen: Mercenary #2 (Express, Jul, 20) 14.0 189 Dr. Weird Special #1 (Caliber, Feb, 22) 13.9 190 Omaha Cat Dancer v2 #3 (Fantagraphics, Sep, 12) 13.9 191 Battle Angel Alita III #5 (Viz, Mar, 16) 13.9 192 Ninja High School #41 (Antarctic, Jul, 14) 13.9 193 Pantera #1 (Malibu, Jun, 27) 13.9 194 Ninja High School #0 (Antarctic, Jan, 8) 13.7 195 Caravan Kidd III #7 (Dark Horse, Nov, 24) 13.6 196 Caravan Kidd III #2 (Dark Horse, Jun, 12) 13.6 197 Bondage Fairies #5 (Antarctic, Jul, 21) 13.5 198 Maison Ikkoku III #3 (Viz, Sep, 24) 13.5 199 Macross II: Micron Conspiracy #2 (Viz, Dec, 17) 13.4 200 Visions of Curves II (Fantagraphics, Dec, 40) 13.4 KEY: Each line is as follows: Rank, Comic Title, Company, Month of release, rank among B&W books that month, and comparative index of sales. For example, the following line would be deciphered as follows: 47 Dark Horse Presents #91 (Dark Horse, Nov, 6) 21.9 "Dark Horse Presents #91 was the 47th top-selling B&W comic in 1994. It was published by Dark Horse in November, and was the 6th best- selling B&W comic for November. For every $100 worth of Sin City: A Dame to Kill For #6 that were sold, $21.90 worth of DHP #91 were sold." *************David LeBlanc> DAVIDL129@AOL.COM david.leblanc@gaquatic.iii.net RIME->15 FIDO 1:322/518 ... Everything I ever needed to know I learned from comics! __________________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- /--[-6-]--/ CSNsider /-------------------------------------------------/ By: David Leblanc This is the CSNsider from CSN #403, which will be in shops on 3/8/95. It is reproduced in it's entirety with the expressed permission of Comic Shop News. The Black Knight, a part of the Marvel Universe in one version or another for forty years, makes a new home in the Ultraverse later this year and his newest superteam home is UltraForce... And Kyle Hotz is also jumping into the Ultraverse as artist of the upcoming Curse of Rune, which picks up after Rune gains control of Adam Warlock's Soul Gem; he's joining writer Chris Ulm on that new Rune series... Is it true that we can expect major Green-Lantern-style changes in a prominent Marvel hero as his life turns in an evil direction, leading to some time-line maneuvering to thwart his mission?... Abbeville Press has two new DC cover compilations on line for May release: The $11.95 Wonder Woman Tiny Folio, a 320-page small-sized paperback featuring Wonder Woman and related covers from 1942 from the present; and the $19.99 Silver Age of Superman, presenting Action Comics covers from the 1950's to the 1970's in a 144-page hardcover edition... When William Shatner's first Star Trek original novel, Ashes of Eden, debuts in hardcover from Pocket Books (and as an audiobook read by Shatner himself) DC will simultaneously release a graphic novel version of the same story courtesy of Shatner, Judith & Garfield Reeves Stevens, Steve Erwin, and Jimmy Palmiotti... Milestone has come up with a novel way to attract fan interest in their major summer storyline, "The Long Hot Summer": each month, they're going to offer one of their titles for the bargain entry-level price of $.99, beginning with Hardware #29... Look for a new Firearm series to launch soon after the completion of James Robinson's acclaimed eighteen-issue Firearm series... May release Kenner Batman animation figures include Radar Scope Batman and Cyber Gear Batman... Correction time: Howard Chaykin's Fury of SHIELD, initially announced as an ongoing series, is a four-issue limited series instead... The response to Wizard's Inquest gaming-magazine one-shot was so strong that the company has added the magazine to their ongoing publication schedule... The next DC collectible statue (after the June-release Flash) is Wonder Woman... CSN #403 features a cover story on the new Nexus series by Baron & Rude, plus more news and reviews. The only way to get Comic Shop News is to visit a shop that carries CSN. The publication costs the shops just $.10 each and is generally free to customers. If you shop doesn't carry CSN, nag 'em until they do. After all, isn't your business and satisfaction worth a dime a week? (c)1995 CSN,Inc. You can contact Comic Shop News via Email at: Ward Batty wardo@jupiter.netdepot.com Cliff Biggers cliffbig@jupiter.netdepot.com ····────════*David LeBlanc> DAVIDL129@AOL.COM david.leblanc@gaquatic.iii.net RIME->5179 FIDO 1:322/518 ... I am in total control, but don't tell my wife __________________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- /--[-7-]--/ COMICUNICATIONS /------------------------------------------/ By: Ryan Brewster ▌ ▐ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▌ █▀▀▀▀▀▀ ▐▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▌ ▌ █ █▀▀▀█ █▀█▀█ ▀█▀ █▀▀▀ █ █ █▄ █ ▀█▀ █▀▀▀ █▀▀█ ▀█▀ ▀█▀ █▀▀█ █▄ █ █▀▀ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █▀██ █ █ █▀▀█ █ █ █ █ █▀██ ▀▀█ █ ▀▀▀▀▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▀▀ ▀▀▀▀ ▀▀▀▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▀▀ ▀▀▀▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▀▀ ▀▀▀▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▀▀ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ------------Your Not-Quite-So-Weekly Comics Journal---------- ███ ███████ █████ █ █ ███ ████ ████ █ █ ███ ████ █ █ █ ███ ████ ████ ███ The Rumor Mill: Grummett Mutates????: Rumor has it that Tom Grummett is taking over Uncanny X-Men after Age of Apocalypse...? Tom Grummett is currently doing the art chores for DC's Superboy. His past credits include New Titans, Adventures of Superman and Robin for DC. Marvel Makes Another Trip to the Concessions Stand????: Two sources (one from Capital) have reported that Marvel is soon to buy Capital Cities Distribution!! Let's hope this is just a nasty rumor; apparantly, this rumor has been around before... Marvel has been buying companies out like popcorn, having acquired Welsh Publishing, Malibu Comics and Heroes World Distribution within the last year, in an attempt to, well, revamp themselves. They have dubbed this the 'Marvelution'. I'll dub it the 'Crisis of Infinite Debts'.... Super-News: As Dan Jurgens leaves the helm of DC's Superman, Ron Frenz (Thunder- strike, Thor, Spider-Man) will take over the regular art chores. Warner Brothers have given the go-ahead to develope a new Superman animated series, to be made by the same people who were behind the popular Adventures of Batman & Robin show. Jon Peters (Those 3 Batman movies) is showing interest in returning the S-Man to the big screen... Futurians Return... again!: Dave Cockrum, the popular X-Men artist (Giant-Sized X-Men #1, wasn't it?) of old, returns with his creator-owned title Futurians. The Futurians team made its debut in a 1983 Marvel Graphic Novel (#9), and graduated to its own series from Lodestone in 1985. It was cancelled after a 3-issue run, or perhaps it was just a miniseries. In any case, the superhero team returns with Futurians #0 in May from Aardwolf Publications. It will then migrate to Image Comics to be done most likely by a Liefeld clone, as Rob bought the rights last year. >sigh<. Nightwing gets a Mini!: It was announced in the letter column of a recent Batman that Batman's old kid sidekick will recieve his own miniseries this year. Dick was Batman's first Robin, followed by Jason (who was killed) and Tim (now), and split with Batman when Batman felt he was too much of a responsibility. Dick made a new costume up, assumed a new name, and proceeded to risk his life as he did before... Solar goes Biweekly: Contrary to previous reports, Dan Jurgen's Solar _WILL_ go to a biweekly schedule, making Shadowman Valiant's only monthly title. Strazewski writes for Negative Burn: Len Strazewski, co-author of Ultraverse's popular Prime comic, author of Prototype for Ultraverse, and writer of DC's short-lived series Justice Society of America (one of the finer books the company has put out) will write a story for May's Negative Burn #23 (Calibur), entitled "The Last of the Hero Society". The Best Gimmick: Starting in May and through the rest of '95, one DC Milestone comic per month (the titles have moved to better paper/printing) will be only 99 cents, to entice new readers. Parobeck to draw Robin: Mike Parobeck, the extremely talented artist of Batman Adventures and Justice Society of America, will handle the art chores of Robin #18. Mary Marvel returns: Mary Marvel of the SHAZAM mythos, gets her own solo story in The Power of SHAZAM #5. Lex Luthor Returns(tm): Superman: Man of Tomorrow #1 will feature the return of Lex Luthor to the four - oops - FIVE (count 'em) Superman books. Grummett will provide the art while Stern spins the tale. Man of Tomorrow is a quarterly book to fill in the 'skip weeks' in the Superman family schedule. Batman will recieve a quarterly as well, this one an anthology entitled Batman Chronicles. May is Spawn Month: In May, Spawn recieves a new costume (Spawn #32), a TPB of issues 1-5 of Spawn comes out, Al Simmons stars with Chapel et al in Operation: Knightstrike, and Alan Moore's Badrock/Violator mini begins. Incidentally, Alan will also write a Spawn mini in the summer, this one called Blood Feud... May is Wildstorm Month: Huh? Anyways, the very tentatively titles WildStorm Crossover has become Wildstorm Rising, and it will be written by Robinson, Seagle, Marz and Dixon. Not a bad lot, eh? Barry Windsor-Smith will provide covers. A quick survival guide: Robinson: Seagle: Marz: Dixon: Bookend #1 Grifter Backlash A Team 7 WildCATS Deathblow Stormwatch Prequel... Union Wetworks Bookend #2 The WildCATS series may end with Robinson's issue #25... Marvel/Malibu Crossovers Abound: Loki, Warlock and Black Knight (who will become a permanent resident of UV, to reside in the UltraForce team) are among the Marvel characters invading the Ultraverse this month. I knew it wouldn't take long... Lois & Clark Ratings Watch: The return of Lex Luthor in ABC-TV's Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman seems to have done well with the fans as it goes from being tied at #40 to jump to #35 overall, #2 in its timeslot. ABC Prevailed in adults 18-49 from 7-9 P.M. with America's Funniest Home Videos and Lois & Clark. A quick breakdown for 8:00 Sunday: viewers rating share rank Murder she wrote 22.6 15.6 24 13 Lois n Clark 19.7 11.3 18 30 Simpsons 15.1 9.2 15 56 Seaquest DSV 13.6 8.5 13 73 Bronson Pinchott (co-star of ABC's "Perfect Strangers")reprises his role as the Prankster in tonight's episode. Acme Comics Library gets Wired!: In the TIRED/WIRED section of a recent issue of Wired Magazine, 'Acme Comics Library' was dubbed 'WIRED' (cybernerd's way of saying 'COOL'), as opposed to Eightball, which was labeled 'TIRED'. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This document is Copyright (c) Ryan Brewster, 1995 and may be distributed freely, so long as it remains un-edited and complete (both parts). __________________________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- /--[-8-]--/ FEEDBACK /-------------------------------------------------/ By: The Readers! See YOUR name in print! 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