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- From: cje@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Cthulhu's Jersey Epopt)
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- Subject: Re: Favorite Writers
- Message-ID: <Dec.22.15.35.16.1992.11039@gandalf.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 20:35:16 GMT
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- ast2r@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Andrew Symons Troth) writes:
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- >Gerard Jones (okay, I'll explain this one, since so many of you
- > seem to utterly loathe him: I have never become more emotionally
- > involved in a comic story than I did in almost every issue of
- > El Diablo. Since then, Jones' work has been uneven, but I think
- > GL: Mosaic is a brilliant experiment, and I'm delighted at the
- > humanity he has brought to the characters of JLE (go ahead and
- > flame--I might respond or I might not). On the other hand, I
- > tried to read an issue of Wonder Man the other day and didn't
- > get past about page 4).
-
- I'll second the recommendation of Jones as a fave writer. I flat-out love his
- GL books (including GUY GARDNER, and I don't find Guy appealing), and I really
- liked THE SHADOW STRIKES. (It wasn't Baker/Helfer, but hey...) I think
- characterization is his strong point, but his plots work well, too.
-
- >and now, how about...
- >The WORST writers!
-
- >Gerry Conway (later issues of Firestorm, LSH run...I could go on...)
-
- I find Gerry wildly uneven. I think his best work was done on the
- Spider-titles (both runs), but pretty much any team book he does has problems.
-
- >Mike Collins (I *tried* to read Thunderbolt, I really did...)
-
- What's the problem with THUNDERBOLT? I'm enjoying it as a basic super-hero
- book.
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- Yog-Sothoth Neblod Zin,
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- Chris Jarocha-Ernst Rutgers University Computing Services
- Internet: cje@gandalf.rutgers.edu BITnet: JAROCHAERNST@ZODIAC
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