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- From: jrd@frame.com (James Drew)
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- Subject: Re: MISC: Sucking up......
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 16:13:04 -0600
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- Peter David (Peter_A_David@cup.portal.com) writes:
-
- Subject: Re: Sucking up......
-
- >If some is positive to a very large degree, I will. For example, I told Jame
- >Fry how a lot of people on various computer nets seemed to enjoy "Slapstick,"
- >a book very near to his heart which got *no* promotion at all from Marvel.
-
- Although it did get a big story in Comics Buyer's Guide, about how Slapstick
- was to premiere on one of the sets of trading cards.
-
- >On the other hand, I don't run around and say, "Hey, Usenet is tearing you
- >to shreds." On occasion I have been asked. Scott Lobdell, for example, was
- >*very* anxious to know what people were saying about his writing. I said
- >to him, basically, "Ohhhh, Scott...you don't *really* want to know that."
-
- And you're right. Scott's recent work on Excalibur convinced me to never
- again pick up that book without checking the writing credits first, and to
- return any other writing of his I mistakenly buy in the future for a refund.
- Scott may have decent writing skills, but on Excalibur, he has proved that he
- has no sense of the characters' "voices." *None* of them "sounded" correct,
- like they do/did under either Claremont or Davis.
-
- ------------------------------
- | "What are the odds?!" said Tam, waving a
- Jim Drew | piece of paper tape. "*Three* fortunes in a
- jrd@frame.com | row, and *all* the same!"
- (Furry: Randy Puritan) | I took the tape and read it aloud.
- "Innocent, but not naive." | "Hershey... Hershey..."
- B(2)h t c k s g+(p) rv p e | "He has *Ch*inese *c*ookies confused with
- S8/5 g l+ y+ o+ a+ u++- j++ | *ch*ocolate *k*isses," I told Ron.
- {opinions: mine != frame's} | "His alliterative attempts are *always*
- | annoying," Ron replied.
- | - Marc Lynx, "Gaol House Rock"
-