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- Subject: Re: Vertigo Preview
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- Date: 1 Jan 93 01:33:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.235717.13782@netcom.com>, dani@netcom.com (Dani Zweig) writes...
- >(Beyond that necessitated by the fact that Animal Man, Shade, and
- >most of the Doom Patrol are dead, that is.) If the preview is any
-
- Actually, Buddy is back, and grittier than ever. That's right with his
- four books: Animal Man, the Adventures of Animal Man, Animal Comics Starring
- Animal Man, and Animal Man: Man of Fur, you can rad about the adventure as four
- different clones Buddy walk around in everyone else's book to try to bring up
- DC's sagging sales. ;)
-
- (Note: Buddy is alive again, as a human being, as of this week's issue.
- I wish Jamie Delano could right for all of Marvel, too. They need it.)
-
- >Kid Eternity: "The continuing tale of a dead-again adolescent."
- >Written by Ann Nocenti, which I consider a weak recommendation, but
- >not a kiss of death. The preview has the Kid informing two people
- >who don't much like each other that they have the potential to produce
- >a Buddha Baby -- and ought to give it a try. My first impression is
- >that this title will be feature facile writing and unlikable characters.
-
- I was quite disappointed with the preview. I liked the Kid Eternity
- mini-series that Morrison did a couple years back. I also liked Ann
- Nocenti's past writing chores, but this seems to be forced. The
- characters didn't flow. I guess I can't make a judgment on a 2 page
- preview. I'll probably pick up the first few issues.
-
- >Black Orchid: I'll give this title a try, of course, since the
- >mini-series was so good. It's not clear how much connection this
- >ongoing title will have to that mini-series. The writer is different
- >(who's Dick Foreman?) and Black Orchid has been rather pointlessly
- >gifted with mind-control powers. (And what kind of a death-wish
- >pseudonym is "Flora Black"?)
-
- This also falls into the same catagory as the Kid Eternity series.
- With a different and unknown writer(i have never heard of him either),
- I will probably will be shooting craps with this title too.
-
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