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PIPELINE COMMENTARY AND REVIEW #25
23 November 1997
by Augie De Blieck Jr.
http://www.nic.com/~augie/pipeline
UPDATE TIME!
Welcome to a special 25th Collector's Item edition of Pipeline
Commentary and Review, now published for 25 straight weeks, without one
single skip week! Thanks, as always, for your return patronage week in and
week out.
UNCLE SAM #1
Well, I should have known better. Bring up anything resembling a
right-wing political view in Internet comics fandom and be prepared to have
them jump down your throat. =) Such is what has happened on CompuServe's
most excellent Comics/Animation Forum, where this column goes largely ignored
week in and week out, until such a time as politics gets brought up. Maybe I
should redesign this column to take a political view of each week's comics.
::duck grin run::
In any case, there occasionally presents itself a voice of reason. Such
is the case with John Mattaboni, who posted this review of the book, which I
trashed here a couple of weeks ago as a piece of left-wing propoganda:
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Oh my. Darnall and Ross really let it all hang out in this one.
Here's a recap, just to save everyone who hasn't yet read the book
$4.95: All non-liberals are racist, greedy, environment destroying,
indian killing, war loving, crime promoting, torture camp running,
uncaring, health care with-holding, child executing, gay hating, job
destroying, oil spilling, minority lynching, militia attending, bank
foreclosing liars. Oh, and you elected Rush Limbaugh to the Senate.
And in case you hadn't noticed, the media is the tool of the
conservative right.
I wonder how many trees had to be cut down to print this.
JLM
PS: I further wonder if the the evil profit made from it will be
donated to charity. Perhaps then the world will be perfect.
PPS: I am NOT a Republican.
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Well put, John. And I agree with you 100%. (Well, all except that part
at the end about not being a Republican. I'll cop to that.)
We're all waiting for the second part of this mini-series to see if it
can redeem itself.
CHILDHOOD'S END #1
This is the excellent issue produced under Image's non-line by Malcolm
Bourne and Jim Calafiore. I exhorted you all to go out and buy it, for its
depth, for its artistic excellence, for its interesting characters, and its
truths.
Apparently, you didn't. =( I received an e-mail from Malcolm the other
day letting me know that the series is currently dead in the water. Sales
weren't high enough to continue with it at current levels. So it's been put
off for a later time and date and publisher. Let's hope the rest of the
issues surface somewhere soon.
FUNNIEST COMICS OF THE YEAR?
I also praised QUANTUM AND WOODY last week for being the funniest comic
of the year. Then friend of this column, Joe Torcivia, wrote to remind me of
the most recent issue of DEAD-POOL and the Death of Mxy issue of SUPERMAN:
THE MAN OF STEEL. Well, while I still think it funnier than the excellent
Mxy issue, it is a tough call between it and DEAD-POOL. Upon further
thought, I'm going to give it to DEAD-POOL. All three of these comics were
hilarious, though, and I recommend them once more to you.
DUMPING COMICS
I mentioned last week that it didn't look good for COVEN, as far as I
was concerned. I might still pick up the next issue if it comes out on a
slow week, but I've since formulated a list of comics I don't plan on buying
anymore. To wit: COVEN, FIGHTING AMERICAN, IMPULSE, MARVEL VISION, PITT,
TEEN TITANS, TMNT, MAGE, LOUDER THAN WORDS. And I plan on picking up Gen13
BOOTLEG based on 'net reviews. If it sounds good, I'll go for it. I'm also
skipping the most recent issue of GEN13, but will hop back on the bandwagon
with Gary Frank's first issue. LOUDER THAN WORDS was tough to justify
any longer. It's a fine book, but it's 32 pages of silent gags and doesn't
take too long to read. I don't get a satisfying feeling from it, basically.
If it were color, that might have helped. But for me to spend $3 on a black
and white book, it had better be worth it, like it is with BONE. The one on
this list which hurts the most is TMNT. It comes out of Erik Larsen's corner
of Image, to which I'm very dedicated, and he and Gary Carlson are doing some
nice things and some challenging things. But when the latest issue came out
and I couldn't remember where everyone was, and I realized I just didn't care
all that much and that the art wavers too much from issue to issue, I added
it to my list.
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO... ?!?
Whatever happened to the promised review of DIVINE RIGHT? Well, school
got in the way. I still want to write that column and expose many of the
shortcomings of the series, but it'll have to wait until the second half of
December.
-Augie
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