From: Richard Johnston <[t--i--t] at [ketchup.cts-group.co.uk]>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.info
Subject: Rich's Recommendations
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 96 04:26:12 GMT

First, Knockabout won the Crumb battle at customs! Everyone cheer!

Medusa Comics of Oxford looks no more.

Previews is getting more confusing... nevertheless, I dived in!

A form! I love forms. Except this is so bloody US-ocentric for an
international magazine.

Acclaim. My god, I'm ordering 5 titles from Acclaim. They are Armed and
Dangerous Special, Bad Eggs, Sliders, Killer Instinct and Punx Redux.

Scary.

Especially when I'm only ordering 2 Dark Horse; Sin City because Miller has
to get better sometime, and Concrete because Chadwick is god.

DC. Aha! Ellis month! 2 titles from DC, Hitman and Preacher. Seekers, yup.
Invisibles yup. Flex Mentallo? At last! Morrison and Quitely! Whattateam.
Ahem. Death... not by Bachalo? Oooh.. Dreaming 1. When's Ushaw's issues?
Sergio Aragones... good. Hang on... Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight by
Warren Ellis? Is this the first sale to US mainstream finally being
published? We'll see Silencers next. Blood and Shadows, Hellblazer, Swamp
Thing, not to mention the Paradox pieces, System and Project.

Image. Body Count for Bisley. Bone 24, WildCATS 29, Grifter/Shi 2... so much
Charest I feel spoiled. Maxx: Friends, more Ellis with Medieval Spawn, More
Moore with Spawn/WildCATS.

Okay. The good stuff. Cerebus, Skeleton Key, Phage, Exit, Negative Burn,
Comics Journal, Naughty Bits, Asylum4 for those 4 vital pages. Strangers in
P, 101 Things resolicted, Soulsearchers, Underwater, Bacchus. Megaton Man vs
Forbidden Frankenstein? Don's desparate for sales... aren't we all. Hothead
Paisan may still be in love, Giant THB 8, Rarebit Fiends, ooh, probably
Creed/TMNT and Reality Check.

Bloody hell, too many comics. Oh shit, and then there's Hulk, Ultraforce,
Cyclops and Phoenix, more Sergio and Excalibur from those Marvel people. And
I haven't even seen Advance Comics yet.



Richard Johnston
Unemployed copywriter.
Creator and Publisher of Dirtbag and X-Flies as Twist and Shout Comics.
Reviewer and Networks contributor for Comics International, and reviewer for
Indy.
X-Flies Conspiracy is solicited in this month's Previews and Advance Comics