In our last episode, DAVE JANSEN and ALL were battling 
 over Xena comic. 
 DJ> I wish that they had just given her a monthly reguler series, or even
 DJ> a bi weekly one.Overall, They've been well drawn & written, 
 It is rather curious that Topps keeps releasing the Xena comics as 
 3-issue mini-series instead of just going the monthly route.  And 
 even more so that they are overlapping them, starting another before
 the first one is finished.  I think what may have happened is that
 when the started the Hercules monthly it didn't do very well, so
 even though Xena turned out to be a big hit on TV, even bigger than
 Hercules, they decided to give her a shot at a comic book, but were
 reluctant to comit to a monthly.  After the first Xena mini-series
 was successful, Topps must have decided they liked that format,
 and have stuck with it.  Actually I don't really mind, because 
 this was I can usually get two Xena comics a month.  Plus I get
 to watch her on TV 3 or 4 times a week.     
 
 DJ> but the magazine seems padded.
 And even so, it is rather thin.  If it weren't Xena, I'm not sure
 it would be worth the money for me.  
 
 DJ> Topps is VERY lucky to have landed this book!
 DJ> Quite a cope to snatch it away from marvel,dc, & dark horse! 
 
 DC I can understand, in that the Xena TV show is distributed
 by Universal, and DC Comics is owned by Warner Bros. so maybe
 they didn't want to give the competition the business.  And
 Toy Biz seems to have sort of blown it with the Xena action
 figures, so maybe this soured Universal on Marvel too, which
 owned Toy Biz.  So this leave Dark Horse, who already has several
 licensed books.  Maybe Universal felt they would get more
 personal service from Topps, which doesn't publish very many
 other comics.
... "Don't talk to your breakfast."  ___ Xena
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