From: DONTHEN             
To: SNAKEBYTE           
Subject: Who????        
Date & Time: 04/24/90 12:30:13
Message Number  3940

That's odd.  Green Lantern and Buck Rogers still have comics (well, the
new Buck Rogers may not have started yet, but it's going to come back
real soon	 if it hasn't).  Evidently his mother didn't do the comics
thing at all; of course, if she's in her late twenties or thirties, she
was growing up in the 60's, when it seems a lot of comics were kind of
being ignored by both the general public and the companies that put them
out.  There were always notable exceptions over the decades, but for the
most part, the idea of writing/drawing a comic without saying "we want
to appeal to demographic group 'X', so we should use plot formulas
'Y' and 'Z' for this title"--in other words, the revolutionary idea that
it was possible to tell an intelligent story that would appeal to adult
science fiction/fantasy fans without using any of the boneheaded comics
cliches that were becoming old in the late 40's--didn't show up until
the late 70's.  (Yes, I'm deliberately ignoring underground comics in
that definition, because I think they did the "we want to appeal to 'X'
by using 'Y' and 'Z'" just as much as Marvel & DC did: they just set the
variables differently.)