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... ------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 05 Oct 92 12:00:00 +0200 From: Moderator of OS/2 Discussion Forum <OS2MOD@BLEKUL11> Organization: K.U. Leuven university, Belgium, EUROPE Subject: Long time, no see ... Don't blaim your system engineers, don't blaim the Internet, ... You did not receive any issue from us since the 920901 issue of Sep., 09. We will make up with this huge issue, of which of course some of the items will be outdated ... This issue contains over 3100 lines of information, questions and answers based on what we received in the Sep. 09 - Oct. 05 time frame. If you did not receive al ...

... ____________ RATINGS AT A GLANCE: Titles shipped December 1999 ------------------------------------------------------------ Prepared by Shane Travis <travis@kryptonian-cybernet.com> Key: ---- Issue -- Issue for which 'Current' Rating and Rank are calculated. The 'Previous' columns refer to the issue immediately prior to this. Rating -- Average Rating, in Shields (maximum rating is 5.0). The number in () indicates how many people submitted ratings. Rank -- The relative ranking of the book among the regularly-published Superman titles. (T) indicates a tie. Average -- Average of the ratings for this title over the previous six issues, each of w ...

... equences. Now that he's learned to fight, though, Superman is even more powerful than before... who will be able to stop him? Review by: Thomas Deja <blackair@gis.net> There is a thing in the music industry called the Sophomore Curse. The Curse dictates that every time you have a band with a tremendous debut album, more often than not their second album is going to suck. No one knows why this is. So here's the new team's sophomore effort. You'll be pleased to know it escapes the Curse, providing the proper sensawonda moments while advancing the plot. You know what I'm talking about when I refer to sensawonda: moments where you sit there with ...

... _____________ RATINGS AT A GLANCE: Titles shipped October 1999 ------------------------------------------------------------ Prepared by Shane Travis <travis@kryptonian-cybernet.com> Great Caesar's Ghost! Wouldja just *look* at those ratings? That's the thought that kept running through my mind as I edited this month's reviews and amassed the ratings. Team Super pulled out all the stops in October, giving us not only an impressive debut of the new Triangle Title creative teams, but some excellent stories and visuals by long-time scribes. Maybe everyone wanted to give us their best effort before Kaycee nominations closed... Key: ---- Issue -- ...

... __________ RATINGS AT A GLANCE: Titles shipped September 1999 ------------------------------------------------------------- Prepared by Shane Travis <travis@kryptonian-cybernet.com> Not much to say this month, other than that I'm glad it's *over*. I refer to the anxious waiting for the new creative teams to come aboard, and also incidentally to the Strange Visitor story arc. Everyone I've spoken to who's already seen the October-published comics has had nothing but good to say about them... but that's next-month country as far as this column is concerned. Before we can bring in the new, however, we have to usher out the old one final time... ...

... _____________ RATINGS AT A GLANCE: Titles shipped August 1999 ------------------------------------------------------------- Prepared by Shane Travis <travis@kryptonian-cybernet.com> Key: ---- Issue -- Issue for which 'Current' Rating and Rank are calculated. The 'Previous' columns refer to the issue immediately prior to this. Rating -- Average Rating, in Shields (maximum rating is 5.0). The number in () indicates how many people submitted ratings. Rank -- The relative ranking of the book among the regularly-published Superman titles. (T) indicates a tie. Average -- Average of the ratings for this title over the previous six issues, each of w ...

... rtment or dorm. I even had to buy a washer and dryer for the first time -- and it's pretty hard not to feel older when you buy your first appliances <g>. At work (I'm now an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at West Virginia Wesleyan College, by the way), students are calling me "Doctor". I have my own office for the first time in my life. Last weekend, all the new freshmen arrived on campus (yet another nice little tie-in to my theme), and I wore my full academic regalia for the first time at our opening convocation. Oh, and I'm finally getting paid a reasonable salary for all the work I'll be doing. :) So I'm feeling kind of an overwhelmi ...

... s of Superman comics are obtained from KC readers. To become a contributor, or to obtain information about what is required, contact Shane Travis at <travis@kryptonian-cybernet.com>. __________________________________________ THE KC NEWSROOM --------------------------------- By Joshua Elder (j-elder@nwu.edu) IT'S ALL GOOD I spent the weekend of July 16-18 at the WizardWorld Comic Con and it has given me hope for the future. I'll be relating to you all the Superman info I picked up, including my thoughts on the preview issues I read from the new creative teams. THE NEW GUYS I suppose the most exciting thing for me while I was at the conventio ...

... ve average -- something we haven't seen since Scott McCloud was writing _Superman Adventures_ and only three dedicated fans were providing comments. <g> "But when it was bad, it was horrid." JLA #31 - This book continues on its downward spiral as far as Panelists ratings go. In the last five months, it has seen steadily diminishing appreciation, as the ratings have fallen from 3.6 to 3.5 to 3.2 to 3.0 to this month's all-time low mark of 2.6 Shields. Even more than the "Rock of Ages" arc, people seem to have become confused and turned off by the multiplicity of ideas and images thrown at them by the ever-ambitious Mr. Morrison. "Opinions are ...

... ratings accompanying the monthly reviews of Superman comics are obtained from KC readers. Anyone interested in contributing may contact Shane Travis <travis@kryptonian-cybernet.com> and will be added to the monthly mailing-list to receive a Ratings Form. __________________________________________ THE KC NEWSROOM --------------------------------------------- By Jeff Sykes (sykes@kryptonian-cybernet.com) A PEACE OF ROSS Alex Ross' original art for _Superman: Peace on Earth_ will be auctioned on June 28 by the Warner Bros. Studio Store Gallery and Sotheby's in support of the U.S. Committee for UNICEF. If you can't afford to bid on the originals ...