European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 1, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Gulf War comic Book by Ron Jensen Nurnberg Bureau s a War operation desert storm was immensely popular. But the comic Book version is being received by the Public no better than Peter Arnett s Baghdad broadcasts. The editor of Apple comics in Greencastle pa., said last week that it might Stop publication of desert storm journal after the ninth or 10th Issue making the illustrated liberation of Kuwait an even nastier Victory than the real one. Issue no. 8 featuring the Battle of Khanji was recently distributed to stores. We re not Selling enough on the comic Book Market to support it Quot said Hilary Hughes. Quot the demographics of comic store customers is generally mid to upper teen aged boys. They be moved on. Quot we can t afford to promote it the Way Marvel promotes  one problem May be the series protagonist Scott Quot journal Quot Neithammer a reporter for an unnamed publication who tries to skirt the military s tight press controls journalists during the persian Gulf War often were considered Benedict Arnolds with Laptop computers. Quot an awful lot of people that i be tried to sell them to at conventions have said of he s a journalist Quot Hughes said. For Hughes that was the Point of the series. It was Apple comics Hope to bring to readers Quot the War you did t see on to Quot As the company s ads proclaim. The bimonthly comic which first appeared in the summer of 1991, would examine new revelations through the eyes of Neithammer a korean War Veteran who was a reporter in Vietnam. But there has been precious Little new information about the War since the fighting ended two years ago so writer and artist Don Lomax a Vietnam Veteran has been unable to Tell anything other than the party line spooned out during the War and gleaned from a Supply of newspaper and news magazines from the time. Apple comics specializes in War comics. Vietnam journal is also written and drawn by Lomax and features the Neithammer character during his Days As a reporter in Vietnam. It has been desert storm journal sales suffer because the protagonist is a journalist. Around for 25 issues Selling in Large part to Vietnam veterans and touching on ongoing issues such As the pow Mia controversy. The company also publishes a comic Book set in world War la along with some science fiction and horror titles. If it sounds like the people at Apple Are warmongers that s the wrong impression Hughes said. Quot warmongering is not Why we do War comics Quot she said. Quot we want people to think about it. War is not guts and glory. Quot i think its important not to fight if you Don t have to. And if you do there Are terrible consequences. We want kids to know  like its other War comics desert storm journal stresses authenticity. Anyone who saw the real City of Khanji in saudi Arabia will recognize landmarks in the comic Book. Hughes said the Pentagon furnished the company with information concerning weapon systems. Lomax s two sons in the military provide him with current Slang. Quot we take Pride in that Quot Hughes said. Quot we Don t want it to be wrong. We try very hard to avoid an error in  Pete Williams the Pentagon spokesman supplied the company with a list of War dead which ran in the first issues As a desert storm Honor Roll the publishers interviewed persian Gulf War veterans to assist with the authenticity. However they have been reluctant to discuss the War in detail she said which has also Hurt the a a company s attempt to go beyond the television images of the War. Quot they la say of yeah i was there. It was no big Deal Quot she said. Quot that s about All they want to  one described for Hughes the scorpion fights staged by soldiers to relieve the boredom. Quot one of the biggest problems there was the tedium Quot she said. Quot tedium does t sell comic  of information about obtaining issues of Quot do amp Ert storm journal Quot write Apple comics Pobo 610. Greencastle a 17225 Short subjects we Peakin English Yere Bain t we by the associated press londoner Tom Mcarthur has spent six years editing an authoritative new reference Book which surveys English from aboriginal English to zimbabwean English from a to Zummer  Oxford companion to the English language spans 20 centuries and 104 countries in which English has become a significant language. A trying to produce an a to z Survey Over All the centuries As used by All manner of Folk in All kinds of places for ail sorts of purposes made going to sea in a Sieve look quite Safe Quot Mcarthur remarked recalling Edward Lear s jumbles. Zummer zet his final entry is the comic name for Somerset in Western England. The drawling rustic manner of speech there replacing a a so a with Quot Zand a of a a with a a a Quot is supposed to produce phrases like a Larrr that la be Roit Zurr Quot and a we ainu to Zeen him  the dialect also employs special forms of a be a As in a we be Happy Yere Bain t we Quot Mcarthur writes. Besides the obvious noun pronoun verb preposition and participle there Are entries on amphibole ambiguity caused by Lack of grammatical clarity lexical bar social boundaries arising from speech and yoga the name of a letter in English before the 12th Century. The companion is full of up As Well As knowledge. Look up a spoon prism a for example. The Rev. . Spooner was Dean and Warden of new College at Oxford University. He lived from 1844 to 1930 and became eponymous for proneness to transposing the initial sounds of words. Examples include Quot Ket of seas Quot for set v a of keys a"well-1 boiled icicle Quot and a a scoop of boy  some of the Best Are supposed to have been invented by Spooner s students but lets Hope he was the author of this one a you have hissed All my mystery lectures and tasted a whole  you have missed Ali my history lectures and wasted a whole term the companion also prints ethnic names even the offensive ones. A a in a not afraid of writing about such matters As ethnic slurs and taboo words need to be aired and perhaps defused a Mcarthur said. A otherwise we Are sanitizing the language and the aim of the companion is to be comprehensive Abd to the language a he said