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COMICS from Page 7
Corps is a humorous sci fi romp,
lightweight but basically well done.
Justic League, Keith GifTen,
J.M. DeMatteis, Kevin Ma
quire, Al Gordon
After last year's "Legends," DC
took the Justice League of America,
dropped the "Of America" and redid
the membership from the ground up
for the second time in three years.
That's a sure sign of a team book in
trouble.
The writing's OK and the art is
good, but I have serious doubts
about the book's ability to survive.
The problem is the membership.
Over here you've got Dr. Fate, Cap
tain Marvel, a Green Lantern (can't
walk around the block without trip
ping over one these days) and the
Martian Manhunter, any one of whom
could raze a major city in a single
working day without skipping lunch
or going overtime. And over there
you've got the Batman, Mr. Miracle,
Black Canary and Blue Beetle, who
can beat up thugs real good. The big
guns make the rest of the team
pointless. Rumors are that Super
man and Wonder Woman will join
soon. That'll do wonders for team
balance.
The book has the Batman as the
leader of the team, and DeMatteis
gives him a Dirty Harry-style gallows
humor that was fun for a while, but
that's rapidly becoming annoying.
Right now the Justice League is
riding high, but I think it's going to
collapse under its own weight.
The Flash, Mike Baron, Jack
son Guice, Larry Mahlstedt
I saved the best for last. There's
nothing new or amazing about either
the content or the execution of this
book, it's just very well done.
The art is excellent and Barron's
writing is superb. Tight plots, inter
esting, completely thought-out char
acters, crisp dialogue that tells the
story without a lot of exposition or
interruption.
If any of you are keeping score,
the Flash we grew up with was Barry
Allen. He's dead. This Flash is Wally
West. Wally used to be Kid Flash,
Barry Allen's kid sidekick in the
'60s. Wally is a lot slower than Barry
used to be, and he can't vibrate
through walls. Got it?
This is far from being a classic
book, but the Flash typifies every
thing that's good about mainstream
superhero comics in the '80s. Highly
recommended to everyone.
TMiugs to dl this shhiemof
The city of Lincoln holds more fun than you ever imagined
By Joeth Zucco
Staff Reporter
Without pointless novels to read
for history, term papers dealing
with everything from the mean
ing of love in Romeo and Juliet to the
probable cause of WW III, and cram
ming for six midterms in less than 24,
hours, it would seem that Lincoln
would have nothing to offer during the
summer months. Quite the contrary.
The Acreage kicks off the summer
months with the Strawberry Festival
May 30 and 31. Karla Mason said the
festival continues through June. Events
feature dipping strawberries in choco
late, making strawberry jam over an
open fire, testing strawberry recipies,
and viewing arts and crafts exhibits.
Mason said The Acreage will open its
strawberry field so people can pick
their own.
On July4, The Acreage will sponsor
Chautauqua, an annual historical event.
Mason said that it's different every
year, but deals with someone imper
sonating a historical figure. Last year
Betsy Ross was portrayed. No one has
been chosen yet for this year.
Besides the historical aspect, there
are kid's games and red, white and blue
ice cream sundaes, again, the empha
sis is on food. Mason said that Chau
tauqua started in the 1880s in Chau
tauqua, N.Y., as a way of publicizing
politics and evolved into a social event.
She said it became especially popular
in the Midwest as a form of entertain
ment during the summer.
The Flatwater Festival, June 19
through 21, on Lincoln's streets
around 13th and R and at UNL, is a
visual and performing arts festival in
its second year. According to Flatwater
official Vic Gutman, there will be 90
visual and 15 to 20 performing artists
and groups. The 90 artists will display
and sell their works. There will be two
stages for the performing artists. There
will be a children's fair with about 20
activities ranging from old games to
arts and crafts to educational activi
ties. Sheldon will have a film festival
throughout the weekend.
Dan Ladely, director of Sheldon Film
Theater, said film maker Robert Mugge
will be on hand June 20 and 21 at the
evening showings of his films, which
are music and musician documentar
ies. Admission if $4. There will. also be
free films from 1 1 a.m. to 6 p.m. About
50 to 60 short live-action and animated
films will be shown in five film pack
ages. This year's theme is comedy.
Two nationally known story tellers
will share their talents. Jackie
Torrance from South Carolina and
Kathryn Windaham from Alabama will
"tell" in Love Library or the College of
Business Administration on June 20
and 21. Saturday night ghost stories
will be told in the Sheldon Sculpture
Garden from 9 p.m. to midnight.
Gutman expects 60,000 people to
attend.
Lincoln's Haymarket also will be a
bustling spot. The first major event is
the artisan fair May 17. Six blocks of
outdoor arts and crafts displays for sale
will crowd the sidewalks. There also
will be demonstrators, music, enter
tainment and food. Lou Shields, presi
dent of the Haymarket Development
Corporation, said that many of the
artists are from outstate.
Haymarket Hay Days will be July 25.
Similar to the artis"an fair, it will have
outdoor entertainment, games, activi
ties, public-service booths, sidewalk
sales, public participation events and
food. Shields said that every Saturday
from June to September starting at 9
a.m. and running till 2 p.m. area
farmers, cooks and craftsmen will sell
fresh farm produce, baked goods, jel
lies and jams, and handmade crafts at
an outdoor farmer's market. Enter
tainment also will be featured.
Because of its central location and
easy access, Lincoln will be host to the
North Central Rollerskating Champion
ships, the U.S. Amateur Rollerskating
Championships and the National Model
Aeronautics Championships this sum
mer. The regional rollerskating cham
pionships will be June 21 to 25 for
art skating and June 26 to 28 for
indoor speed skating. The regionals are
open to skaters in the 1 1 states, said
Thorn Beal, sports information director
for the U.S. Amateur Confederation of
Rollerskating.
Nationals for rollerskating will be
July 24 to Aug. 1 for the artistic cham
pionships and Aug. 2 to 6 for the
national indoor championships.
Beal said this is the 50th national
championship. Lincoln has been the
site for the past 13 years and contains
the national headquarters and a museum
at 7700 A St.
Beal estimated that 5,000 visitors
will turn out, bringing $2 million into
Lincoln's economy.
The National Model Aeronautics
Championships will be in Lincoln for
the third time since it began in 1923.
Indoor competition will be at Pershing
July 12 and 13, and outdoor competi
tion will be at Lincoln Municipal Air
port and Henderson's Sod Farm. Vince
Mankosski said that 1,000 to 15,000
contestants will compete In 80 catego
ries. Mankosski said that it is the big
gest event in the world for model air
planes and draws contestants from
Canada, Mexico, Japan, Australia and
England. June 26 is the last day for
advance registration, but late entries
will be taken at the competition. Entry
fees range from $5 to $120.
Cribbage, a "sport" for everyone
from football players to Ph.D.s to drop
outs, is "growing like the dickens,"
said Jack Wunderlich, organizer of The
Great Plains Cribbage Classic, to be
held Aug. 2 at the Airport Inn at the
1-80 interchange from 10 a.m. to 6:30
p.m. Wunderlich said that about 100
people from 12 to 92 years old partici
pate. For those who want to get physical,
the YWCA will sponsor a triathlon
July 26. Starting at 6:30 a.m.,
competitors will put themselves through
the rigors of a 500-yard swim, a 6.2-mile
bike ride and a 3.1-mile run. The com
petition will be at the Lincoln Airpark.
KFOR's Summer Run will be June 7
at Pioneers Park beginning at 8 a.m.
The 10th annual 12K and 2.15K fun run
is part of the Pepsi Grand Prix Run.
Prizes will be trophies and certificates
from local businesses.
Other runs during the summer include
the Directors Corporate Run on Aug. 1,
the Van Dorn Moonlight Sprint on July
10 and the Bun Run on Aug. 16.
'When the Mountains Trimble
Controversial film Thursday
The UNL Latin American Solidar
ity Committee (LASCO) presents a
free screening of the highly ac
claimed Guatemalan documentary
"When the Mountains Tremble" by
Pamela Yates and Thomas Sigel
Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the Regency
Room of the Nebraska Union.
"When the Mountains Tremble"
is a vigprous and persuasive docu
mentary describing the struggle of
the largely Indian peasantry in Gua
temala against a heritage of state
and foreign oppression. Loosely cen
tered on the experiences of a young
Indian woman now living in exile,
the film knits a variety of forms
interview, newsreel, re-enactment,
and on-the spot footage shot at
great risk into a wide-ranging
and cohesive picture of the Gua
temalan struggle.
The film takes us on ajourney to a
.strange land without letting us lose
sight of the humanity of all partici
pants in it.
The film-makers are not new to
controversial subject matter; both
worked on the award-winning doc
umentary "The Wobblies," and both
have worked on other Latin Ameri
can documentaries, two of which
garnered Oscar nominations ("El
Salvador: Another Vietnam" and
"Americas In Transition").
For "When the Mountains Trem
ble," Yates and Sigel have com
bined the many techniques of cinema
realism and documentary into a
powerful chronicle that not only
tells the story of one woman's life
bu t the entire history of a people. In
spite of the painful story of oppres
sion and misery that the film depicts,
the overall effect is exhilarating.