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ISSUE 42 May/June 1991 The bi-monthly newsletter of the Boston Japanimation Society Final Stop : Andromeda Final Stop : Andromeda is the bi-monthly newsletter of the Boston J apanimation Society, a non-profit cultural organization devoted to the appreciation of Japanese Animation. The current officers are: Chris Bonni Newsletter Editor Marianne Popa Social Coordinator / Public Relations Brian Yelverton Media Coordinator / Convention Coordinator Membership Information The annual BJS 1 year-six issue newsletter subscription fee is ten dollars for the U.S. and Canada, and twenty dollars for members elsewhere. Only U.S. currency will be accepted. Some back issues are availble for one dollar each, if you need them mailed to you there is an additional charge of one dollar for postage and handling. With your membership you receive the following benefits: A membership card to impress your friends with. Free Classifieds in the newsletter, Discounts on merchandise at the following locations: Harry Dog’s Comics and Stories, 51 Broad St., Bridgewater , MA Bop City Comics, 80 Worcester Rd., Framingham (Rt. 9 Marshal’s Mall) Outer Limits, 457 Moody St., Waltham Space Station Studios, Waltham If you recieved this issue in the mail, check your mailing label. If the words " Last Issue" appear, then this realy is your last issue! New memberships and subscription renewal should be sent as check or money order payable to: Chris Bonni 247 Park Avenue Bridgewater, Massachusetts 02324 Make payment out to Chris Bonni, not to the BJ S. Checks or money orders made out incorrectly will be returned to you. Directions to BJ S meetings at U-MASS Boston By Train: Take the Red line to JFK/U-MASS station. Free Shuttle buses there will take you directly to U-MASS Boston. Shuttle busses run until 5:30 pm. By Car: Take route 3 (route 93) To exit 15 to Morrisey Blvd. Where U-MASS is located across from the Boston Globe Building, next to the JFK Libary. At U-MASS: Walk or drive to the Wheatly build in g(No. 010). At present our meetings are held in room 041. Page 2 Final Stop : Andromeda Meetings The BJS meets the second Saturday of every month and programing runs from 12-5pm. The meetings are held in room 010 in the Wheatly building, U-mass Boston. Video Schedule for Saturday, May 10th 1991 "Stuff Derek doesn’t have month" Starfleet EP #1 (Live action, similar to "Thunderbirds".) Space Family Karlbinson (AKA "6 aliens and a baby".) Space Adventure Cobra: The Movie (Subtitled) Video Schedule for Saturday, June 8th 1991 "June: All Episodes month" Urusei Yatsura: The Incredible Magic Lipstick Great Mazinger vs Grandizer Ranma 1/2 2 EPS Secret of Blue Water 2 EPS Road trips Come join the BJS on one of our roadtrips. We meet on the last Sunday of every month at the Porter Exchange in Porter Square, Cambridge and leave promptly at 1:00pm, so plan to be there by 12:30. We usually go to Outer Limits, Mr. Big’s or Bop City Comics and then come back for a movie or dinner. Submissions Final Stop: Andromeda desperately needs submissions from it’s members. The size and quality of the newsletter is directly proportional to the amount of effort that you put into it. We can accept any anime related art or article. So please rush your submissions to: Chris Bonni, 247 Park Ave Bridgewater, MA 02324. Final Stop: Andromeda Staff Edditon Chris Bonni Asst.Editor/ Art Director Mike Callahan Contributors to this issue Artwork by: Mike Callahan, Jim Harington, Carol Huchings. Dennis Richards(Cover) Other stuff: Chris Bonni, Mike Callahan, Doug Dlin, Akira Nanimasu, and Marriane Popa. Technical Info: This newsletter is published on an Commadore Amiga using Prowrite by New Horizen , Proffessional Page by Gold Disk and printed on a Hewlet Packard Laser Jet HP. Page 3 Greetings from Dr. Typo rate. Now for the good news. You can still resubscribe to Final Stop: Andromeda for only seven dollars, if you resubscribe before July 1st. Next, as you might have by noticed, the newsletter has Chris Bonni changed format. It is now published in the more professional 11 X 17. This will hopefully make .the newsletter cheaper to produce and also more appealing. Greeting BJS, and welcome to an another issue of Final Lastly, the premier episode Stop: Andromeda, typo-free, I of the BJS's own manga inspired hope. comic. Tales of the New Rotary Rats, appears here, for the Before discussing this first time anywhere. Please let issue, let me first put the last me know what you think of it. issue to rest. Foremost, I Although it is different, I would like to apologize for the think it is quite good. torrent of typo's in issue 41. Hopefully it will make our I would also like to thank you newsletter special and help it for not writing me any nasty to stand out. letters about them. When issue 41 was finished, I was sure I had proof read it sufficiently, but somewhere between my computer and the printer the typo gremlin struck and reeked his own special kind of vengeance. I apologize for any inconvenience this might have caused anyone. Especially those of you who went to Galaxicon instead of Univeracon, where the BJS was. No need to worry though, this issue is guaranteed typo free. But enough about issue 41, let talk about the future. In only two months there has been some major changes in Final Stop: Andromeda, both good and bad. First the bad news, effective July 1st the subscription fee for this newsletter will increase to ten dollars a year. Twenty dollars A/e«r Moajth: for membership outside of the Cm*nui‘: U.S. This is most disappointing, but I have found aa»4 easier*? that the newsletter just cannot Bts be produced at the previous Page 4 AHH, WHO WANTS TO BE OM THE Togo. He'll call me when he's OBAN'S LIST ANYWAY? I'D RATHER found him, and I'll give the POMP GAS FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE. order. If he's simply on PART II --V vacation, as you say, then he will live." "Even if your motive is.... fairly nonviolent, hiring Duke Togo is condemning someone to death. It's like using a bazooka to swat a mosquito. Sure the mosquito's gone, but you don't have a house left. Can't you cancel the deal, somehow?" "Just tel] V/ne who it is." "Douglas"^ "I never go back. I accept "Douglas? Douglas who? full responsibility for my Kirk Douglas? Mike Douglas?" actions." "Rice Douglas." "Two. That I never told "Rice Douglas? You've hired Starsha how I felt, and that I that man to kill Doug Rice? should've shot Invidia when I had 'Sslar I know his drawings of you the chance." weren't very flattering, but it's no reason to kill the man!" "How about over-bidding yourself?" "I'm worried for my friends. Have you ever looked at those "I'd still be backing down, Manhunter comic books I've asked besides, Rice isn't worth that you to bring home?" much." "Sure, and he's not that bad "Isn't worth that much? when he's drawing regular Life is precious, here. ALL people." life. You don't understand something; you don't rule this "That's because it's not planet. You can't just get rid him." of someone because your taste "What?" don't match. Killing someone, unless they try to kill you "With the exceptions of the first, is against the law. 'You first four, number seven, and have Doug Rice killed, somehow half cf number ten, Mr. Rice has they'll trace it to you. You'll only been drawing covers for be arrested, and dissected on a D.C. Comics. With all that extra slab before you can say, 'Jr. time on his hands. Chemistry Set.'" I'm concerned with what he's up to." He gave me a patronizing look, then chuckled to himself. "Maybe he's on vacation. "Gone to Japan, or something." "There's something you don't understand, Nanimasu-chan. "That may be so, but I think I've hired the best. Duke Togo he's working on another Star has a 100% success rate. He Blazers comic book." leaves no tracks, and no clues. As you so aptly put it before, he "You don't know that for is the perfect assassin." certain!" "This conversation's making "That's why I've hired Mr. me sick. I hope....Puke Togo • Page 5 never finds him." I finished reading the card; He simply laughed at my it didn't mean much, just a naive little comment. sentimental poem in cursive writing, with a 'Happy Birthday' •'Maybe you should pray for written underneath it. He never him." signs his cards, and goes by the philosophy that if you know who "Sometimes, you're a real gave it to you, signing it would @##$%&c." be redundant, and a insult to the intelligence of the receiver. •k 1c it I took the package into the The next day, I came home dining room with me, and sat down from school, half-expecting the in the chair across from his. dirtbag supreme's slugmobile soiling my asphalt. Nothing, "'Star Wars Trilogy'. How thank the Maker. Just in case did you ever guess?" you were wondering, there was no mail for me, again. I came in, "Hmm?" and there was what's-his-face, sitting at the dining room table, "Did you give this to me, reading the newspaper. He looked 'cause you missed my birthday, or up and did one of those comedy are you just trying to get on my relief smiles, with his eyes shut good side?" and a wide grin full of teeth that don't match. I hmphed and "Why would I want to be on walked right past him, keeping your good side?" he asked, the silent treatment I had innocently. To this day, I have started since 5:30 P.M. the no idea what that meant, but I other day. I stomped into my think he was picking on me. room, shut the door and threw my Whatever it was, I skipped it. bag-o-books down on my educational-map-of-the-solar- "Can't you see what you're system-bedspread, right next to 3 doing is wrong?" CBS/FOX videotapes and an unaddressed birthday card. "The man is a threat." My birthday was last month. "You sound like he wields a magnum instead of a Pentel fine He knew. He knew I was a liner. Maybe you don't think his sucker, and couldn't stay angry art is the best, but no one's at him for long, no matter how perfect. Do you actually think hard I tried. he sat there, huddled over his drawing board, thinking of awful He must've really felt things he could do to you, or threatened to go this far. I Sandor, or Mark?" thought he had mellowed somewhat since that confrontation with "Don't forget Talan. He was Kodai, and that he realized the green, you know." killings must come to an end. Some exception to the rule, a guy "That was the printer's with a number two pencil. I fault. I don't think you realize began to worry for myself. I had how much you owe Doug Rice." been known to draw a few things to accompany my writing. If "I owe no one." someone found fault with what I did, would I end up with a bullet Continued on page 15 in my forehead? Page 6 SistfeR Heuen Tales of the new Rotary Rats: a Statement of Intent. by M. 8. Callahan What you have here, in your hands, is the first attempt at storytelling by an author/artist who has been pushing ideas around the ether so long that the Muses where about to kill him. I am that artist, as I have said, this is an exploration of style. I have chosen the Japanese styling for several reasons. The story is not set in Japan, but Cape Cod. 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