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...Boston Comic News last year installed a slew of yellow boxes in the Square, a beach-head of sorts in the area's often hostile business atmosphere...
...Comic News, a biweekly cartoon publication founded two-and-a-half years ago, has survived distribution problems to become increasingly well-known in the Boston area...
...Dean Wallace Jr., publisher and editor-in-chief of the Comic News, says he hopes to do even more. He wants to make the paper "an institution" in the greater Boston area...
...SHOW is not perfect. Some of the musical numbers suffer from Saturday Night Live disease: great comic ideas that peter out by the end. The choreography is underwhelming. Composer Randall Eng's music has some memorable moments, but not enough of them. Even some of the dialogue falls flat. (Example: "I could never lie in your presence. I can only lie in your arms...
...inherent in these pieces doesn't obscure their entertainment value. Everyone secretly takes prurient pleasure in others' minor despair; nothing else explains why millions of people read columns which answer only three individuals' letters each day. Unfortunately, because of either their tight schedules or their unawareness of the near-comic nature of such columns as "Ask Beth," college students can seldom keep up with all the faux-human-tragedy splashed across newsstands. 15 MINUTES henceforth offers, as a service to its readers, this brief summary and handy ratings of selected letters and their responses...