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Ken Aldred

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  1. Ken Aldred
    I always thought it was a bit ridiculous for one character to end up being the sidekick for so many different super-heroes. Either it’s difficult to create interesting sidekicks or just the easiest path to reuse one with a successful track record, over and over. Certainly, until the arrival of the charismatic Cheeks the Toy Wonder, DC had little to work with as well.
  2. Ken Aldred
    There’s that to be said.
  3. Ken Aldred
    It’s sketch animation, but done in a pencilled style, so a good point raised actually.
  4. Ken Aldred
    I agree. If you searched around, and despite the market being flooded with vapid dross, there was still good stuff to be found. That said, looking back, I could still have been a little more selective.
  5. Ken Aldred
    Even though it's 20-odd years old now, Planetary is considered a 'modern', and it's a classic example and proof that the generalisation, "all modern comics suck", is quite wrong. And, it's far from the only one; just one of the best.
  6. Ken Aldred
    As usual, nowhere near the target. Happy New Year to everyone.
  7. Ken Aldred
    Randall Dowling is a character from the series.
  8. Ken Aldred
    ‘Calling Dr Michael Hfuhruhurr. Disembodied brain in Laboratory # 1 requires immediate attention.’
  9. Ken Aldred
    You’d be surprised at how adept research scientists become after years of training and experience.
  10. Ken Aldred
    Although off-topic, and we’ve had a few similar posts here already, I hope everyone’s enjoying their festive holidays.
  11. Ken Aldred
    Make sure that’s a transfer in Canadian dollars, in order to prevent any distress, and subsequent threads here in General, about the intense frustration of extortionate foreign exchange penalties across the border.
  12. Ken Aldred
    It was well-publicised at the time, of course. A bit of controversial marketing.
  13. Ken Aldred
    I agree. And I moved on to simply reading digital comics, which I found I prefer, with no angst, no pining away for the very different comics market of today, no stressing out, no competition. It’s good enough of an alternative for me at this stage, and provides comfortable, effortless distancing.
  14. Ken Aldred
    Prices have been ridiculous for quite a while now, out of reach for many modest-budgeted collectors. I don’t think the barrier complications have changed much at all.
  15. Ken Aldred
    I had a feeling the thread title would be a spoiler for a film I'm only going to see a few months from now on Blu-ray. Pretty much unavoidable. And, the obvious first guess that it'd be movie hype causing a stampede for a very common book.
  16. Ken Aldred
    After about ten minutes of suffering through this one on TV I gave up. Appalling, disorientating shaky cam.
  17. Ken Aldred
    Lots of cheap reading material available if you watch Comixology and Humble Bundle sales.
  18. Ken Aldred
    Those indexes were great reference sources. Found them absolutely fascinating to look through for artist and character details when I started collecting in the late 70s, at a time when I knew really very little about comics.
  19. Ken Aldred
    That had occurred to me, but evil Hyperion has a characterisation much closer to Black Adam, coming across as an absolute thug and acting with extreme brutality, as in the Secret Wars' Squadron mini-series.
  20. Ken Aldred
    Whatever. Just that the other choices before mine were the more typical and obvious.
  21. Ken Aldred
    Civil War suit?
  22. Ken Aldred
    Possibly derivative of this, as well… Although, belts of power go back into classical mythology as well.
  23. Ken Aldred
    Weightlifting support belt.
  24. Ken Aldred
    The Squadron Sinister’s version of Hyperion is closer to Black Adam as a character. A thug rather than charming.
  25. Ken Aldred
    There are always going to be characters very similar to an archetype such as Superman, anyway.