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Ken Aldred

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  1. Ken Aldred
    Your tone’s crystal clear and emoticons / graemlins/ emojis are unnecessary.
  2. Ken Aldred
    Devil Dinosaur is brilliant. Kirby at his craziest. I regret not buying the Omnibus version of this short-lived, Bronze Age masterpiece.
  3. Ken Aldred
    I was lucky to get one the day it appeared in the LCS. Cover price.
  4. Ken Aldred
    I wouldn’t mess about. I’d use Dragonbone.
  5. Ken Aldred
    They’d better have carp as well as slaughterfish.
  6. Ken Aldred
    Yup. Another Skyrim on the way, phoned in with the usual higher definition skin upgrade and a bit of extra DLC to tempt us to pay all over again, for something which is just a glorified add-on to my PS3 Legendary Edition version.
  7. Ken Aldred
    This would look nice up there…
  8. Ken Aldred
    Yup. It’s subjective. What are powerful driving forces for a purist collector like myself may differ markedly from those appealing to someone who’s in it just for the money, and then all points in between. It’s a complex, greyed spectrum.
  9. Ken Aldred
    Another key I'd group in with this is Marvel Preview 7, first Rocket (Rocky) Raccoon. Don't like the story, the art, or his feeble, cliched British accent and dialogue. Hulk 271; terrible as well, plus an atrocious cover.
  10. Ken Aldred
    Good that you can synch a current or last generation controller with a tablet instead of using an on-screen cursor, something I found disorienting, vertigo-inducing, while trying to play Classic Doom or Wolfenstein, and gave up on them. GTA San Andreas is brilliant. Probably won’t get around to playing the app version as there’s a full remake of the early GTA games on the way.
  11. Ken Aldred
    Too OCD. The thought of rendering them unreadable in cleaner areas deters me.
  12. Ken Aldred
    I concur.
  13. Ken Aldred
    Just watched the first episode of Flux on BBC iPlayer. After excising the Star Wars, Mass Effect, Guardians of the Galaxy, Hellraiser, Crisis on Infinite Earths and Red Skull plagiarism, little originality in sight.
  14. Ken Aldred
    Werewolf by Night 32 Jimmy Olsen 134 Cerebus 1
  15. Ken Aldred
    At least it markedly improved in the 2000s. Milligan, Allred, Kyle and Yost, Crain, Remender, Opena. Lots of talent and great comics.
  16. Ken Aldred
    They are quite tame. DC had some HOM and HOS stories during the Bronze period that I found disturbing as a kid, but Marvel, I’m struggling to recall anything really.
  17. Ken Aldred
    Coal. For diamond you need pure carbon.
  18. Ken Aldred
    Yup. Turning the page and seeing that for the first time. Not surprising.
  19. Ken Aldred
    You should pitch that idea to DC. A commercial certainty.
  20. Ken Aldred
    I’m sure he was dairy and corn-fed, back on the Kent farm in Kansas.
  21. Ken Aldred
    The lithographic-style illustrations are incredible.
  22. Ken Aldred
    Fear, and Man-Thing, had some of the best Marvel horror stories, courtesy of Steve Gerber. Very inventive and surreal. Also, some of Mike Ploog’s best art, as it transitioned in style closer to Berni Wrightson’s. I found his earlier Eisner-influenced art a lot rougher-looking.
  23. Ken Aldred
    I’ve recently been re-reading them in the artist-focused volumes being published by Fantagraphics, specifically ones featuring art by Jack Kamen, Graham Ingels and Jack Davis. Just superb. High quality black-and-white, but digital versions to go along with my complete run of Cochran EC Library sets.
  24. Ken Aldred
    I agree. As a kid I found some of the House of Secrets and House of Mystery stories to be far more bizarre and disturbing than Marvel’s.
  25. Ken Aldred
    Only a few issues were reprinted, only one or two from each genre; horror, crime, war, science-fiction, etc. I’d recommend reading some of the EC horror collected editions, as the material is superb.