Ken Aldred

As scientifically accurate as...

Nice to see you back.

A great saying, which works well in conjunction with ‘if ever I claim to be a wise man, it surely means that I don’t know’.

Understandable. That would prevent you having easy access to your keyboard. Try putting a large bowl nearby, and they should prefer to curl up inside that.

I’d like to see the inventive retribution as present in both Fleisher and Ostrander’s interpretations of the character, and the classic crime noir grounding.

It’s about time. Great character.

At any time there might only be one or two threads that I have any interest in or connect to. Easy then to see that there might be nothing on offer to interest some boardies enough to post at all, and they end up just passively observing. Or, many threads repeat older ones on the same subject, and boardies might not want to post the same point, over and over.

Also the possibility that some boardies post on many other message boards besides just CGC, and so, along with these other sources, only need a few posts here and there to get a satisfactory cumulative dopamine hit and enough validation for the day.

A popular one in the 80s was… “Excuse me, do you have anything with Rude art in it?” ”Sorry, we don’t sell filth here.” ”There’s no need to be like that, mate, I just wanted to fill in a few gaps in my Nexus collection.”

A fairly common misconception that this is rude. Holding was actually the first name of Wallace Wood’s brother, another comic artist, who sadly never escaped the shadow of obscurity.

From our posts over in the Water Cooler I’d have guessed you were another purist like myself, and that we have such things in common.

Yup. They can walk or scuttle like that. Amazing animals.

They're great. The Picto-Fiction set was the last one I needed to complete my EC Library hardcover collection.

90s Image. Most of it. Modern Image - a great imprint with many excellent titles.

I didn't know that you could buy back issues direct from Marvel, even if that service was only offered for a short period of time in the early days. 12c a copy, as well. Even from Part 1, I'm learning something.

I got 502 bad gateway errors for several days, couldn't get on at all during that period, did absolutely nothing about it, but then tonight it's working perfectly again.

Being British, I was very surprised when I saw it used in an American comic book, and especially when Cap was chosen to be the groundbreaker.

Yup. Rarely takes very long.

Must be many who sold or traded in really nice books while being a struggling, impoverished student.

194 to 213 Several Fantagraphics EC Artists collections... Accidents and Old Lace and Other Stories by Graham Ingels (172 pages) The last run of Ingels stories from 1953 to 1955. Classic, creepy gothic horror and his trademark, horrible undead from a master of the genre. I didn't bother with the New Direction stories from Impact. T'Aint the Meat It's the Humanity and Other Stories by Jack Davis (198 pages) A complete run of his stories from Tales From the Crypt. Gory, often darkly humorous, inventive; classic pre-Code horror Came the Dawn and Other Stories by Wally Wood (181 pages) A half-and-half collection. Firstly, all of Wood's horror stories. Most of them are quite lacklustre ones from the early Harry Harrison period, but there are a few that clearly show he could've made an excellent horror artist along with Ingels and Davis. The second part consists of his social commentary material from Shock SuspenStories. Undoubtably very important relevance stories, but reading them one after another leaves you feeling a little bludgeoned into submission by the relentless heavy-handedness. Powerful material, but perhaps better paced out with the variety of stories and genres which were found in the original anthology comic books. As per last year's ECs, equivalent to 20 issues.

That’s the ‘sacred pamphlets’ of course. All attempts must be made to prevent postal desecration.

Always been an unfocused, bit of this-and-that collector, buying nicely-presenting high grade copies of specific issues that mean the most to me. That criterion ended up being fairly broad spectrum, running from relatively obscure undergrounds to mainstream keys. I’ve pretty much stopped now, though, as the back issue market, and comics nostalgia, has become far too pricey for me.

The Ultimate Edition Director’s Cut is far superior to the quite tedious cinema theatrical version.

Shazam! was good. I especially liked its inclusion of Geoff Johns’ origin reboot from the new 52 Justice League series.

There have been good DC films that I find rewatchable, such as Man of Steel, Batman vs Superman : Dawn of Justice Ultimate Edition, Justice League : The Snyder Cut, and Watchmen Director’s Cut.