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Ken Aldred

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  1. https://whatculture.com/comics/10-comics-characters-who-have-defeated-kang-the-conqueror?rf=homepage This won't be popular with the Kang fans here...
  2. It started out okay, but after a while it began to feel as if the writers were winging it, just making it up as they were going along, and a bit of a rambling, drawn-out bore in the end. Reading it in monthlies over a very long period can feel a bit different to reading a long Saga in its entirety, integrated in a collected format, such as the aforementioned omnibus.
  3. There have always been stories that needed to be buried, even in the earlier Ages, but at least back then they didn’t have clunkers such as The Spider-Man Clone Saga which drifted on and on and on.
  4. In the comics Galactus functions as a form of population control on The Celestials in one retcon, the Earth X series by Krueger and Ross. Inside planets he destroys are Celestial embryos.
  5. Certainly my preference. Consistent placement, neat and tidy, rather than untamed and unpredictable.
  6. Easily my favourite creator signature. The dinosaur.
  7. That’s amazing. No wonder I quit. (IIRC, the leader of the team was a dolphin rather than a carp, though.)
  8. Unlikely. You're confusing him with Tom Holland, who played Billy Elliott.
  9. Don’t forget that his range is incredible, going from the action role above all the way across to playing a farting zombie, and so it is quite conceivable that he could play Wolverine as well. It’s not far-fetched.
  10. I have 365 comic book days each year. At least. One day, national or not, is laughably inadequate.
  11. All we need in this thread now is a Mobius Loop. Just gets better and better.
  12. (Yes, I get it. I’m just being literal.)
  13. Interesting. He’s probably being a bit overcautious here, as I excluded wheat from my diet for a month and then discovered I was gluten intolerant. In comparison, it’s not really necessary to do the same with this foodstuff, as the consequences of intolerance, such as anaphylactic shock, are far more obvious and dangerous to begin with, without undergoing an extended period of observational experimentation.
  14. No. Sadly it’s a combination of lapse of copyright on a super-hero name and attempted exploitation of that by a bunch of hacks. He even has a kid sidekick called Billy Baxton, just to emphasise the level of imagination and creativity brought to this project. Hard to believe that Carl Burgos, the creator of The Human Torch, was responsible.
  15. I hadn’t noticed that. I’d been almost immediately bored into total indifference.
  16. No doubt a future winner of a Darwin Award. So much natural talent on display.
  17. An Everest analogy would be better for me.
  18. Just the sheer amount of material I’ve obtained digitally via Comixology sales and Humble Bundle is staggering, running into thousands. Take the latter, a graphic novel bundle containing close to 100 books, easily the equivalent of 500 comics, a bundle containing a complete run of Walking Dead, near 200 items. An overwhelming volume of (unread) reading material.
  19. Sums up exactly what I feel about his art now. I really liked JR JR’s art back in the 80s, but when he changed to this style in the early 90s, I just started to find it extremely boring and couldn’t engage with it at all. A shame.