Ken Aldred

Followed by the soul-crushing disappointment of the rubbish inside. I remember it well.

Starting with this one… I never got into this series when reading it episodically, when originally published. I’ve appreciated it much more as a complete run.

I still find his first, long run very readable, but his return in the late 90s onwards very, very, different; unreadable, just not engaging at all. I re-read Morrison’s run this year and really connected with it, despite not getting terribly enthused about most of the artwork. A wide range of stories, interesting ideas, and, read as a whole, the best extended, interlinked narrative since that of Claremont and Byrne. Also, it does help that it appears that in recent years I’ve developed a greater appreciation of Morrison’s work, which started with rereading his long Doom Patrol run again for the first time in ages, which I also thought was exceptionally consistent. That prodded me into reading his X-Men comics.

The opposite for me. For me, its significance is the end of Claremont's very long and consistent run writing X-Men, and the start of the team's rapid descent into irrelevance for me for about a decade, until Grant Morrison made them interesting again.

Helping out Jim Lee with the story.

One of the writers, so shouldn't be a problem.

It sounds more intimidating. Tiny guy, overcompensating.

Relative to him, his gun is massive. Tough to avoid innuendo.

The concept is worse still than the cover.

Can’t go wrong with placement this way. Neat, consistent.

Yes. They were the first to notice the discrepancy in the Subway footlong, I believe. Well-trained enforcers.

You’re a caring person, Jimmers. Understandable that you’ll get overloaded in a situation like this and need a break. (I’d remove the expletive, though.)

Even more basic over here. Mine didn’t even have a digital copy. A vanilla Blu-ray.

Exactly. Could’ve been done better than that horrendous-looking effort.

A bit stingy over here. The 4K and standard Blu-ray were sold separately, whereas ordinarily it would’ve been a combined box set as with your US version. First time I’ve seen that happen.

That like Chanel, perhaps it has sophistication. Or pretentiousness. For now, je ne sais quoi.

Can’t see the text details on my phone, but the art doesn’t look much like McFarlane’s. More resembles Humberto Ramos’ to me. Spidey’s hand looks terrible. Mangled.

As I’m looking forward to watching The Eternals and also think that Villenueve’s films are great, this is extremely promising for both.

I only bought the first issue of that, and gave up. Can’t say.

169 to 193 Wonder Woman by George Perez vols 1 and 2 Containing Wonder Woman issues 1 to 24 and Annual 1 (25 issues in total) I'd forgotten how good this 80s series is. Consistent, quality stories from Perez and Len Wein throughout, great artwork from Perez. Recommended. One of the best post-Crisis reboots.

Mid range, at worst. Nothing wrong with Moench, Zeck, Day and Sienkiewicz. Many titles far, far worse than those.

You’re unlikely to like every single super-hero film, even as a diehard reader / collector. That’s not the same as having an entire genre indiscriminately tarred over with the same broad brush strokes.

The JSC Civil War variant is a book I’ve seen numerous times in YouTube videos about their boxes.

I concur. Great writer. Extremely consistent.

Yup. I was going to say $5 at most, being in a very generous mood tonight. X-Men 1 was the biggest selling comic of all time, so there must still be loads of copies of this one around, overprinted.