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Ken Aldred

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  1. Ken Aldred
    Now you’re talking!
  2. Ken Aldred
    Better if the original cover art and sketch were separate. Together it’s all a bit muddled, obscuring detail both ways.
  3. Ken Aldred
    Doesn’t work. At least Eastman drew TMNT 1.
  4. Ken Aldred
    Fine, if the comic’s owner is happy with the overall result, and the consequences. Quite a good sketch, for me better on a blank cover.
  5. Ken Aldred
    I should do some updating as well.
  6. Ken Aldred
    I was wary about telling my father I'd spent £5 on a comic, back in the 70s. Those clandestine, Bronze Age days.
  7. Ken Aldred
    Those were the days. At first we didn't have a phone at home, and the only option was a urine-soaked public call box, an experience these new collectors have been tragically robbed of by 21st century mobile technology.
  8. Ken Aldred
    Always so nice to read about examples of pure excitement and joy when a fledgling collector acquires a book that they really care about, in a field of interest which I tend to believe is otherwise dominated by cold, predatory greed. That polarity, and kinship with the former, gives me hope.
  9. Ken Aldred
    A comic collection is like life, do you measure it by quality or by quantity? Sorry, couldn’t resist it.
  10. Ken Aldred
    Yup. I see the use of the word ‘collection’ as a general term or place holder on the registry, allowing for the strong possibility that although an entry is started with one item many more could be added later.
  11. Ken Aldred
    I agree. Literally, you can only start an accumulation, aggregation from a core of at least 2 items. So, 10 % or any such estimate is arbitrary.
  12. Ken Aldred
    Yup. No wonder it keeps periodically just giving up and having a rest.
  13. Ken Aldred
    Very true. But, the majority of us wouldn’t be comic nerds without the pull back of aching nostalgia anyway.
  14. Ken Aldred
    I like the clinical simplicity of the First Celestial Host experimenting with the same hominid source material and creating three separate strains from it with different levels of genetic stability. To me, elaborating on that is fine, but unnecessary.
  15. Ken Aldred
    And they did, as seen in the What If? back up stories. These stories were collected together in a one-shot special called Eternals : Secrets From the Marvel Universe.
  16. Ken Aldred
    In the What If? backups that integrated The Eternals with Starlin's Titan, and also the society on Uranus from Atlas Era Marvel Boy which created the Quantum Bands, they were capable of space travel and colonising hostile solar system environments millennia ago, so that's easily retconned further to interstellar travel.
  17. Ken Aldred
    Seriously, though, I prefer the original idea that we have a direct genetic interrelationship; earthborn, fighting the same threats together, whether Deviant or Celestial interference.
  18. Ken Aldred
    In the end, though, it's the Eternals. Does anybody really care? I do. Because I’m a fanboy and it was one of my favourite comics as a kid.
  19. Ken Aldred
    Over the past few months I’ve read a couple of articles with the film Eternals described as aliens, not earthborn. My preference is that they remain as in the comics.
  20. Ken Aldred
    A non-playable character in a Spider-Man video game sandbox. No different to that.
  21. Ken Aldred
    The flaw as I see it is that you’d just be an onlooker, and the Marvels you’d observe might get old and tired fast. Could you maintain a sense of wonder in the long term? Would these super-beings make you feel weak and obsolete? One title alone, even with a few crossovers, has limitations.
  22. Ken Aldred
    That’s good. A boardie without a relentless Kang obsession.
  23. Ken Aldred
    The retcon for The Eternals occurred primarily in Bronze Age What If? back-up stories, where they created two extraterrestrial colonies, one on Titan and one inside Uranus (yes, that was deliberate). Thanos could have remained simply an Eternal from Titan with a mutated appearance, but this was more recently complicated with the claim that he has a Deviant gene. There was also the idea that his mother was a Skrull in disguise at one point, also to explain his facial appearance. The Eternals were created in the comics by the genetic engineering performed by The Celestials on a common, shared hominid ancestor, which makes us related species, genetic ‘cousins’. This has been changed in the film, for me, spoiled and complicated somewhat, by making The Eternals aliens and removing that interrelationship.
  24. Ken Aldred
    She’s the most interesting Eternal, a trickster character.
  25. Ken Aldred
    Don’t ever let Garth Ennis write The Eternals.