Ken Aldred

Definitely worth a read.

From a YouTube cut scene compilation I’ve seen, much too tame.

A special shout out to Kite Man for the assist.

The idea that the Mega City One Judges are too liberal and bleeding heart, and so an even harder (parallel universe?) Nazi Totenkopf version has to be introduced.

Classic description of a red hair recessive gene carrier. I'm the same, though no redheads in the family.

At least there aren't huge yellow shoulder pads as well. That would just be excessive.

Those look like J Scott Campbell's work. I noticed this all the time when I followed Chris Bachalo's artwork back in the 90s on Shade and Generation X.

As much as I like Byrne's stories, that is a bit dense with words, almost on par with EC's Al Feldstein. Who's also one of my all-time favourites, despite that.

Compared to some of the examples we’ve seen in this thread, this panel isn’t even close to being bad comic art. It’s nice artwork, typical of what you’d get in Bronze Age Marvel magazines, and there’s nothing much wrong with it.

That must’ve needed a crateful of extra hold hair gel. Or, alternatively, using another film reference…

Yup. It can’t be a good idea. We know what might happen…

That’s nice of them.

A general problem often seen in comic art is incompetently-executed forced perspective. Here’s Kav’s favourite…

I don’t think the overall end result there is at all bad. Reminds me of John Buscema inked by Alfredo Alcala, if quite a bit lighter. For me, a real repeat offender pencil art destroyer was Rudy Nebres. Never, ever, liked the combination. Each to his own.

That’s Rob Liefeld. Generally, artists aren’t so reluctant.

Yup. I’m not really trying. Low hanging fruit. Another one would be his shouty expressions.

Teeth clenching ventriloquism…

More the late 70s for me. I was always tall, and so I was asked all the time for my age from around 13 yrs onwards, to be granted a kid’s under 16 discount. We don’t get carded as such here in the U.K., but being forced to take a birth certificate with me every time I went to watch a film became tedious. That, coupled with the ease of getting in, meant that instead I watched X or 18 certificate films from age 14, such as Alien, Apocalypse Now, Death Race 2000, Damien Omen 2, The Hills Have Eyes, The Warriors, Quadrophenia, and never got carded once to check if I was underage. Then again, everyone at school did exactly the same: our cinemas were very lax. The age restrictions don’t appear to be that severe now, for example, Deadpool 2 and Suicide Squad are only 15 certificate here, and far more extreme than many of the X / age 18 films I saw back then.

Boring and desperate.

It is disappointing. The GOTG were largely unknown to the general public, and yet the film was a great success. You can understand why DC thought that Gunn could replicate that success with the obscure team of comic characters in Suicide Squad, but it hasn’t happened.

My personal favourite book from the early phase is the villain team-up, issue 6, which has some of Kirby’s best ever Silver Age art in it. That said, the introductory splash page to me looks quite a bit simpler and looser than what he draws later on in the story, but, for some reason, I’ve always absolutely loved it. There’s a sense of wonder, it’s still early days when The Torch’s control of his ability is evolving and there’s an energetic, rough crudeness to his appearance, just as The Thing’s skin was in the process of rapidly changing from dinosaur hide to stony plates. It’s always had that powerful effect on me; not the best image in the book, hardly Kirby’s career peak, but, despite having no idea really as to why, in that context, I think it’s so absolutely brilliant, it is one of my lifelong, all-time favourites from any comic, going all the way back to when I first experienced it in the 70s in a Marvel Treasury Edition.

Interesting idea. Possibly something nerdier, though, such as a tether for space walking.

Byrne does seem to polarise.

As with any long-running title, its quality has fluctuated, but there have been several extensive runs of consistently high standard in addition to classic Lee / Kirby; those of Byrne, Waid / Wieringo, and Hickman. I’m still interested in reading more adventures of this sexagenarian, old school science hero team.

Only a couple of years younger than the team, but still one of my favourites.