Ken Aldred

He has to brag and overcompensate, doesn’t he? He does have the perfect get out, though. Because it’s infinite it can’t be measured.

Marvel DC crossover where there’s the shock revelation that he’s secretly Darkseid.

Also, remember that according to the multiverse theory there are also infinite numbers of Kavs and Kens, so he’s nothing special.

That’s an accurate pictorial representation of what this thread is doing to my brain.

Yup. This thread can’t even be politely described as random any longer. It’s become something way beyond that, too much for a human mind to grasp.

I can imagine him more with a genetically engineered lynx for a pet rather than a pit bull on a choke chain…

Strangely enough, I was thinking of mentioning that the Water Cooler has started a cat thread, and it’s great. Highly recommended.

This thread’s incredible. Going absolutely nowhere, incessant puns about the same thing, but it’s still thriving and on page 1 of General. Quite an achievement.

One of the longest periods I’ve been deprived of the boards, and as with the time I was imprisoned in the limbo zone while waiting to be moved between the old and the new formats (remember that nightmare?) I could feel myself losing it and reverting to an animal, non-sentient feral state. With the boards back, I should now recover my humanity just as I did then.

Always nice to see you here, pal.

I really haven’t found much difference between the state of modern comics, art wise, and the output that I’m most familiar with in the 70s Bronze Age and 80s Copper Age, which predated the emergent transition to dialogue-light splash page art during Image’s notable first phase in the 90s. A small amount of exceptional art, and a lot in the range extending from workmanlike or corporate mediocrity down to the abyss of the plainly incompetent, while repetitively idolising a select, very, very limited elite of creator gods throughout each period. I’ve said it before, that if you analyse the comics of the olden days using a resource such as the online Newsstand, the above spectrum exists Age after Age after Age, right up to the present.

Seems to be the way it’s evolved. ’Even fewer comics than the San Diego Comicon.’ A slight exaggeration.

Sadly missed.

Yup. It’s an actual printed variant.

I concur. It does seem to be interfering with the electrical activity in my head, similarly first causing eye strain, and then leading to a defensive blankness inside and environmental detachment. Reminds me of this…

I do like the yellow chest target, though, reminiscent of Batman’s, and possibly for the same reason.

No, because it’s a description of page suppleness and general page appearance which says absolutely nothing about the other defects present. A copy straight onto the newsstand could have creases, miswraps, printer marks, etc., while having as much page whiteness and suppleness as a gem mint copy, sharing identical paper stock. To an oldie like myself, it’s meaningless without the additional context of all the other defects present; though it might impress a Facebook newbie, I suspect.

No need to be coy. I bet it was deliberate, and the choice and the act itself felt very cathartic as a statement and a fitting end.

I was surprised at how difficult the transition appeared to be for a lot of boardies. As someone with autism I struggle with changes to routine, but, with a bit of playing around with the features on the new system, I found the switchover quite comfortable. No different to me than an OS update.

To be honest, I have a fairly high tolerance for poorly-executed 90s comic art, but I find this cover to be very, very disorienting to look at, a quick glance at most, in order to limit it to being a Nausea Variant and not progressing to full-on expulsion…

Then there’s also the complication associated with pet ownership, such as my dog leaving a generous ‘deposit’ two Christmases in a row on my British hardcover comic book annual presents, and territory marking activity in general. Happy childhood memories.

As long as they were bagged, like Spider-Man 1 or X-Force 1, no harm done.

I concur.

Classic Ditko.

Seen the opposite problem here in England when it was cold; nasal drip on books at a comic mart. Not me, a guy standing next to me reading and water warping a Superman comic.