Ken Aldred

One LCS I occasionally went to had the owner sneeze and explosively blow his nose straight into his cupped hands, and then proceed straight on to tilling up comics that were being bought by customers that day. OCD dilemma for me. Luckily other shops were available.

Not terribly impressed by the Suicide Squad film costume…

Also the first appearance of The Question. I recall his series by Denny O’Neil and Denys Cowan in the 80s being a very good read.

Being OCD, that book’s too close to the crapper, and it’s put me off buying a copy for good. Not even bagged.

I’ve just seen the email for the George Perez signing, $75 per item. One of the best comic artists of all time, responsible for one of the best Wonder Woman series ever published, and not only would it be great to get his sig on one of these comics, which he co-wrote as well as drew, but the asking price is an absolute bargain in comparison.

Hold down the ‘o’ button, then you get an accent menu on Apple devices.

Yup. Hard to choose between the Langjökull glacier, or trucks and a fully-filled English waste skip.

Surprised to see I’m another member of the platinum trophy club with 20 / 20. I’ve never achieved this with a video game, so I’m flattered.

Because of the trucks I’d assumed you’d discovered Rotten Ronnie’s was England’s best greasy spoon.

Yup, It’s an amazing place to visit. Iceland, that is, knowing nothing about Rotten Ronnie’s car park.

That’s an interesting development. Are we going to be earning trophies, as with video games? I see you’ve already got 20 out of 20 and a board Platinum. Congrats !

What about those who sacrificed the most, buying it at full price in 4K Blu ray format?

Any idea how much this amazingly talented artist charges for a signing? I bet it’s peanuts compared to what Gadot’s asking.

Impressed. That elephant can draw.

The big name actors have been charging a lot, same thing with Josh Brolin / Thanos. So, predictably extortionate.

Perfectly acceptable if you’re attempting to survive an onslaught from waves of extra-dimensional hell demons, but excessive use of force in the real world.

Yup. Also, if you go back as far as World War One and earlier, the armed forces figured out that the bayonet should be attached to the end of the rifle, but it appears that the designers of a very advanced rifle, sorry, BFG, from the far future are oblivious to this and would prefer to make it as difficult as possible for the user. (BFG’s a Doom reference, for non-gamers)

Thanks for sharing. It’s horrible and posted in exactly the right place.

Yup. Mutant - born with a mutation that gives them a super-powered ability. Mutate - born in the normal range but later encountered an agent which caused a mutation, gene alteration and a superpower, eg Hulk, FF, Spider-Man.

If it looked more like this…

I was avoiding mentioning one of those, as it’s now banned here, as an extension of the argument. You’ve seen both the best and worst of people there, unfortunately. The space squid or Dr Manhattan’s one-off devastation wouldn’t be enough, which is a sad observation and emphasises the difficulty and scale required for unification, far beyond what Moore or Snyder tried to claim.

I read it as the graphic novel. Blew me away at the time, but, as said, certain aspects of it don’t hold up well for me now. Totally convinced that the change they made in the film, at the end of it, by losing the squid, worked far better than Veidt’s original strategy. Similar limitation in that without the periodic reappearance of Dr Manhattan and further associated destruction, the mutual, instinctive huddling together for protection by humanity as a whole against a classic shared, Jungian, primal fear threat would dissipate and not stand the test of time. I wasn’t quite as much into this kind of stuff as a kid or twenty something.

At the time I thought it was brilliant, but I’ve got older and much more critical and the final act, well, the space squid, doesn’t hold up for me, especially not as a way of keeping the world united in the long term against a common, persistent threat. I was immediately impressed by the Dream Theater vs Led Zeppelin comparison.

Thanks for sharing. I’ve only seen the recreations in the American Splendor film.