Ken Aldred

Ozymandias. Watchmen.

Narcissistic psychopathic control freaks love gameplay, on a worldwide scale you’d expect them to enjoy complexity and convolution rather than taking a simple path. Makes them feel smarter and better and empowered by sowing confusion. Need, or desperation?

I wasn’t into D & D as a kid, but having put a lot of time into playing video game RPGs I now appreciate Gygax’s immense importance to the genre.

It was revealed in Avengers Forever that he’s called Kenneth Kang, and Kang’s his surname.

Let’s hope so. Keeping my fingers crossed for this one.

Surprisingly poor as I can spot some ordinarily very good artists there; Michael Golden, Mike Kaluta, and Tim Conrad.

I’ve just read that price gouging has even started on PS4s here in the U.K.

Yup. Problem solved.

Alternatively, Doctor Manhattan can remove components of timelines, create alternate universes, so he might also be able to undo Kang’s temporal manipulation and remove him.

Darkseid might see him as enough of a threat to obliterate him with the Omega Effect. Quite intolerant, as with the Anti-Monitor in Crisis on Infinite Earths.

That’s inspired. Well done.

This Cheeto classic must have a place here, surely. Superman or The Thing ?

I hadn’t thought about its positive effect in combating rumination. Good point. But, yes, it is about control; the game environment itself, but also detachment from repetitive, intrusive thoughts common in PTSD, hyper anxiety, OCD and autism spectrum disorders.

Also The Flash

Interesting thread. It has the potential to get very surreal and trippy.

He’s quite often been characterised in such a stoic, humourless way that he’s also seemed to have as much personality at times as a can of WD 40, which here is a replacement for the customary choice of a block of wood.

Never thought it might have positive effects for PTSD. Only aware of how those of us with autism spectrum disorders are fascinated by video games, virtual environments that can be controlled much better than the real world. Unless you’re playing on an insanely high difficulty level, perhaps.

If he needs to be. Plot dependent.

That has to be from Spidey Super Stories? Tonally it sounds like the same writer responsible for giving us the classic Thanos Copter. I am quite certain it isn’t Warren Ellis.

He was good, but his style and verbosity made his stories progress at a wading-through-sludge snail’s pace. Panther’s Rage was great, Killraven one of my favourites as a kid. The Bronze Age writer with the most generally accessible, but overwritten style for me is Steve Englehart, who did try to create a faster, much more energetic pace despite high word density. (I’m referencing Avengers and Doctor Strange here.) That said, the happy medium between the two, and my favourite, is Chris Claremont. I read his stuff all the way through the 70s and 80s, but newer readers can often find it a bit on the cold, detached side in tone. Still brilliant enough in both quantity and quality of material to make my top five.

I prefer the Silver Centurion.

Or Chuck Austen.

Great choices.

Depends on the story. Doctor Doom became much more powerful in Hickman’s Secret Wars storyline.