Ken Aldred

Way ahead of the curve, though. A prototype smartphone with a selfie extension. Connected to wireless headphones. Almost visionary for the time.

Lots of great artwork in those from Michael Golden and Marshall Rogers. Nice books.

Really should have an ‘after Kirby’ notation on it.

So I’m guessing, from Wonder Man’s agonised expression, that Graviton’s superpower is to induce extreme constipation?

Adams always seemed to have trouble drawing The Thing. Some kind of Hulk-Thing hybrid. Seems to drool a lot. The classic Marvel Two-in-One Annual 7. That’s not bad at all.

The Bronze Age series doesn’t read as well now as the satire is dated and of its time, but still very nostalgic for many readers who were kids back then, perhaps a bit of a relic for many others, though. I still like the bizarre characters and some of the more surreal aspects of Gerber’s stories.

Garko The Man-Frog, Hellcow, Pro Rata, Space Turnip, Doctor Bong… Unforgettable characters.

A Matter of Life and Death Brilliant film. Known in the US as Stairway to Heaven.

Dredd was excellent as well.

For literal humour it’s pretty much flawless.

Bad shading again here. As well as a rubbish hairstyle he also has, what appears to me, to be a Vulcan unibrow.

Unfortunately, the current prices for back issue comics have made me very cynical about the motivation for threads like this one, and then to make a default assumption that it’s most likely about how to maximise flipping opportunities in an overheated market rather than the pining of a fellow, enthusiastic comics fan for the passing of simpler and cheaper times. I could, of course, be wrong.

Tripe, more like. So 90s. Even the golden rule about not showing feet has been broken.

Yup. I thought the same thing and made an edit about the shading just as you posted. Once seen…

Reduced in size on a smartphone, the shading also makes it look like he has chin gonads.

Let’s balance it out. Here’s a quite horrendous drawing of Wonder Man…

On the other hand, a poor Hulk from a great artist, George Perez. Never liked the cover to Future Imperfect 1.

Talos would’ve been a little better, I think.

Looks completely wrong to me. Cable’s primarily blue colouring is associating him with the two primarily blue figures in the scene below him, whereas he’s actually supposed to be fighting Cameron Hodge and linked into the upper scene. Also, the bendy purple structure is separating him from Hodge and again linking him into the lower scene. It’s a mess.

Still more relevant than my last couple of posts.

I can imagine. I’ve only ever seen the live concerts on TV, which was good enough for me. They did look like four suited accountants standing behind laptops. Not exactly Rammstein.

Also reminds me of this brilliant synth band… Great album.

Yup. It was a source of intense jealousy amongst their British counterparts during the war, as it wasn’t until the end of rationing over here in the 1950s that ours could, at last, look just as fabulous.

The cover always reminds me of this… Uncanny similarity.