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True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee
Ken Aldred replied to Prince Namor's topic in Comics General
Not impressed by that attitude, as visual storytelling ability is just as important to comics as writing. A paradigm of that would be Richard Corben, whose breakdown of the plot was so good that you could basically follow the story just by looking at the art, with the text giving extra detail, sure, but, even without using words, a talented comic artist can be just as much of a storyteller. A shame to learn that Lee had no consideration for that. -
True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee
Ken Aldred replied to Prince Namor's topic in Comics General
Orlando's style was more closely aligned with Wally Wood's than Kirby's, both of them being great EC science-fiction artists. Both worked briefly on Daredevil, and I also wonder if Wood quickly lost patience with Lee for similar reasons? -
True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee
Ken Aldred replied to Prince Namor's topic in Comics General
Possibly why I soon got tired of Lee's writing on Silver Surfer, and the lack of the warmth and humour present in his earlier work. -
Moondog's Pop Culture Radio Hour Returns After 27 Years
Ken Aldred replied to Moondog's topic in Comics General
Most of the remaining budget was spent on Mr Fantastic’s arm stretching, which consisted of a couple of pipes from a builders’ merchant, possibly Home Depot. -
Moondog's Pop Culture Radio Hour Returns After 27 Years
Ken Aldred replied to Moondog's topic in Comics General
I watched this a few weeks ago on Amazon Prime U.K. Very interesting indeed. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Doomed-Untold-Story-Cormans-Fantastic/dp/B06XJBGWGS -
Moondog's Pop Culture Radio Hour Returns After 27 Years
Ken Aldred replied to Moondog's topic in Comics General
Yup. He’s been involved for a very long time, and I’m sure I can learn something interesting. -
True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee
Ken Aldred replied to Prince Namor's topic in Comics General
Yup. He was clearly a young talent to watch and to poach from Charlton, where the stories he was given, certainly post-Code, were pretty much uniformly appalling, and he was being wasted there. I believe opportunities had also slowed down a bit for Kirby over at DC, and time for a change. -
True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee
Ken Aldred replied to Prince Namor's topic in Comics General
It’s a good point to focus on the product they created rather than maintain a largely delusional sense of ‘connection’ to someone that you barely know. A good example is Rush’s lyricist and drummer, Neil Peart, an intensely-private individual who was very uncomfortable with how fans idolised him, and retreated away from contact, leaving that meeting-and-greeting to Lee and Lifeson. A significant loss for me last year, but discovering that about him made me think that he has a strong argument; enjoy what was created, don’t get that fixated on the writer or artist personally, on a fallacy at a distance. I’m pretty much following his strategy now; read the comics, have little interest in meeting the creators in person, even whenever that becomes possible again. I still don’t mind learning new character traits or bits of history about the creators, iconoclasm, maybe, as here, or also maybe constructive, fleshing them out more three-dimensionally as real human beings rather than shining, flawless paragons. -
True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee
Ken Aldred replied to Prince Namor's topic in Comics General
As a kid he was always the genius creator of Silver Age Marvel, and considered so by me very naively. His death was very affecting, and I still felt grateful for what he'd created and how much enjoyment that world had given me over the decades. But, with age and maturity, I was also able to recognise and accept the major contributions of other creators such as Kirby and Ditko, and that Silver Age Marvel was increasingly becoming a grey area for me, enclosing the efforts of many different contributors, not just those of a writer / editor solely going forward with a unique, focused vision and masterplan. So, it's a good time to read a book like this, the full story of struggle and success, of fair accrediting and underhanded dismissal of others' achievements, of manipulation by him and, in the end, of him by others. It’s something that happens frequently with enough time, such as idolising a creator at a distance, based upon very limited, filtered social information, and then meeting them at a convention and being disappointed by some of their character traits and that they’re not the paragon you imagined. -
Fairly common. Same thing with Cavewoman variants on there. I just checked for research and confirmation purposes.
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Omnibus, Absolute, Deluxe, and HC Thread
Ken Aldred replied to BITCOINSWAM2's topic in Comics General
I only have a couple of them, but I thought the off-colour paper stock looked a bit artificial, nothing like even the dulled, slightly greyish tone in late 70s comics, or better quality snow-white newsprint. Maybe an attempt to introduce an aged, yellowing or browning effect similar to Night Shift’s on iPad when I read digitally. Nor did I think the reproduction was that crisp, and a bit dark in the copies I own. I also wasn’t that impressed with the stories and art generally, which is why I stopped very quickly. Spoiled by my EC hardcovers, I would guess. -
Omnibus, Absolute, Deluxe, and HC Thread
Ken Aldred replied to BITCOINSWAM2's topic in Comics General
Each to their own. For me, not even close. -
LOSH is a great run. Nice collection, Silver Age through to the Dave Cockrum era for me. Although, mine’s Archive hardcovers.
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I don’t have the long-term mental focus for ambitious, mono tasking, completist goals, as well as often being priced out for many major characters. Attention deficit outweighs OCD. I recognise my shortcomings in this respect.