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Ken Aldred
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Easily the best Spider-Man art that Kirby ever did. The unused alternative cover isn’t one of Ditko’s best.
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Yup. I always imagined it being a hive of activity, with creative energy filling the air. So naive.
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The Library Editions are an expensive way to read Hellboy, but Mignola’s chiaroscuro-heavy art looks great in the larger format. Worth owning. I have some trade paperbacks as reading copies, which were bought years earlier.
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Sometimes an Inker really screws up a cover
Ken Aldred replied to divad's topic in Bronze Age Comic Books
Yup. For me, poor, confused design / composition / arrangement and poor figure work. That would all be present in the pencils. -
Yup. They are amusing covers, but they’re not that funny. Any of them. Always nice to see them posted on the boards, though.
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It’s a very intelligent post, not a rant.
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Sometimes an Inker really screws up a cover
Ken Aldred replied to divad's topic in Bronze Age Comic Books
At a distance it doesn’t look bad, but it falls apart under close scrutiny. Clumsy, confusing, poor figure work, sums it up. I’ve never noticed the problems with the cover before. -
While I wouldn’t put him up at the same level as a Romita Snr or Ditko, he is one of the better modern Spider-Man artists, along with Marcos Martin and Ryan Stegman.
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Bagley was very good on USM. I particularly like the later issues with the much smoother inking style of Scott Hanna.
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Romita Sr for me, particularly his 70s art, with the darker line work and shading.
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Watchmen Director’s Cut is excellent.
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2020 Eisner Award winners and nominees
Ken Aldred replied to DavidTheDavid's topic in Comics General
It was good to see so much indie material being recognised, away from the formulaic mainstream. The better Marvels such as Daredevil and Immortal Hulk were nominated. I’d agree with those choices. -
Playing, not collecting.
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A poor example, maybe. Some of them, such as Crime SuspenStories 22, are also very readable, good stories and art inside.
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Yup. The basic mechanics of the process that we’ve seen go into overdrive in many different ways; film characters, pre-Code horror covers, GGA, modern artist variants, Zenescope, and moving onto smut covers is predictable once the other speculation wells have started to run dry.
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Back in the early 2000s you’d see many adult commuters reading the novels on the train. So, no real age barrier.
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I concur. The boards taught me that maybe half of their covers are pure smut. I was surprised.
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These covers are mildly amusing for a few seconds, but a bit of innuendo doesn’t justify paying through the nose for a copy. They’re not that funny.
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I don’t recall ever walking out of a film. I do recall falling asleep during a number of them, though. I’ve only watched the Harry Potter series on TV, and thought it was mediocre and overhyped.
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Not directed at you. Sorry. More the 1k price point. Plenty of classic innuendo covers out there.
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If that cover’s a speculation item now, then it’s getting really sad.
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Possibly a start towards Secret Wars as the big scale Infinity War / Endgame conclusion to the current Phase. I'd be happy with that.
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Congrats. A really great book.
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Impressive that he remembered the position of that ‘!’, though.
