Ken Aldred

Nikki Gold, GOTG.

One of my guilty pleasure series from the much-maligned 90s. Consistent writing, some decent art, especially from Greg Capullo.

Another good mix. Nice to see variety.

Good mix.

60s. Currently playing Yakuza 3, 4 and 5 in the PS4 Remastered Collection, which are brilliant, although my time on them is limited these days as I’m more focused on owning the teens and twenty-somethings with my acrobatic tricks on the Half-pipe.

The chafing can confuse.

My hobbies are all age-appropriate for a new sexagenarian; comic books, videogames, and competitive skateboarding. One of these is a lie.

As we say in the U.K., I’m 60 years young.

Always liked the X-Men, including the original team and early issues. I never had the chance to obtain GS XM 1 or XM 94 as neither were distributed to the UK and I was restricted at the time to what was on the newsstand here. The first I picked up was issue 100, noticing that it was drawn by Dave Cockrum, and I was already a fan of his short LOSH run. Got 101 as well, but then the title stopped being distributed here again for a few issues, restarting with 108, John Byrne's first. Again, already a fan of Byrne and so this was the point at which I became a regular New X-Men buyer, 12p All-Colour Comics copies, of course. So, only really switched onto the run when it started to become absolutely classic, and it wasn't until 1980 that I bought my first GS XM 1 and XM 94. If I'd seen the earliest material on a UK newsstand I don't think I would've been that excited about picking them up, more focused on the later Claremont / Byrne books. I did miss a few issues, 96 to 99, so clearly there was also some competition on the newsstands I was using at the time, so who can say if I'd even have known about 94's existence anyway? (I'd switched to another shop by the time Byrne started contributing.)

So many feeling the nick of the Reaper’s scythe.

Yup. I'm not taking the results here as being definitive or that the sky's falling in any way. Too small a population, regardless. More joking about the novel experience of just becoming a senior citizen.

Nice to see some fresh-faced youth as well as grizzled experience here.

Yup. I've only just turned 60, so I'm transitional between the two groups.

Glad to see we've got a teenager in there at last. Young blood for the hobby.

I'm in.

Top Ten 1 to 12 As is often stated online; Hill Street Blues with super-heroes. Several story arcs seamlessly linked together, one of Alan Moore's best series, lots of background Easter eggs to look for. 2024 total = 238

An observation I’ve made on numerous occasions regarding tone, not a justification for the OP’s post. Whether it’s the Translate software being used, or not, even in the friendlier threads started by the OP, about artists or favourite comics, and so on, there tends to be quite an aggressive tone which can sound slightly abrasive to a native English speaker, more used to a neutral construction. So, when that tonal aggression is applied to an overtly accusational circumstance, especially one where there’s a case of not doing the online research first, it’s not too surprising that many feathers are going to be ruffled here in the process.

Never bought comics with investment as a driving force. Always loved reading them and bought whatever I connected to, the best copy I could find within an affordable price limit. I do wish I'd been less impulsive and more selective, though. Although I've had some luck with them, voracious reading leads to the accumulation of far too much drek and far too much long term regret, as your outlook and your focal points, both inside and outside of the comics realm, change naturally with age.

Medieval version of Death Stranding.

Some top quality art criticism in this thread.

More mad than ridiculous.

Doesn't seem to make much sense to me to have those two characters doing that in a packed stadium. Looks more like a commission piece. The art itself isn't that bad at all.

That's right. I compared it to Bruce Timm, but that's possibly better still.

Different overheads, possibly they can’t. Haven’t read the entire thread myself, but that’s a fundamental.