Ken Aldred

Kurtzman uses a very minimalist cartoony style on his covers. I prefer the style he used with his interior art for the science-fiction and war books at EC. A bit of a sacrilegious opinion to some, maybe. This one really irritates me...

Don't forget Ultra Boy of the LOSH.

Just imagine though if you'd managed to get a Frazetta sketch on this blank?

What I liked the most about Sinnott’s inking was that he was capable of retaining all of the energy and excitement present in Kirby’s pencils. Just a perfect match.

Remember though that comics are unrealistic, and so in that story it’s probably over 100 on the plane, plus a couple of token endomorphs.

I always found them very disturbing.

Thinking from the POV of a non-comic reading member of the public, seeing this cover on a rack, unaware that inside is peak period work from a comic artist god, unaware that the preceding cover, a simple silhouette against a lightning bolt, is a brilliantly-designed all-time classic, might there be a chance that they’d look at this scrappy, rough image and move on, missing the brilliant Miller / Janson / Varley pages inside? I’ve always thought it looks absolutely terrible.

Absolutely superb inker, considered by many to be the greatest of all time. A sad loss.

The Adams covers aren’t that bad, compared, for example, to Milgrom’s Avengers Annual 10 cover, which is a bit of a mess.

Great example! As good as the more obvious Avengers Annual 10.

X-Men 193 was more significant to me for being the first appearance of Warpath / Thunderbird 2 in costume.

Maybe the hands should’ve been hidden away? Why should Rob Liefeld’s technique only be used with feet?

It does thank Robbins and Anderson for ‘lending a hand when needed’, and so if they were used as hand models, and their hands were drawn into the comic from life, then there’s no excuse whatsoever for shoddy hand artwork at this level.

Leialoha has done some really nice artwork in modern comics such as Fables, and for me, much better than his Bronze / Copper Age style.

Yup. Madman was very good.

Strangely enough, I'm not much into Allred's art style, especially the rag doll figure work poses. Once you get into action scenes, I find it looks a bit messy and clumsy. However, Peter Milligan's one of my favourite writers, and I was more impressed with that aspect. X-Force / X-Statix does feel more like an indie title than something from Marvel.

A brilliant series. EC's social commentary platform. I have the Cochran Library hardcover set.

Having checked GCD, that might be a typical response to the John Romita Jr artwork, which has a tendency to polarise opinion here on the boards. I quite like his work on Iron Man with Bob Layton inking it during this period, but here the pencils are inked by Alfredo Alcala, which can be a bit on the heavy side for my taste.

The switching and swapping was most intrusive with the initial Avengers / New Avengers storyline, and also when those two were mixed in with the Infinity mini-series. I only tend to read three or four issues at a time, max, and so the breakdown worked out okay. In the individual issues, Hickman was also thoughtful enough to provide you with flow charts to guide your reading order... I might have to look into getting those collected volumes, though.

Yup. Image is my favourite publisher.

I can't recall reading Dazzler 1. She-Hulk 1 has one of the most boring origin stories you'll ever read, even if Stan wrote it.

A long time ago, I think it was in an 80s reprint of The Kree-Skrull War, it was pointed out that comics could create scenes that were way beyond anything that live action film was capable of at the time. Now, comics don’t have that advantage over film and have lost that USP, even offering an experience that will be perceived by the general public as greatly inferior and maybe a little bit primitive. Yes, it saddens me to say that, of course

Marvel digital, and following an online reading order guide and online recommendations about the best Battleworld stories.

It is better to read his New Avengers and Avengers material to understand how the multiverse gets dismantled, the incursions, the different groups involved in trying either to stop or to accelerate the process, or to save some small parts of it. Tom King’s Vision series is a modern classic.