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Ken Aldred

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  1. Ken Aldred
    While I am very jaded at this point about the back issue market and the effect of pure speculation on something I care a lot about, I’ve taken some medication overnight and I’m probably not quite so darkly, coldly negative this morning.
  2. Ken Aldred
    I wouldn't spend it. Too little value for money at present. It doesn't buy much.
  3. Ken Aldred
    Yup. First thing that impressed me.
  4. Ken Aldred
    These craters are confusing, but at least the bitter cold is being tempered a little by a nice, warm breeze from behind, even if it does have a strangely ape-like scent to it. If only I could drag my attention away from these fascinating imprints and look backwards.
  5. Ken Aldred
    It is beginning to look a bit desperate, just throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks during this current period of maximum interest.
  6. Ken Aldred
    Classic grey tone war cover. Nice.
  7. Ken Aldred
    It's overwhelming, in a good way. I have a couple of the Dynamite bundles, a couple of Valiant, and 3 Kodansha Manga bundles which are just huge.
  8. Ken Aldred
    A strange, halfway situation. Issue 9, first Angela, is in Origins Volume 2, but issue 10 with Cerebus is missing. Still, not bad getting all that material in a bundle for $25. Can't complain. And, the more important book is there.
  9. Ken Aldred
    I did buy the large Spawn digital Humble Bundle; Origins Vols 1 to 20 inclusive, Complete Dark Ages, Resurrection, Hell on Earth, and Satan Saga Wars.
  10. Ken Aldred
    Great book, and very tough in high grade.
  11. Ken Aldred
    Hope it works out.
  12. Ken Aldred
    Don’t forget that the choreography of the violence was genius in its execution, and, if there were one, Stallone would at the very least earn a Golden Globe for imaginative destruction. A master of his craft. One experience just isn’t enough.
  13. Ken Aldred
    I won’t be going to watch it, but I’m curious if its finale is as thoughtful and restrained as that of the previous film?
  14. Ken Aldred
    Buy it for the brilliant Michael Golden artwork. I did, years ago.
  15. Ken Aldred
    Nice find, both of you. At present you’d have to look for the Fantagraphics softcover done in the 80s for a collected edition. Good to hear that the at times comically insane, ridiculous, extreme Objectivist views of Mr A are being reprinted.
  16. Ken Aldred
    Don’t forget this character...
  17. Ken Aldred
    Still not quite the same as they're artificial, whereas it's a pity the creators didn't think of having the Terrigen Mist mutate him to possess natural feline claws as well.
  18. Ken Aldred
    He started out collecting specimens of alien species, but eventually it was any shiny trinket, so to speak, that looked valuable and important. You see that in the first GOTG film, where he has captive lifeforms, but also obsesses about acquiring Infinity gems.
  19. Ken Aldred
    I was familiar with Wrightson's work very early on in collecting. I always thought he was quite superb; composition, graphic storytelling, fantastic fusion of Ingels' and Frazetta's art styles.
  20. Ken Aldred
    He had a long and successful career selling Grit, which allowed him to retire in the Bahamas.
  21. Ken Aldred
    A bit of a Sabretooth prototype there as well.
  22. Ken Aldred
    Wein seemed to be trying to emulate Gerber’s style on Man-Thing rather than the more Gothic tone of his Swamp Thing issues, which was fair enough. Generally, not one of my favourite writers for Hulk, and a character I didn’t get into until the more psychological approach starting in the 80s.
  23. Ken Aldred
    One of the better Len Wein stories from the period, if not quite up to the standard of Steve Gerber’s Man-Thing issues. A two part story. And, a fantastic Wrightson cover. I don’t have a copy anymore.
  24. Ken Aldred
    Besides which, the supposed prototype is clearly inferior as we all know that Wolverine is the best at what he does.
  25. Ken Aldred
    Seen that mentioned before. The extra ‘t’ in the sound of Logan’s claws makes all the difference. Two claws in the Kirby original, also more like X-23 / Laura Kinney. Just as much an argument for that.