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Ken Aldred

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  1. Ken Aldred
    If the back’s around 9.4, then another flaw on the front could drop it down to an overall 9.2 at best. The fingerprints might be a problem. Better to be cautious, then have a nice surprise if the slab returns higher.
  2. Ken Aldred
    Not a bad idea to do Secret Wars, if only to see one of my favourite characters, Molecule Man. He featured in both the original and more recent series.
  3. Ken Aldred
    It’s nice work. As a Bronze Age fan, I was already familiar with the heavily McCay-influenced art of Mike Kaluta, and so I found Little Nemo easy to get into.
  4. Ken Aldred
    My favourites. - Krazy Kat - Terry and The Pirates, and Steve Canyon - Prince Valiant - The Spirit The ones I’ll go back to, time and again. Unless I missed this in an earlier post, the pages of Li’l Abner drawn by Frazetta are worth a look.
  5. Ken Aldred
    Both very succinct, philosophical and insightful observations about the current, ennui-inducing speculation market.
  6. Ken Aldred
    Yup. He is rather good already.
  7. Ken Aldred
    I'm waiting for them to start publishing Youngblood Masterpieces.
  8. Ken Aldred
    I had a look at some of the Google links, in particular Twitter, and the writing is incredibly hyperbolic. Promising way too much and most likely setting themselves up for a quick fall. Being a cautious Brit, I'm never impressed with this kind of hubristic attitude.
  9. Ken Aldred
    Iron pyrite rather than gold in this case.
  10. Ken Aldred
    Not to worry. Perhaps they might get a ‘second chance offer’ for another copy.
  11. Ken Aldred
    To be fair, I wasn't aware of certain titles being reprints when I started collecting as a kid. I'd read names such as Marvel's Greatest Comics, Marvel Tales and Fantasy Masterpieces, and it wouldn't necessarily explicitly indicate to me that these were reprints, anymore than partial reprint books such as the extremely generic-sounding Marvel Super-Heroes would. This would either be because I didn't have much access to Silver Age books, or the titles simply weren't being distributed to the UK at the time. Luckily, even though I 'hadn't done the research', I never put myself in a situation where I was gouged like this, even for just a £ or two at the time. Much more important to educate and protect yourself now if getting involved with the current, highly-inflated back issue market.
  12. Ken Aldred
    Yup. As a comic from a quarter of a century ago I would only be interested in it if it had yellowing pages befitting its vintage, and only if it's a superior Youngblood Masterpieces copy. Otherwise, shove it.
  13. Ken Aldred
    According to the seller it’s in great condition because the yellowing is consistent with its age, and so they argued that it’s a well-preserved example of this book. Sure.
  14. Ken Aldred
    I thought there was supposed to be some genetic component to artistic creativity.
  15. Ken Aldred
    Yes.
  16. Ken Aldred
    I thought you would’ve told me which artists.
  17. Ken Aldred
    A good Ray Bradbury story ruined there.
  18. Ken Aldred
    Key Kirby book with 2 prototype stories.
  19. Ken Aldred
    Didn’t three of the EC artists pose as the Old Witch, Vault-Keeper and Crypt-Keeper for those images? (With prosthetics and make-up, of course.)
  20. Ken Aldred
    Strange how she’s having a go at Disney / Marvel Studios being disrespectful to her father’s work, but she’s turning a blind eye to the mess that Fox has made with two of Lee’s most important creations, The X-Men and The Fantastic Four. There have been both great and terrible X-Men films, but one steaming pile after another featuring Marvel’s First Family. You’d think that the persistent chain of desperate, phoned-in copyright grabs by Fox would be more offensive to her.
  21. Ken Aldred
    “Whether it’s Sony or someone else’s, the continued evolution of Stan’s characters and his legacy deserves multiple points of view.” The films have had directors that have made the material tonally different, for example, compare Winter Soldier with Thor: Ragnarok or Guardians of the Galaxy. Also, they've done well in modifying complex, meandering stories, such as the Thanos Saga, into a final product, Infinity War / Endgame, that's coherent despite complexity, more attractive to the general public, and basically to anyone lacking decades of comic book reading experience and familiarity. I don't see this decade's progression, or evolution, as being particularly disrespectful at all.
  22. Ken Aldred
    Always nice when a seller throws a few extras in. I'm expecting a swarm of space locusts, similar to the Annihilation Wave.
  23. Ken Aldred
    The Conan figure still looks more like a bad Frazetta homage to me.
  24. Ken Aldred
    There’s Helium 3 in them thar hills !
  25. Ken Aldred
    Nowhere near angry or shouty enough. Just looks a bit annoyed.