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Ken Aldred

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  1. Ken Aldred
    I prefer certainty to a shot in the dark like this. Doubt I’d be happy. I’ve seen some terrible examples on YouTube.
  2. Ken Aldred
    I like Hans Zimmer’s scores too. For compilations, my clear favourite is Awesome Mix 1 from Guardians of the Galaxy. I should have a listen to The Crow’s industrial soundtrack, mentioned above.
  3. Ken Aldred
    I wouldn’t mind continuing with this, but no more space left before the collection begins to spread around and turn into an obtrusive hoard. Another reason I switched to the digital format.
  4. Ken Aldred
    I’d been numbed rather than amped up by the reviews, so when I saw it on TV a few months back I thought it was okay as a CGI style-over-substance super-hero film. I even watched it twice.
  5. Ken Aldred
    Primarily for the story, characters and artwork, really connecting to the format. There was a lot of nostalgia driving my comics buying, but now I feel that I can revisit the past in a more pragmatic manner by reading older material digitally. Some of it still holds up, but a lot falls into a ‘that’s not anywhere near as good as I ‘remember’’ category, or I’m just so much more critical of the issue or story as an adult. I don’t then feel a drive to locate a nosebleed-priced original copy anymore; once I’ve understood that my warm, idyllic memory is so flawed and illusory.
  6. Ken Aldred
    The sterling to US dollar exchange rate is currently pitiful, and likely to descend still further towards parity. I was very relieved to have stopped buying original comics before this additional obstacle was incorporated into a perfect storm, as the current speculation era was then in full swing. For me, great timing to avoid this complication having any significant effect.
  7. Ken Aldred
    Mine was the edition with the LB Cole cover and an article about him.
  8. Ken Aldred
    Just noticed this one, too. Possibly another comic writer?
  9. Ken Aldred
    Is this the comic book writer? Also worked in TV and films.
  10. Ken Aldred
    I’m sure it’s just coincidental.
  11. Ken Aldred
    In the UK I can check out positive feedback, get an idea about the attitude of the tradesperson, and where they are regarding pricing and labour by using the MyBuilder website before hiring them.
  12. Ken Aldred
    Weird Science-Fantasy 29 is another book that has shot up in price over the last few years.
  13. Ken Aldred
    I only recently noticed that he did some of his earliest work in the Warren horror magazines, but much more familiar with his DC and Dreadstar material. Good artist.
  14. Ken Aldred
    They have a point. An unopened sealed original iPhone is a pricey collectors item now. Very surprised when I read about it. Hulk 181 level.
  15. Ken Aldred
    Relative to my means, there are no key books I would even consider putting myself out for at present. Ridiculously expensive, and I’m not competing with frantic speculators.
  16. Ken Aldred
    Batman : Mask of the Phantasm Batman : Sub Zero.
  17. Ken Aldred
    Having to pinch zoom and magnify a page of reduced size on a 7" tablet was the main factor that made me look forward to the arrival of larger tablets such as the iPad Pro or Surface Pro, where you can read the whole page easily without adjustment. Comixology has Guided View, which directs you through a page by magnifying sections of the page sequentially, panel by panel. Very useful for smaller tablets, but still very interesting in larger devices to inspect finer details in the comic art.
  18. Ken Aldred
    I have an iPad Pro 12.9, which is brilliant for reading digital comics, and so, at this level, you'd be looking for an equivalent Microsoft Surface Pro tablet.
  19. Ken Aldred
    I was on the right track, then.
  20. Ken Aldred
    Yup. Devil could bite off Arishem's thumb, disabling the formula of destruction inscribed on it, thus saving the Earth and countless other worlds from annihilation.
  21. Ken Aldred
    Very different experience to me, then. Posts I've read here say much the opposite.
  22. Ken Aldred
    Not a bad description. It's an excellent, highly-regarded run. One of the character's very best.
  23. Ken Aldred
    I don't bother actively following speculator rushes any longer, and that would be more disappointing than seeing the Shi'ar Imperial Guard on screen.
  24. Ken Aldred
    Yup. It's not quite Jackson Pollock drip painting, but, for a signature cover equivalent, close enough.
  25. Ken Aldred
    There's still plenty available in the top-and-bottom right corner sections of the cover. Maybe it's still a work in progress?