Ken Aldred

It can get a bit random around here at times. Jimmers is missed.

Yup. That's the real test of a great comic book artist, not an ability just to draw a very appealing, single, isolated static image. At least, as an actual reader, that's crucially important to me.

I have a tendency of choosing to watch a quiet morning showing after having had insomnia, and so I hope that I can remain conscious throughout the full three hours of this film.

But not huge ones like you’d see on Silver Age Marvels. There should be some degree of subtlety.

I thought you might’ve liked the Iron Fist 14. A book I’d assumed had limited film-related growth potential is my Tomb of Dracula 10 9.6, which cost me $500 at a time when the £ exchange rate was pretty good as well. About a year or so ago I was quite shocked to see how much it has increased.

More like throwaway products, created under pressure with little time available, and not typically intended or expected to have watertight plots and concepts. I tend to give the source material some latitude.

Yup. I’ve just started re-reading mid-to-late Silver Age Avengers; some of Thomas’ best stories, and John Buscema’s artwork is often superb, especially with a complimentary inker such as Klein or Palmer.

It just amused me as an observation, thinking about and comparing the 21st Century Avengers’ initial structure with Wonder Woman’s isolation and status in a team from a far gone era.

Makes it sound about as liberal and inclusive as the Golden Age, 1940s Justice Society in All-Star Comics. Fair point about having an all-female team, then.

Two raw books in wonderful condition; easy NMs. A Star Wars 1, at a great price so close to the opening of The Force Awakens, and an Iron Fist 14.

The last comic book I bought was just before Christmas 2015. So near...

Quite the opposite to the extremes present in older comics. Effectively, it's neon-lit, roadside sign overkill. But, I'm fond of them.

I don't mind covers that have nothing directly to do with the story contents. EC, during the Atom / late Golden Age, published many comics with covers that weren't explicitly connected to the contents, such as Weird Fantasy, with quite generic-looking spaceships and alien landscapes... I like many of the Artgerm covers, and the shift towards the opposite end of the spectrum to Al Feldstein's cover above, to realism, doesn't bother me. Much better than more of Greg Land or Greg Horn's obviously-swiped efforts from a decade or so ago, anyway. Adam Hughes is an extremely-talented cover artist whose work sometimes relates to the story inside, but sometimes has a quite unrelated, generic quality. A degree of realism to his style, but somewhere in between the polar opposites of Feldstein and Artgerm.

That would be interesting. Some very pretentious dialogue would need to be excised from it. I recall one issue in the Book 3 Olympus storyline suddenly transitioning into some of the most boring and overwritten purple prose that I’ve ever tried and failed to wade through, in any comic I’ve ever read.

Yup. He's the protagonist in Starlin's latest Infinity Conflict GN.

Very true.

Warpath is his brother, originally Thunderbird II.

Deadman

I admit that I always thought the same thing; more like a diaphragm camera shutter than a gun barrel. Too flat-looking to me.

Possibly another dance-off finale as used previously by Star-Lord, with the intention of distracting a serious threat such as Mangog, I suspect.

Silver Age DC fan, sense of humour, a science nerd I can't begin to compete with. Hope he returns.

Absolutely.

Just a bit obvious, predictable, commercial, that this sales-boosting trope would turn up again, sooner or later, in something else X-Men related by Liefeld.

In researching my last post, as a non-smoker, I was shocked to discover that a pack of 20 cigarettes can now cost around 12 quid in the UK. Not a poor, working class habit anymore.