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Ken Aldred
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Basically, read a few Image titles to dispel the illusion that all modern comics are terrible. Some great books there.
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Certainly a big fan myself of Romita's grittily-shaded Bronze Age art. One of the masters.
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To me, looks like one of the worst attempts at a Jack Kirby style that I've seen in ages.
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And, the ability to take a -script page, break it down into panels and convey the writer’s text as kinetic sequential art is a different skill to creating a single, static cover image, and, as a reader of comics, more creatively important to me.
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I’ve only just been able to watch Legends of Tomorrow on Pick / Freeview, and it was interesting to see Arthur Darvill cast as Rip Hunter.
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I like beautifully-drawn covers, and I’ve posted the Adam Hughes Supergirl LOSH variant enough times, but, as a lifelong comic book reader, the contents are much more important to me. And, not all modern comics are poorly written. A sweeping generalisation.
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The talk about Bats here reminded me that Snyder’s American Vampire series is another good read.
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Jason Aaron and Donny Cates.
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For those that have read Wolfmans TOMB OF DRACULA vol 1...
Ken Aldred replied to Erndog's topic in Bronze Age Comic Books
Although I'm digressing into Copper Age, the OP should follow up reading the Tomb of Dracula run with Roger Stern's excellent Montesi Formula story in Doctor Strange 58 to 62, which has King in a significant role. -
Recommendations for books on comic book history?
Ken Aldred replied to Phish&Comics's topic in Comics General
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There's some of Charest's own style in there as seen in his American material, some manga influence, and a bit of Moebius, the latter not that surprising as Spacegirl was originally in French and he's done work on Metabarons from the Humanoids imprint.
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I agree, Jeff. Musical taste aside, he has an interesting, if somewhat aggressive style.
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Charest is brilliant, but I've tried to think of someone who broke through more recently, such as Sean Murphy. A surprise from another 1990s artist was Mike Deodato's work on the recent Thanos title. For me, his career-best. His artistic successor there, Geoff Shaw, is extremely promising and clearly very talented.
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Isn't Stu the guy who keeps returning with new accounts that tend to, first of all, express an extreme, deep-felt hatred for the more sophisticated forms of classic pop music, such as Steely Dan, in particular? As the band is a Water Cooler icon, that attitude, in itself, tends to result in rapid moderator notification and an equally rapid disappearance.
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What will they call the next "era" of books??
Ken Aldred replied to 707comics's topic in Comics General
Post-Apocalypse Kindling Age -
That's an excellent graphic novel. Much more hard-hitting than the British equivalent, Charley's War.
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British
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Sean Murphy is an excellent artist. Batman : White Knight
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Harsh, but a nice application of British slang.
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Earlier than Silver Age; EC's classic 'Judgement Day' story. They also published several hard-hitting relevance tales in Shock Suspenstories.
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I'm tending to read much more Image than DC or Marvel.
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Wasn't there a Super-Transvestite imaginary story involving Superman getting exposed to Red Kryptonite? Kav could confirm this.
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A generalisation. Even though I'm in my fifties, I'm still interested in the challenge of finding something different and unfamiliar in new comics. Sometimes I like the interpretation, sometimes it fails for me, but I've experienced the same subjectivity and variability in older material, nor would I say I've found diminishing returns in moving from one Age to another.
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Surprising, looking back, that such a small amount of Bronze Age material from Gerry Conway generated month after month after month of tedious, poorly-conceived drivel in the mid 1990s.
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Jason Aaron's run with Jane Foster as Thor was actually quite good.
