Ken Aldred

Inferno is one of the better crossovers.

Yup. Lots of quality material by Claremont in the 50-or-so issues he did, plus the Graphic Novel, and some nice art.

Chris Claremont’s run from the 70s through to the early 90s has many enjoyable, quality storylines that I still go back to and read again, not just the issues he co-created with Byrne.

Hopefully we won’t see the Batman 1 facsimile make an appearance at this time. That was quite an extreme example.

A fair point.

As Stan Lee was so significant to and revered by so many people, you would think it would be pretty obvious that exploitation during a period of shock, loss and grieving would result in a tremendous amount of resentment and anger, and it's sad to see such a deficit of common sense. I have absolutely no sympathy for what the dealers are now experiencing.

AF 15. A character far, far better recognised by the general public and much wider appeal. As a lifelong FF fan, it was difficult to put my nerd bias to one side and place it above the team’s first appearance, though.

Well, I thought I’d had a bad day so far, but this really, really is a kick in the teeth, and on another level entirely. It wasn't too unexpected after his wife’s death, but he’s the type of iconic creator that you just don’t want to lose. His work, and that of his key artistic collaborators from the Silver Age, got me through many difficult times, entertained and often amazed me with its creativity, all from my pre-teen years, and, I suspect, it always will. Thanks for that Stan, you were fantastic.

Didn’t feel at all like a John Woo film to me.

That also describes the Alias TV show after series 3. Much too convoluted. And boring. That said, Fallout has received some excellent reviews here in the UK, so I’ll still give it a go.

Yup. That's my favourite part of the graphic novel, and the film version was spot on.

I was exactly the opposite. I couldn't get into it as individual issues, but thought it was fantastic as a collected edition. Decades on, I much prefer the film's ending to Moore's fabricated alien squid invasion.

Easily recognisable. Didn't change that much in later life. Stan Lee would've been more difficult. The great Jacob Kurtzberg.

He's currently doing some of his worst art at DC. The simplest, blockiest-looking style I've ever seen him use. To me, quite ugly. That said, I like a lot of his 80s work, especially with his best inker, Al Williamson.

I remember having a brief discussion about Finnegan’s Wake when I was at university, and, in passing, described it as ‘mangled English’. Surprisingly, I received a positive response, that I’d made an accurate and extremely unpretentious description. Perhaps that explains my dislike of much of Grant Morrison’s work. Although the concepts are there, I often believe that they have been pulled from fields in which academics could spend decades working and studying, and I don’t find his usage to be particularly clear, and possibly even very superficial for that reason.

I saw these for the first time in Marvel UK black-and-white reprint comics back in the 70s. Without the colouring, maybe making it easier to focus on the detail, they really do look even more dynamic and stunning.

I remember reading the entire run a couple of years back. As you can see, it goes a bit mental in places, but it’s thoroughly inventive and surprisingly entertaining.

I really turned against Morrison’s work when DC was advertising his series, ‘The Filth’. A comment was made that most readers wouldn’t be able to understand the concepts the writer was using in it. I ignored the comic when it was published, as I’d been informed here that I didn’t have an IQ high enough to be capable of following what was going on, and so there was no real point to investing any money buying the series or any time reading something that a patronising editor had prejudged to be way beyond my comprehensive ability.

It started out okay but got increasingly pretentious, as is also typical of most of his later work. I like Morrison's early stories such as Zenith and Animal Man.

Yup. I was never that impressed with Tanghal’s inking. The embellishments later on by De Carlo were even worse. I suspected a lot of detail was being obliterated from Perez’s pencils.

Looking back now, what spoils them for me is the frequently bombastic, almost metal lyric-like dialogue. But, still enjoyable in places.

Another vote for Preacher. I dislike much of Garth Ennis’ work, but that’s at the top of the list.

The joke is more that the two panels would be divided individually into 2 double-page widescreen splash images. With five words, in total, over four pages.

The way the episode started on a junk planet was almost like foreshadowing.

Couldn’t be much worse than a space Gremlin for unoriginality. Erased the episode from my PVR after 20 minutes. Absolutely tedious.