Ken Aldred

Interesting idea. It would beat the smell of ozone from a defective tablet, at least.

Yup. Got me there. As much as I focus on digital comics now, that’s the nostalgic, extra-special, newsstand, newsprint odour from my childhood. Irreplaceable.

Because I wear varifocals, I'm going to assume you're right and give you 11 / 10 for hawk-like observation skills.

Interesting also that the flying saucer is amulet-shaped and emitting green light, like the Eye of Agamotto. Much more convincing than Foom 2's 'Wolverine' interconnection, at least.

I had considered the possibility that a ghost artist had drawn the cover, but had forgotten about the 'no feet rule'.

Interesting. An even more obscure version. Both could've been much more popular with better identification of a key target audience, as I suggested in my earlier post. I've done the research... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferret-legging

I'm just messing about. Sorry. Cockrum's LOSH is one of my favourite series from my 70's childhood, and Timber Wolf one of my most fondly-remembered Bronze Age characters. There's also the homage to his look in Logan's redesigned costume in Iron Fist 15 and the first Imperial Guard storyline in X-Men.

Judging by the clenched fists, have the claws been Photoshopped out there?

You possibly know that there was a Copper Age character called The Badger? He had his own book. There was also a 90s character called The Ferret, now faded into obscurity. In this case I believe location was the problem, as, if he had been marketed to northern England, he would’ve been hugely popular.

That is impressively metal-looking. 70s / 80s album cover material.

Yup. Timber Wolf was already taken.

Quite a nice BWS-influenced cover on issue 2 there.

The only thing I ever really recall is a lot of extremely shouty expressions.

Have so many feet ever been seen before in a Rob Liefeld cover? I don't recall this many. If not, then, to me, and despite the aforementioned anatomical inaccuracy, this is actually an impressive achievement.

The sloping camera angle would suggest that. Or, Alan Davis.

It’s a generous assessment.

Miller had Robert Rodriguez with him on Sin City and Zack Snyder on 300.

Yup. Miller took a great big dump on the all-time classic work of one of my all-time favourite, godlike comic creators. That’s actually too polite and restrained a description to do justice.

This one was inventive, if a somewhat pointless use of a polythene bag.

I don’t mind a bit of crossover between episodes, but the other night a friend pointed out the opposite opinion, that many viewers, himself included, don’t want convoluted, series-long extended narratives, rather something over-and-done with in one go, and which requires no extensive recollection of decades’ worth of backstory, and there lies a polarising explanation as to why the series has suffered diminishing viewing figures. I thought the last episode was much better, though hardly flawless.