Ken Aldred

I find it difficult to see that anything could be described as such prior to the Bronze Age's Iron Man 55.

The last modern I read was the Batman : White Knight mini-series, a few weeks back. Excellent story and artwork by Sean Murphy. Before that, Lemire and Cates' Thanos, Jason Aaron's Thor, Kamala Khan Ms Marvel, and practically everything Tom King's done.

They should also use Hannibal King in it. An equally tragic and conflicted character.

I'm a huge Corben fan. I bought Vic and Blood at the time specifically because it was a Corben + Ellison combination, so I was hoping you'd be the one to point me in the direction of something maybe a bit obscure that I'd missed. Couldn't find anything by Googling.

Not too surprising, as you possibly suffered some PTSD after experiencing that, and you are then likely to avoid games, films or comic books with similarities which bring memories of the event back to the surface. I manifest something very similar with certain films, which, after my own most traumatising experience, I simply can't watch any more and actively avoid them.

Vikander was fine. Redmayne staring longingly at womens' dresses and shoes got unappealing and boring very, very quickly.

Ex Machina's much better. You're not missing much with the latter - quite boring.

I just remembered the portfolio and 3d illustrations that Jim Steranko did for Ellison's 'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman...

Vic And Blood? A.k.a. 'A Boy and his Dog'? Did he do more stories with Corben? Worked very well together in that particular story's post-apocalyptic setting. Also, two of the best and most memorable Outer Limits episodes written by him; 'Soldier' and 'Demon With a Glass Hand'. Very influential, of course. I'll be honest and say that I've never read any of his prose work. Should've. Sad news.

This section of the thread needs some Peri now. I don't mean the stuff you get at Nando's.

That brings back memories. Saw that back in the 70s when I was just a young lad.

Not that easy. For example, the simplified version of Thanos' personality that you see in the film is quite different to the deeply psychological, philosophical, nihilistic complexity of Starlin's comic book version, which would just be throwing a casual filmgoer in at the deep end too much.

A good idea, because quite a few of the better writers now work at Image on creator-owned titles; Brian K Vaughan, Greg Rucka, Rick Remender, Mark Millar, Ed Brubaker.

It is. But, Byrne maintains the quality over the long haul; 60 or so issues.

Yup. A very powerful story. One of Byrne's best.

I didn't know that. His earlier art on Quasar looked more like having a John Romita Jr influence to me.

I don’t recall ever reading that annual, even though I was a very avid fan of Adams at the time and thought I’d bought pretty much everything he'd worked on. I’m sure I would’ve noticed the similarity. I’ll definitely have a very belated look at that one.

I know it’s absolutely nothing at all to do with Tom Baker here, but I can’t help thinking about the other scene where the sailor wants a story about Squirry the Squirrel.

That’s a good adjective.

My Batman 251. My favourite Neal Adams book and BA DC issue. Like the OP, I have a (high grade raw) Avengers 4, which I paid £25 for back in 1987; my most significant SA Captain America comic, and I don’t think that’ll be going anywhere soon either.

I thought a lot of the exaggerated figure work from that period resembled early (mid 80s) Arthur Adams’ style, such as in his Longshot mini-series.

That's one that definitely polarises. Some like the art there, but I think it looks rather sloppy and scratchy. The tipping point for me, when I lost interest in his work.

The later, neutered EC titles were 'New Direction' and, the ones above, 'Picto-Fiction'.

ECs provided readers with an easy, 'one-stop shop' for the majority of the A-list comic artists of the early 50s, as well as a high standard of writing. Little wonder the New Trend books were so revered. Very little mediocrity to wade through - quite a rarity.

Krigstein's art is brilliant. A short but significant and powerful story, perhaps undervalued.