Ken Aldred

I had no interest in the character until I read the Joe Kelly run in the 90s, which had a decent sense of humour throughout. Enjoyed both films, especially, as I said in the Deadpool 2 thread, Reynolds' excellent watered-down Jim Carrey impression. Full of totally ridiculous scenes and a great contrast to Infinity War, so soon after watching that one.

Lots of nice Severin art in there, a bit of Mike Ploog later on, IIRC. Hardly drek.

A fascinating website. I used to read the boards often, back when I was an Archive and Masterwork collector of paperbacks and hardcovers, not often once I switched to digital reading. I did pick up Ka-Zar Masterworks Vol 1 in a 69p sale on Comixology. Lots of nice art in there from Kirby, BWS, Buscema, Kane and Adams.

Yup. Good to watch two in a row with contrasting styles, and variety.

Ka-Zar Masterworks vols 1 and 2

Serious statement. I always wondered why an auction house was named after a fish. I always assumed it was an acronym. Now I know.

I concur. All the wrongs righted in so short a time. Extremely satisfying.

No and yes, respectively.

Yup. Likely rather painful. He should've kept the blubber instead.

Looks like there's still either a dislocated leg, pelvis, or an early attempt at a gluteal implant. A poor trade-off.

A shame. A lot going for it; very good stories by Englehart and Stern, lots of nice art by Brunner, Colan, Golden, Rogers and Smith.

Yup. At least at the cinema I went to, they gave us a subtle hint about this after the mid-credit scene by immediately turning the lights back on in the auditorium. Go on, fanboy, leave, nothing else to see.

+1 I've no idea, but I'm certainly very intrigued now.

Yup. I was about to make a "Sacre bleu, and all this time I thought it was just an American remake of a French film!" comment. I couldn't find an acute accent substitution on my laptop. Apologies.

That's true. In the 70s, I'd also buy some b/w magazines, including an occasional issue of Skywald's Psycho. Looked interesting on the racks, but the material inside seemed a bit excessive at that age, and a fairly poor choice for me in the end. Soon focused on Marvel's magazines after that brief experience.

By that stage, comic shops were all over the country and regular comic marts with new imports were held every month, and so it was very easy then to get comics from all publishers. I was only isolated in this respect until around mid 1979. Reid Fleming and Flaming Carrot are two of my favourites. One of the first regular titles I bought was the Kitchen Sink Spirit magazine.

There might be long runs of JLA from the mid-70s through to the late 80s DeMatteis / Giffen relaunch that get largely ignored, apart from maybe the Perez Darkseid issues.

Consistently funny film with Reynold’s excellent, watered-down Jim Carrey impression. Better story than the first’s, which was quite basic. Ridiculous use of X-Force, and a nice surprise to see one of my favourite X-Men antagonists done well at last. I have an iconoclastic, irreverent attitude, and a film perfectly suited to me, especially when it’s as well done as this.

By the early 80s I enjoyed both equally, as I’ve always liked a bit of variety, especially when linked up with the more quality indies of the time. So, my tastes evolved in less than a decade from primarily DC to begin with to Marvel Zombie to a bit of everything. A memorable journey,

As a young kid, I was given 50p to go away and buy some comics on market day, in order to stop pestering my mother and gran for a while, so that they could escape for a coffee and pie at the cafe there. A bit of peace for a few minutes, away from a noisy, hyperactive brat, I guess. That's how it all started for me.

I never thought about it from that perspective before. Quite possible. I would buy some Marvels, but only an issue, here and there, and so the continued story aspect might've stopped me connecting to them as much as I did with DCs. When I first started reading comics, around 8 or 9 years old, it was primarily DCs, just before and, very luckily, during the classic 100 page era, along with a small number of Marvels. At the time, distribution of Marvels to the UK was very patchy, and a title I'd been following would suddenly, unexpectedly, disappear from the racks; problematic if it was a multi-part Marvel epic, whereas DCs didn't really suffer from this irritating problem. One reason I never read Starlin's classic Captain Marvel / Thanos in its entirety until much later. That said, I completely switched polarity in the late 70s, once imported cent copies were more widely available, I was older, and so more complex, extended narratives such as the Claremont and Byrne X-Men saga became more appealing, and no longer quite so daunting to complete runs of.

Toho Studios vs Marvel Monsters. They should've done that in an issue of BA Godzilla.

I wondered how long it would be before the bear turned up.

I'm relieved. I was just parodying the 'much looser grading' of that time.

It's always been an assumption by the general public. Even when I started reading comics in the 70s, and buying them because I enjoyed the material and cared a lot about the medium and little about their monetary value, the first comment from practically anyone would be 'Oh, I bet they're worth something.' It becomes quite an annoying conflict of primary interests, after 40 tedious years of repetition.