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Ken Aldred

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  1. Ken Aldred
    Worth a try, definitely. Some of the interpretations of Spider-Man villains we've seen so far have been atrocious.
  2. Ken Aldred
    Can't have him without The Big Wheel. Can't be any worse than the version of The Rhino they did.
  3. Ken Aldred
    Molecule Man Spectre
  4. Ken Aldred
    I like that it's called Bag of Holding. Sounds like something I'd find after unlocking a storage chest in Skyrim.
  5. Ken Aldred
    Kane did some great work on ASM ; Death of Captain Stacy, the drug issues, Morbius, Death of Gwen Stacy, and especially when inked by Romita. Definitely a very significant Spider-Man artist.
  6. Ken Aldred
    It's clearly indicated by this report that, in reality, a transition from avid reader or frenzied speculator to psychotic loon has a much lower threshold than attempting to read 5000 comics in a single sitting - Bob Burden's long-standing estimate.
  7. Ken Aldred
    No need to feel guilty at all. I prefer digital and don’t miss the weekly ritual of going to the LCS : rather I’m able very quickly to access pretty much any comicbook that I’m interested in reading, across several decades. The images look superb on a large iPad Pro.
  8. Ken Aldred
    From a time when comics were supposed to be for kids, and in a Comics-Coded book, it's very surprising to see this type of subject matter make an appearance. Even if the situation was treated as relevance storytelling, it would be played straight rather than joked about, more in the way pre-code EC would've done; a ShockSuspenstory about spousal abuse.
  9. Ken Aldred
    Picking something at the opposite extreme to Vince 'The Eraser ' Colletta, I was never too keen either about inkers who didn't enhance the penciller's art as much as almost completely obliterate it with an overlay of their own style, such as Rudy Nebres, back in the Bronze Age.
  10. Ken Aldred
    Kane and Romita Sr was a great penciller / inker combination for Bronze Age Spider-Man.
  11. Ken Aldred
    John Romita Sr It took me a long time to really appreciate his art. Only once I developed an interest in Milton Caniff and noticed how well Romita implemented that classic style into his own work, especially the darker, grittier line and shadowing in his Bronze Age comics. Also, of course, there’s his exceptional page layout and storytelling ability.
  12. Ken Aldred
    Read comics in moderation. Too many in one go can have a disorientating effect.
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  14. Ken Aldred
    I did have a Flickr account that I used to add my new acquisitions to, but managed to forget my email password and can't update it anymore.
  15. Ken Aldred
    The Kurt Schaffenberger art really is good, though.
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    I’m only on this message board. It’s enough for me.
  18. Ken Aldred
    Here in the UK I would never have had a chance of putting together a high grade 9.4 / 9.6 Richard Corben collection without Howard. Still incomplete, but a tremendous amount of progress in only a few years, thanks to him.
  19. Ken Aldred
    Very nice-looking 9.0. The reading copy must've been really superb.
  20. Ken Aldred
    Still terribly missed here by me. As I said to him a few months before he died, I wished I'd met him many years earlier. Not for any materialistic reason, just that we had a lot in common.
  21. Ken Aldred
    Yup. He was an extremely good grader. Often generously so, I found.
  22. Ken Aldred
    That's only VF-NM. I'd wait on another higher-graded copy with fewer spine ticks, no dust shadow, or whatever the unsightly defect(s) might be that brings it out of the ultra HG category.
  23. Ken Aldred
    A key example of this particular type of Oriental xenophobia is Siegel and Shuster's Slam Bradley story from Detective Comics 1.
  24. Ken Aldred
    Deserving of a Screaming Homer, or two ... o
  25. Ken Aldred
    We can do without the unflattering, demonising, ethnic / national stereotypes, to begin with.