Ken Aldred

Todd McFarlane and Greg Capullo David Finch

Neal Adams

Barry Windsor Smith

Two of my favourite album covers, by the brilliant Richard Corben.

Interesting cover. Looks like the artist is trying a Steranko-like style there.

The Korvac Saga was the first multi-part storyline I ever read in comics, when I started collecting in 1977. A great Avengers story. Those issues were distributed to the UK as pence-priced Marvel All-Colour Comics variants, and easy to get if you were restricted to a local newsstand. But, I had to wait some time to get FF 176. The title was distributed here for quite a while, all except for 176; just that annoying one issue gap inside the run. I eventually found a cent copy at a comic store a few years later. Again, a very enjoyable book.

I had heard that Disney was considering adding those to Thanos' helmet in Avengers : Infinity War, in order to make him less frightening and intimidating to younger viewers.

Yup. That's fair enough. I didn't get from your post that you were that familiar with the music. I interpret things very literally at times. Definitely in that mode this week. Possibly why the combination appeals to me.

During the mid-to-late 70s I found Daredevil a bit of a chore to read because of some very mediocre stories and artwork, and rarely picked it up when it was distributed to the UK. Even though he was a new artist, I liked the way he emulated the Kane and Janson figurework from a couple of issues prior to his debut, and also the dark city noir influences from one of my comics icons, Will Eisner. Very impressive art for someone with so little experience, especially when compared to his earliest DC work. Also, his Spillane-influenced crime story style was perfect; well, before I got bored of it eventually through decades of repetition. Still a paradigm for the title, as some of the best-regarded, longest runs are also by other crime comic writers, Brian Michael Bendis and Ed Brubaker. Of all his stories, I'd rate 'Born Again' the highest. The Visionaries reprint books shown in earlier posts, and the later Omnibus, have excellent remastering, compensating for the dull, semi-transparent newsprint of the originals, really enhancing the artwork.

I didn't know that. During a period when I'd cut back, and a title I completely missed. Or, just too focused on the mutants.

Being a fan of 80s Metallica, I'm conditioned to see that as working perfectly. The song, 'One', had staccato rhythms in it meant to emulate artillery or gunfire, following on from 'Disposable Heroes' in the previous album, 'Master of Puppets'. It's also meant to represent a severely traumatised mental state, as with Frank Castle and the former soldier in the song itself. One of the best super-hero trailers I've ever seen.

I recently re-read the entire Chris Claremont X-Men run. I enjoyed it, though some might disagree and consider the experience a little masochistic. Anyway, great slugfest comic there, following on from a short period of mediocrity after the Paul Smith issues. Well worth a belated 'like'.

At the very least, Ka-Zar could always say that Zabu is an Antarctic Panther and not a Sabretooth; a mistake commonly made.

Ka-Zar would be a common sense choice. A British lord with an enormously large cat as a sidekick.

It's actually quite a well-known storyline, and infamous for the way MJ died.

There are plenty of Kandorians and Daxamites around with the same powers.

I'm hoping that this actually is the first really good film based on a videogame series, rather than another typical, expected disappointment.

I suspect that's true. I've never seen Tarzan art where he's in combat with a honey badger. Conan's better protected. He could cover his delicate parts with a metal shield quite well. Just a loincloth? Wouldn't risk it.

This made me consider a possible reason as to why I don't mind modern computer colouring, when it's done well. I've been a Richard Corben fan since the late 70s, of his very vivid, airbrush colouring technique. Because of this I never found the transition from old-style newsprint to glossy paper and modern colouring that difficult at all. Although, we are left with memories of the appalling Flexographic period in the mid 80s. It wasn't all better in the olden days.

I thought it was excellent as well. At the other extreme, The Fountain was a bit too pretentious and tedious.

Those are very, very nice examples of Hogarth's Tarzan, but his figurework could be a bit stiff at times. My favourite is Joe Kubert.

I think it is.

That many? I didn't realise !