Ken Aldred

On 5/14/2024 at 5:43 AM, MR SigS said:

It looks painful having this head. 

 

Vampire Cat.

On 5/14/2024 at 4:29 AM, paqart said:

. Of course, Iron Man's hideous deformities are the real hero of this image. They are simultaneously repulsive and wrong.

Hard to believe this cat was acceptable and commonplace back in the 90s.

On 5/14/2024 at 4:25 AM, paqart said:

These are all pretty bad or over-rated in my opinion. The worst is the wedding cake, but the newsboy Mac Raboy isn't far behind.

Bland and lacking energy, certainly.

On 5/13/2024 at 7:19 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Wasn't he in Blake's 7?

I’ll be honest. Never watched it.

On 5/13/2024 at 6:31 PM, batmiesta said:

Did you know peeve means drink up here? As in, Gan out for a few peeves?

I didn’t. Weird, because Manchester / South Lancashire and Furness Cumbria, what used to be northern Lancashire, really aren’t that far apart.

”Gan” sounds quite Geordie, as well.

On 5/13/2024 at 6:07 PM, batmiesta said:

Must be a Cumbrian thing, we murder the English language up here. 

Strange, really.  We’re not that far apart. Never encountered it.

On 5/13/2024 at 7:53 AM, batmiesta said:

Still cat though.

Never heard that slang before.

If only they’d hired Jim Starlin, how different might it have been?

On 5/11/2024 at 3:52 AM, Jayman said:

Very nice Wood / Ditko artwork in this series.

On 5/11/2024 at 4:21 PM, Cman429 said:

I remember seeing this on the spinner rack at Krogers and even though I wasn’t “smart” about comics, I knew Ditko created Spider-Man. “OMG it’s the next Spider-Man!” Spoiler: He was not the next Spider-Man.

During Civil War he became Penance and later a member of The Thunderbolts.

On 5/11/2024 at 4:39 PM, ADAMANTIUM said:

It might have changed at this point, but it took a while to get there, I guess.  

Great series, relaunched as Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur in the 2010s.

On 5/10/2024 at 6:44 AM, AJD said:

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Absolutely.

And, it only works if you’re in the U.K.

I realised that after posting.

Lots of new Beck, Schaffenberger, Newton.

I've seen the Australian Harbinger 1 9.8 before.

Several with an Antipodean orientation there.

The extended cut trilogy was enough for me.

On 5/6/2024 at 1:46 PM, KCOComics said:

Aren't you like 20?? You are just getting started in the Hobby! 

Ties into my post.

Those schooldays seemed to last forever.

I often look back on the late 1970s to early 1980s using Mike’s Newsstand site at the comics I bought back then, and notice how temporally brief-and-compressed all the associated memories feel now, in my 60s.

Hard to believe, as at the time it felt like snail’s pace progression.

On 5/6/2024 at 8:26 AM, Terry JSA said:

I remember when I first started out so vividly.

Exactly. Which is the point of my post above.  Half a century ago now. Incredible.

I remember being 9 years old, walking home in freezing, biting cold with a British comic which reprinted Avengers 4, being blown away as a kid by the story reintroducing Captain America.  Very memorable, as additionally that morning there was still the stinging odour of burning wood embers everywhere and the recollection of the Bonfire Night fireworks, thinking how much of an unending, far-distant eternity I’d have to tolerate until I’d finally get to experience that spectacle again.

Now, it flashes by like nothing.

Certainly, this year, time feels like it’s accelerating. Can’t believe it’s May already.

On 5/4/2024 at 3:44 AM, grendelbo said:

 

Of course! 

Here I'm probably going to get banned from the thread for being too ridiculous, but...

On 5/4/2024 at 3:33 AM, grendelbo said:

I'm pretty sure. From this era. 

I don't doubt you. Just seemed more Silvestri's 80's style on X-Men to me.

On 5/4/2024 at 3:13 AM, grendelbo said:

Jim Lee

I'd have guessed Marc Silvestri on that one.

which leads us to...