Ken Aldred

The first extensive run I put together was Conan 1 to 100, back when I started collecting in the late 70s. I never completed the entire series, so congrats on taking it much, much further than I ever did. Although BWS tends to get the most praise here, John Buscema did some tremendous work on the title and also on Savage Sword of Conan, and to me is just as significant to the character.

Great taste. Moebius's original GN is a classic. Before the Incal is much less impressive, having a different artist who copies Giraud's style but somewhat patchily so in terms of quality. Final Incal is excellent; more space opera, less psychedelic, and Jose Ladronn doesn't even attempt to copy the French genius, but instead provides some of his best work ever in his own style.

Shooter's Pre-Unity Valiant is excellent. Go for it. Goes downhill quickly when the company loses him.

Did Daffy ever go up against anyone like The Space Turnip and Dr Bong? Doubt it.

It was much too sensible and sophisticated, admittedly. The Thing letting himself be swallowed by a giant sea monster (imaginatively called Giganto, just in case you missed that it was very, very large indeed) to take it out with a nuke that he's got strapped to his back. Quality storytelling.

Or Superboy Prime could return and knock some sense into Marvel's space-time continuum.

A fair comment, Jimmers. Don't forget the new Ms Marvel as well, Kamala Khan. Actually a very good modern character. Makes it less male-dominated, more inclusive, and more 21st century, though I do like my Silver Age.

+1 Which probably explains why I preferred the title. At its peak, anyway.

Yup. Around the time of the classic Headmen story arc.

Looks like one of the issues that's been collected in the 32 Stories mini-comic box set and paperback. Tomine's great.

Definitely one of the best Elseworlds.

I enjoy Steve Gerber's surreal, ridiculous humour, and his equally ridiculous characters. I started reading comics in the 70s, and I'm still very fond of these stories.

Forgot about this one. Great alien monster cover.

It can be done well, as in Guardians of the Galaxy, even though I found some of the Ego scenes in the second film a bit of a sensory overload. The previous FF films have performed poorly, so doubtful a new one will get a budget high enough to bring more of Kirby's work to the screen at the same level. It'd be nice, though.

Old-school science heroes with fairly generic abilities vs. a new-for-the-time family dynamic, which soon became formulaic in itself.

Challengers of the Unknown did struggle at DC in comparison.

It did say 'World's Greatest Comic Magazine' on the cover. Marvel wouldn't lie.

It's obvious that not even an Ultimate Nullifier could clear that blockage. Okay, he wouldn't survive using it, but he'd know that he went down fighting.

She looks more like a Goth than an ancient Egyptian to me. Watch it on TV sometime.

As polarising as Jonathan Hickman's FF run was, I liked the way he emphasised the importance of the family dynamic of the team.

Being OCD I'd find that sense of powerlessness very, very difficult to handle.

I enjoy reading FF, whether classic, early Silver Age Lee / Kirby, John Byrne's run from the 80s, or the more recent Waid and Hickman runs. It's often been pointed out online that the team feels like something rooted in the Silver Age, is quite retro and difficult to update. As a big, lifelong fan, I hope someone eventually manages a filmic reimagining which proves that bias to be completely wrong.

Yesterday's episode was excellent. I would most likely have thought it was one of the most brilliant Dr Who stories ever if not for the numerous spoilers about the characters returning in the show, which took the edge off it, months in advance.

Yup. I had it for a painful four days, without much sleep, and it felt like infinity.