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Ken Aldred

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  1. Ken Aldred
    My favourite as a kid in the 70s was the plain chocolate Toffee Crisp bar. Can't get them now.
  2. Ken Aldred
    Another vote for Chic Stone. Great work with Kirby over his Thor pencil art for Journey Into Mystery. Far superior to Vince "The Eraser" Colletta.
  3. Ken Aldred
    I just watched it on Blu-ray. Under all the explicit violence, an excellent story. The best X-Men film. Very moving.
  4. Ken Aldred
    Kanigher, Kubert, Redondo, Golden. A lot to like there.
  5. Ken Aldred
    Extremely impressive first issue. One of my favourite Modern comic writers. Nice artwork. I hope it ends up being the DC equivalent to his brilliant Vision series.
  6. Ken Aldred
    In the Avengers Annual 7 / Marvel Two-In-One Annual 2 crossover story, The Avengers have another battle with his alien henchmen, but that story is far more significant to the Thanos Saga as a whole. It has some classic scenes; especially Warlock's.
  7. Ken Aldred
    Very enjoyable series. Decent read. Also, try to find a reading copy of Batman Family 20.
  8. Ken Aldred
    Comics, at the time Marvel arrived, were a bit set in their ways and formulaic. Despite being another formula in itself, Lee introduced stories which felt different, with more angst, bickering and family dynamics. Difficult to see how you could devise something new with the same level of general, wide-ranging appeal.
  9. Ken Aldred
    If you click on the dot to the left of the title, it should take you to the first unread post.
  10. Ken Aldred
    I prefer curry on my fries / chips. A popular English alternative.
  11. Ken Aldred
    I like using the new board format. No problem adjusting.
  12. Ken Aldred
    And poutine. Don't forget that.
  13. Ken Aldred
    Sounds great. I have all of the Legion Archives, being a huge fan of the Silver Age books since I started reading comics in the 70s. Lots of enjoyable material in there, but most of all for me the Shooter / Swan and Bates / Cockrum periods.
  14. Ken Aldred
    I have the Seiko £120 version of the Blancpain Fifty Fathoms. More budget-priced, like my comic collecting.
  15. Ken Aldred
    I think his style got much simpler and cleaner in the 80s, but the shading in his 70s work was quite dark and gritty in places, and really did suit characters such as Batman and The Spectre, as you can see in those covers.
  16. Ken Aldred
    I started reading comics during the early / mid 70s DC 100 page program, just missing out on the Adams-era Batmans, apart from issue 255. I picked up all of Aparo's really enjoyable Brave and Bold issues and, being from this formative period for me, hardly surprising that I see him as one of the best and most significant artists ever to work on the Dark Knight's stories.
  17. Ken Aldred
    In this case, I suspect it's not just the horror character team-up, but also a frenzied bidding war between two or more fans of the stunning Frank Robbins interior artwork.
  18. Ken Aldred
    I never really looked closely at the foreground figures as, overall, it's a nicely-composed cover. At a distance, to me, the faces and figurework still look quite Aparo-like. Decades of conditioning, seeing it that way.
  19. Ken Aldred
    I know. Gets to be a repetitious thought these days.
  20. Ken Aldred
    For years I thought this was drawn by Aparo, but I eventually discovered it was Adams... To me, the opposite effect - Adams mimicking Aparo.
  21. Ken Aldred
    Yup. Exactly what The Spectre should be. Full-on, dark, no compromise, Old Testament justice.
  22. Ken Aldred
    It always seemed to me that, at most, Spidey wore slipper-like soles, something that thin.
  23. Ken Aldred
    Yup. That had occurred to me. One reason I said 'most'.
  24. Ken Aldred
    One of my favourite Bronze Age FF issues. Reintroduction of Atlas Era Marvel Boy. For 2 issues, anyway.
  25. Ken Aldred
    Sasquatch.