Ken Aldred

Always going to be a problem with any parallel universe reinterpretation.

Checking on Amazon UK , there are many digital SA and BA Masterworks going for £5 to £7. Lots of great reading material.

It all went pear-shaped later on with absolute toss such as Jeph Loeb's Ultimatum.

The early Ultimate books were very good. Joe Quesada's Marvel of the 2000s is missed and there's much to be learned and, maybe, hopefully one day reapplied from his tenure back then.

A bullet I dodged when I stopped buying from Previews and the LCS back in 2010. It was only a short time after this, maybe a year or so, when Marvel hiked up their reprint prices to near enough parity between individual issues and trade paperbacks. They also added an extra $20 to Marvel Masterworks, raising them from $50 to $70 and, as much as I can understand the need to cover remastering costs, with many of them excellent quality, simply too expensive for me.

It's actually consistently well-written by Jeff Parker, and has some great art by Gabriel Hardman. I really enjoyed it. The books shouldn't be too expensive to pick up, and there are several trade paperbacks available for you as well. The What If issue was one of the first non-distributed, American import comics that I ever bought, here in the UK, back in the 70s. Besides that, like you I've always been quite fond of this retro team, and Agents of Atlas gives some 50s background stories as well as being a modern update. I suspect there's a very good chance you'll enjoy it too.

The ones in FF are aliens, whereas Kirby's Eternals are earthborn. Very different, and no mention of The Celestials. Given how long the ones in FF had existed, they would've been visited by several Celestial Hosts, so unlikely they're the same. Coincidental naming, just like the obscure Punisher robot in FF, and the much more famous character. Eternals 1 for me.

I should be picking up a commission with that very same costume, with the starfield inside the cape, sometime later this year.

The original Marvel Boy, Bob Grayson, is now The Uranian, a member of the Agents of Atlas team.

I wouldn’t dispute for a second that truly regaining the naive, wide-eyed, euphoric response experienced as a kid when I first started reading comics would be somewhat difficult to replicate. That said, I enjoy reading something new, which is well-written and well-drawn, in order to at least try to sense some of the unfamiliarity, freshness and energy that I associate with reading Silver and Bronze Age back in the seventies. That’s good enough for me, at this stage.

I thought I'd do a black-and-white version of a cover from one of the best colourists ever to work in comics, Richard Corben.

I'm only familiar with the Jane Foster Thor, but possibly because, like the Muslim Ms Marvel, they're actually quite good reads? That said, I'm reading them digitally a while after the release of the physical copy version, and they still don't prompt me enough to want to go back to rushing in to the LCS each and every week.

Very inconsistent.

It's ambiguous, for sure.

Really. You can clearly see a flipper.

I can see that the Power Rangers sig looks phallic, but to me it more resembles a dolphin riding on the back of a whale.

Hopefully containing the classic Thanos Copter issue.

Rommbu's thinking... 'Look, isn't it obvious that I'm a member of my planet's Ben Grimm Fan Club? I'm even in my Thing cosplay outfit. All I've come here for is his autograph, so what's the bloody problem?

Shortly before this, on Legion, Giffen was doing a fairly decent copy of Kevin Maguire’s art style, but Trencher is scribbly, garish nonsense to me.

Yup. Good death metal track there. I said jokingly, in a post a while back, that it's 'Uru-heavy', but there's much heavier and more punishing music. Possibly too hardcore for a surround system in a cinema auditorium, which is a shame.

The only one I might go to see is GOTG 2. When I watched Dr Strange, I avoided the GOTG 2 trailer by using a brilliantly-timed restroom visit, returning to the IMAX theatre only a few seconds after the trailer had finished.

Trencher by Keith Giffen has some headache-inducing artwork...

I just watched the last Conan The Barbarian film on British TV this week. I thought it was quite ordinary and didn't really offer anything you haven't seen many times before. The long fight scenes at the end were quite dark and a bit tedious. Disappointing.

I still don't have a PS4, and recently completed Bioshock Infinite on PS3, working my way up to eventually cracking it in the hardest 1999 mode, which isn't too bad as long as you choose the right upgrades. One of the most enjoyable FPS games I've ever played, with a great and surprisingly complex parallel universe story.