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Ken Aldred

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  1. Ken Aldred
    All those people being mind-controlled, and it's Xemnu / 'The Hulk' who's wearing a tin helmet. I like the expression on the face of the guy in a blue suit. 'Looks like I picked the wrong week to run out of aluminum foil.'
  2. Ken Aldred
    There was a strange kind of talent at work there, apart from the week when Lee and Kirby were off-form and could only come up with 'X' as a monster name. Or maybe they'd just mislaid the dice?
  3. Ken Aldred
    To emphasise, nothing wrong with Tim as a boy’s name. But, give it to a young Marvel monster, in the playground with Fin Fang Foom, Groot, Xom, Oog, Monstro and the rest, and there’s going to be trouble and subsequent acting out. It’s obvious.
  4. Ken Aldred
    It probably got Tim beat up a lot at school, and that’s why he ends up such an overcompensating, world-dominating tyrant.
  5. Ken Aldred
    Although it’s perfectly fine as a boy’s name, I’ve always thought that Tim was a strange name for a Marvel monster.
  6. Ken Aldred
    It actually isn't bad at all. I'm just jaded and I don't have particularly fond memories of my schooldays. As you've said, its sales relative to other titles are okay. It's just that being old I remember decent sales figures being around 200k.
  7. Ken Aldred
    Beyond a certain point, rather than inclusive, it'll end up sounding more like a freak teleportation pod accident than a realistic attempt at diversity.
  8. Ken Aldred
    The interior art reaches the same standard.
  9. Ken Aldred
    Some of the stories using the new Muslim Ms Marvel are set around high school experiences as were our early Silver Age Amazing Spider-Man issues. In my 50s, I'm not really that interested in reading more of the same again but, judging from less-than-stratospheric sales figures, neither does that setting appear to have resonated much with the current generation of teens.
  10. Ken Aldred
    Great book. Reprints Groot, Fin Fang Foom and Tim Boo Ba. No Shagg, sadly, but a nice selection nonetheless.
  11. Ken Aldred
    I never much cared for Alpha Flight myself either.
  12. Ken Aldred
    I enjoyed reading Lee and Kirby's JIM and Thor run from 101 through to the mid-130s in particular. A lot of really nice Kirby art in there, preferring the earlier material inked by Chic Stone rather than the later work erased by Colletta.
  13. Ken Aldred
    They should've reintroduced Shagg in a fight with some British super-heroes. An issue of Excalibur would've been good. Missed opportunity.
  14. Ken Aldred
    Yup. Along with Fin Fang Foom, he's one of the A-listers.
  15. Ken Aldred
    As a 70s kid , I like a lot of Byrne's work. His last really strong creative period for me is the early 90s; Namor, Omac and Next Men.
  16. Ken Aldred
    Liefeld's characters sometimes look worse, as if they're in excruciating pain, blocked up with life-threatening impaction.
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  18. Ken Aldred
    Those are absolutely superb-looking books ! Congrats.
  19. Ken Aldred
    Dell's short-lived Dracula, Werewolf and Frankenstein comics.
  20. Ken Aldred
    And then it would be parodied cynically at some stage as... 'With great powers comes great, politically-correct social responsibility... '
  21. Ken Aldred
    I always thought it was a pity that the name 'The In-Betweener' had been given to a cosmic-level character rather than being available for a more grounded, transgender super-hero.
  22. Ken Aldred
    Some of the most memorable Giant-Sizes of the Bronze Age.
  23. Ken Aldred
    I never read those as a kid, but instead was introduced to Golden Age stories via the DC 100 pagers.
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  25. Ken Aldred
    At least there's no humourless troll in the way.