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Ken Aldred

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  1. Ken Aldred
    One of my best boardie pals.
  2. Ken Aldred
    Shelton was a great cartoonist. And funny.
  3. Ken Aldred
    One of the Essential volumes also reprinted the Dracula b/w magazine stories as well.
  4. Ken Aldred
    I quite enjoyed Hickman’s FF, but it is typical of modern storytelling. That is, not Silver Age ‘done in one issue’ plotting, but written more akin to a long, 2 dozen episode, interwoven TV season. Liking Jim Starlin's complex, Bronze Age cosmic storylines and Kirby’s Celestial characters I’m likely to have a greater tolerance for what went on there.
  5. Ken Aldred
    Considering that he’s powerful enough to alter reality and create pocket or ‘what if?’ universes, that's chillingly feasible.
  6. Ken Aldred
    It's like an Antipodean version of Lone Wolf and Cub!!
  7. Ken Aldred
    I enjoyed reading the Jonathan Hickman run recently.
  8. Ken Aldred
    Joking apart, that was a really bad series.
  9. Ken Aldred
    Another all-time great horror artist from the Bronze Age period, working unconstrained outside the Code with self-published material, in the underground comix field and for Warren magazines, is Richard Corben. Like Wrightson, one of the most talented artists and storytellers ever to work in comics.
  10. Ken Aldred
    Agents of Atlas is one of my favourite series of the past decade or so, with good stories by Jeff Parker and excellent art by Gabriel Hardman, inspired by this Bronze Age issue... ... and is a series which also features a strong Chinese-American lead character. However well done it might be, this was before the current trend of overusing diversity as a marketing tool.
  11. Ken Aldred
    Colan's art, being Gothic and heavily-shaded, looks great in black-and-white. One of my favourite Essentials series.
  12. Ken Aldred
    I've just had a look at some of the art from the book and I could see that working well.
  13. Ken Aldred
    Herb Trimpe and John Severin made a great penciller / inker team. I struggle to think of anything on the same level for Rob Liefeld?
  14. Ken Aldred
    It's far riskier to start from the ground upwards while the publisher can hopefully get a pat on the back for appearing to be PC by taking an easier, safer path instead ; tagging diversity onto existing characters with established sales. Except that when the tactic's used so very frequently it quickly ends up looking obviously manipulative rather than genuinely inclusive and respectful.
  15. Ken Aldred
    Before Zenith I read Moebius / Jean Giraud's Lieutenant Blueberry graphic novels. Good stories, and I particularly like the gritty, more realistic art style which this comics genius uses here, very different to his science-fiction / fantasy work. Great western material. Two-Gun Mojo was good. Lansdale and Truman, IIRC?
  16. Ken Aldred
    I'm not too familiar with Scandinavian extreme metal, apart from having some Opeth albums. Of course, nothing matches the songwriting genius of Abba's Ulvaeus and Andersson.
  17. Ken Aldred
    I've never checked that with my Freak Brothers 1 9.0 because of its plastic prison.
  18. Ken Aldred
    The Smiths and Depeche Mode were okay too, but hardly my favourites.
  19. Ken Aldred
    Good band.
  20. Ken Aldred
    No. That was Frank Robbins, who's been given much the same level of critical ridicule down the years.
  21. Ken Aldred
    Books like this do nothing but corrupt impressionable youngsters like you, Jimmers.
  22. Ken Aldred
    I'm currently reading Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell's Zenith for the first time. Really good.
  23. Ken Aldred
    Was there ever a thread about this subject regarding underground comix, or was the smell of cigarette smoke to be expected in that situation?
  24. Ken Aldred
    One of the best-written series of recent years was about a red-skinned android and his family living in suburbia. But, that's a brilliant anomaly, though the standard which should be aspired to.
  25. Ken Aldred
    Unsurprisingly, I agree with the point about forced diversity.