Ken Aldred

Sword of Sorcery 3 Howard Chaykin

Uncanny X-Men 201 Chris Claremont

The Brave and the Bold 57 Ramona Fradon

Created as a response to the android Red Tornado over at DC. Using the alien and otherworldly appearance of the Golden Age Timely character works really well, whereas I've always thought the Red Tornado looks terrible.

I didn't know Sean Murphy was on that title. Great artist. I'll pick up a hardcover or trade paperback, sometime.

The teleportation associated with a smoke cloud reminds me of Nightcrawler.

You mean I DIDN'T create your name? I assumed that Ditch was an American first name, like Chip or Buck.

Blue and brown.

The thread has definitely highlighted significant shortcomings, Jimmers. For me, personally, it's the lack of stringency in the board's filter system, which still allows words such as 'vole' through. This can't go on, and I really should contact the moderators.

I have a 9.0 that presents brilliantly, no observable flaws. Dave / Oakman has an excellent 9.0, as well.

Bullying doesn't necessarily require an audience. Often it does, where the abuser seeks empowerment by being seen to be dominant in front of an acquiescent crowd of their peers or subordinates, employing that to pressurise the victim into compliance with their demands, but it can often continue, one-on-one, at an isolated location where further abuse can't be observed or criticised by others. Playground versus staircase, for example. I've experienced a lot of this behaviour.

I tried 'vole'. To my surprise, that circumvented the filter as well.

The Prequel is d*****s. Don't wast your time on it. There are bugs galore in it, and the graphics pale in comparison to the other 2. Honestly that is why I avoided it. I am not someone that needs a game immediately. I usually wait for it to be out a month or two to see what's up with it AND I usually buy it cheaper by waiting. I can wait quite a while until I've read that patches have been released to make a certain game run smoothly, and by then it's usually dropped to the £10-15 range. A win-win situation. Rocksteady's Arkham Asylum and City are superb. I haven't played the 3rd one.

I don't believe Chuck was doing anything malicious. He's just very analytical.

+1 The Joker turns psychopathic. A dark story.

Wow, that centering is spot-on compared to many of the other graded books. Beauty! No. Our aesthetics are different. A lot of my books present like this as I favour a very narrow, even, landing-strip line. This was the ideal copy for me, just as Brian's copy works for him.

232 would be my alternative choice as well, featuring the debut of my favourite Batman villain. 251 wins out on nostalgia value, being the first Adams DC comic that really impressed me, and it features some exceptional artwork. I read it as a reprint in a small, Best of DC digest comic in the late 70s, and soon afterwards bought an original copy.

My all-time favourite Neal Adams comic.

Nothing wrong with DVDs, and they can also often be upscaled really well.

Just wow. I concur. That's a really cool way to blow mess up.

Jerry Weist's shop. When I started collecting in my mid-teens and read my first copy of Overstreet I always wanted to visit that store, in particular. I could never have afforded the airfare from England, or had much to spend there, anyway.

A small bookshop, Chapter and Verse, in Bolton, near Manchester. They sold imported, cent copy Marvel and DC titles that weren't ordinarily available the UK and charged 35p for a standard-sized issue, which was three times the cover price for the distributed pence copy comics received by the newsagents three months later. Lots of overpriced back issues but only from the previous four years or so to 1973, after the picture frame Marvel era, with lots of Giant-Size titles but without the most significant one, of course. I went there for about 18 months and then started going to comic marts, found cheaper dealers and a wider range of material, and never went back.

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