Ken Aldred

Absolutely - they lost the plot once they tried to crack the American market. Yeah, they went all U2 on us. You're possibly talking about the 'Street Fighting Years' album here ?

One awesome comic book after another being posted here.

Something I suggested in the original thread. I regret never getting a Kubert sketch / commission, and would like to see some posted by other boardies. It would be a nice tribute to this amazing comic artist.

With Jessie J, who can't headbang or air guitar to save her life. Stick to the anaemic pop, why don't you?

I forgot I was watching it on BBC News rather than BBC 1, and I think I've missed probably about an hour or so. From what you're saying, I haven't really missed much, apart from a lot of tack?

I think we are going to see quite a few Olympian knighthoods at the end of the year. Mo deserves one. Bloody brilliant. (thumbs u

Yep just a dream, but that would be the biggest of the big. Can you imagine the queue for a Ditko sketch , You would have to start queuing now. he must be in his 80's now? 84, according to Wiki.

Rob Liefeld, Humberto Ramos, Greg Land, Greg Horn, Chris Bachalo, Eric Canete, side by side on the same row in 'Artists' Alley. Joking. Despite the comedy value, I hope it never happens.

Steve Ditko. Joking. It'll never happen. Just a pipe dream, unfortunately.

Great work there. One of my favourite runs of Avengers, by one of my favourite Modern era artists, Steve Epting.

Some chicks that Garry has the hots for. Standing - Black Knight and Sersi Others from left - Giant Man, Black Widow, Crystal, Captain America, Hercules

I read that earlier today on CBR. A film I'm definitely going to look forward to. I especially like them using the 60s team.

Having been diagnosed gluten intolerant, how I miss battered fish and shop curry sauce. I envy you. Cider rather than lager, ale, bitter or stout for me as well, as a consequence of this.

Is this mainly something for northerners? Fish and chips with curry - another vote for the combination here. +1 (thumbs u It only disagrees with Andrew's much more sophisticated palate, it would seem.

I really enjoyed both DKR and Avengers, including their contrasting styles - nothing wrong with that.

I used to go to the Royal National shows, but eventually I found I wasn't picking up anywhere near enough material to justify the effort and expense. While it's free to get into the event, from Manchester it would now cost me nearly 50 quid for the train fare.

I suppose we should be thankful there are an comic shows left a all. Like you I like to get the full shopping experience once in a while. Of course it's good to be able to look at old and scarce comic books in person, but I found I was leaving with just one or two cheap box Moderns at the end of the show, while Gez was charging more and more for entrance. Eventually it simply wasn't worth the effort for me to continue. That was 2006, even before I started buying comics online or had joined the boards. Eventually I do feel the need to evolve my collecting in order to stay interested and connected - probably my ADD manifesting there. From an empowerment perspective, I also feel it's a very good thing to be in a position where dealers like Silver Acre can be made to seem small and unimportant, and you can comfortably move well beyond and away from them, just as I did with Paramount Book Exchange years before.

The Golden Orbit marts can feel 'same old' very quickly. I stopped going in late 2006. I have heard that attendance is declining significantly at all shows.

Makes sense not to have all the effort of building a video collection go to waste, and to archive it digitally before it begins to deteriorate. It's also possible that some of the material hasn't been released on DVD yet, anyway. You know, in retrospect I wish I'd done some of this. Ah, well.

I tried watching the 60s series, repeated on ITV 4. Same formula every episode, which gets very boring, very quickly. I've never managed to make it through even one season when shown on TV.

I sort of liked them at the time but felt they were poor representations of the comic. And by the time the show finished, in 1968, the comic was doing a fair representation of the TV show... Thankfully, Adams and O'Neil brought that to an end not too long afterwards.

I didn't manage to get around to watching Spider-Man, but DKR is pretty much unmissable and I'm definitely seeing it next Tuesday.

Funniest thing is I don't know who half of those characters are... Other then Dr Strange who are the other 3 tied up? Looks like Nighthawk, Yellowjacket and Valkyrie.

I'm impressed!

I made it down to Kings Langley twice.