Ken Aldred

Fairly generic costume. Apart from the hair length, reminds me of this one…

Never had it.

How could I forget that Giffen classic.

Joe Kubert liked to play around with logo designs a bit…

Obviously, any number of his classic newspaper strip Spirit Section logos could’ve been chosen, but this is a cover for a BA issue in magazine format.

Does it just have to be logos being smashed to pieces? That would get a little repetitive.

Early art from Travis Charest. He got much, much better.

I sense the approach of a ‘Fight Scenes on Staircases’ thread.

Hairstyle, that’s all.

I always thought the hairstyle was more Kirk Hammett’s from Metallica.

The local cinemas here don’t discount at all, unfortunately. No such incentive.

I became a bit jaded after Endgame and during lockdown. Stopped going to the cinema to watch any superhero films from Black Widow onwards. Happy to have stayed away, apart from maybe the two Spider-Man films, which I’ll likely catch up with on Blu-ray, now that I know they’re worth it. The rest, well, I’m so jaded that I’m comfortable waiting for them to appear free of charge on British Freeview HD, whenever that might be: I really don’t care. I did go to watch GOTG 3 at the cinema, which was okay, but the price for taking a chance on a bad film is becoming too high, with ticket prices up 50 % recently.

I’ve been looking at some of the ‘just watched it’ reviews on YouTube. They’re not good.

I see it primarily as the studio’s equivalent to Perelman’s asset stripping attitude towards Marvel Comics product in the early-to-mid 90s. And a similar tedium toward copious, overwhelming amounts of poorly-executed (onscreen) drek is setting in.

Shadows on the Grave 1 to 8 Richard Corben is one of my all-time favourite comic artists, and one of the best horror artists ever, but this was a very disappointing read. Very much late period art from him, some of it still works really well, a lot of it I thought was mediocre. The book was promoted as being a homage to the short stories published by EC in the 50s, but as a writer he’s no Al Feldstein, and the stories are predictable and quite vacuous throughout. Nowhere near as good as the classic material he produced for Warren Magazines, in Creepy and Eerie, aided by far superior writers, and the comparison to the classic EC horror comics is a bit of a stretch, really. 2023 total = 475

Does that mean they’ve stopped producing rubbish? One can hope.

Just realised that with the Blue Lizard Spider-Man 1, that’s a printing error and not really a colourist mishap.

The Losers 1 to 32 Book 1 is one of the best action-orientated comic books I’ve ever read. Book 2 starts off with some back story about the team and then shifts emphasis more onto being a conspiracy theory. The villain goes a bit Dr Evil at the end, with an interesting twist to his story. Didn’t think I’d like it as much as I did, but good stuff. 2023 total = 467

Great book.

Makes him look more like a Shi'ar.