Ken Aldred

I've read a couple of reviews where it's claimed to be harder even than a From Software game?

An absolute Bronze Age classic.

I've always been amused by Kirby's metal style fist punching. And dialogue such as in the "Ride the Tempest" panel.

This one for me. Sometime in 73 or 74. My regular bus station newsstand got a stack of used comics in, separated out from the new stuff by having a large 7p scribbled on the front in marker. I wasn't fussy back then - just being able to get older American comics was something. This was one of the more recent titles, the others I got were late Silver Age, all DC. Never saw any second hand comics there ever again after that.

Umbrella Academy : Apocalypse Suite and Dallas storylines, plus FCBD issue The first part, Apocalypse Suite, seemed to jump around a bit without much explanation of what was going on in places, especially related to the Number Five character, but the far superior second part, Dallas, fills a lot more in, and overall it’s a very good read. Always liked Gabriel Ba’s cartoony art after first reading the excellent Casanova. 13 comics 2023 total = 418

Yup. It was a consistently good read, nice art, and well-integrated over the long haul despite having several writers. Then DC published Countdown to Final Crisis, which deteriorated in quality and ended up quite the opposite.

He’s scary. Cable would run a mile.

Yup. An issue filled to bursting point with quality. His first appearance, the first flatulent Hulk, and the third appearance of Wolverine.

Hulk 182 ?

I agree. Just another version of the same old.

It's not that different.

The potential complications occurred to me immediately on seeing the page. After all, I am British. I'm concerned about the house being destroyed by a focused, atomic bomb level blast wave, and the fridge in the kitchen will most likely be propelled at least 20 miles, at extreme velocity, and so there's no escape route there for anyone.

Agents of Atlas Complete Collection Vol 1 Agents of Atlas 1 to 6 (2006 series) Spider-Man Family 4 Wolverine Agent of Atlas 1 to 3 Agents of Atlas 1 to 5 (2009 series) What If ? 9 (1st series) I do like my retro super-hero teams, here the reintroduction of the “1950s Avengers”, first seen together in the What If? Issue. Variable in quality, but I particularly liked the two main Agents of Atlas mini-series, also with lots of nice art from Leonard Kirk and Gabriel Hardman. 16 comics 2023 total = 405

I’ve always admired Adams’ realistic art style, and here he accurately conveys the pain and strain of severe impaction.

I’d pass on it. Being obsessive-compulsive I like my VFs to have a subscription crease neatly folded down the middle.

Alias 1 to 28 Highly recommended series. A rare case of a series that starts out good, and gets better and better. The Mattie Franklin / Spider-Woman story is excellent, but the final Purple Man storyline is one of the best that Bendis has ever written, though far from a comfortable read. Killgrave is an appalling person, how someone on the remorseless antisocial behaviour spectrum would act if they could make anyone totally compliant, without even the slightest ability to resist their demands. 2023 total = 389

Always good to see a happy, fulfilled collector. Impressed you spelled Grail the old school way.

Fun thread.

To a fanboy nothing is more significant than the pamphlets. Everything else is secondary.

The emergence of evil AI. It starts somewhere.

If you’re making an exact copy of a GA comic book then that would require replicator tech, so you could also get sample coins from the desired time period from a numismatist source and replicate those exactly, with the right legal tender dates, I suppose.

I’m sure that removing an Action Comics 1 from the past won’t have a butterfly effect that results in him returning to the present and finding it a devastated wasteland or inhabited by mutant zombies. But then, I’m no expert.

Likewise. I tend to follow the creators wherever their work is published, especially someone like Johns. I read a lot of Image-published material anyway.

Always one of my favourite comics… A book that means a lot to me, nostalgically, and, on occasion, boardies buy these things for reasons other than secondary market value.

You should read his 80s Ambush Bug mini-series as well for Giffen’s humour at its most unrestrained inventiveness.