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Ken Aldred

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  1. Ken Aldred
    Really sad news about a writer-artist I’ve followed since the late 70s, from his short run on Defenders. Of course, his Great Darkness Saga is an 80s classic, but I rated pretty much all of his Legion work through to the beginning of the 90s quite highly. A creator with tremendous range, quite intense at times, but also having a great and often bizarre sense of humour on Ambush Bug and Justice League as well.
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    Ever since I saw Kirby's Fourth World comics on the newsstand back in the 70s, I've always loved the energy in his artwork and its storytelling. Yes, his dialogue might be overblown and in-your-face to metal intensity, but it's very, very entertaining. Sometimes, that's good enough.
  3. Ken Aldred
    A fairly terrible scribble of a signature.
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    Only Ace the Bat Hound had a disguise less effective than this one.
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    The claws are a bit too dramatically in-your-face and intimidating towards the reader. Maybe trying too hard to create an overly aggressive figure and perspective, while the expression on his face doesn’t really match that.
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    Marvel UK, from 1973 onwards, reprinted Kirby’s Silver Age super-hero work from FF 1 upwards too. That’s where I started as a comics fan.
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    That’s quite possible. Moore gets interminable, on and on and on, with the soap boxing and pretentiousness, and, after about 20 issues in a row of this, you start to seriously run out of patience, hoping that it’ll end. It does, and becomes more grounded, but getting there is an absolute drag.
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    And science fiction.
  9. Ken Aldred
    I didn't want to say. I believe there has been a considerable amount of Freudian analysis written about the complexities of his song, "My Love Is Like A Tire Iron".
  10. Ken Aldred
    Even from the song titles I could sense a degree of subtlety and intellect that didn't appeal to me at all.
  11. Ken Aldred
    I know a few Ted Nugent song titles, but never listened to any of his stuff. Never particularly popular here in the UK.
  12. Ken Aldred
    You want someone to say that the cat scratches are permissible in that grade because of the adamantium claws, but I'll resist the temptation. Great claw vs damage positioning, though.
  13. Ken Aldred
    To be fair, the seller’s name is shipwrekd69, so again I suspect NM refers to its status as an example of a certain pedigree collection I’ve mentioned before. The comic itself, of course, looks like it’s suffered an onslaught.
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    It doesn't. A victim of one of EC's trademark twist endings.
  17. Ken Aldred
    I remember when I had to wait 3 months for a Surface Mail parcel from Mile High Comics, with no communication during the intervening period, before this new-fangled information superhighway thing. Four days. The world of mail order comics has changed so much. It's a young man's game now.
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    Must be comatose today to have forgotten that one, from one of my all-time favourite titles. Well done.
  19. Ken Aldred
    There is a coffee thread in the WC. It covers all tastes, from the expensive and sophisticated, through to the cheap supermarket instant I get.
  20. Ken Aldred
    Sorry, I didn’t read the thread title properly. Being a former science nerd, I read it as any cover with a test tube on it. So, this one’s better…
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    Shame I’ve never seen a Twin Peaks comic book.
  25. Ken Aldred
    Ready for pages’ worth of Archie comics.