Ken Aldred

Looking forward to the PS5 remasters of the first 3 games in the series, due early next year. Hopefully a little better than the effort that was made with GTA San Andreas. Shame I don't have Netflix.

Good news that the first three Tomb Raider games are being remastered for PS4 and PS5, due to be released early next year. (Hopefully to a slightly higher standard than the shambles that was made of GTA San Andreas.)

Just completed my final New Game Plus run through of Horizon Zero Dawn on Ultra Hard difficulty after doing an easier setting to get used to the gameplay. Not that hard until maybe the final two or three set pieces, main game and DLC, because of the upgrade modifications on your items. Resources were supposed to be scarce, but I didn't find much trouble there. Bought my outfits on a previous run through, avoiding the higher prices on Ultra Hard. Very good story, engaging protagonist, excellent game. Next one is Control Ultimate Edition.

Swan’s Superman was quite chunky as well.

When I first started collecting, I got the Olshevsky Avengers Comic Index book to do a bit of research. So many American comic covers I’d never seen before. This was a standout piece of art, and the first Avengers issue I searched for at U.K. comic marts as I thought it was quite amazing. When I found it I got my first copy of 93 as well. A good collecting day, that was.

Tough question for me, as I don’t have a clear favourite character.

Great series, but I’ll suggest another option…

Didn’t know about this issue until recently because of the Oppenheimer film, but I thought it looked very interesting as a Golden Age choice…

Wayne Boring.

Had a look at the wikis. There are similarities.

That reminds me. My favourite humour comic of all time, the brilliant Viz Comic.

- First 50 issues of Savage Sword of Conan. - First dozen-or-so issues of Creepy and Eerie, in the classic period before Warren ran out of cash and started with the reprints. Lots of former EC artists, and Ditko, Adams, and also Archie Goodwin doing some great stories.

Love and Rockets Especially Jaime Hernandez. Admired his artwork since the early 80s. Always a good read.

Promethea 21 to 32 Being stubborn, I decided to finish reading the series. After a couple more issues of pretentiousness, the storyline becomes a much more grounded super-hero tale, still with that distortion of reality angle, but better paced and without the previous mind-numbing boredom, up to a conclusion in issue 31. Then, Moore spoils it for me with one last onslaught of metaphysical overkill in issue 32. I posted this in the Water Cooler’s UFO thread… ” Yup. Belief manipulating what is perceived as reality, giving substance to the imagined. I’ve just been bored by 32 issues of Promethea in my 2023 reading pile, with incessant, turgid soapboxing about that basic concept.” 2023 total = 361

Looking at the back cover, there’s significant water warping, and I suspect that N / M is not a grade but indicates that it’s another example of the Namor Collection Pedigree.

The Chipping there is horrendous.

About time I upgraded. The version I have is a cheap DVD from the early 2000s, £2 IIRC, which has an incomplete version of the circus episode. I think the print available at the time had been partly lost for some reason.

Easy to find cheap over here in bargain boxes. Picked a few issues up in the early 2000s for 50p each, in very nice NM-ish condition.

Disney might not like Phoenix. The name, anyway. With X-Men being on the way back. Likewise The Scorpion for use in future Spider-Man movies, another clash there.

Promethea 1 to 20 This was so boring and pretentious that I decided to give up at this point. Just now. I posted this bit in another thread… ”Currently reading the Promethea series by Alan Moore for the first time. If you enjoy wading through dense exposition about tarot cards and levels of creation, an entire issue of the mysticism of tantric sex, and lots more interminable, pretentious metaphysics, then you'll enjoy it. I was thinking about breaking up the experience with some weeding in the garden, but I think I'll watch the grass growing there instead as a more fascinating interlude in between issues.” 2023 total = 349

Martian Manhunter : Identity 1 to 12 by Steve Orlando and Riley Rossmo Thought this one was really good. The art gets suitably bizarre in the Mars sequences, conveying the fluid, shape-shifting nature of his species, the writer comes up with an interesting reason as to why the Manhunter is humanoid from his first appearance despite that, the telepathic communication of his society, and a new, more flawed and redemptive characterisation for him. 2023 total = 329

Classic gorilla with a machine gun cover. Who wouldn't want that.

Basically the way I got a stack of comic books. Disruptive, manic kid, and on the way back from the market my mother and grandmother would give me 50p to buy some comics from the bus station newsstand while they got half an hour or so of much needed respite by having some coffee and pie well away from me in the nearby cafe.

Pretty much the same for me. I read a wide range of material, not just super-hero stories. Quite a lot of it out there, if you can be bothered enough to look around. ECs, 80s Indies, Vertigo, Fantagraphics, modern Image, manga, etc.