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Ken Aldred

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  1. Ken Aldred
    I bet that, like pre-Code, those books have gone quite pricey now, Steve.
  2. Ken Aldred
    One theme I wish I’d done at the start of my collecting, but which is too pricey on some items now, is star field covers. I just think the dots against the blackness of space looks great.
  3. Ken Aldred
    Only aware that Kindle / Comixology does this, which they call ‘Guided View’. Maybe others. For my Humble Bundle books I use an app called Chunky, good upscaling but doesn’t do that.
  4. Ken Aldred
    Just your focus in comics evolving. Digital is very useful if you have eyesight problems as you can pinch magnify, or, in Kindle / Comixology’s case, tap and go through the story panel by panel, magnified in sequence.
  5. Ken Aldred
    I don’t think it’s anywhere near as bad as the 90s. A lot of Image-influenced interior art from that period was worse than this. Also, the ‘stories’ were generally vacuous drivel as well, and conversely Tom Taylor, Nightwing’s writer, is really quite talented. Rose-tinted nostalgia. There have always been comics with great covers that are utter, unreadable garbage inside. Some Pre-code horror, Famous Funnies, for example.
  6. Ken Aldred
    Frostbite 1 to 6 Post-apocalyptic story from Joshua Williamson and Jason Shawn Alexander, set in a new Ice Age. Nothing much that you haven't seen before. Police corruption in a city controlled by the local crime cartels, colourful gangs as in Mad Max or The Warriors, chasing after the protagonists and their object of interest . It was okay. 2023 total = 317
  7. Ken Aldred
    BPRD Omnibus 1 Hollow Earth 1 to 3 Hellboy Box Full of Evil 1 Abe Sapien Drums of the Dead 1 BPRD Soul of Venice one-shot BPRD Dark Waters one-shot BPRD Night Train one-shot BPRD There's Something Under My Bed one-shot BPRD Plague of Frogs 1 to 5 14 comics Stories by a number of big name creators, some work better than others, but if you like dark, mystery / horror comics there'll be something for you here. Generally good stuff. Especially liked the main Plague of Frogs storyline. 2023 total = 311
  8. Ken Aldred
    The other abstract entities you see in Doctor Strange and Jim Starlin's Thanos comics, in particular, must be of similar magnitude to The Tribunal as well. For example, Eternity is a humanoid-looking, physical representation of the multiverse. Again, like Galactus, they most likely appear in a form to which the observer can relate, if quite towering in size.
  9. Ken Aldred
    Never seen that. Not Brand Echh, I'm guessing?
  10. Ken Aldred
    In recent images he doesn't look well at all.
  11. Ken Aldred
    For me, that was one of his weaker series. Okay, nothing special by his standards.
  12. Ken Aldred
    Only followed Miller's work up until the late 80s, until he deviated from his early, Kane-influenced style. The only exception for me at the time being Ronin, which never really felt mainstream, anyway.
  13. Ken Aldred
    Looks like a really bad attempt at a Kirby attack pose.
  14. Ken Aldred
    I see this as a variation on the classic Howard Rogofsky position on carefully-applied tape at the spine. "Grime, if carefully applied, is not considered a defect" If we look at the spine on this back cover, the line of grime actually runs very, very neatly from top to bottom, and so is excusable.
  15. Ken Aldred
    More "Mock the blatant, obvious gouging".
  16. Ken Aldred
    Great choice to start with. Classic, underrated Kirby, and well deserving of the Omnibus edition it received. It gets quite inventive at times. And a bit mental.
  17. Ken Aldred
    BWS in his atrocious Kirby phase.
  18. Ken Aldred
    It reminds me of a busy Alex Schomburg Golden Age cover. But, a bad attempt. Or, with the sunburst effect, Mac Raboy. If he'd had zero compositional talent. It's tacky.
  19. Ken Aldred
    Tried out loading on my laptop. Pretty much instantaneous. Complete opposite to the phone. Safari browser on both.
  20. Ken Aldred
    Earl Norem was a great cover artist.
  21. Ken Aldred
    Very similar to my experience. Also, top part of page loads, but there’s a delay until it fills in downwards, especially if there are embedded videos and gifs. iPhone 2020 SE, so it still has a fairly fast processor for a task like this one.
  22. Ken Aldred
    A book that did absolutely nothing for me when I saw it in the store. Forgot about that one. I always preferred Invincible, anyway. I’ve struggled to think of something I missed during the Bronze and Copper Ages because I was a very voracious reader and had little focus back then. I turned down many of the very transiently-hot comics back in the 90s, such as Gen13 1 and Witchblade 1, as I’d become very jaded about comics in the Image style. Of course, those crashed somewhat, and so the only real option which comes to mind at present is Nyx 3, first appearance of X-23.
  23. Ken Aldred
    Me too. The Magneto / Brotherhood of Evil story was one of the first I ever bought off the racks as a kid, and was really impressed by. Nice covers as well.
  24. Ken Aldred
    Catwoman 29 to 32, Annual 2021 Quite an average Batman Family story. Ram V’s done much better. 2023 total = 297
  25. Ken Aldred
    To be fair, you can’t expect everyone to be a materials science expert.