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Ken Aldred

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  1. Ken Aldred
    I’ve never gone up close. The odour of classic, old school newsprint permeates the air and can be enjoyed at a distance, anyway. Never felt the need to get too carried away.
  2. Ken Aldred
    Simply not true. Readers aren’t enslaved to the fluctuating availability of original physical copies, to the demands of dealers or comic shops or book exchanges as I was as a kid. As a reader it’s easy to find alternative formats, no real need to get remotely irritated, let alone have your enthusiasm destroyed or ‘killed off’. The reality is that readers have been liberated, have escaped those old school limitations. So, if anything, it’s becoming quite the opposite now.
  3. Ken Aldred
    It would be easy to find an external DVD drive / writer that can also read CD-ROM, with a USB connection.
  4. Ken Aldred
    Very sensible suggestion for triaging the material, figuring out what appeals the most to you personally. There's no objective good or bad. Far more opportunity and flexibility to investigate this now in the digital age with comparatively minor time, physical effort and financial expenditure compared to what used to be required.
  5. Ken Aldred
    It’d be good to have a single image with Kirby, Adams, Barks and Eisner from that time.
  6. Ken Aldred
    That looks like a gift grade to me, and the way it's being handled makes me concerned about Shaken Slab Syndrome.
  7. Ken Aldred
    Classic Bronze Age. Not seen Kav here for a while.
  8. Ken Aldred
    That’s actually a really sensible suggestion.
  9. Ken Aldred
    Me too. It was inevitable.
  10. Ken Aldred
    Always been fascinated by the history here and I’m very tempted to go.
  11. Ken Aldred
    Ambush Bug 1, the classic first appearance of Cheeks, the Toy Wonder, is greatly under-appreciated and overlooked. I believe that Strawberry Shortcake might be making an appearance in the next Blade movie.
  12. Ken Aldred
    Iron Fist 14’s one of my favourite BA comics. I have a 9.4 slab, but also later on treated myself to what’s an even better-looking UHG raw. Superbly presenting copy. Anyway, my tale comes from the opposite end of the collecting period to that of the OP, being in the very last package I received before I gave up buying original comics in late 2015. I remember it well as the day felt really old school winter; snowbound, very dry and biting cold, which is a rarity here now, but it reminded of when I was a kid and was just starting to hunt around for what were then very recent 1970s comics. Something full circle about the ambience that day and receiving such an amazing comic, bringing it all flooding back, and just seeing everything sent off to a very satisfying conclusion.
  13. Ken Aldred
    I’ve experienced his interpretation of ‘mint’ first-hand. Not missing much.
  14. Ken Aldred
    Infinity cover.
  15. Ken Aldred
    Never knew the Frazetta Famous Funnies covers were quite that pricey back then. Learned something. Didn’t really switch on to ECs and his material until the early 80s. Too much of a Marvel Zombie in my teenage years, I suppose.
  16. Ken Aldred
    I’ve always tended to buy slabs of books that mean a lot to me, and so I’ve always previously read them as raws or reprints and been impressed enough by the story and / or artwork to be prompted by that into buying a UHG version later. Beginning-to-end of the journey, there has to be a strong emotional connection.
  17. Ken Aldred
    Fantastic thread. Worlds apart from what was available to me at that time in northern England.
  18. Ken Aldred
    I really can’t. Possibly the only time I found the books a bit too repetitive and formulaic would be with Crime SuspenStories. In general, I’ve always found this period to be quite brilliant.
  19. Ken Aldred
    The basic figure work is typical for Ms Marvel, but I don’t like the line work on it at all.
  20. Ken Aldred
    For comparison.
  21. Ken Aldred
    You could still get a nasty nick from those.
  22. Ken Aldred
    I agree with what you said about Janson smoothing out Miller’s art, as I really like his Daredevil and Dark Knight Returns, as well as Ronin in between, which had an interesting, European, Heavy Metal quality to it. But, this is the point at which I stopped following his work, as I found the art in this graphic novel to be a bit abrasive and scrappy-looking in comparison to the earlier, slicker BA / CA Daredevil material. Really disliked it. But, as you said, his style evolved and it’s inevitable that this will risk polarising the audience. Same for any creator.
  23. Ken Aldred
    Mediocre. Still far, far better than Howard Chaykin’s famous short-armed Wolverine panel.
  24. Ken Aldred
    Pardon me. I still think the style he’s used since DK 2 at least is terrible, as are many of his covers since then.
  25. Ken Aldred
    Interesting cover, but somewhat muddled in the background when you look at it from a distance.