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Ken Aldred

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  1. Ken Aldred
    I concur.
  2. Ken Aldred
    You’re right. I’m now in a different mood where it seems a bit too crass.
  3. Ken Aldred
    Did Gary Busey ever audition for the role of Wolverine?
  4. Ken Aldred
    Everyone’s favourite Robbins panel. It’s a classic, isn’t it?
  5. Ken Aldred
    I’ll be honest, back in the 90s that Wonder Man series was one of my guilty pleasure reads. I’ll have to see if it still holds up. Maybe my taste has improved, though.
  6. Ken Aldred
    I’m overwhelmed.
  7. Ken Aldred
    I think Miller’s artistic deterioration is quite tragic. From what I’ve read on the boards he doesn’t seem in good health.
  8. Ken Aldred
    Never thought of that. But they did have a thin, gaunt look to them.
  9. Ken Aldred
    The Caniff style was already very dated-looking in the Bronze period. Marvel brought Lee Elias in as well. I was exposed to it at the same time as developing an admiration for Byrne, Starlin and Golden. It took a next level artist to use those techniques and styles in a modernised way that worked brilliantly, and talking about John Romita on ASM there.
  10. Ken Aldred
    Reminds me of this cover, though more minimalist…
  11. Ken Aldred
    I like the Spidey snow cover, the physical isolation. Haven’t read the story, whether it deals with emotional coldness, isolation, loss, depression. Could actually be quite an appropriate image for a bleak storyline.
  12. Ken Aldred
    Godland 1 to 37 2023 total = 234 Much prefer Joe Casey’s work with the brilliant Jose Ladronn on Cable to this. Starts out interesting, but then the constant attempts at very extreme, Kirby-style overblown, spaced-out dialogue eventually get very wearing and a chore to wade through. The art’s a good homage to Kirby, but the figure work and faces often seem a bit amateurish to me. Prefer Ladronn’s Kirby-inspired art.
  13. Ken Aldred
    I’d never do that to a prolific genius like Kirby.
  14. Ken Aldred
    Then there’s always his most inspired and sensible character, Paranex, the Fighting Fetus.
  15. Ken Aldred
    At least Kirby redeemed himself with the brilliant Devil Dinosaur. Robbins was another old school artist with a style looking quite dated even back in the 70s, but that didn't stop him from getting a surprisingly large amount of work at Marvel during this period.
  16. Ken Aldred
    I like a lot of Kirby’s Fourth World books, but Jimmy Olsen soon went completely off the rails. The cover was off-putting enough…
  17. Ken Aldred
    English language comics. Gods talking to modern humans. Accent and speech pattern to differentiate them. An archaic form of English that’s still easily intelligible from a modern perspective makes sense as one side of a comic book dialogue interplay between the two groups. You can see why it was chosen, if not being one that’s totally ideal.
  18. Ken Aldred
    Yup. It’s middling, but not bad.
  19. Ken Aldred
    I always thought that Byrne drew her in a way that was a bit Uncanny Valley, as an implication of her shapeshifting ability; not quite human.
  20. Ken Aldred
    Good or bad is subjective. Eye of the beholder. Sounds like I’m having a Ditko moment there.
  21. Ken Aldred
    Good point. Forgot about the capitalised ‘E’. You always tend to. Accuracy is important.
  22. Ken Aldred
    That was used as a common selling point for comic art in the 90s… ”The detail in ( )’s art is incredible!” … despite the figure work and composition and everything else about the image being flawed and a bit amateurish.
  23. Ken Aldred
    Couldn’t have seen Nicholas Hoult as Superman.
  24. Ken Aldred
    I’ve always liked Kirby’s Bronze Age work at Marvel and DC. Shouty, over-the-top, energetic, unsubtle and often extremely metal-sounding. Entertaining, if somewhat incoherent at times compared to his earlier comics with Lee. For me, nicely-contrasting styles.
  25. Ken Aldred
    It’s still early days on this one.