Ken Aldred

Being very literal I thought this really was about planks in comics. We’ve had all the obvious themes, so I was in the mood for something a little more challenging. Now that I’ve finally figured out that it’s actually about splash pages, how about this masterpiece from Kirby’s classic Devil Dinosaur comic…

That condition’s known as builder’s bum here in the U.K.

It’s a fair point, trying to make us more sophisticated and cultured. Maybe seen too many period pieces on British TV in the past.

That’s a reason I’m considering getting the Blu-ray, as I feel I’ll pick up more of the finer details second or third time around. A very long film, and I can’t stay that focused in one go.

I was surprised to see the thread title as it’s usually action or super-hero material here. Not a fan of period pieces either.

I recall a conversation at a London convention when a lady attendee started talking to myself and another Brit boardie, and commented that she found many of the comics nerds there incapable of talking to women. I said that my approach is just to be myself and if someone thinks I’m talking nonsense or complete BS during even a brief interaction then you probably won’t get along anyway, regardless of situation or intent, and that takes the edge off social anxiety and progression, Y chromosome or not. Long time since I had that problem, though she seemed to believe it was quite endemic, especially with the younger nerds. To be fair, I remember it well.

Not during, as I’ve always been too stressed out by the experience and my charisma, sparkling wit and personality simply don’t shine through and impress under the circumstances.

He did eventually become Sorcerer Supreme for a while.

TOS 52 Easy choice.

As a LOSH fan myself, that’s also impressive. Nothing to match anything posted here in my collection. All I can do is admire.

That’s impressive.

Animal Man new 52 series 0, 1 to 11, Annual 1 2023 total = 187 Quite bored by it. Just Alan Moore’s brilliant Swamp Thing concepts, which I’ve read many times over the last four decades; the elemental / avatar, The Green, The Parliament of Trees, Tefe, transposed to an animal equivalent, with surreal, grotesque body horror artwork which I didn’t particularly like, certainly not on par with Bissette and Totleben’s. Moore was groundbreaking, this is just repetition under a thin veneer.

First Marvel film since Endgame that I feel will be worth treating myself to the 4K Blu-ray for rewatching.

Al Ripper, Terror of Chicago Great, hard-boiled tough guy name.

Some work as standalone stories, some add interesting detail to a long, main sequence storyline, but some have little relevance or quality and are just hacked-out cash grabs, so if you’ve been a reader over a long haul, for decades like myself, then it’s difficult-to-impossible to approach it that way. I’ve read a lot of mini-series, but not always in isolation.

Sorry. I’d better go away and do some research for the inevitable, upcoming Girders thread.

Not sure I quite understand the thread title, but a surfboard is basically a plank, and so this is an image of my favourite ‘surfing plank’ comic cover…

Absolutely.

Yup. At first I was surprised by the melancholic tone, but then was thankful that Gunn didn't try to up the humour and fail as hard as the last Thor movie did. Good judgement.

Better.

Much prefer Miller’s classic, early style.

I don’t think that I can draw any better now than when I was 12. Then again, I’ve always had problems visualising objects in three dimensions, working out what they look like when you move them around, which is a necessary skill here.

Practice, practice, practice, though.

It’s also heading towards a style that resembles poor man’s Jack Kirby to me, as well.