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Ken Aldred

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  1. I'm astonished that Goldballs wasn't suggested as an option.
  2. Absolutely. And some of Gil Kane’s best ever artwork. Great book.
  3. Vacuous Charles Atlas / Adonis clone or the later deeply-characterised, psychologically complex, intense, nihilistic and cosmic level entity. Tough choice.
  4. I'm actually very bad at visualising the appearance of characters and environments purely from the descriptions given in novels or radio broadcasts. That's one reason why I've always liked comics, to have talented artists with much, much better spatial and visual ability do the hard work for me. That said, I'm much better with the personality characterisation, plot and dialogue, so I like the story and art to work together, be synergistic.
  5. Formulaic, repetitive writing eventually bores and induces fatigue. Poorly constructed films; rushed out, with pacing, dialogue and tone which don't work, eventually alienates the audience. If putting quantity over quality eventually leads to this, I have no sympathy. I'm already bored. Maybe it's just another corporate mouthpiece wanting to assume that we're all brainless, sheepish, addicted zombies, thinking the same way, his way, Disney's way, which is clear lack of theory of mind, and wrong.
  6. Classic artist. Never appreciated his work as a kid, but switched onto it later; great storytelling layout, fantastic figurework and facial expressions, love his grittily-shaded art from the Bronze Age in particular.
  7. I can just imagine it. The George Washington Bridge in crayon and Sharpie, maybe.
  8. I recall sometime around 1979 or 1980 a dealer at a comic mart stating that there were a lot of collectors out there hunting down every appearance of Wolverine, so the obsession was fairly common even early as that. Hardly a solitary case.
  9. Clickers had to be in. A key, very tense encounter in the game. Also helps to differentiate a bit from your typical zombies.
  10. It's a run that gets progressively better and better throughout.
  11. I thought I’d be quoted on that, despite being fully aware of it. I simply couldn’t be bothered to type out ‘it took a while for Claremont’s run on the title and then later on his all-time classic run with John Byrne to gain wide recognition’ on my phone.
  12. One step further would be that in virtual 3d.