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Ken Aldred

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  1. Ken Aldred
    Alan Davis is a favourite artist of mine, but that’s surprisingly poor. Ordinarily much better.
  2. Ken Aldred
    I agree. There are far superior SA covers where the effect works far better.
  3. Ken Aldred
    Don’t mention The War. On Crime, I’m referring to, of course.
  4. Ken Aldred
    It’s a kind thought. We all know that comics can invoke adrenaline-fuelled episodes of intense excitement, and maybe, on occasion, it’s a good idea to have a short break and to calm things down a little by inducing a few moments of crushing boredom. A valuable service.
  5. Ken Aldred
    The energy in that cover is incredible and really draws you in. Kirby could’ve learned something from it.
  6. Ken Aldred
    Wouldn't say terrible, but many of those early Kane covers lack any energy and feel a bit boring. Bland, maybe.
  7. Ken Aldred
    Many of Kane's early GL covers were quite simplistic.
  8. Ken Aldred
    Grey-tone effect doesn’t appeal to everyone. Maybe.
  9. Ken Aldred
    Very good as a cartoonist on kid’s orientated material such as Wizard of Oz, but a style which needs partnering with care, perhaps. As a variant cover artist he’s fine. Completely mismatched for regular interior art on a mainstream Spider title, though. IMO, of course.
  10. Ken Aldred
    I always like mixing it up.
  11. Ken Aldred
    That was a good one by Geoff Johns, with the Crime Syndicate trapping the Justice League in the Firestorm Matrix. Far better than Trinity War, which preceded it.
  12. Ken Aldred
    Just a lot easier to reference that rather than go back through it and pick out the ones that were completely new to me. Sure it’s the same for many of the other participants.
  13. Ken Aldred
    Loads of stuff there fits in here.
  14. Ken Aldred
    After my comments in the Ross / Kirby thread I can’t categorise Byrne as my GOAT, but for me he’s Hall of Fame or Mount Olympus level, certainly. Growing up as a kid in the late 70s, early 80s, he was one of my favourites from then on, I looked forward eagerly to his comics, and did so constantly through X-Men, Alpha Flight, Fantastic Four, Superman, Namor, OMAC and Next Men. A very consistent, reliable writer / artist, and for me, one of the most significant. After X-Men, without Austin’s inking, his art could seem more undetailed or simplified at times, but the pacing and storytelling was still top-notch. Perhaps his figures and layouts became more repetitive and formulaic later in his career, as I started to lose interest a bit after Next Men, but some work after that was still quite readable, such as Generations and his Angel mini-series set in World War 1. Yup. I’ll always look back on that initial two decades, in particular, with a lot of fondness. I suppose that’s a strategy I’m pursuing a great deal at present, a 60-year-old reading and revisiting the works of my childhood idols; Kirby, Miller, Byrne, and still finding some magic there, even from a more mature and jaded perspective.
  15. Ken Aldred
    Posted about this before on the topic of Ronin, that at the time of its publication I was reading European material such as in Heavy Metal and not just mainstream American comics, and I felt Ronin had more in common with the former, and I didn’t mind it being so very different to Daredevil. Alternatively, later on I started reading manga, and it also (obviously) fit in well there too.
  16. Ken Aldred
    I have quite a few Richard Corben underground slabs from 9.4 to 9.8's; Weirdom Illustrated, Fantagor, Up From The Deep, Grim Wit, Anomaly, Slow Death. One of my all-time favourite artists, but just something very different and interesting and, at the time I was building the collection up, quite reasonably priced.
  17. Ken Aldred
    Quite an impressive skill set. I'm hopeless at working out how things look 3-dimensionally. That came out with my struggles with technical drawing at college.
  18. Ken Aldred
    Nice. Without the usual painted style it's more energetic and engaging. Reminds me a little of Ordway or Ryan's take.
  19. Ken Aldred
    Yup. Ross, amazingly talented artist. Kirby, One-Above-All.
  20. Ken Aldred
    Yup. Human beings and not robots, and so one’s capabilities and motivations can change or erode significantly. As we saw with Miller as well. I’m a 60-year-old, and, as I said previously, currently looking back with fondness at his Bronze and Copper Age zenith.
  21. Ken Aldred
    I lost interest when I read the Elektra Lives Again graphic novel, back in 1990. I found the artwork to be quite scratchy and ugly, and an indicator of what was to come from then on. More into his earlier Kane / Eisner / Krigstein influenced work. Never particularly liked his later chiaroscuro technique. Currently re-reading his Daredevil comics, which are still brilliant, peak examples of what’s achievable in the medium.
  22. Ken Aldred
    Close, but no cigar. (Sorry, couldn’t resist it.)
  23. Ken Aldred
    Sounds tasty. Never seen those over here in the U.K.
  24. Ken Aldred
    ‘Generally unfavorable’ is a very diplomatic way of putting it.
  25. Ken Aldred
    Nope. It’s very nice, but, for me, nowhere near the same level of energy or magnetism.