Ken Aldred

Only once did I receive a package that looked as if someone had put their football boot into the corner of it and sent it on a complimentary aerial adventure. A stack of U.K. newsstand-distributed comics which sadly had a lot of corner impaction damage on them, including some nice early Swamp Thing issues by Alan Moore, 20 up. No sturdy protection from the vendor, worst case result. Early 1980s, and again, as said by other boardies, on a similar-sounding chilly, pre-Christmas December morning.

Looks about right.

Warlock’s actually one of my favourite characters. Just a bit underwhelmed. Phase 4 blues.

What’s that from? Mad Love?

Also, instead of going on a search for an Ultimate Nullifier or some such cosmic device, first might I suggest going on a much more simple trek to Walmart for a blackhead remover as well?

Not impressed. Looks more like space jaundice.

Always great to see such a diverse range of items each year, what’s made the other boardies the happiest and most content as collectors, even if I can’t actively participate.

Definitely more like it.

Needs more pouches.

Yup. I have my fingers crossed, especially if they are shrewd enough to include The Big Wheel as well. It would be a missed opportunity.

The one we switched to after the Large Hadron Collider created a singularity a few years ago.

Reminds me of an unforgettably hyperbolic British TV ad for the prog rock band Yes, back during their 70s peak… ’Wherever they go, millions flock to see them!’ Let’s not get too carried away. Quite a throng here too.

That’s what you call ‘big hair’.

This story looks like something I’ll have to read sometime.

Just finished Rise of the Tomb Raider, PS4. Basically the same as the previous reboot, but bigger, with the kind of environments you’ve seen before in these games, especially the snowy, frost-bitten military installations and prisons, this time in Siberia. Nothing really new in terms of gameplay, while picking up documents and tape recordings reveals a quite boring backstory, and the hidden cities aren’t particularly inventive in design. The Tomb Raider HD collection, the PS3 Legend, Anniversary and Underworld Trilogy was far more imaginative. Calling the game ‘Rise’ implies an evolution in the character, but you don’t really see any of that.

I’ve no idea.

Bought quite a few of them in previous sales.

I'm envious. Huge Love and Rockets fan, but no space for something that large. Congrats !

That’s one of the better examples you could’ve picked. At least Nomad wasn’t posted for the millionth time.

I always liked his work in Heavy Metal, Cholly and Flytrap. You’d think he’d be impressed by someone bringing him an example of his earlier, pre-zombie artwork, original work rather than homaging, indicative of a long-term, real, appreciative fan. I would’ve had just as much disappointment with his attitude.

The wording generally is a bit amateurish and inexperienced.

A bit like comic books, most aren’t worth anything, except for out-of-print or limited edition GNs, trades and hardcovers, which can often be seen at nosebleed secondary market prices.

A lot of 8 Frank Robbins comics is worth ten bucks of anyone’s money. Underpriced.

It can be devastating, as I experienced with my mother in the 80s. An example of a very bad time situation that comics faithfully helped to get me through, year in, year out.

You have to be careful with hypoglycaemia or other dissociative conditions with regards to decision making, errors that lead to damaging items in your collection, social interactions at conventions.