Ken Aldred

Looking forward to reading it.

A balancing act between exploiting FOMO at one extreme and risking viewers giving up on an overwhelming amount of product at the other. Got to collect them all, or read them all, or watch them all. While the going's good, until the equilibrium shifts, as it did in the mid 90s for physical comic books. We'll see if and when it happens here to that extent.

Indeed. But, will the MCU remain Broken, or be Fixed?

For me, lost interest in the films when there was one negative consensus after another, Black Widow to the second Dr Strange, with only Spider-Man being the one I’m really interested in catching up with eventually. I’ve no interest in subscribing to D+, so I feel a bit overwhelmed with the sheer volume of TV material that’s being produced, of questionable quality, and that I once again won’t catch up with. There’s also the appearance of crossover between the storylines of some series, which leads to the same confusion or frustration experienced in comics. Volume of material + crossover complications + churning out quantity while not maintaining quality, very reminiscent of Marvel comics in the early 90s. Not a good thing. Too much to keep up with, and, overwhelmed, killed my interest in the process.

Very wise. That can be developed into a brilliantly effective battlemage, with tremendous attack / defence variety.

He isn't generally relatable as a preoccupied, aloof supergenius, and works best with more grounded everyman-type characters around him such as Ben and Johnny. Creates a much greater level of audience connection overall.

Hopefully not too special: bags of cement or plaster, like this character...

Yup. Under his hard, gruff exterior, he's very caring and soft-hearted.

I concur. Humans have tiny scales in the skin, a vestige of our reptilian ancestry. The Thing's stage 1 was a reversion to a larger, thicker, skin-scaled dinosaur or crocodile-like structure, with stage 2 being still thicker, larger scales producing a very solid, plate-like appearance.

I think it was John Byrne who described his original skin as dinosaur hide texture, before it became more solid, rocky and plate-like. That’s how I’ve always seen it; a tough, external coating protecting internal tissues and organs that have all been given increased resilience and strength by the mutating cosmic radiation, but not sturdy enough to resist sharpened, pointy adamantium. Makes more sense than being internally solidified as well, especially regarding flexibility and mobility. My übernerd post for the day.

To me, it looked like he was wearing a toga, or something similar. So, not being clued up on obscure GA characters, I wondered if there was some particular reason for looking like this, even in the 1940's? Turns out there is... "A Greek statue of the mythical hero Antaeus that can come to life and fight criminals with its superhuman strength and ability to bounce." It can sometimes be too easy to mock. I was guilty, though.

Golden Age Plastic Man by Jack Cole was amazingly inventive as well.

I like that he doesn’t rely on guns. The only time he went large with that, it didn’t really work… In case you’re wondering what period this came from, it was the 90s.

At DC he was more restricted to the darker, crime-orientated characters such as Batman and The Shadow. At Marvel, sad to say, they’d let him have a go at anything. It seemed.

Coma-inducing would be more accurate. At least, that was my experience.

He can’t deface that drawing. Curt Swan is Kav’s favourite comic artist.

Closest you'll get to an entirely new Dead Space.

Just did the Resident Evil 2 remake, PS4 disc, which had a free upgrade to the PS5 high frame rate version. I completed both of the Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield storylines, but found my interest dissipated somewhat on the second runs, as it's basically the same tasks done in the same buildings, but in different order. A fairly short game, padded out with that repetition. Finished it on Normal difficulty, perhaps sometime I'll try Hardcore / Classic mode.

Good point. You’ll always win me over with classic John Byrne.

Possible. The character’s already shown up in the Guardians of the Galaxy video game. A bit feral and one-note, though.

I have seen comics graded NM with some degree of patina on the staples, if not rust.

Very sad. A superb Batman. I have the complete animated series on Blu-ray.

My favourite section of the Heroes Reborn FF run. Pacheco showed he could write well too, in addition to doing some great art there. Sad news.

The sad graemlin is spot on. As someone with OCD, this is going to be a thread of sorrow. Nothing else quite so extreme yet, though.

Absolutely tragic.