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Ken Aldred

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  1. Ken Aldred
    The horror comics were too gory for the Comics Code. You can see that with Ditko's work at Charlton. The first Ditko Archive volume I read had some gory, disturbing material in it but with a degree of imagination, then you quickly hit the CCA-approved issues and the stories just feel enfeebled by the restrictions. Nice art, but boring, vacuous stories.
  2. Ken Aldred
    There was this one as well... Sam Raimi version.
  3. Ken Aldred
    That’s quite competent by their standards. I’ve seen some glitches that look as if the figure is being spaghettified by a black hole.
  4. Ken Aldred
    God, that was loud. Ears ringing.
  5. Ken Aldred
    The first issue was no doubt also helped by its literally striking cover.
  6. Ken Aldred
    I’m a huge EC science-fiction fan, but compared to the New Trend stories there’s still something lacking with the material in Incredible Science Fiction, in the same way as I don’t connect to the EC artists’ Atlas work as much in general. Personal taste, nothing more. IIRC, Master Race was done before the Comics Code took hold, and the remainder of Impact 1 is unreadable in comparison to that classic story. It does emphasise the precipitous drop in quality.
  7. Ken Aldred
    And in the early 60s Marvel fused super-hero comics with romance comic angst-and-bickering to create one of the greatest formulas with which to assemble a line of consistently-appealing and lucrative comic books. The best since EC’s.
  8. Ken Aldred
    He may have been wordy, but he’s one of my all-time favourite comic writers. Along with Kurtzman. Short but brilliant stories.
  9. Ken Aldred
    Good point.
  10. Ken Aldred
    While the artistic talent was transferred, Lee was, unlike New Trend EC, encumbered by the Comics Code, and the stories were neutered by that. I’ve read, or, tried to read, some of their Atlas stories, and they are really boring. The story / art synergy had vanished.
  11. Ken Aldred
    Squirrel Girl Howard the Duck
  12. Ken Aldred
    Walking Dead had become popular, so a degree of jumping on the same bandwagon. An interesting and bizarre idea, which was good for a few initial, short series before repetition and disinterest set in, for me, anyway. As stated, Sean Phillips was a great match, art-wise.
  13. Ken Aldred
    Sounds like it’s about time they rebranded themselves.
  14. Ken Aldred
    They could at least have had Chris try one of these instead ...
  15. Ken Aldred
    Understatement. It's excellent.
  16. Ken Aldred
    That’s ridiculous.
  17. Ken Aldred
    That’s the story I was thinking about.
  18. Ken Aldred
    I’d like to see Pluto in it. The Roman underworld god, specifically. Get back to dark, intense and intimidating.
  19. Ken Aldred
    Yup. You can’t keep doing it to every dark and intense storyline, or, at least don’t keep doing it with the same character’s material.
  20. Ken Aldred
    There's always the Stone Man that gets smashed to pieces in Dark World, for now.
  21. Ken Aldred
    I watched every Marvel Studios film up until Endgame at the cinema. I haven't watched a single one from Phase 4 yet.
  22. Ken Aldred
    The Marvel Omnibus hardcovers reprint the letter pages, and I agree, it’s always very interesting to revisit them.
  23. Ken Aldred
    or...
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  25. Ken Aldred
    I had a listen. Only managed a minute and a half or so. You’re right, it deserves a Capaldi-style mercy kill.