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Ken Aldred

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  1. Ken Aldred
    Only going off the current thread title, which has turned it into something more suitable for the Water Cooler music fraternity.
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    You’re right. More extinguished in 92. Nevermind signalled the start of a transition away.
  3. Ken Aldred
    Hair metal died, but there was other, interesting stuff out, such as Soundgarden, Fishbone, and the Zappa-like Mr Bungle.
  4. Ken Aldred
    Chamber of Darkness 7
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    You've seen the TV ad, I'm sure.
  6. Ken Aldred
    Strange. I haven’t thought about buying a Pot Noodle in years until I read this post.
  7. Ken Aldred
    Not my genre, but I recognise there’s some very nice artwork, such as Matt Baker, John Buscema and John Romita. Obvious choices, but, as I said, not my field of expertise.
  8. Ken Aldred
    Waffles aren’t that popular at breakfast here in England. More difficult to put a Spidey imprint like that in some Scott’s Porage Oats.
  9. Ken Aldred
    Far more imaginative than a super-hero duvet cover. We’ve all seen those. I should clarify that I never had one myself. Deprived childhood.
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    Jack Kirby as ‘The One Above All’, the ultimate Marvel deity, in Waid and Wieringo’s FF run.
  12. Ken Aldred
    For me, the lettering obscures and breaks up the bat symbol too much.
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    I have it. Wonderful book. As much as I like parallel universe stories, as an event series they do tend to be patchy, so I'd recommend the self-contained New Frontier over Multiversity.
  15. Ken Aldred
    Daredevil's been consistently high quality for the last couple of decades, apart from Diggle's run. Likewise, not a fan.
  16. Ken Aldred
    Interesting to see an appearance from The Clergy. Just been listening to some Ghost.
  17. Ken Aldred
    Good game, but a slow one, with a lot of searching around for and careful use of scarce post-apocalyptic resources. Basically The Walking Dead with fungus zombies. Sure the famous set piece with the giraffes will appear. Not sure how the pacing would translate to live action. Likewise, I never bothered playing the sequel.
  18. Ken Aldred
    I was very, very slow with that, I’ll admit. Only when I read Bill Willingham’s Elementals comic in the 80s did I realise that it applied retroactively to the Fantastic Four. Duh.
  19. Ken Aldred
    The Ben Grimm-to-Thing transformation scene was recycled from a similar sequence by Kirby in one of those older monster stories. Can’t recall which one exactly, something I saw in a Masterwork book.
  20. Ken Aldred
    Too restrained. Couldn't they have done one that was a bit more metal?
  21. Ken Aldred
    She certainly looks shorter than Eitri by a couple of inches. I can see that.
  22. Ken Aldred
    I'm always one for informative threads. Interesting stuff.
  23. Ken Aldred
    They are archetypal science heroes.
  24. Ken Aldred
    I agree. I'm at an age now where I simply can't do many of the things I involved myself with when I was younger, and even less demanding activities take too much of a physical and mental toll on me and require longer and longer recovery periods. I'm writing this during one of those. So, the costs of involving myself with adrenaline-surging, hunting obsessions such as going to comic shops and conventions; physical, mental, temporal and financial, simply don't have any appeal anymore as factors to go up against and fight through as hard as possible. And, I wish I'd understood that sooner, and involved myself less on the direct, social level. I struggle to go to a supermarket, and the last thing I should be concerned with is sacrificing something as comparatively trivial as comic books.
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