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Ken Aldred
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On 5/1/2024 at 5:32 PM, grendelbo said:
I'm guessing skateboarding. So what video games do you enjoy in your 70s?
60s.
Currently playing Yakuza 3, 4 and 5 in the PS4 Remastered Collection, which are brilliant, although my time on them is limited these days as I’m more focused on owning the teens and twenty-somethings with my acrobatic tricks on the Half-pipe.
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On 5/1/2024 at 5:28 PM, thehumantorch said:
rats, I thought that was my bowtie
The chafing can confuse.
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My hobbies are all age-appropriate for a new sexagenarian; comic books, videogames, and competitive skateboarding.
One of these is a lie.
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As we say in the U.K., I’m 60 years young.
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Always liked the X-Men, including the original team and early issues.
I never had the chance to obtain GS XM 1 or XM 94 as neither were distributed to the UK and I was restricted at the time to what was on the newsstand here. The first I picked up was issue 100, noticing that it was drawn by Dave Cockrum, and I was already a fan of his short LOSH run. Got 101 as well, but then the title stopped being distributed here again for a few issues, restarting with 108, John Byrne's first. Again, already a fan of Byrne and so this was the point at which I became a regular New X-Men buyer, 12p All-Colour Comics copies, of course. So, only really switched onto the run when it started to become absolutely classic, and it wasn't until 1980 that I bought my first GS XM 1 and XM 94.
If I'd seen the earliest material on a UK newsstand I don't think I would've been that excited about picking them up, more focused on the later Claremont / Byrne books. I did miss a few issues, 96 to 99, so clearly there was also some competition on the newsstands I was using at the time, so who can say if I'd even have known about 94's existence anyway? (I'd switched to another shop by the time Byrne started contributing.)
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On 5/1/2024 at 2:43 AM, Readcomix said:
Before we all declare the hobby dead in two years, let’s ask ourselves if the results might look different in a poll conducted on Instagram. Don’t get me wrong, I suspect the bulk of comics collectors are north of 40 but I don’t think the overall skew is as bad as it looks on a chat board, which is long-form, old-school social media.
I attended an independent artists’ comic con this past weekend, and the place was packed with young people looking for new content and meeting creators. I doubt there was much appetite for back issues in that room, but there were new fans of the medium. I think it’s incumbent on dealers and LCS owners to pass down the history of the medium, and I think it’s reasonable to assume that if the new generation of comics readers becomes back issue collectors they may have a greater appetite/appreciation for genre titles moreso than the longjohns fare many of us grew up with.
My biggest disappointment in the show was in not seeing any OA for sale from new creators. That’s what I went looking for: OA from up and coming creators.
Yup. I'm not taking the results here as being definitive or that the sky's falling in any way. Too small a population, regardless.
More joking about the novel experience of just becoming a senior citizen.
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On 5/1/2024 at 1:50 AM, CAHokie said:
The results so far are concerning. A third are social security age and another batch are just around the corner.
Yup. I've only just turned 60, so I'm transitional between the two groups.
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As is often stated online; Hill Street Blues with super-heroes.
Several story arcs seamlessly linked together, one of Alan Moore's best series, lots of background Easter eggs to look for.
2024 total = 238
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An observation I’ve made on numerous occasions regarding tone, not a justification for the OP’s post.
Whether it’s the Translate software being used, or not, even in the friendlier threads started by the OP, about artists or favourite comics, and so on, there tends to be quite an aggressive tone which can sound slightly abrasive to a native English speaker, more used to a neutral construction. So, when that tonal aggression is applied to an overtly accusational circumstance, especially one where there’s a case of not doing the online research first, it’s not too surprising that many feathers are going to be ruffled here in the process.
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Never bought comics with investment as a driving force.
Always loved reading them and bought whatever I connected to, the best copy I could find within an affordable price limit.
I do wish I'd been less impulsive and more selective, though. Although I've had some luck with them, voracious reading leads to the accumulation of far too much drek and far too much long term regret, as your outlook and your focal points, both inside and outside of the comics realm, change naturally with age.
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On 4/21/2024 at 3:52 AM, onlyweaknesskryptonite said:
Medieval version of Death Stranding.
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Some top quality art criticism in this thread.
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On 4/25/2024 at 6:17 PM, Robot Man said:
Superman #125
More mad than ridiculous.
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On 4/25/2024 at 2:31 PM, BA773 said:
By chance there s nothing about basket-ball in this sh**... im just bored of this kind of tactics
Doesn't seem to make much sense to me to have those two characters doing that in a packed stadium.
Looks more like a commission piece.
The art itself isn't that bad at all.
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On 4/25/2024 at 4:24 PM, JazzMan said:
I actually dig it. Reminds me of the late Darwyn Cooke, of which I was a big fan of.
That's right. I compared it to Bruce Timm, but that's possibly better still.
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Different overheads, possibly they can’t.
Haven’t read the entire thread myself, but that’s a fundamental.
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On 3/17/2017 at 9:40 PM, kav said:
Technically infallible should mean fallible because inflammable means flammable....
English is great, isn’t it?
Throw the strict rules in the trash.
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On 4/20/2024 at 2:17 AM, jcjames said:
I snatched 36 quarters off my elbow once. Three stacks of twelve.
Ha!
Being quite dyspraxic, clumsy, I’m extremely impressed with this level of coordination.
Well done.
On 4/18/2024 at 2:02 AM, universal soldier said:
The best I’ve done is 12 under par on the course in Grand Theft Auto 5.
It doesn’t compare.
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On 4/20/2024 at 6:23 PM, Shadow said:
Just got the Micronauts Marvel Omnibus. Even though I have the issues from way back, decided I wanted to read them again after 45 years... Relive my 13 year old self...
I don’t blame you. Incredibly nostalgic material for Bronze Age kids. Great to see it collected, at last.
My first exposure to the brilliance of Michael Golden’s artwork.
At the time I didn’t realise I had a silent competitor for the comics on the newsstand over here. I tended to focus on Marvels and never really noticed that the choice DC issues were being snapped up, including Golden’s Batman Family and Mister Miracle books. I had to pick those up later at British comic marts.
Eventually though, I got introduced to him and we became firm collecting buddies.
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Good mix.