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Kirby Theme Park

The Falcon

04:30 / 15.05.03

I'm unaware if this has been possted already, but it hasn't as far as I'm aware: It makes me wish it existed and I was 10 and I went there.

Jack Kirby is amazing.

at the scarwash

07:42 / 15.05.03

That's beautiful.

I picked up a couple issues of Mr. Miracle today. The world would have been a much better place if Kirby had had a hand in its design.

I sometimes wish he'd worked with a truly great writer during his lifetime, but I think ultimately that he was the only one capable of harnessing his talent. Even though his New Gods universe is kind of silly, those characters create the framework that best supports his design sense.

Warewullf

10:24 / 15.05.03

Wow. Just...wow.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

13:00 / 15.05.03

The New Gods has alwasy felt to me like a half baked set of ideas, and would have been much better if Kirby just would have had an editor or co-plotter to make him flesh out his concepts, rather than keep throwing stuff out there.

He went from working on 4 books a month for Marvel and creating tons of new characters for Stan to flesh out to 4 bi-monthly books...and had no editorial interfereance at all. That's why each issue of New Gods seems like a complete new universe of ideas, and so little is known about on of the concepts.

I'm on a Kirby discussion list, and this pic has come up a few times...and as always, amazing concepts just tossed off as if Kirby couldn't stop creating new stuff. Really an incredible man.

Graeme McMillan

14:51 / 15.05.03

I recently read all of the re-released Fourth World stuff, and two things came to mind. First off, New Gods really reminds me of The Invisibles, and secondly, Mister Miracle would be the best Saturday morning cartoon EVER.

Mister Six, whom all the girls

16:12 / 15.05.03

Yes it would, but not as good as a Kamandi cartoon!

The Falcon

16:38 / 15.05.03

Yeah, I'd really like to read more Morrison New Gods stuff; really liked the JLA stuff with them, but felt they were underutilised. *holds breath, awaits Hypercrisis*

New Gods trades recommended then?

Mister Six, whom all the girls

17:58 / 15.05.03

Morrison New Gods?? I don't think the domed one has done a New Gods comic.

I would highly reccomend that you seek out the original issues or the baxter papered 89 reprint series as the trades are... crap. They are in b and w and it loses something.

Ofcourse, I'm an elitist completist, so help yourself to the salt.

moriarty

18:02 / 15.05.03

I'm not going to complain again about the B & W format of those Fourth World trades and the marvel Essentials for fear that Perse will break out the crayons. Needless to say, I've been slowly collecting individual issues of the Fourth World books in colour, and they're great.

Happily, DC is releasing Kirby's Jimmy Olsen comics (with their infamous redrawn Superman faces) in a trade paperrback with colour interiors.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

19:08 / 15.05.03

You know, at $12 - $15 a pop, the New Gods books are recommended by me. Just for the amazing ideas that flew out of the comic along.

But then, I'm a Kirby fan. Some people point to those books as the start of his decline, but I see them as him growing more and more frustrated with the comics format. His style of storytelling just didn't seem to fit by the end of his tenure at DC, and while I love his mid to late 70's Marvel work, you can't really consider it very accessable.

But if you were to start with one, I'd get Mr. Miracle, then The New Gods and finally The Forever People (which is the only one that REALLY feels dated, as Kirby was trying to do his positive spin on the late 60's youth movement."

Mister Six, whom all the girls

19:09 / 15.05.03

Olsen in color??!! That's great!! I'm missing like one issue of that run. It is REALLY good. The originals are also worth getting on account of the backups being golden age manhunter by Simon and Kirby, (also backing up Forever PPl is a new Kirby Deadman), but I'll definitely be getting that one.

Graeme McMillan

20:09 / 15.05.03

New Gods trades are very recommended. Mad and inspired. Made me spend $20 on the Hunger Dogs GN to see how it all ends, kind of.

Hieronymus

21:05 / 15.05.03

Holy crap. I didn't know he worked with Zelazny. And it was a film project at one time?

Too cool.

The Falcon

14:49 / 16.05.03

I meant the shaven-headed one's use of New Gods characters in his JLA run. I think he did a secret origin for them, but I've not read that.

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