Credits:

I didn’t really follow the story beyond an uprising against Darkseid on the planet Apokolips, but art was wonderful.

Super heroic moron flying through space, vaguely near his space horse.

An especially super heroic landing.

I do genuinely love the old school approach to color of metallic objective like Darkseid’s armor here.

Sire, the peasants are revolting.

This panel suffers from some proportion issues meeting with the intrinsically goofy design of Darkseid to produce a kind of squished action figure visual.

A standout panel. The white silhouetting is inventive and evocative.

A helmeted lasergunslinger.

Oh good lord. At least there won’t be a closeup of that face.

Oh no.

The planet broke before the peasants did.

Just a super intense panel.

  • @CitizenKongEnglish
    5•2 days ago

    Kirby really was a genius of his craft. Did he draw faces like they’re neanderthals? Yes. Was he a master of composition, dynamic poses and drawing sheer scale? Also yes.

    • @jordanlundMEnglish
      2•2 days ago

      Man, he just couldn’t tell a story on his own though. All of his best work was either with Joe Simon or Stan Lee.

      On his own? New Gods, Forever People, Kamandi, Eternals…

        • @jordanlundMEnglish
          1•2 days ago

          Nope, as a storyteller, Kirby had ideas he just couldn’t execute on.

          As noted, New Gods, Forever People, Kamandi, Eternals are more or less unreadable. Machine Man, which sprung out of his 2001 adaptation isn’t much better.

          Then there’s the indie work he did like Captain Victory and Silver Star which are more or less incomprehensible.

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Victory_and_the_Galactic_Rangers

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Star_(comics)

          There’s a difference between what makes a good artist and what makes a good storyteller.

          • @[email protected]English
            2•2 days ago

            Yeah, everything you said makes sense… given that the context is that you think Stan Lee is a good storyteller.

            • @jordanlundMEnglish
              2•2 days ago

              Stan Lee has solo problems as well. If you look at the crap he turned out with Stan Lee Media in the 90s (shudder).

              What I’m saying is, these guys combined were greater than the sum of their parts. Joe Simon and Jack Kirby NEVER would have come up with Captain America on their own, but together? Legendary.

              Same for Lee and Kirby or Lee and Ditko.

              But you look at their solo work? You get the Fourth World nonsense from Kirby, the Stan Lee Media garbage, and things like “Missing Man” from Ditko.

              Never heard of Missing Man? Yeah. Exactly.

              Some creators need another person to hone their edge, leave them on their own with no control? Yeah…