Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #392: Kirby’s Miracle Run
For every comic run, there exists an end. For Jack Kirby’s original run of his Fourth World saga, his ending came with the final few issues of Mister Miracle. I talked last week about the end of the original run on The New Gods that left us with Orion and his personal revelation of being… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #391: One of Kirby’s Ends
Last week, we looked at the penultimate volume of Jack Kirby’s Fourth World omnibuses—breaking down the different directions the story was going and how much he had begun to set up in terms of the incoming climactic battles between Orion and his half brother, Kalibak. But there’s an odd wrinkle to that planned fight and all of… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #390: Kirby’s Shortened Road
The end is nigh. We can see the end cresting the horizon. In this, the third volume of Kirby’s Fourth World, we begin winding down. Not by choice, of course, you know Jack had another series worth of issues to get through. But, while we’re facing down the final few issues in the final volume, the penultimate has… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #389: Kirby’s Zenith
We return with a different kind of Kirby this time and a small repeat of another article I had written a few weeks prior. Like the previous instance, I had been reading through more of Kirby’s Fourth World omnibuses, but then there was a single issue that stood out due to what Jack was doing. This time, thankfully,… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #388: The War of a Kirby Saga Thickens
Returning to our action already in progress reveals the widening scope of Jack Kirby’s Fourth World saga and why it needed to be four separate series. Kirby knew the scale of war and how it could slowly encroach upon the world around it. As we thumb through this second volume of his Fourth World, we see how many different pieces… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #387: Prescient Moments
The rhythm for the last few months has been my following the various volumes and omnibuses of series like Promethea, The Invisibles, and now Jack Kirby’s Fourth World. While this is a rhythm I’d like to maintain, something stuck me when I got to end of the first volume of the Fourth World omnibuses and that’s The Forever People #3 and… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #386: The Start
In all things, there is an origin point—the space in which the void at the center is filled with something inexplicable and all work that comes after is inevitably inspired. While Jack Kirby had his own origins working for Marvel—maybe working a bit more than his chief collaborator would claim—it was when he landed at… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #385: Duelists in the Depths
Actually, it’s not over yet. After mulling further on how Promethea and The Invisibles functioned as comics last week, I couldn’t get the thought of their structure and aims out of my head. In lieu, then, of the article I was going to write on another series, we’re diving back even deeper on two series that shown what magic was able to… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #384: Duel in the Deep
If you haven’t been noticing a trend over the past few months, I’ve been writing about two series: Promethea and The Invisibles. The former was due to coming into a collection of the entire series s a result of some patient used book store-diving and the former because of what happened as I was reading through Promethea. The usage… Continue reading
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Comics Are Trying to Break Your Heart #383: Counting Down
And somehow we’ve reached the end. Although, when it comes to something like The Invisibles and Morrison’s penchant for a meta-narrative twist that implies the story continues on into the future, we may never actually reach the end. But for what we as people existing in a relatively stable plain of existence can experience, this is the… Continue reading
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