Jack Kirby
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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 #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 #257: Far in the Starrs
Jack Kirby’s legacy can never be overstated. Providing the bedrock on which Marvel was built and expanding DC’s universe into the realm of gods and mythology enshrines his impact for generations. But there may have been a different path for him as a young artist as one of his first creations in Adam Starr was… Continue reading
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Heroes Never Rust #34: Alone Together
Heroes Never Rust #34 by Sean Ironman Alone Together In 1961, Marvel Comics released The Fantastic Four #1, written by Stan Lee and drawn by Jack Kirby. That comic changed the comic book industry. In the first issue, the Fantastic Four wore no costumes. Instead of having their abilities from birth, or gaining them through… Continue reading
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