The Sandman that time forgot
(As I don’t have the clear head to do any writing on my aliens book right now, here’s another repost from my own blog). Everyone nerdy enough to read our …
Tag: Jack Kirby
The Archie super-hero digests: cool, or just weird?
Back in the in my comics reading heyday, I was a big fan of digests, and two of the oddest and coolest were the Archie super-hero digests from the late 1970s.
And men shall call him — warlock! Adam Warlock before Jim Starlin
Adam Warlock’s first series wasn’t perfect. Coming out in 1972, however, it was perfectly timed. I can’t imagine Marvel trying a religious allegory (“My dream casting is High Evolutionary as …
Whatever gods there be: theology in the DCU and MU
If you don’t think about it much, the Marvel and DC universes look like they have Christianity as their operating system. We’ve seen Heaven, often depicted with pearly gates. It …
Life will make you doubt. Anti-Life will make you right!
The Forever People was far and away the weakest of Jack Kirby’s Fourth World books. Mister Miracle had colorful foes and Scott Free’s determination to be free of Apokalips (and “He cheats …
Fox, Lee, Kirby: Writing in the Silver Age
Once Marvel began publishing superhero comics in the Silver Age, the differences between the Marvel and DC styles firmed up quickly. Most of the DC stories I remember fondly give …
The Kiss of the Kobra
Back in 2014 (this is a repost from my own blog that year), as part of rereading my comics collection, I came across a Kobra story from the 1990s. On …