Don't ask! Just buy it!

Fans of Silver and Bronze Age comics by Jack Kirby are probably buying the Kirby Genesis series currently being published by Dynamite Entertainment. It's fast-moving fun featuring a lot of "new" Kirby characters written by Kurt Busiek with art by Jack Herbert and Alex Ross. If that's not enough to convince you, perhaps the cover for issue #4, due out in September, will!

 

Hoy

 

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  • I'm picking it up because I almost always like Kurt, and it's hard to go wrong with Alex Ross. But I'm having a hard time keeping everyone straight and caring about them so far. I think it might be too many things happening at once. I'm sticking with it, and I'm hoping it starts to fit together for me. I'm not buying into the spin-offs until I hear more about them, though, as the creative teams are not quite such slam-dunks for me. But they may be easier to follow with smaller casts to follow.

    -- MSA

  • I've perused these, but I'm thinking of trade-waiting it. I really really love the artwork--this guy may be the next Brian Bolland!
  • When people talk about Kirby's work, sooner or later they talk about a 'mad explosion of ideas and concepts'.  Busiek seems to have worked that notion into the very plot of Genesis, as all these different elements suddenly converge on an Earth that hadn't really experienced anything like them before.

     

    I guess the series is clever like that.  I think I'm enjoying it.  It's unusual to see so many disparate concepts all thrown together in this way, in a more or less self-contained story.  (I know there are spin-offs, and books already published with some of these concepts, but this would seem to be a self-contained story, for all that.)

     

    I can see that the likeable 'everyman' character and his social circle does help to ground all the appearances of really colourful, out-of-this-world characters.

     

    I am intrigued to see if Busiek comes up with a good in-story reason why all these cosmic superfolk have converged on Earth at this one time, at the same time as long-dormant Earth superfolk have suddenly come out of the woodwork.

  • I guess I was being too subtle with my subject title and the cover layout.

     

    Hoy

     

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  • You're right! It struck me as a very good cover, actually.

    That's really well-spotted, Hoy.
  • You know what I'd like to see after this?

    Ditko Genesis

    Cockrum Genesis

    I'd love to see inside their sketchbooks too!

     

  • That's awesome, ol' pal!

     

    I have to sadly admit, though, that if the New DC 52 didn't get me into a comics shop, even the reincarnation of Goody Rickels probably won't do it, either. But I'll certainly check it out at the library, should it arrive.

     

    On a related note, the library DOES have a collection of Kirby's SILVER STAR, which I understand is somehow worked into the premise behind this KIRBY GENESIS series. But SILVER STAR is one of those ideas that I basically just shrugged off at the time as "nothing new here" and never really had any interest in. I can understand how guys like Busiek and Ross might get excited at the chance to -- kind of -- collaborate with the King on new comics but I think their time and efforts would be better spent on dreaming up all new stuff on their own. Unless I missed it, I don't recall there being much of a demand for new SILVER STAR comics before this title was announced. But if it sells, hey, what do I know?

  • I just finished reading the Pacific Comics run of Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers published in the early 1980s. It's the first time I've read those since they were first published. I remember not liking them much at the time, because they came out on a bi-monthly schedule and Kirby's continued stories don't read well like that. Reading them all at once, I was amazed at how much better I liked it.I suspect Kirby Genesis will be the same way when I read them together.

     

    The same thing happened when I read the Silver Star collection a couple of years ago. SS was Kirby way ahead of his time, as usual, with some of the way-out technology and concepts described in it now closer to reality.

     

    The character in the Goody Rickels area of the cover is from CV. His name is Mister Mind, although the other members of the cast call him Egghead. He's a really smart telepathic alien who desperately wants to be an action hero like the rest of the Galactic Rangers. He was probably the most popular character in that series.

     

    Also of note, Paranex the Fighting Fetus! This was a powerful villain who was really dangerous but hadn't reached his potential because he hadn't been born yet! This gave Kirby an opportunity to have his characters discuss the validity of abortion in a science fantasy context.

     

    I see that Dynamite is coming out with another Captain Victory title when Genesis is finished, but Busiek isn't writing it. Still, I won't ask, I'll just buy it!

     

    Hoy

  • I think Dynemaite ought to release a CV "archive"... good coloring and better paper alone would greatly improve that series.
  • I'm waiting for the first trade of this to come out, because my LCS is missing one of the first issues. Can't wait to get caught up on it!
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