Daredevil Month: Ranking Every ‘Daredevil’ #1 Cover
Once upon a time, #1 issues were rare. In the old days, publishers believed readers were more likely to take
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Jack Kirby
Deconstructing Comics #834: Jack Kirby’s ‘Captain America And The Falcon’ Vs A Bodybuilding Corpse
What’s that Kirby Crackle octopus chasing Cap and Falcon? And didn’t it used to be an oddly muscular, bald (naturally) corpse?
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Deconstructing Comics #833: Jack Kirby’s ‘Cap And Falcon’ #201-203 — Who Are “The Night People”?
The Night People are looking for a superhero. But who are the Night People? Where do they come from? And what
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Deconstructing Comics #829: Jack Kirby’s ‘Captain America’s Bicentennial Battles’
Captain America was the obvious choice of a character to help Marvel celebrate the USA’s bicentennial in 1976. The job
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Deconstructing Comics #824: ‘Eternals’ (2021) — Where It Went Wrong (And Right!)
Now that we’ve become familiar with Jack Kirby‘s original Eternals comics, repeatedly referring to the 2021 Marvel Cinematic Universe film along
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Deconstructing Comics #823: Jack Kirby’s ‘Eternals’ #17-19 — Lots O’ Ikaris (Or Ikarus?)
We’ve reached the end of Jack Kirby‘s Eternals series. Sure, it was a weird series, but introducing a Hulk robot apparently
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Deconstructing Comics #820: Jack Kirby’s ‘Eternals’ #14-16 — The Coming Of … The Editor!
Jack Kirby‘s The Eternals was not a conventional superhero book. It didn’t even seem to take place in the Marvel
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NYCC 2024: Adding The Frosting On The (Kirby) Cake
As exciting as it is at times, New York Comic Con is usually about consistency. The Marvel booth is always
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DC Comics Gives Us A Sneak Peek At ‘The New Gods’ #1
Out of all the new DC All-In comics, including the Absolute line, the one I’m the most looking forward to
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Deconstructing Comics #817: Jack Kirby’s ‘Eternals’ 1977 Annual + #13 — Fun Stories With Few Eternals
We left the Eternals joined together in the Unimind. The 1977 Annual doesn’t clearly fit into continuity, but features only
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Deconstructing Comics #815: Jack Kirby’s ‘Eternals’ #9-12 — Judging Books By Their Covers
Eternals are only human, I guess! In Eternals #9-12, many of the Eternals exhibit a segregationist attitude toward the Deviants,
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Deconstructing Comics #598 (Flashback): Dylan Horrocks Looks Back At ‘Hicksville’
FLASHBACK! Twenty years after the first collection of Hicksville was released, creator Dylan Horrocks talks to Emmet about how the comic
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Deconstructing Comics #814: Jack Kirby’s ‘Eternals’ #5-8 — As Wacky As They Wanna Be
Reading the original Jack Kirby iteration of The Eternals shows that the MCU movie based on the title was rather dour,
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Deconstructing Comics #808: Jack Kirby’s ‘The Eternals’ #1-4 — Chariots Of The Superheroes?
So many Jack Kirby creations focus on gods, from The Mighty Thor to New Gods; he picked up concepts from myth
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Deconstructing Comics #803: Jack Kirby’s ‘2001’ #6-10 — Machine Man Begins
What did Marvel expect Jack Kirby to do with a 2001: A Space Odyssey series? Especially when they told him not to
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Deconstructing Comics #802: Jack Kirby’s ‘2001’ #1-5 — An Interesting Failure
As Jack Kirby‘s adaptation of the movie/novel 2001: a space odyssey sold well, Marvel asked him to turn it into a
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Deconstructing Comics #795: Jack Kirby’s ‘Capt. America And The Falcon’ #198-200 — Bicentennial Madness
Cap and the Falcon have found the underground bunker of the aristocratic forces hoping to take over America on the
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Deconstructing Comics #792: Jack Kirby’s ‘Capt. America And The Falcon’ #195-197 — “Kill-Derby”
Cap and Falcon are trapped in an underground bunker where elites plot to destroy the Bicentennial celebrations and take away
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Deconstructing Comics #789: Jack Kirby’s ‘Captain America And The Falcon’ #193-194 — “Madbomb”
When Jack Kirby returned to Marvel in 1975, the first series he worked on starred the character that was one of
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Deconstructing Comics #787: Jack Kirby’s ‘OMAC’ — The World That’s Going
The run of Jack Kirby‘s OMAC: One-Man Army Corps was bright but short, lasting only through eight bi-monthly issues. This time,
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Deconstructing Comics #786: Jack Kirby’s ‘OMAC’ — The World That’s Coming
One of Jack Kirby‘s late efforts at DC was OMAC: One-Man Army Corps, which focuses on “the world that’s coming”:
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Deconstructing Comics #784: Jack Kirby’s ‘Kamandi’ — Wipeout
There’s a new sheriff in town in post-Great Disaster Earth: Gerry Conway took over as writer in Kamandi: The Last Boy
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Deconstructing Comices #783 Jack Kirby’s ‘Kamandi’ #35-37 — Off The Deep End
Jack Kirby reaches the end of his writing run on Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth. After top-shelf stories about
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The Sunday Spotlight: All The Stuff And Nonsense From The Week In Comics
Welcome to Sunday Spotlight, a round-up of things I noticed in the wonderful world of comics this week…
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Deconstructing Comics #779: Jack Kirby’s ‘Kamandi’ #32-34 — Big Action Issue(s)!
No longer just a look at Earth AD, Kamandi issues 32 through 34 introduce us to an alien who’s literally
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Deconstructing Comics #777: Jack Kirby’s ‘Kamandi’ #29-31 — “Up, Up, And Away!”
As we continue through Jack Kirby‘s 1970s issues of Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth, Tim and Emmet keep slowing down!
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Deconstructing Comics #774: Jack Kirby’s ‘Kamandi’ #24-28 — Havin’ A Look-See For Some Fight-Fight
While Kamandi‘s exorcism story in issue 24 leaves something to be desired, never mind that: the subsequent four issues, as
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Deconstructing Comics #773: Jack Kirby’s “Kamandi” #19-23 — On To Monster Lake!
In this segment of Jack Kirby‘s Kamandi series, we visit a version of 1920s Chicago that seems to be drawing on,
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Deconstructing Comics #770: Jack Kirby’s ‘Kamandi’ #11-18 — Kliklak Forever
This week we continue our look at Jack Kirby‘s run on Kamandi, another of the DC properties he created. Tim and
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Webcomic Weekly: Paul Pope’s Reinterpretation Of Jack Kirby’s OMAC…
Webcomic Weekly, taking a look at online comics (my definition of webcomics is as broad as I want it to
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Deconstructing Comics #767: Jack Kirby’s ‘Kamandi’ #1-10 — It’s A Knockout!
If you can’t get the rights to Planet of the Apes, do the next best thing: get Jack Kirby to come
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