Jack Kirby's Fourth World

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I think Mr. Kid may be confusing "serialised over a year or so" and "serialised over a year or so ago".

So I did. My mistake.

But now that I think about it, wasn't there some new version of The Great Darkness Saga in LSH like a year ago? I thought I heard about that.

― The Yellow Kid, Monday, 25 April 2005 21:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh yeah, Foundations. It was okay. They brought the current Superboy into the 31st C. And Darkseid fought himself. And Tom Welling sorta made a cameo.
The big double issue (I think #25) was pretty cool, had lots of great art from different people, and the Secret Files was (what else is new) bunk. The rest of the storyline (I only read that arc) sorta punked out until Darkseid fought himself. That was wicked.
I think the whole thing led to the Legion/Titans Special where the Legion's timeline got erased (possible Infinite Crisis tie-in? we'll see), leading to the current incarnation.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 26 April 2005 13:44 (nineteen years ago) link

nine months pass...

so i was wondering about this stuff, and whether it was collected, then i see a NEW GODS tpb on sale in the used bookstore window! for cheap!

it's fantastic! i adore it!

"I HAVE HEARD THE WORD, AND IT IS BATTLE!"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 00:54 (eighteen years ago) link

b&w tho :(

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 01:21 (eighteen years ago) link

did one of them get done in colour? Jimmy Olsen perhaps?

― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 05:07 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah, both of jimmy olsen's trades are in colour.

― i0dine, Wednesday, 1 February 2006 11:31 (eighteen years ago) link

aw two trades? that's too much effort. Goody Rickles'd be in the first one though? I could do with reading that again...

― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 13:06 (eighteen years ago) link

what's esp. annoying abt those b+w new gods trades is that DC have added a gray tint to all the artwork, so that you're not even getting pure unadulterated kirby/royer thrillpower. DC really shld do a new gods archive h/c - the kamandi vol is absolutely gorgeous

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 17:56 (eighteen years ago) link

i think the greyscale stuff looks ok actually

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 18:34 (eighteen years ago) link

b&w tho :(

Yah, argh. Buying up all the Kirby back issues was going to be one of my projects last summer but I temporarily abandoned it. I guess if you don't mind Baxter paper, you could buy the deluxe reissues DC released in the '80s for cheap.

― Chris F. (servoret), Thursday, 2 February 2006 05:10 (eighteen years ago) link

still... pretty glorious!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 February 2006 06:11 (eighteen years ago) link

i read kirby stuff differently than other comics somehow

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 February 2006 06:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Goody Rickles is (I think) the last two issues of Vol. 1?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 2 February 2006 14:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Huk is correct.

V1 is better than V2, but only just by a little.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Thursday, 2 February 2006 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link

eight months pass...

I am reading the Baxter New Gods reprints right now. CYCLOPEAN!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 6 October 2006 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Is that the giant-sized ~~man-thingz~~ volume? My friendly neighbourhood comics dealer drew my attention to that, but after "Lost Girls" I don't know if I wanna schlepp another one of those home.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 7 October 2006 11:01 (seventeen years ago) link

no, early-mid 1980s comic-book format reprints (on white paper - Baxter vs Mando vs newsprint etc)

― occasional mongrel (kit brash), Saturday, 7 October 2006 13:19 (seventeen years ago) link

giant-sized volume = eternals

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Saturday, 7 October 2006 14:19 (seventeen years ago) link

eight years pass...

man, why is Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus Vol. 2 impossible to find? like a mark I picked up Vols 3 and 4 on sale somewhere, but now i need to pick up the first two....

― Nhex, Saturday, 11 July 2015 20:25 (eight years ago) link

Do what I did: monitor that shit daily on Amazon until you see a price you can live with paying.

I'm generally tired of these series of collections where a single volume goes out of print and skyrockets out of anything resembling a reasonable price range.

― Something Called Fudge (Old Lunch), Sunday, 12 July 2015 04:21 (eight years ago) link

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