THERE CAME A TIME WHEN THE OLD GODS DIED!
Monday, August 28, is Jack Kirby's 100th Birthday! To celebrate, I shall story-time his magnum opus, THE NEW GODS. We'll go through all three titles that cover THE NEW GODS saga: THE NEW GODS, MISTER MIRACLE, and THE FOREVER PEOPLE. There's a smattering of The NEW GODS in Kirby's Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen, which is story timed here .
SO COME WITH ME ON A JOURNEY INTO THE FOURTH WORLD! ALL HAIL THE KING!
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NEW GODS #1: ORION FIGHTS FOR EARTH!
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DARKSEID! ON EARTH!
NEXT ISSUE: O' DEADLY DARKSEID!
NEW GODS #2
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Earth isn't being invaded. EARTH IS ALREADY INVADED. MANKIND IS ALREADY IN DEADLY PERIL!
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NEW GODS #2 ENDS AS WAR BEGINS! EARTH IS THE BATTLEFIELD!
MISTER MIRACLE #1 THE MURDER MISSILE TRAP! THE BEGINNING OF THE TALE OF SCOTT FREE!
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The old MISTER MIRACLE dies, and a new MISTER MIRACLE RISES!
Fun Fact:Mister Miracle was based on comics legend Jim Steranko, who was an escape-artist in his youth.
MISTER MIRACLE #2 THE IMPOSSIBLE X-PIT!
CAN SCOTT FREE ESCAPE THE WRATH OF GRANNY GOODNESS?
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MISTER MIRACLE #2 ENDS. NO TRAP CAN HOLD MISTER MIRACLE, NOT EVEN THE SINISTER X-PIT!
FOREVER PEOPLE #1
THEY ARE IN SEARCH OF A DREAM, AND SO IS SUPERMAN!
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HE HAS HEARD THE CALL! INFINITY MAN!
FOREVER PEOPLE #1 ENDS. DARKSEID APPEARS! SUPERMAN LEARNS OF OTHERS LIKE HIM, BUT TURNS BACK. TURNS BACK TO PROTECT EARTH! WHAT IS THE MYSTERY OF THE FOREVER PEOPLE?
Thanks OP
This is where DC completely misses the point with Darkseid.
Hollywood invasions are beneath him, since there is no place on earth that is safe from his influence. When he does strike, we won't even see it coming.
Thanks user.
THE NEW GODS #3 DEATH IS THE BLACK RACER!
DOES HE COME FOR YOU?
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THE NEW GODS #3 ENDS. WHO WILL BE THE BLACK RACER'S NEXT QUARRY?
COULD IT BE YOU?
MISTER MIRACLE #3 THE PARANOID PILL!
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MISTER MIRACLE #3 ENDS. SCOTT FREE IS TRAPPED BY THE MAD HANDS OF HYSTERIA. CAN HE ESCAPE THIS INSANITY?
MISTER MIRACLE #4 THE CLOSING JAWS OF DEATH!
BIG BARDA IS HERE!
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MISTER MIRACLE #4 ENDS. BARDA IS WITH SCOTT. TOGETHER NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE.
THE FOREVER PEOPLE #2 SUPER WAR!
BEWARE THE MENACE OF MANTIS!
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THE FOREVER PEOPLE #2 ENDS. MANTIS HAS FAILED, BUT DARKSEID WAITS.
Thanks again user.
THE NEW GODS # 4 O'RYAN'S GANG AND THE DEEP SIX!
A NEW GOD OF NEW GENESIS HAS DIED! SUCH IS THE COST OF WAR!
RIDE THE TEMPEST, SEAGRIN! ENTER THE COSMIC FIRE! THE SOURCE WILL TAKE YOU AS A WARRIOR WHO HAS GIVEN ALL!
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NEW GODS #4 ENDS! DEATH IN THE DEPTHS! ORION IN THE GRIP OF THE DEEP SIX! THE WAR CONTINUES!
MISTER MIRACLE #5 DOCTOR VUNDABAR AND HIS MURDER MACHINE!
BARDA CAPTURED! THE TRAP IS SET AND SCOTT FREE MUST WALK INTO IT!
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MISTER MIRACLE # 5 ENDS! SCOTT FREE ESCAPES THE CLUTCHES OF VUNDABAR! WE SEE THE YOUTH OF SCOTT FREE AND UNDERSTAND THE HORRORS OF APOKOLIPS! THIS IS WHAT DARKSEID WANTS FOR THE UNIVERSE!
MISTER MIRACLE # 6 FUNKY FLASHMAN!
A HUCKSTER. A CON-MAN. WHO IS THIS FUNKY FLASHMAN, AND WHY DOES HE LOOK LIKE SOMEONE KIRBY WORKED WITH AT MARVEL? THE ONE WHO'S LAST NAME RHYMES WITH "BEE"!
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MISTER MIRACLE #6 ENDS! SCOTT AND BARDA REPEL GRANNY GOODNESS'S FEMALE FURIES! THE FUNKY FLASHMAN LOSES EVERYTHING! WE SEE MORE OF THE TOTALITARIAN SOCIETY DARKSEID HAS CREATED! THESE ARE THE STAKES WORTH FIGHTING FOR!
THE FOREVER PEOPLE #3 LIFE VS ANTI-LIFE!
BEWARE THE JUSTIFIERS, THOSE SWAYED BY THE WORD OF GLORIOUS GODFREY! WORSHIPERS OF ANTI-LIFE!
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THE FOREVER PEOPLE #3 ENDS.
BUT I AM THE REVELATION! THE TIGER-FORCE AT THE CORE OF ALL THINGS! WHEN YOU CRY OUT IN YOUR DREAMS - IT IS DARKSEID THAT YOU SEE!
Now it gets good.
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THE NEW GODS #5 SPAWN!
WE NOW SEE WAR AS IT IS: SAVAGE, BRUTAL, AND WITHOUT HONOR!
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AS KALIBAK ARRIVES ON EARTH, WE SEE THE VICIOUS NATURE OF ORION AND THE TRUE FACE OF WAR! HE GRUESOMELY GRINS AS HE MURDERS SLIG'S MOTHERBOX, A DEFENSELESS, LIVING DEVICE THAT EXPERIENCES LOVE AND FEAR!
THIS IS WHAT KIRBY WANTS US TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT CONFLICT: THERE IS NO NOBILITY IN WAR! NO HONORABLE COMBATANTS! IT IS CRUEL AND BARBAROUS! IT TURNS MEN INTO TEARING BEASTS! WE ARE LEFT TO PONDER WHAT KIND OF MAN SEEKS WAR AS ORION HEARTLESSLY MOCKS HIS OPPONENT!
THE NEW GODS #4 ENDS! ORION ESCAPES THE DEEP SIX, BUT WHAT NEW HORRORS ARISE FROM THE DEPTHS?
MISTER MIRACLE # 7 THE APOKOLIPS TRAP!
GRANNY GOODNESS PLANS DEATH FOR SCOTT FREE! HOWEVER, SHE NEED NOT WAIT, AS SCOTT FREE IS COMING TO HER!
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A TEARFUL SEPARATION AS SCOTT AND BARDA LEAVE FOR APOKOLIPS! THERE IS TO BE NO MORE RUNNING FROM THEIR FATE!
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MISTER MIRACLE #8 ENDS! SCOTT FREE ESCAPES KANTO, ASSASSIN OF DARKSEID HIMSELF TO RETURN TO GRANNY GOODNESS! WHAT TERRORS HAS SHE IN STORE FOR HIM?
Thanks user
Thanks for the journey
THE JOURNEY IS NOT OVER.
Sorry, was gone last weekend
THE FOREVER PEOPLE #4 KINGDOM OF THE DAMNED!
WELCOME TO DESAAD'S PLAYGROUND OF TORTURE, HAPPYLAND! DOES ONE OF THE MINDS AMONG IT'S ATTENDEES HOLD THE KEY TO THE SINISTER ANTI-LIFE EQUATION?
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DARKSEID MINGLES AMONG THE PARK GUESTS! THOUGH CHILDREN RECOGNIZE HIM FOR WHAT HE IS, THE ADULTS ASSUME HIM TO BE A MERE COSTUMED ACTOR! HOW THEY LET PURE EVIL WALK AMONGST THEM UNOPPOSED!
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THE FOREVER PEOPLE #4 ENDS! THE FOREVER PEOPLE TRAPPED IN THE CLUTCHES OF THE CRUEL DESAAD! THE MOTHERBOX NEEDED TO SUMMON THE INFINITY MAN GONE, ONLY TO BE FOUND BY SONNY SUMO! WHO IS SONNY SUMO AND WHAT PART DOES HE HAVE YET TO PLAY?
THE NEW GODS #6 THE GLORY BOAT!
A RAFT A DRIFT IN THE OCEAN! PEOPLE AT WAR AMONGST THEMSELVES! A MAMMOTH BEAST WHO'S ONLY INSTINCT IS TO DESTROY! WAR ON THE SEAS OF EARTH!
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THE NEW GODS #6 ENDS!
IF WE MUST DIE! – LET NEW GENESIS LIVE!!
AND WE ARE LEFT, TO WONDER!
MISTER MIRACLE #8 BATTLE OF THE ID!
BIG BARDA TAKES OVER THE FEMALE FURIES AS MISTER MIRACLE IS TAKEN TO HIS DOOM!
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MISTER MIRACLE #8 ENDS! THE FEMALE FURIES REBEL! SCOTT FREE DEFEATS THE TERRIBLE ID! WE MEET THE IMPRISONED WILDCAT TYGRA, MOTHER OF ORION!
NOW FREE, WHAT AWAITS SCOTT AND BARDA ON APOKOLIPS!
THE NEW GODS # 7
THE PACT!
AT LONG LAST WE FIND OUT WHAT STARTED THE GALACTIC WAR BETWEEN NEW GENESIS AND APOKOLIPS! MURDER! INTRIGUE! BETRAYAL! SCHEMING AND SAVAGERY! A TALE OF COSMIC PARADISE LOST IN
ONE OF THE GREATEST COMICS EVER WRITTEN.
FROM MURDER TO WAR!
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THE WAR GROWS BEYOND THE MERE ORBITS OF NEW GENESIS AND APOKOLIPS! FANTASTIC WEAPONS EXISTING ON THE MERE EDGES OF HUMAN UNDERSTANDING AND USED WITHOUT DISCRETION! ENTIRE WORLDS, ENTIRE SOLAR SYSTEMS ARE ANNIHILATED IN THE MAD WAR BETWEEN THE NEW GODS! THE UNIVERSE ITSELF TREMBLES AT THEIR CONFLICT!
THIS LEAVES IZAYA THE INHERITOR QUESTIONING HIS WAYS! HOW CAN HE CONTINUE TO DESTROY THE COSMOS, AND YET SAVE NEW GENESIS! WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER!
IF I AM IZAYA THE INHERITOR – WHAT IS MY INHERITANCE!?
THE NEW GODS # 7 ENDS! IN THE WASTES, IZAYA FINDS HIS ANSWER WRITTEN UPON THE COSMIC WALL!
THE SOURCE, THE UNI–FRIEND!
FROM THERE BEGINS THE SECRET BARGAINS FOR PEACE THAT FORMS THE PACT! THE EXCHANGE OF SONS BETWEEN DARKSEID AND THE REBORN IZAYA THE HIGHFATHER! IZAYA GIVES UP HIS GENTLE INFANT SON, SCOTT FREE, WHOM DARKSEID WILL USE TO BREAK THE PACT WHEN HE IS READY! IN EXCHANGE, HIGHFATHER IS GIVEN THE WILD AND VICIOUS SON OF DARKSEID AND TIGRA, ORION!
THUS IT BEGAN!
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I forgot why I ever started loving comics until I saw this shit again.
MISTER MIRACLE #9 HIMON!
AS WE HAVE SEEN SCOTT FREE'S INTRODUCTION TO THE HORRORS OF APOKOLIPS, WE NOW SEE HOW HE ESCAPED!
WE MEET HIMON! CREATOR OF THE MOTHERBOX! DISCOVERER OF THE X-ELEMENT! HERE, ON APOKOLIPS, HE BRINGS LIFE TO THE DEATH THAT IS DARKSEID!
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LET ME BE SCOTT FREE – AND FIND MYSELF!
MISTER MIRACLE #9 ENDS! SCOTT ESCAPES TO EARTH, BREAKING THE PACT BETWEEN NEW GENESIS AND APOKOLIPS, ALLOWING DARKSEID TO HAVE HIS WAR TO FIND THE ANTI-LIFE EQUATION!
HOWEVER, WHILE DARKSEID MAY HAVE HIS WAR, HIS VICTORY IS NOT ASSURED! THE FUTURE IS STILL FREE TO ALL!
So that's how they first met. How romantic.
Thanks OP. People always talk about Kirby's New Gods stuff but I didn't know it was THIS good.
THERE WILL BE MORE TOMORROW. TOMORROW WE WILL SEE WITH OUR OWN EYES THE POWER OF THE ANTI-LIFE EQUATION! POWER THAT MAKES EVEN THE GREAT DARKSEID TREMBLE IN FEAR!
Were these never remastered?
I've been posting the covers from the original NEW GODS comics and the pages from the 1984 deluxe reprinting a reprinting that included a NEW story that lead into his forced finale, THE HUNGER DOGS, WHICH I WILL BE STORY-TIMING WHEN THE TIME ARRIVES.
MISTER MIRACLE and THE FOREVER PEOPLE I think were published with the Fourth World Omnibuses, but since I don't have those, I've been story-timing scans from the original 1971 comics.
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Fuck.
THE GLORY BOAT! STRAIGHT OUT OF THE BOOM TUBE AND INTO YOUR MOTHER BOX!
THE FOREVER PEOPLE #5 SONNY SUMO!
TO FIGHT AGAINST THE EVIL OF DARKSEID AND SAVE HER "CHILDREN", THE FOREVER PEOPLE'S MOTHERBOX SEEKS OUT THE MOST INCREDIBLE MAN ON EARTH, SONNY SUMO!
WHAT AMAZING, AND POTENTIALLY TERRIBLE, POWER DOES HE HOLD?!
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TRANSPORTED TO HAPPYLAND, THE VILE TORTURES OF DESAAD ARE NO MATCH FOR THE MIGHTY SONNY SUMO! HIS INTENSE STRENGTH AND INVINCIBLE WILL MAKE SHORT WORK OF THE MONSTROUS MACHINES KEEPING THE FOREVER PEOPLE CAPTIVE!
WITH RIGHTEOUS DESTRUCTION IN HIS WAKE, SONNY SUMO IS AN INCREDIBLE FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH!
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FOREVER PEOPLE #5 ENDS! DARKSEID'S SUSPICIONS PROVE TRUE! THE ANTI-LIFE EQUATION EXISTS! ON EARTH! IN THE MIND OF SONNY SUMO!
IS THIS THE BEGINNING OF THE END? IS THE ANTI-LIFE EQUATION FINALLY IN DARKSEID'S EVIL GRASP?!
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Funky Flashman was Kirby taking a shot at Stan Lee. You can really tell from the EXCELSIOR, TRUE BELIEVERS! dialogue.
THE FOREVER PEOPLE #6 THE OMEGA EFFECT!
SONNY SUMO POSSESSES THE ANTI-LIFE EQUATION! NOT EVEN DARKSEID COULD HOPE TO CHALLENGE HIS POWER!
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THOUGH DARKSEID SPOUTS BRAVE WORDS, HE IS FORCED TO BE AS COWARDLY AS DESAAD! DARKSEID UNLEASHES HIS OMEGA EFFECT, CHOOSING TO STRIKE FROM THE SHADOWS THAN FACE THE ANTI-LIFE EQUATION, HIS GREATEST DESIRE, LIKE A MAN!
GONE IS VYKIN THE BLACK! GONE IS SONNY SUMO! GONE TOO IS BIG BEAR, MARK MOONRIDER AND BEAUTIFUL DREAMER! ALL WHISKED TO PARTS, AND AGES, UNKNOWN BY THE TERRIFYING OMEGA EFFECT! ONLY SEIFAN REMAINS! HE ALONE WAS SPARED!
DEEP IN HIS LAIR, DARKSEID UNLEASHES HIS ANGER UPON DESAAD, NOT REVEALING THE REASONS HE CHOSE TO EXEMPT THE COSMIC COWBOY FROM HIS WRATH! AS HAPPYLAND BURNS AROUND THEM, HE ONCE AGAIN SHOWS FAVOR TO DESAAD BY PROMISING HIM MANY MORE HORRIBLE HAPPYLANDS AFTER EARTH HAS BEEN ENSLAVED!
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FOREVER PEOPLE #6 ENDS. THE FOREVER PEOPLE AND SONNY SUMO HAVE BEEN DISPERSED TO INTO THE UNKNOWN. ONLY SERIFAN AND THE SUPER-CYCLE REMAIN!
WHERE ARE THE OTHERS? WHERE HAS THE OMEGA EFFECT SENT THEM?
I love Brola, he's such a two-trick pony. I imagine him waiting behind the door, thinking "Should I hit Orion with the shock-prod first, then the hand of stone, or should I use the hand of stone first, then the shock prod? Or should I try and use both together?"
THE NEW GODS #8 THE DEATH-WISH OF TERRIBLE TURPIN!
KALIBAK THE CRUEL IS ON EARTH! BUT EARTH BELONGS TO MAN, AND A MAN PROMISES TO BRING KALIBAK TO MAN'S JUSTICE! CAN A MAN BRING DOWN A GOD?! CAN A MAN MAKE A GOD SUBJECT TO HIS LAW, HIS ORDER, OR WILL MAN BE MERELY THE COLLATERAL OF THIS COSMIC WAR?!
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TURPIN IS A MAN WHO HAS CHOSEN TO UPHOLD MAN'S LAWS AND ENSURE THE SAFETY OF HIS FELLOW MEN! HIS INDOMITABLE WILL DEMANDS THAT KALIBAK FACE JUSTICE FOR UPSETTING THE FRAGILE PEACE OF HIS CITY, HIS WORLD!
THOUGH ARMED WITH THE MERE STRENGTH OF A HUMAN, HE WILL GIVE HIS ALL AGAINST THIS CRUEL BEAST!
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NEW GODS #8 ENDS! TURPIN'S BODY IS BROKEN, BUT HIS SPIRIT IS INVINCIBLE! HIS CUNNING HAS LAID KALIBAK THE CRUEL LOW! HE HAS AFFIRMED THAT EARTH BELONGS TO THE EARTHLINGS!
LIGHTRAY HAS SEEN ORION'S TRUE FACE, BUT DOES NOT TURN IN DISGUST. INSTEAD OFFERING UNDERSTANDING. ORION HAS FOUND A TRUE AND NOBLE FRIEND IN LIGHTRAY!
They're literally smashing each other with 'walls! WALLS!
New Gods was Jack going FULL BANANA, but there's a certain brutal, masculine Hemingway-Robert E Howard eloquence to it, there's moments that stick with you, rare feels, like Orion waiting until he's alone to go crazy on Slig, then Lightray's reaction to the secret he killed Slig for. The young pacifist rushing Slig and being erased, the blowhard old man breaking and cowering. Turpin's courage being revealed as a death-wish, Izaya at the end of his tether, demanding answers, and getting one. Rare feels you don't get from other works.
Great read user.
MISTER MIRACLE #10 THE MISTER MIRACLE TO BE!
SCOTT, BARDA, AND THE FEMALE FURIES ESCAPE APOKOLIPS TO EARTH! HOWEVER, INSTEAD OF PEACE, THEY FIND DANGER!
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MISTER MIRACLE #10 ENDS! SCOTT AND THE FEMALE FURIES FACE THE MYSTERIES OF THE WORLD PROTECTIVE LEAGUE! BACK AT HOME, TED BROWN, SON OF THE ORIGINAL MISTER MIRACLE, RETURNS HOME!
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR SCOTT FREE?
THE FOREVER PEOPLE #7 I'LL FIND YOU IN YESTERDAY!
WORD HAS REACHED HIGHFATHER OF THE FOREVER PEOPLE'S RECKLESS CHARGE AGAINST DARKSEID AND THEIR SUBSEQUENT SCATTERING THROUGHOUT TIME! ONLY HIGHFATHER HAS THE POWER TO REUNITE THEM IN THE PRESENT TIME, BUT SHOULD HE? SHOULD HE SAVE THEM, OR LEAVE THEM TO DRIFT THROUGH THE CENTURIES AS PUNISHMENT FOR THEIR RASHNESS?
IN THIS TIME OF TURMOIL, HIGHFATHER SEEKS, AND RECEIVES, THE ADVICE OF AN INNOCENT CHILD! ONLY THROUGH THE UNTAINTED EYES OF THE YOUNG CAN ONE FIND CLEAR WISDOM!
THE RESULTS OF DARKSEID'S OMEGA EFFECT ARE FINALLY SEEN! MARK MOONRIDER AND BEAUTIFUL DREAMER ARE SENT TO FORD'S THEATER IN 1864! VYKIN THE BLACK IS ASSAULTED BY SPANIARDS IN 1513 FLORIDA! BIG BEAR IS CAST EVEN FURTHER TO THE ROMAN CONQUEST OF THE BRITISH ISLES!
IN SUCH DIVERSE TIMES, HOW CAN THEY EVER GET BACK TO THE FUTURE?
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AS SERIFAN IS ATTACKED BY GLORIOUS GODFREY'S FORCES, HIGHFATHER ATTUNES HIMSELF TO THE INFINITE! WHAT DARKSEID SCATTERS, HIGHFATHER CAN RETURN! WHAT THE OMEGA ENDS, THE ALPHA BEGINS THEM ANEW! FROM HIGHFATHER OUTSTRETCHED HAND FLY THE ALPHA-BULLETS! THEY TRAVEL THROUGH SPACE, THROUGH TIME, TO BRING HOME THE FOREVER PEOPLE!
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FOREVER PEOPLE #7 ENDS! THE FOREVER PEOPLE ARE REUNITED! ALL ARE SAVED, EXCEPT ONE! SONNY SUMO! HE DID NOT RETURN! HE LIVED, AND DIED, IN THE PAST! HOWEVER, WHERE SOME SEE DEATH, OTHERS HOPE! SUMO'S HEROIC ACTIONS IN THAT TIME ECHO INTO THE PRESENT!
HIGHFATHER HAS ACTED FOR THEM ALL!
Hey, I know that DC made Jack change the end of Hunger Dogs because they wanted Darkseid in the Super Powers toy line, so he had to cut the pages up with a scalpel and reshuffle them, and I know Captain Victory was what he had planned for Orion's son, after Orion and Darkseid died in the fire pits.
Does anyone know more of his original plan?
THE NEW GODS #9 THE BUG!
THOUGH NEW GENESIS IS A LUSH PLANET OF PEACE, THE NEW GODS ARE NOT IT'S ONLY INHABITANTS! BELOW THE SURFACE DWELL THE BUG, COLONIES OF INSECT MEN THAT LONG TO SATIATE THEIR HUNGER! AS THEIR FOOD-SEEKER FORAGER LEADS THEM TO HIDDEN CACHE'S OF RATIONS, THE NEW GODS DEAL WITH THEM AS A MAN DEALS WITH ANTS!
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BEWARE! MANTIS LIVES!
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NEW GODS #9 ENDS! ORION AND LIGHTRAY ENJOY A MOMENT OF PEACE, BUT DANGER LOOMS! MANTIS HAS TAKEN CONTROL OF THE BUG! FORAGER LEARNS THE TRUTH OF HIS HERITAGE AND FLEES TO EARTH! FLEES, TO FIND ALLIES!
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That's basically what he's saying to.
>tfw the "All-Widow" will never "penetrate" you with her sacrificial "Electro-Stabber"
Goddammit. Can't there be one DC book that doesn't have Batman in it?
MISTER MIRACLE #11
SCOTT FREE, NOW WITH HIS NEW ALLIES THE FEMALE FURIES, PUTS ON THE GREATEST ESCAPE EVER PUT TO FILM!
LITTLE DOES SCOTT KNOW THAT HIS NEXT ESCAPE WILL BE FROM A FEARSOME FAMILIAR FOE!
DOCTOR BEDLAM HAS RETURNED!
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MISTER MIRACLE #11 ENDS! SCOTT ESCAPES THE CLUTCHES OF DOCTOR BEDLAM! DOCTOR BEDLAM FINALLY DESTROYED!
WHAT NOW AWAITS SCOTT FREE!
Thanks user
This
This is the kind of forward thinking science fiction that is absent from today's comics.
Current writers are slaves to the now, but Kirby, back in the 1970's, was predicting the possibilities of the future.
Thanks O
What else did they plan?
Great storytime.
ALL HAIL THE KING!
MISTER MIRACLE #12 MYSTIVAC!
SCOTT PERFORMS ANOTHER MIRACULOUS ESCAPE, LIVING UP TO HIS TITLE! HOWEVER, STRANGE NEW EYES ARE UPON HIM! EYES THAT LOOK TO MAKE AN WAGER AGAINST SCOTT'S LIFE!
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MISTER MIRACLE #12 ENDS! SCOTT GAMBLES HIS LIFE AGAINST MYSTIVAC AND CONQUERS!! POOR MYSTIVAC! A MAROONED PRISONER ON OUR WORLD, MADE SLAVE TO MAN'S GREED FOR CENTURIES!
THERE IS NO TIME TO MORN, FOR THE SHOW MUST GO ON!
THE FOREVER PEOPLE #8 THE POWER!
WHAT CAN NORMAL MEN DO AGAINST MYSTICAL FORCES? IN THE FACE OF TERRIBLE ENERGIES USED BY STRANGE CULTS FOR CONQUEST?
WHAT DOES THIS BIZARRE SOCIETY HAVE IN STORE FOR THE FOREVER PEOPLE? WHO IS THEIR MOST FEARED DISCIPLE, BILLION DOLLAR BATES?!
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THE FOREVER PEOPLE #8 ENDS! DARKSEID HAS BEEN FOILED ONCE AGAIN IN HIS ATTEMPT TO GAIN THE ANTI-LIFE EQUATION!
BUT HOW LONG WILL THE ANTI-LIFE EQUATION REMAIN OUT OF HIS GRASP?
THE NEW GODS #10 EARTH - THE DOOMED DOMINION!
MANTIS IS READY! HAVING TAKEN OVER THE BUG WITH HIS POWER, HE WILL NOW UNLEASH THEM ON EARTH! ONLY FORAGER, A TINY PAWN TOSSED IN THE WAR OF THE NEW GODS, CAN FIND THE ALLIES HE NEEDS TO STOP THEM!
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NEW GODS #11 ENDS! ORION BATTLES AGAINST THE THUNDEROUS POWER OF MANTIS! UNABLE TO STEM THE BUG HORDE, LIGHTRAY UNLEASHES SONIC WAVES TO DRIVE THEM BACK TO NEW GENESIS!
THIS WAR HAS NO RESTRAINT! EVEN THE LOWLY BUG, MERELY TRYING TO SUSTAIN THEMSELVES AND THEIR COLONY, ARE COLDLY USED AS PAWNS OF THIS COSMIC BATTLEFIELD! IS THERE NO END TO THIS GALACTIC BUTCHERY? WHEN WILL DARKSEID'S THIRST FOR BLOOD BE QUENCHED?
MISTER MIRACLE #13 THE DICTATOR'S DUNGEON!
SCOTT ONCE AGAIN PROVES THAT HE'S THE GREATEST ESCAPE ARTIST ON EARTH! DEATH ONCE AGAIN DEFIED! BUT WITH ANOTHER FEATHER IN SCOTT'S CAP COMES NEW STRANGENESS, AS BIZARRE MEN KIDNAP HIS PROMOTER TED BROWN, ALONG WITH SCOTT AND BARDA!
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MISTER MIRACLE #13 ENDS! THOUGH TRAPPED BY NAZI WAR CRIMINAL ALBERT VON KILLOWITZ, SCOTT FREE PROVES NO CAGE IS ENOUGH TO HOLD MISTER MIRACLE!
WHAT NOW LIES IN STORE FOR SCOTT AND HIS FRIENDS?!
THE FOREVER PEOPLE #9 - THE MONSTER IN THE MORGUE!
THE FOREVER PEOPLE, HAVING FOILED ANOTHER PLAN OF DARKSEID, ARE ONCE AGAIN FREE TO ROAM! HOWEVER, THEIR TRAVELS WILL BRING THEM TOGETHER WITH THE SUPERNATURAL! WITH THE GHOSTS OF THE DEPARTED!
A SPINE-CHILLING ENCOUNTER WITH THE DEADMAN.
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FOREVER PEOPLE #9! SHADES OF THE UNDEAD! NEW MEN FORGED FROM THE BODIES OF THE OLD! THE FOREVER PEOPLE FIND THEMSELVES IN THE MIDST OF BIZARRE ADVENTURE, WITH THE DEADMAN AS THEIR ALLY!
Thanks OP
Thanks for the storytime.
THE FOREVER PEOPLE #10 - THE SCAVENGERS!
THE OPEN HIGHWAY! ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY THAT ALLOWS MAN TO BREEZE ACROSS THE COUNTRY WITHOUT HARMING OUR EARTH MOTHER! AN ENGINE THAT COULD REVOLUTIONIZE THE WORLD! HOWEVER, THIS IS NOT TO BE! THE SCAVENGER HAS SET HIS SIGHTS ON IT AND NOTHING WILL KEEP HIM FROM PILFERING IT!
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FOREVER PEOPLE #10 ENDS! THE SCAVENGERS DESTROYED! BUT FOR BOSTON BRAND, THE DEADMAN, THERE IS NO VICTORY! HIS JOURNEY CONTINUES TO FIND THE MAN WHO KILLED HIM!
THE FOREVER PEOPLE #11 - DEVILANCE THE PURSUER!
THE FOREVER PEOPLE ONCE THOUGHT THEMSELVES FREE FROM THE SCHEMES OF DARKSEID! HOWEVER, THEY ARE WRONG, AS THE RELENTLESS DEVILANCE COMES FOR THEM!
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FOREVER PEOPLE #11 ENDS! AT LONG LAST, THE INFINITY MAN RETURNS TO THE FOREVER PEOPLE TO DEFEAT DEVILANCE THE PURSUER! BUT AT WHAT COST! THE MOMENTOUS EXPLOSION OF STRANGE AND AWESOME POWER SENDS THE FOREVER PEOPLE TO ANOTHER WORLD! BLIND DESTINY HAS DONE DARKSEID'S DIRTY WORK!
WILL THE FOREVER PEOPLE ESCAPE AND RETURN TO THE BATTLEFIELD OF EARTH? No, as this was the last FOREVER PEOPLE issue Jack Kirby did.
Is Jack Kirby's bad dude of the week really just a nigga on some skis?
There's nothing more fearsome than a black man who can ski
Thanks man.
Great reads, thanks Kirbyanon.
I don't suppose there's any chance I could get a list of issues to track down and read on my own?
Basically read until hunger dogs for New Gods, read until the war criminal story for Mr. Miracle, and that's basically it.
Wasn't Funky supposed to have some self-deprecation for Kirby himself in there?
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God DAMN, how many times can one man say "Manichean" in one essay?
And if he thinks Kirby is Manichean, all I can say is he must have never read Ditko.
I always thought that Funky was supposed to be Stan Lee.
Not a great essay, I hesitate to call it a review.
Not a word on Orion having two faces, or how that figures into the critic's Manichean theory.
There's also Captain Victory, he was suggested to be Orion's son, even though he was creator-owned.
Just report and email beyonder and link archives of the specific threads
Is there any comic about the New Gods after that last one which keeps the tone as well?
Walt Simonson's work on New Gods and Orion wasn't bad.