seven soldiers: mister miracle #1
mister miracle #6
“In 1971, virtuoso cartoonist Jack Kirby took note of the growing power of fundamentalist religion in the U.S., and satirized it in an issue of ‘Forever People.’ Kirby was one of the 1st to notice elements of fascism in the mega-media religion which emerged in the late 1960’s.”
~Flickr user flapdoodle64, writing in 2009
DARKSEID DESTROYER: FLYING FLAGSHIP OF THE ULTIMATE EVIL
1. 80s dc toys were mental
2. why is darkseid wearing a medallion with his initial on it… i guess i can understand why grant morrison moved on to the omega symbol
Mister Miracle Vol. 1 #9
into the boom tube
“Comics are full of despots and Hitler metaphors, but few are as seductive as Glorious Godfrey. He’s depicted as attractive and charismatic. He plays his audience perfectly. He sells people their own death. With polls showing a decrease in the percentage of people who say it is “essential” to live in a democracy, reading Jack Kirby is an emotional gut check. For those of us already sounding the alarm on Trump’s existential threat to democracy, understanding Glorious Godfrey’s emotional appeal is instructive.”
-Elana Levin, from her brilliant Daily Beast essay on the impending Trump era, Glorious Godfrey and Jack Kirby’s Fourth World (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/12/17/how-jack-kirby-and-dc-comics-predicted-trump-with-a-bloviating-demagogue-in-1971.html). Image by the incomparable Jack Kirby. h/t Spencer Ackerman.
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