• Abstract and Figures
• Public Full-text

FREE JACK KIRBY OMNIBUS: VOLUME 2 PDF Jack Kirby | 624 pages | 14 May 2013 | DC Comics | 9781401238339 | English | New York, United States The Copacetic Comics Company | The Jack Kirby Omnibus, Volume Two by History does strange things to our perceptions. Back in the day we once saw things as being great, or as vitally important, or as woefully out of step with their times. Later we shook our head and wondered in what bizarre parallel universe we saw things that way. I started reading comics during my childhood in the s. Many of my friends read comics then too. It was a normal thing for kids to do we also played baseball and tried to stay up to watch Saturday Night Live and wore bellbottoms and so as we wandered around town on our Schwinns we endlessly debated the merits of certain comic book creators. Mike Grell? Super slick on the Legion. Steve Gerber? We loved his weird existential work that seemed like something we were too young to be allowed to read. Roy Thomas? We hated his obsession with continuity. Dave Cockrum? We wanted him to draw X-Men forever. And while we all pretty much agreed on all the items I just mentioned, there was always a dissenter or two, someone who seemed to see things a Jack Kirby Omnibus: Volume 2 way from the consensus. None of this stuff is especially good or even especially interesting on its own terms. That, of course, makes this material fascinating Jack Kirby Omnibus: Volume 2 discuss. Reading Kirby Omnibus II is kind of like reading a biography of a great athlete that focuses on his mediocre life after leaving the playing field rather than his amazing play on the field. Though with all those caveats applied, the first or so pages of this book are kind of awesomely wacky. They reprint horror tales that Kirby and Joe Simon created for their s frightfest Black Magicjustified in their inclusion here because they were reprinted in a revival of that title at DC. These stories are shocking for all kinds of reasons; first and foremost because the art style presented here is so different from Kirby elsewhere. There are few heroes in any of these Black Magic shorts; instead, powers kill and scar, while nightmares are always just below the surface. If so, during this era Kirby was always looking for happiness only to find monsters behind every door literally, in the case of one of these stories. That sense of angst can be seen in other reprints in this volume as well. This is especially apparent in the Jack Kirby Omnibus: Volume 2 of pilot episodes that Kirby created but which never were picked up for ongoing series. The material here is intriguing but surreal, with a dreamlike beginning involving grotesque heads and small implications of a larger world around these characters. The ideas in this story are as old as storytelling — how many legends involve the passing of a baton from one hero to the next? This idea represents a clever idea since Kirby was reviving one of his iconic s characters in the s. The same is true of another First Issue Special reprint. Here, too, Kirby creates implications of a complete world but readers are being told what to look for rather than shown what to think. There are some gorgeous scenes involving flames without heat that look beautiful, but the nothing here grips the reader in the way that other Kirby work from that period does. He just lacks the spark of greatness here. Kirby seemed more excited about a third potential series. There then come two utterly generic Kirby stories that are interesting for their obscurity. Kirby was all about power and energy, with blocky heroes fighting in ways that could only make sense on the comics page. Kung Fu comics, however, needed to be precise. The result is a comic that makes little sense but has some raw power. The s were weird. But even wackier is Kobra 1, which is half drawn by Kirby and half drawn by Pablo Marcos. That means that issue 1 of a new series was essentially created as a fill-in issue that had two separate but related stories. But Jack Kirby Omnibus: Volume 2 bifurcated nature of the presentation causes the whole thing to fall apart and make the whole thing into nothing more than a curiosity. The comics in these seven issues are both great and terrible. Jed is a Jack Kirby Omnibus: Volume 2 strange kid, living in a lighthouse or on a farm and who suffers the death of everyone close to him and the tortures of his wicked Jack Kirby Omnibus: Volume 2. One issue is actually inked by the great Wally Wood who knew? If some stories are over-the-top silly a Santa Claus tale wraps this section of the book — and yeesh, does Kirby draw Santa badlythey at least have a moral center to them. The final three hundred or so pages of Kirby Omnibus 2 are mainly devoted to the long-forgotten quarter bin fodder Super Powers mini-series from and Jack Kirby Omnibus: Volume 2 comics were Jack Kirby Omnibus: Volume 2 to promote a Jack Kirby Omnibus: Volume 2 line of action figures and associated. Kirby just plots the first series, with one issue drawn by him, and the result is desultory. Adrian Gonzales draws in a bargain-basement Kirby pastiche that simply annoys during his four issues. Some of the classic Kirby magic is there, especially in the second volume of Super Powers. In that run, the stories are filled with Kirby grandiosity and cosmic machines. Unfortunately many of those scenes are followed by poorly rendered scenes that kill momentum. Still, the spark of the old Kirby makes these a small delight. The second Super Powers mini, too, is packed with scenes of Darkseid scheming in all his Kirbyesque toothly glory, and we get to see the King draw Red Tornado and Hawkman if that excites you. Jack, you were never a hack. Home Classic Comics. Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus, Vol. 2 by Jack Kirby Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. The Jack Kirby Omnibus, Vol. John Morrow Introduction. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. More Details Original Title. Jack Kirby's Fourth World 5. KaufmanDr. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Jun 21, Rich Meyer rated it it was amazing Jack Kirby Omnibus: Volume 2 read-in Now THIS is how an omnibus should be done! Great reproduction, great color and great artwork by the King himself, Jack Kirby! This edition covers Jack's work at DC Comics after he had created his Fourth World opus, and after he had returned to Marvel Comics, gone into animation, and become a free agent, as it were. The selections here are a strange cross-section of DC Comics in the seventies and eighties. Black Magic reprints some old Kirby tales from the fifties, including some of his Dream Detective stories. Following that up was Kirby's revival of the Sandman, this time as a character who could control dreams, an issue of Kung Fu Fighter, the first issue of Kobra, some First Issue Specials including the revival of ManhunterSuperman meeting the Challengers, and the first two Super Powers toy tie-in series. My one qualm with the book is the addition Jack Kirby Omnibus: Volume 2 all the Super Powers issues; Jack did plot the series, but only wrote and drew the final issue. The first four had some truly atrocious art which had the saving grace of some Alan Kupperberg inking on a few issuesand had little to do with Jack; it comes off as four issues of filler in an otherwise excellent volume. Having Kirby do the entirety of the the second series more Jack Kirby Omnibus: Volume 2 makes up for it, since we get Jack's take on Doctor Fate, Red Tornado, Martian Manhunter and even the modern-look Green Arrow. Speaking of GA, I've read a lot of complaining reviews on the first Kirby Omnibus, Jack Kirby Omnibus: Volume 2 it had Green Arrow on the cover and wasn't completely Green Arrow all the way through; apparently no one bothers to look to see exactly how much of the feature Kirby actually did - it was only about nine or ten eight-page stories. If the rest of that book is anything like this, I'm definitely grabbing it as soon as I find an affordable copy. May Jack Kirby Omnibus: Volume 2, David rated it it was amazing Shelves: comic-booksomnibus. Perhaps not the best Jack Kirby Omnibus: Volume 2 of Kirby but there's some great material here. I've always loved his 70s Sandman reboot, but that complete run is not printed here. A good deal of the stories are Kirby as author only but not the penciler. Still the second Super Powers mini-series is worth it alone the price of admission. I think this volume must be the final collection. Don't think there's any left to collect of the DC stuff. It's a nice set of books Perhaps not the best collection of Kirby but there's some great material here.

Load more

  6

Copy Link