Friday, November 23, 2012

It's A SWEET Read


Anytime I get to read comics drawn by Jack Kirby I am instantly transported back to my childhood and the big leather chair that I spent many an hour lost in my beloved comic books. When I saw this volume in my local second-hand bookstore I felt like I was getting away with a crime.


For 15 dollars (and I would have paid twice that) I got 500 pages of story in glorious black and white - no color to distract you from the gorgeous art. The stories are all goofy and full of bizarre aliens and impossible situations, just the kind of craziness that perfectly suited Kirby's massive imagination. Jack Kirby had more talent in his little finger than anyone else who ever drew a comic book. There is a reason they call him THE KING.

 

5 comments:

Erik Johnson Illustrator said...

I didn't know they had enough issues of this series to make a whole collection like this. Kirby plus outrageous sci fi adventure comic sounds like the Golden Age of my childhood with Stan and Jack's run on Fantastic Four. I'm going to order this one immediately!

bliss_infinte said...

Whenever I loom at contemporary comics I realize how much the industry misses the King.

Hobgoblin238 said...

This volume is on my list too.

Kal said...

It makes me sick that Rob Leifeld even got to be in the same room as the King. Leifeld learned NOTHING being in the great man's prescence.

Drake said...

I loved Kirby on the Challs but can't stand his later work. His art just seemed to vomit all over the page.