http://www.fascinationplace.org/2007/10/22/this-weeks-haul-53/ Michael Rawdon's webjournal Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:34:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.fascinationplace.org/2007/10/22/this-weeks-haul-53/comment-page-1/#comment-52992 Fascination Place » This Week’s Haul Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:49:41 +0000 http://www.fascinationplace.org/2007/10/22/this-weeks-haul-53/#comment-52992 [...] the book being grounded in Jack Kirby’s Fourth World characters doesn’t, since as I’ve said before I’ve never found them interesting, and this story has all the hallmarks of yet another scheme [...] [...] the book being grounded in Jack Kirby’s Fourth World characters doesn’t, since as I’ve said before I’ve never found them interesting, and this story has all the hallmarks of yet another scheme [...]

]]> http://www.fascinationplace.org/2007/10/22/this-weeks-haul-53/comment-page-1/#comment-13973 Shamus Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:41:53 +0000 http://www.fascinationplace.org/2007/10/22/this-weeks-haul-53/#comment-13973 The first comic books I can remember reading were issues of the New Gods in the 1970s. I would have been about 7 years old. They blew my mind at that age. Years later I went back to them via the Kirby Omnibus and even after all I've been through in my life they still hold a great fascination. Reading these Fourth World stories as a piece I find that they are so rich with ideas that were never followed through by other creators. Later interpretations of the Fourth World characters have always failed in my mind, not because of any fault of Jack's creations, but because of lack of understanding and or ability by later writers to really grasp what Jack was doing with the source material. The first comic books I can remember reading were issues of the New Gods in the 1970s. I would have been about 7 years old. They blew my mind at that age. Years later I went back to them via the Kirby Omnibus and even after all I’ve been through in my life they still hold a great fascination. Reading these Fourth World stories as a piece I find that they are so rich with ideas that were never followed through by other creators. Later interpretations of the Fourth World characters have always failed in my mind, not because of any fault of Jack’s creations, but because of lack of understanding and or ability by later writers to really grasp what Jack was doing with the source material.

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