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[rwp-review-recap id="0"] To continue this exploration through the Black Panther mythos, we are going to revisit the wonderfully wild Jack Kirby series from 1977 I actually covered this one some time back, and, while many of my opinions remain unchanged, some of my views have altered with time. Black Panther #7 (1977) cover by Jack Kirby and[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] To celebrate Black Panther coming out this week and T'Challa being so frigging awesome in general, I will be giving you Five Days of Black Panther to build up to the film's release. Each day, I will be covering a different era and creative team of Black Panther (today will be covering two, technically) starting[...]

We are days away from the release of Marvel's Black Panther. The character, like a large number of the heroes and villains in the Marvel Universe, was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby He made his debut in Fantastic Four #52 in July of 1966 The Black Panther is T'Challa, king and protector of the[...]

We get the books in and they seem to go right back out. Black Panther #1 (the Jack Kirby series) saw a rise, too, but has since started to cool down If you couldn't afford an FF #52, the BP #1 was a nice runner-up book; however, the Kirby series was from the '70s and there[...]

Can Squiggle save the day, or will everyone get turned into ice cream? HC • FC • $9.99 • 40 pages • 6" x 9" • ISBN: 978-1-60309-435-1   Jack Kirby's Marvel Heroes & Monsters Artist's Edition Jack Kirby (a & c) A collection of beautiful stories featuring some of Jack "King" Kirby's most iconic and enduring heroes: Captain America, the[...]

Coinciding with the launch of Peter Milligan and Colin Lorimer's new The Prisoner comic this year, Titan plans to publish The Prisoner: Original Art Edition, a hardcover collection which features never-before-published work by Jack Kirby, Gil Kane, and Steve Englehart, part of an attempt to launch a Prisoner comic at Marvel in the 1970s[...]

Those side effects will include some visual homages to what they refer as a "signature flourish" from legendary X-Men artist Jack Kirby Unless I miss my guess, that would be what most people refer to as "Kirby Krackle", the black energy signature he used around many characters. There are supposed to be a number of other[...]

A period comic showing historically accurate costuming is not the place for censorship." Here's the covers, paying tribute to Jack Kirby's cover to Captain America #1 One features regular coloring, while the second is altered to look like an old comic book and features a caption taunting the alt-right. Here's the censored versions that will appear in[...]

AMC released the first teaser for 'Visionaries: Robert Kirkman’s Secret History of Comics,' focusing on the important people and events from comics history.

Amigo Comics is reprinting Jack Kirby and Wally Wood comic strips from 1959-1960 with touched-up color and scrapbook images never released to the public. In addition, the first issue of the Call of the Suicide Forest, the sequel to their Suicide Forest graphic novel This miniseries, which is a supernatural tale about an American girl named Portia going to the notorious Japanese Suicide Forest[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Fighting American Cover C by Jack Kirby The Fighting American was a Captain America-esque comic that Joe Simon and Jack Kirby created in 1954 Well, I say that it's Captain America-esque, but, in reality, there were plenty of patriotic costumed heroes in that era However, this one was unique in that Simon and Kirby created[...]

Comics writer and blogger Mark Evanier celebrated Jack Kirby's centennial with Rand Hoppe and Tom Kraft, the curators at the Jack Kirby Museum at NYCC's 'Jack Kirby – King of Comics' panel this Sunday. Evanier, a former assistant to Kirby, wrote the coffee-table book Kirby: King of Comics and is currently working on an exhaustive biography[...]

Lots of folks have been talking about Jack Kirby for the last week because of his 100th birthday and the focus has been on his Marvel and DC work But that's not all of his legacy In the early 1980's Jack made a deal with Pacific Comics to publish a creator-owned series, Captain Victory and[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] To round out the month of Jack Kirby, we have Darkseid #1 to bring us tales from the shadows of Apokolips and give us insight into the head of its cruel overlord. The first story, by Mark Evanier, Scott Kollins, and Dave McCaig, tells of a trio of young revolutionaries who have been rebelling against[...]

Actress Evangeline Lily made some waves in the comics news realm by paying homage to Jack Kirby on what was his 100th birthday Of course, she's the actress who plays the Wasp in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and while we expect our comic book movie actors to have a thorough familiarity with the backgrounds of their[...]

He designed imaginative and unique characters that most people couldn't have even fathomed had he not helped create them. The Fantastic Four, the X-Men, the Avengers, the Incredible Hulk, Black Panther, the Silver Surfer, Doctor Doom, the Red Skull, the New Gods, the Challengers of the Unknown, Etrigan the Demon, OMAC, Kamandi, and so many more[...]

Jack Kirby, born on August 28th, 1917, would have been 100 years old on this day Kirby died in 1992, but to say that his memory lives on might be the understatement of the century Beyond the countless regular comic book series on release every week, characters and concepts that Kirby created or co-created are[...]

Today is the 100th birthday of Jack Kirby, I'd say arguably the greatest comic book creator of all time — though it might be hard to find someone to argue against that statement His long and prolific career had him working on every style of comic imaginable, but it was with superhero books that he[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] DC continues with their dive into Jack Kirby with a return of Manhunter Though he is oddly dressed like one of the Manhunters that preceded the Green Lantern Corps of Oa, this is actually the Manhunter known as Paul Kirk, another of Kirby's creations. This Manhunter is most known for the actions of his clone,[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Continuing their month of tribute comics to the one and only Jack Kirby, the late comics legend responsible for most of the Marvel Age characters and a lot of DC's Silver Age fair, they have brought to us Sandman #1. Sandman is a being who exists in the realm of dreams, and he protects the[...]

Mister Miracle #2 from DC Comics by Tom King and Mitch Gerads continues the team's powerful new story in a more straightforward manner.

One can only imagine the great architect of so much of what we love about Marvel, DC, and comics in general — Jack Kirby — would approve of the idea. The old stories are still there When it is time for the characters to be as you once knew them before, those stories will return, too[...]

Mister Miracle #1 is ambitious, unique, and draws you in. It has some surface-level flaws that drag it down, but it's worth your time to check it out.

That comic was Mister Miracle #1 by Tom King and Mitch Gerads. Mitch Gerads variant cover for Mister Miracle #1 King, rightly celebrated as a new master of the form, and also apparently at bringing me to tears that marvellous sonuvabitch (he's done it so far with Vision, The Omega Men and even Batman), teams up with[...]

Back in 2008, Kirby: King of Comics was released to much fanfare and it was warranted: featuring amazing presentation, old-school style paper stock, and all the Jack Kirby artwork your eyes could handle and presented in large format so you could enjoy all those Kirby dots for all-time Now, as we celebrate Kirby's centennial, Abrams[...]

This week sees the release of Mister Miracle #1, the return of the Jack Kirby character to his own series The book is being done by Tom King and Mitch Gerads and in an interview with DC All Access, King calls this the most ambitious thing he's ever tried to write They want to try[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] With the 100th Anniversary of the King himself, Jack Kirby, being this year, DC has decided, in addition to the Kamandi Project, to release one-shots of many of Kirby's creations at the company Among the first of these they released is, arguably, the most popular of the King's creations at DC, The New Gods. There[...]

Ta-Nehisi Coates once again proves that he was just about the perfect choice to take on Black Panther. Black Panther #16 easily earns its recommendation.

This year is Jack Kirby's 100th birthday, though he passed away in 1994, and the con seems intent on properly celebrating "The King's" centennial Literally one of the first panels of the show, Jack Kirby's Consciousness, Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light, Barry Ira Geller, and the Real Argo had Barry Ira Geller, former film producer, and Mike[...]

Mike Sangregorio writes for Bleeding Cool… Jack Kirby was a complicated man who led a complicated life and left a complicated legacy With this being the convention of his centennial there is no better time to discuss who inked his pencils the best. This may not seem like a complicated matter to be hotly debated in the[...]