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[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[...]

Here was the first image he shared: You get the idea of what he's doing here, recreating the original Fantastic Four #1 cover by Jack Kirby with the Inhumans in there place… but using five figures instead of four And look at that detail work on the monster. First he added Black Bolt in place of the[...]

This year, San Diego Comic-Con is honoring the lives and careers of Jack Kirby and Will Eisner — legendary comics creators who were both born in 1917 Humble Bundle is joining in on the celebration with a new bundle featuring classic comics, epic collections, and fascinating history from Dark Horse Comics, Dynamite Entertainment, Image Comics, TwoMorrows[...]

A fan campaign has started to try and see comics legend Jack Kirby honoured on the centenary of his birth with a Google Doodle for the day, this August 28th. Jack Kirby was of course instrumental in the creation of numerous Marvel characters, including Captain America, the Fantastic Four, Hulk, Thor and the X-Men, who have[...]

As a result, Cap creators Jack Kirby and Joe Simon routinely received death threats from Hitler's followers According to the Kirby Museum: "On occasion the Timely office would get phone calls and letters from Nazi sympathizers threatening the creators of Captain America Once, while Jack was in the Timely office, a call came from someone in the[...]

Titan Comics are publishing a new Fighting American series in October, the character created by the late Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby in 1954 as a response to Timely/Atlas Comics (the precursor to Marvel) revamping Captain Americain a new series without them. So they decide to create another patriotically themed character, Fighting American[...]

 The July 1966 cover-dated comic (you can see this copy has an April 5, 1966 arrival date-stamp on the cover) contains the first appearance of the Black Panther by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, and Joe Sinnott. Fantastic Four #52 CGC 9.4 Data I'm going to elaborate on that a little and then take a look at how[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] With the trailer for Ryan Coogler's Black Panther movie having just come out and looking absolutely awesome, let us travel back in time and take a look at King T'Challa's first series way back from 1977, written and drawn by none other than the King of Comics himself, Jack Kirby. I won't lie, it's a[...]

DC Comics has just announced that they will be releasing six one-shots based on the characters created by Jack Kirby to be released weekly in August This is to go along with the King's 100th Birthday The characters involved are: Mister Miracle, The Black Racer, The Newsboy Legion, Darkseid, Orion, and Manhunter. Titles and creative teams have not[...]

Though inspired by Jack Kirby's original masterpiece, King knows that trying to compete with it would be like "trying to make Star Wars again, or like trying to rewrite the Iliad." But they have another approach that just might work. "You can take those grand cosmic space opera themes and internalize them and use them to[...]

In this case, he's lending both his name and his image to a new monthly subscription box from Box Boulevard, featuring four Marvel trade paperbacks with exclusive variants "personally curated" by Stan Lee, which also happen to coincide with the comics Marvel is promoting the most right now (Stan is a shrewd curator). Both old and new comics are[...]

Mark me down for that one. There's another Bloom County Collection coming Fall 2017. Lots of new Artist's Editions coming up, including Forever People and a new Fantastic Four volume by Jack Kirby and a new Thor edition by Walt Simonson. A 25th Anniversary Madman Collection by Mike Allred coming in October Described as a greatest hits collection,[...]

And Bleeding Cool has eyes and ears on the floor. Where Titan Comics has just announced they are to publish new comics featuring Joe Simon and Jack Kirby's Fighting American, the creator-owned character they created to show the then-publishers of Captain America comics how it should be done… And they had plenty more to show off too[...]

Dunbier said it would be out in June, and he showed us the regular and the variant cover. Dunbier covered the previously announced, 15" X 22", Jack Kirby's Fantastic Four Artist's Edition, due in July There were then two new announcements First was an Artist's Edition for P Craig Russell, titled Strange Dreams, covering the Killraven[...]

But it doesn't stop there, for celebrating the 100th birthday year of the late Jack Kirby Here are some more books that DC are publishing for close to his birthday. Jack Kirby's Mister Miracle (New Edition) 26 September $29.99 300 pages Spinning off of THE FOURTH WORLD comes JACK KIRBY'S MISTER MIRACLE! As part of the NEW GODS saga,[...]

The Invisibles Omnibus from DC Comics collected 55 issues of the series. Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus is out for 12th December for a mere $150, collects 57 issues. Here's the solicit. After co-creating comic book heroes such as THE FANTASTIC FOUR and THE HULK, legendary writer/artist Jack Kirby came to DC Comics in 1970 to write and[...]

Following hidden clues inside the original artwork of mysterious comics legend Jack Kirby, which led Langdon on a worldwide hunt that eventually led him to the proper reading order for four Marvel characters, including Captain America (both the Nazi one and the one who's not a Nazi), Deadpool, and Black Widow Langdon plans to continue unraveling[...]

But he could also have been taken over by aliens, possessed by the spirit of Jack Kirby or lost a bet with Chris Evans on the Super Bowl. Whatever it is, the whole thing took time and planning… and he could be almost certain going in that he wasn't going to be wearing the same thing[...]

 It looks a little familiar, doesn't it? The pose, the position of the legs and feet… even the shape of the helmet and boots, all look very similar to the now-famous Iron Man cover from his first appearance in Tales of Suspense #39, over a century after Jeremiah Oldpot donned his own armor in Yankee Notions[...]

For fans of Comic Book Girl 19, her familiar sidekicks of Robot and Space Brain are part of the show. The series kicks off with an episode about comic legend Jack Kirby The 15-minute episodes are available only on Go90 app. But… I was able to sweet talk them into exclusively given us the first 4 minutes of[...]