i like how in morrison's jla: classified arc (which i never got issue three of, ach) batman having boom tube technology kinda indirectly invokes the silver age / cancels out Dark Batman idea - not sure that the particular reference does more than "sci fi closet", though
― tom west (thomp), Sunday, 24 April 2005 23:16 (nineteen years ago) link
Didn't that one Kirby-centric Jonathan Lethem comics essay talk about Fourth World?
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 25 April 2005 01:47 (nineteen years ago) link
Do you mean a new one? 'Cause the Great Darkness Saga came out like 25 years ago.
― The Yellow Kid, Monday, 25 April 2005 07:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Monday, 25 April 2005 08:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 25 April 2005 09:22 (nineteen years ago) link
I'd read it again right now to see if it's as good as my memory says if I had any idea where it is...
― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 25 April 2005 12:06 (nineteen years ago) link
It was called the Fourth World, because it was supposedly the result of the destruction of the Third World, which had been ruled by the Old Gods (what about the First and Second, who knows?), whose war ended in a Ragnarokian stalemate and they all became the Source Wall.
― Huk-L, Monday, 25 April 2005 14:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― David A Simpson, Monday, 25 April 2005 14:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huk-L, Monday, 25 April 2005 15:07 (nineteen years ago) link
So I did. My mistake.
But now that I think about it, wasn't there some new version of The Great Darkness Saga in LSH like a year ago? I thought I heard about that.
― The Yellow Kid, Monday, 25 April 2005 21:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huk-L, Tuesday, 26 April 2005 13:44 (nineteen years ago) link
it's fantastic! i adore it!
"I HAVE HEARD THE WORD, AND IT IS BATTLE!"
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 00:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 01:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 05:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― i0dine, Wednesday, 1 February 2006 11:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 13:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 17:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 18:34 (eighteen years ago) link
Yah, argh. Buying up all the Kirby back issues was going to be one of my projects last summer but I temporarily abandoned it. I guess if you don't mind Baxter paper, you could buy the deluxe reissues DC released in the '80s for cheap.
― Chris F. (servoret), Thursday, 2 February 2006 05:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 February 2006 06:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 2 February 2006 06:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 2 February 2006 14:35 (eighteen years ago) link
V1 is better than V2, but only just by a little.
― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Thursday, 2 February 2006 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 6 October 2006 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 7 October 2006 11:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― occasional mongrel (kit brash), Saturday, 7 October 2006 13:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Saturday, 7 October 2006 14:19 (seventeen years ago) link
man, why is Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus Vol. 2 impossible to find? like a mark I picked up Vols 3 and 4 on sale somewhere, but now i need to pick up the first two....
― Nhex, Saturday, 11 July 2015 20:25 (eight years ago) link
Do what I did: monitor that shit daily on Amazon until you see a price you can live with paying.
I'm generally tired of these series of collections where a single volume goes out of print and skyrockets out of anything resembling a reasonable price range.
― Something Called Fudge (Old Lunch), Sunday, 12 July 2015 04:21 (eight years ago) link