Really impressed by how that Adam Starr / Solar Legion stuff is looking, Tom! What a cool idea! A whole new way to represent older comics to a new audience. Smart.
Always a joy to hear Tom talk about Kirby -- I feel like this should be a regular feature, maybe a once a week thing. I recently read over all of Kirby's work from the late 1930s and early 1940s in sequence and it is interesting to see him as a fledgling artist wearing his Raymond/Foster influences but also finding his own voice. Thematically, a lot of his life-long interests were there from the start -- thus in the very early "Diary of Dr. Hayward" we see the mind-swap (shades of This Man, This Monster), the disfigured mad scientist (shades of Dr. Doom). Elsewhere we see inter-dimentional travel, weird aliens, Merlin as emblem of magic that approaches science, Atlantis & lost civilizations, the return of the old gods like Thor & Mercury to the modern world and many other Kirby themes, but done by an artist who hadn't yet discovered the Kirby storytelling style. But even early on there are some of his signature visual touches like the close-up of the eyes. I agree that the team-up with Simon pushed him up a level -- what we see the two doing together is the athletic, leaping off the page style. But in terms of getting there storytelling together, I think it was actually about a year after Captain America #1, in the stories of the Newsboy Legion & Boy Commandos, that the real Kirby storytelling gelled.
Really impressed by how that Adam Starr / Solar Legion stuff is looking, Tom! What a cool idea! A whole new way to represent older comics to a new audience. Smart.
Fantastic episode. I love when Tom costars and look forward to the release of his Solar Legion released thanks!
I can't wait to pick up that solar legion stuff from tom! Really exciting!
Tom’s new project looks incredible.
Always a joy to hear Tom talk about Kirby -- I feel like this should be a regular feature, maybe a once a week thing. I recently read over all of Kirby's work from the late 1930s and early 1940s in sequence and it is interesting to see him as a fledgling artist wearing his Raymond/Foster influences but also finding his own voice. Thematically, a lot of his life-long interests were there from the start -- thus in the very early "Diary of Dr. Hayward" we see the mind-swap (shades of This Man, This Monster), the disfigured mad scientist (shades of Dr. Doom). Elsewhere we see inter-dimentional travel, weird aliens, Merlin as emblem of magic that approaches science, Atlantis & lost civilizations, the return of the old gods like Thor & Mercury to the modern world and many other Kirby themes, but done by an artist who hadn't yet discovered the Kirby storytelling style. But even early on there are some of his signature visual touches like the close-up of the eyes. I agree that the team-up with Simon pushed him up a level -- what we see the two doing together is the athletic, leaping off the page style. But in terms of getting there storytelling together, I think it was actually about a year after Captain America #1, in the stories of the Newsboy Legion & Boy Commandos, that the real Kirby storytelling gelled.
Also, Tom's Solar Legion project looks great. Looking forward to seeing it.
Yes look forward to Tom’s comic. Please remind us when it comes out especially since some stores might not get it in
The paper and ink color on that reminds me of "A contract with God".
That Solar Legion remix looks beautiful, Tom
King Kirby and Prince Piskor. Long live the legends
Great Tom.
18:18 that's a ferengi if I ever saw one
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