Some strong material in volume 2, including Glory Boat which is many readers' pick as Kirby's best. Volume 2 also includes a story that may be Kirby's weirdest. A superhero wannabe who looks just like Don Rickles meets the real Don Rickles. Mark Evanier tries to explain the story in the introduct...
The editors at DC Comics made an odd choice by mixing the four Fourth World titles together in these four volumes rather than publishing one volume each of New Gods, Mister Miracle, Forever People, and Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen. They probably assumed Jimmy Olsen would not sell half as well on its ...
A ridiculous hodgepodge of third-tier 1970's Marvel characters who have no real right to be together... so silly that it works.
The first issue contained herein involves an amusement park that's used as a prison and torture complex. Frightening.Seriously, this whole thing is nuts, absolutely nuts. And incredibly absorbing. I actually finagled my way into writing a literary criticism of the Fourth World for school, so I'm exc...
I am going to have to seriously marshal my thoughts before I can really review this well, because, frankly, it's a mad intense mindfuck of wonderment. That one of the most grand, ridiculous, beautiful, and heroic sagas of modern mythology would start in an issue of "Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen" is mi...
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