You know you’re reading a Jack Kirby
comic when action scenes take up 2 whole pages and in the lower left corner is
half a guy’s face in some sort of grimace looking right at the reader.
This volume is a collection of Jack
Kirby’s first 6 issues of Captain America since he returned to Marvel from DC
Comics. Those of you who remember Kirby’s New Gods Series from the 70’s, you
know it was not a great time for him at DC and that his creative spark was
fading out.
His return to Marvel is almost as
disappointing. His dialogue was way out of touch with his readers. The kids
talked like adults and the adults talked a sort of Jive-Turkey gobbledy-gook.
To seeing Captain America to use the words dude and what up in the same
sentence is way out of touch with what an authority figure would say in the
1970’s circa 1976. And the way his black superhero The Falcon talked to his
girl-friend are almost verbatim what pimps would say to their Ho’s is any of
the movies from the Shaft Trilogy.
Perhaps Kirby’s best story is a
two-part story in which an energy being from the future inhabits a corpse and
rampages New York. The villain looked ultra-creepy and the early examination of
Capt’s involvement with a Nick Fury-less SHIELD is refreshing.
Bottom-line check it out at your public library, not really worth the money, unless you are a Kirby collector and want an extensive collection of his works.
Bottom-line check it out at your public library, not really worth the money, unless you are a Kirby collector and want an extensive collection of his works.
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