The latest newsletter from Image contains a hearty endorsement of Joe Casey and Tom Scioloi’s brilliant Gødland comics from a certain Mr Grant Morrison:
“There have been any number of clever pastiches of Jack Kirby’s work over the last decade or so but Casey and Scioli go beyond mere nostalgic homage to completely overhaul the essentials of the Kirby Kosmik style.”
“Compared to the master, this reads like the difference between Frank Sinatra singing ‘My Way’ and the Sid Vicious cover version. This is Kirby strobing through the mall lights and VDU glare, Kirby sampled and duplicated in the dazzle of MTV and YouTube, overloaded, cranked beyond all tolerance, ripped, burned, détourned and reconfigured to create a cosmic soap opera populated by thoroughly-modern heroes…”
(cover to the upcoming GødlandCelestial Edition which will collect the first 12 issues, so if you have missed them now is your chance)
Which pretty much sums it up; I freely admit I have no idea what is going on with Gødland half the time and frankly it doesn’t matter because it is just a terrific cosmic ride that I’m more than happy to go along with; quantum-Kirby comics goodness.
Fri, Apr 27, 2007
Comics and cartoons