You see, Kirby wanted to keep all of this away from DC’s main continuity, publishing all of the stories together in larger volumes similar to the way artists like Moebius and Jean-Claude Mezieres were doing it in Europe. These stories started rolling out around 1970 and Kirby worked on them up until around 1975, when Kirby left his creation to be controlled by other writers, choosing to jump away from DC and head back to Marvel.īecause he and DC never really truly saw eye-to-eye, creatively, on what he had created. This was the story of the old gods, who all died out during their version of Ragnarok, leaving a godhood power vacuum throughout the universe so that the New Gods of New Genesis and the evil gods of Apokolips, including the evil despot known as Darkseid. Geek Girl Authority Crush of the Week: SERSIĪt DC, Kirby created what is known today as The Fourth World Saga, including such titles as New Gods, The Forever People and Mister Miracle. Home run after home run after home run, you’d think Marvel would do everything they could to keep Kirby happy however, after spending most of the Silver Age of comics at Marvel, Kirby left in 1970, having struck a pretty sweet deal with DC Comics, a deal that would see him as sole creator, writer, penciler and editor of his own properties. However, his true rise to prominence in pop culture came in 1961 when he co-created The Fantastic Four with Stan Lee, and then Thor, Hulk, Iron Man, The Avengers, and The X-Men. His best known creation - at that time - was Captain America, who he co-created with Joe Simon in 1941. Jack “The King” Kirby started in comics when he was very young. Buckle up and allow me to take you a brief, guided tour through yet another creation of Jack Kirby! The Eternals? Are they the Elders of the Universe or are they related to the X-Men or the Guardians of the Galaxy or the Avengers or even the Inhumans? Well welcome to 2020 and the property known as The Eternals, my myriad and merry Marvelites! It's a meaningless sacrifice meant to simply show how evil the bad guy is, and is made doubly ironic by happening in front of Natasha Romanoff, who would later sacrifice herself in a more impactful way.Remember in 2014 when the weirdest, most out there, most obscure film Marvel had put out was the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy?Everyone was like, “Wait - the tree is sentient and walking and the raccoon can talk? And they are in space - far away from Captain America and Iron Man…?”
Another similar, slightly disrespectful moment took place in this year's "Black Widow" solo movie, where enemy Widow agent Ingrid is forced to commit suicide by evil mind controller Dreykov via blasting herself in the head with a Widow Bite.
walk it off." While the moment is heroic and poignant, it is also more than a little cynical in its attempt to kill off a character for shock value. There was even a scene earlier on where Steve Rogers says (over a shot of Quicksilver), "You get hurt, hurt 'em back. He subverts this by having Quicksilver speed in front of Ultron's hail of bullets, saving Hawkeye and a small innocent child. But Marvel has occasionally gone into more flippant use of the self-sacrifice trope, as in 2015's "Avengers: Age of Ultron." Joss Whedon deliberately set up Hawkeye as the movie's version of the doomed "Dead Meat" character from "Hot Shots!" As a screenwriter Whedon played up all the typical Red Shirt clichés of Clint going on "one last mission," saying a long goodbye to his wife, and playing up how vulnerable and de-powered he is compared to everyone else.
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