Sun 10 Jun 2007
-Link- Kirby documentary reviewed
Posted by Bob under Links
The new FANTASTIC FOUR DVD with an extended version of the 2005 movie is out, and includes the one hour documentary JACK KIRBY: STORYTELLER. Gary Sassaman has a review of the documentary:
All in all, “Jack Kirby: Storyteller” is probably the best comic book documentary I’ve ever seen. Like Kirby’s drawing style, it starts at the upper left corner and fills the page with an incredible vision of who the man–as an artist, husband, father, and comic book god–was.
June 16th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
It was long and boring and full of people who gave mostly boring over the top interviews. I’m sure Jack Kirby deserves a better film documentry then this.
July 4th, 2007 at 6:26 pm
I’m rather surprised that Fox has even acknowledged the Fantastic Four’s comic book origins on this DVD set. The mind set at the studio was always to do DVDs and just cover the movie’s production with little information on the comic book stories other then Stan Lee giving the interviews here and there.
While the two disk set covers the movie’s production quite well, the comic book features just do not cut the mustard.