Daily Archives: May 3, 2007

-Link- DC previews FOURTH WORLD v1

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jkomni.jpgComics Continuum has several images from JACK KIRBY’S FOURTH WORLD OMNIBUS v1, the cover and first four pages of NEW GODS #1 and the Grant Morrison introduction.

The book is scheduled for the end of this month. You can look for it at your local comic shop (order code JAN070303), or you can order it online from Amazon or Tales of Wonder.

-Link- Larsen talks SILVER STAR

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SS06_01.jpgNewsarama has an interview with Image publisher Erik Larsen about the upcoming SILVER STAR reprint. Erik’s passed along a few additional images of the colouring for #5 and #6, which I’ll be running here over the next few days.

The book is scheduled for July. You can order SILVER STAR from your local comic shop now, using order code MAY071842, or you can order it online from Amazon or Tales of Wonder.

-Link- Sinnott bio preview

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JoeSinnott.jpgThere’s a massive 30-page PDF preview of Tim Lasiuta’s upcoming book Brush Strokes With Greatness: The Life & Art of Joe Sinnott over on the TwoMorrows site. Some gorgeous looking stuff, with a lot of his 1950s solo work, plus of course a lot on his work with Jack Kirby (including some comments on recently inking the “lost FF” issue). The book should be out later this month.

The book can be ordered at the above link, your local comic shop (order code MAR073744) or from Amazon or Tales of Wonder.

Where Creatures Roam #5 [1971]

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I swear, Marvel’s reprint department in the 1970s, sometimes I just don’t know about them…

This issue reprints “Gorgilla Strikes Again” from TALES TO ASTONISH #18 [1961], the Kirby/Ayers sequel to the original Gorgilla story that had been then-recently reprinted in MONSTERS ON THE PROWL #9 [1971] (not “Where Monsters Prowl”, as the note on the splash page says). The story is pretty good, although not as good as the original Gorgilla story, where he got to fight dinosaurs. In this one, Gorgilla feels a kinship with the humans who had recently discovered him. For some reason this kinship doesn’t extend to the people in the port city he sneaks into, or even the people on the boat he hides out in. No, Gorgilla is holding out for his true family, the people of New York City.

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On arriving in the city, like most tourists, Gorgilla is feared and hunted, but he remains oblivious to that, and takes in a Yankees game. Meanwhile, some communists decide to take advantage of the confusion and stage an elaborate attack on a visiting foreign leader. Fortunately, Gorgilla stumbles across their plan, and this somehow leads to him chasing the spy up the Statue of Liberty, where a blast from a bazooka downs him. Yeah, I’m not clear on all of it myself. It does look great though. Gorgilla at a baseball game? Beautiful.

One page is edited out somewhere, I’m sure the one that makes the whole thing logical, making this a 12-page story now.

The cover is where it really gets confusing. Originally, the cover to TtA #18 featured art from the splash page of the story. I guess that didn’t feel right in 1971, so of course they commissioned a new cover, right? Nope. They grabbed the Kirby/Ayers cover to TALES TO ASTONISH #24 [1961], featuring the Abominable Snowman. Who doesn’t look that much like Gorgilla, and the scene doesn’t make much sense for this story. And they re-letter a few bits. And to compound the confusion, even though Gorgilla is brown, and the Abominable Snowman is brown, on this cover they re-colour the character white. Someone actually sat down and made these decisions…

Published 1971