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Such a low-key introduction for the most important figure in Jack’s Fourth World mythos, the Master of the Holocaust, leader of Apokolips, the Revelation and all-round Tiger-Force of All Things… ladies and gentlemen, I give you: DARKSEID!
I actually think of Doctor Doom — Jack’s other great villain — as the true figure of Ultimate Evil in comic books. But Darkseid sets the standard for all universe-threatening cosmic villainy. He can be a whole galaxy away and still pose as much of threat as if he were there in the room; now THERE’S a bad guy…
Jon,
Sorry about the length of this post, but…
Darkseid is a rational villain. Kirby may have based Darkseid on the notion:
As seen in Kirby’s great work “Street Code,” Kirby felt that violence was part of man’s basic instinct, that it required a conscious, contemplative effort to recognize, and hold the animal impulse in check.
Kirby described his own inner battle in “Street Code,” and spoke about man’s and his own potential for violence in TJKC #52:
In Forever People #3, on page 21 (hate to say but beautifully inked by Vince Colletta), Darkseid says:
These words echo Kirby’s view of human (and alien) nature. That it is in man’s instinctual programing to mark his territory, to protect it, and if possible to expand his domination.
Kirby wrote of the “road-map” to our galactic doorstep included on the Pioneer Plaque:
Kirby compared Darkseid and Doctor Doom in issue #47 of Amazing Heroes, May 1984.
By contrast, Doctor Doom is a neurotic little man. Kirby describes him as:
Kirby’s most ominous villain might be Darius Drumm, who combines a power greater than Darkseid’s with the irrational madness of Doom.
Bravo, Patrick. MUCH appreciated, your commentary and research regardless of length. You and all those kind enough to reply are making this blog exactly how I intended and I cannot thank you guys enough.
You took the words out of my mouth regarding the Latverian monarch — petty, vain and paranoid, no personality defects of Darkseid. I never shined to Victor myself; too broad and arch, though Wallace Wood’s version was extraordinary.
I’m going to confess that I never read Silver Star. That shortcoming will be rectified. Now that I’m back full-time in Kirbyland — and I will be writing for John Morrow again, slowly but assuredly getting back into the game — so I have a lot a acquainting and reacquainting to do!
Before, when I first started out with the Kirby Collector, I approached the subject of Jack Kirby with a passionate fervor and intense loyalty, partially from still being upset at his passing, partially because I was still angry about the “Get Jack His Art Back” fight. I knew the work was deep, resonant, rewarding, but I felt I had time to study it later. At that time I felt it was time for reporting.
Now, for what it is worth, it is beginning to feel immensely rewarding to give his text (so to speak) a deeper, more measured consideration. Piece by piece.
I haven’t lost my love for the man or his work, but the enormity of it is just starting to reveal itself to me. Not the many, many thousands of pages and stories so much as the IDEAS.
I am firmly convinced, long after we’re dead and buried, Jack’s work, his artistry, will endure and resonate and instill passion and loyalty in generations to come. Marvel and DC will elicit nothing; Kirby will be recognized and appreciated.
Kirby will have his due.
I think Dr. Stephen Hawking would agree with Jack about sending messages to extraterrestrials. He’s been quoted as saying very similar things about contacts between civilizations in our own history.
J.A. is correct; great minds think alike.