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I hate to say this, but I never liked this second version of The Guardian. He seemed to have no personality whatsoever–one of the most unrealistic, one-dimensional characters Jack ever wrote. Even his debut line, “Let me out! I sense trouble!” seems exceptionally inappropriate for a man who has basically just been born in a test tube! It reminds me of the “Captain American” dialogue in Joe Simon’s SICK Magazine parody story, “The New Age of Comics”: “Huh? Wha-a? Where’s the action? Lemme at ’em — I’ll kill ’em all!” I think this was one of those rare occasions where Jack dealt fairly insensitively with one of his characters, treating him as a cardboard cutout rather than as a real flesh-and-blood person. And even the helmet re-design is inferior to the original Simon & Kirby version. This may be “The Golden Guardian” of the modern age, but it’s definitely not the real S&K Guardian of the Golden Age!
Well, you say tomatoh, I say tamatah! I know it’s what I bring to the character which makes me like ’im so much and that includes sentimental fondness for Jack’s Jimmy O run… Me, I hated the Golden-Age jockey-like helmet; love the (ever-evolving) upper-face covering version. I guess I saw him as an empty vessel, a stranger in a strange land kinda dude, and I can only pine for that “strange brain activity” storyline that never materialized. And that blamed color scheme… Yow! Different strokes…
Someone should ask S&K blogger Harry Mendryk what he thinks of Jack’s revival of the Newsboy Legion and the Guardian. It would be interesting to get his take on it. Come to think of it, someone should ask Joe Simon what he thought of it (if he read it, that is). But I agree with you: diff’rent strokes for diff’rent folks. Not even Kirby fans can always be in total concord on everything.
SOMEbody should… John! Hint-hint!
Hopefully interviewing Joe soon and I’ll do my best to remember to ask. I personally doubt he read the title, but cha never know!
LOL. Okay, I’ll keep monitoring H.M.’s fine Simon & Kirby blog, and the next time he does a posting on the Newsboys, I’ll ask him what he thought of Jack’s ’70s incarnation of the team and their musclebound mentor!
Jon,
Maybe it’s that “unidentifiable activity in the brain area” which explains the Guardian’s kind of blank slate persona.
The Guardian himself admits something is not quite right, seems in a bit of a fog.
The memories he was grown with he doesn’t see as his own; they belong to the “original Guardian.”
It would have been interesting if Kirby had time to continue on with the Guardian, and the Legion, but their connection was with the Jimmy Olsen book.
The publishing history of the Fourth World books is a little strange.
New Gods, Forever People, and Mister Miracle started off as bi-monthly books with Olsen the only monthly. The Olsen book as a result was carrying a lot of freight in terms of linking events.
Kirby was first asked to create Kamandi and The Demon to fill the open slot in his schedule when he left Olsen. Oddly enough, New Gods and Forever People had increased publishing frequency to a near-monthly basis with four issues of each title being published over the last six months each.
Speaking of potential spin-offs, I’ll never forget the day I received in the mail an announcement from TwoMorrows about the newly-discovered Infinity Man unpublished comic book. Dude, it was early April but I SO wanted to believe it, I was so elated that I fell for John Morrow’s April Fool’s joke, hook, line and you know what… Damn that jokester!!!!
Technically, Jack’s Jimmy Olsen started off as an eight-times-a-year title, but by #142, it did indeed go monthly (with a planned reprint special, I assume, in August, making it a 13-times-a-year comic). I’m sorry, it’s my OCD kicking in…
Jon,
I remember that hoax well.
Earlier I mentioned an old issue of Graphic Story World which printed Kirby’s unused cover intended for Jimmy Olsen #133. That same issue had this bit of news:
“There is talk of reviving The New Gods as Orion. The climax of The New Gods (#11) is said to be one of the most powerful issues in the series.”
I can see it now; Infinity Man and Captain Marvel sitting around in limbo playing Monopoly while they await the magic word.
Or, have them and a few others sitting around in a waiting room flipping through magazines and making small talk. Get Brian Bendis to write it, add some potty mouth, and you’ve got a hit in today’s market.
The fanboys would love it! In fact, I’m sure it’d sell upwards of thirty thousand copies — a blockbuster by today’s standards!