{"id":747,"date":"2010-11-01T11:45:05","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T11:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/365fourth\/?p=747"},"modified":"2010-11-01T11:45:05","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T11:45:05","slug":"day-31-the-boom-tube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/365fourth\/2010\/11\/01\/day-31-the-boom-tube\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 31: The Boom Tube!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here, on the first comic book story page Jack wrote and drew for his legendary \u201970s stint at DC Comics (first, according to the job number assigned to it, X-100), on page one of The Forever People<\/em> #1 [Feb.-Mar. 1971], is the transportation device he created to get his Fourth World characters from New Genesis and Apokolips to Earth and back again. A kind of hipster “rainbow bridge” [see Thor, The Mighty<\/em>], the Boom Tube was used by both the children of Highfather and denizens of Darkseid in the Super-War that was only just now beginning between the new generation of cosmic gods, using our small green globe as battlefield.<\/p>\n

The Boom Tube (a name coined, I reckon, because it sounds like the contemporaneous derogatory term Americans often used to describe their televisions, “The Boob Tube”) is an inter-dimensional tunnel that appears out of thin air — with a sonic boom heralding the arrival — in our world’s environs and, with its travelers safe on earthly soil, just as suddenly disappears with a thunderclap. It is also used between the two worlds of the new gods.<\/p>\n

The question begs an answer: Just where do New Genesis and Apokolips exist in relation to Earth? Is it, indeed, in a parallel dimension or in or around the Promethean Galaxy, which we see Metron (the developer of The Boom Tube, by the by) teleporting to its edge in the opening of New Gods <\/em>#5? It’s probably a silly question — where does Asgard or Valhalla or Heaven or Hell reside, for that matter? — but the deeper and deeper we read into the Fourth World saga, the more the connections between the three worlds matter…<\/p>\n

Oh, never mind. I need to relax and enjoy the new story that’s only just beginning: Who or what is traveling through this Boom Tube and what adventures are in store? Find out tomorrow…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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