{"id":169,"date":"2004-12-18T00:29:53","date_gmt":"2004-12-18T00:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/2004\/12\/18\/kamandi-40-the-lizard-lords-of-los-lorraine\/"},"modified":"2004-12-18T00:29:53","modified_gmt":"2004-12-18T00:29:53","slug":"kamandi-40-the-lizard-lords-of-los-lorraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/169","title":{"rendered":"Kamandi, The Last Boy On Earth #40 [1976]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is Kirby&#8217;s final issue of KAMANDI. He didn&#8217;t write the last handful at all (and was heavily rescripted on the few before that), so it doesn&#8217;t really feel right in the story, and that comes through a bit in the art as well.<\/p>\n<p>Before his encounter with &#8220;The Lizard Lords of Los Lorraine&#8221;,\u00a0I did like Kamandi&#8217;s battle with a giant parrot in the opening pages, though.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/12\/Kamandi-The-Last-Boy-On-Earth-40-1976.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3212\" alt=\"Kamandi, The Last Boy On Earth #40 [1976]\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/12\/Kamandi-The-Last-Boy-On-Earth-40-1976-690x1024.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/12\/Kamandi-The-Last-Boy-On-Earth-40-1976-690x1024.jpg 690w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/12\/Kamandi-The-Last-Boy-On-Earth-40-1976-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/12\/Kamandi-The-Last-Boy-On-Earth-40-1976-624x925.jpg 624w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2004\/12\/Kamandi-The-Last-Boy-On-Earth-40-1976.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s mostly downhill from there, with the new character Arna being a little annoying and a race of lizard men who are pretty blandly designed compared to the earlier animal races. One odd thing is the talking burros, physically unchanged from pre-Great Disaster animals. Horses were always one of the types of animals unchanged, still used as riding animals, in the earlier stories.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Royer was back on the inks for the last few issues, so that was okay, while Joe Kubert drew the cover.<\/p>\n<p>Published 1976<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Kirby&#8217;s final issue of KAMANDI. He didn&#8217;t write the last handful at all (and was heavily rescripted on the few before that), so it doesn&#8217;t really feel right in the story, and that comes through a bit in the art as well. Before his encounter with &#8220;The Lizard Lords of Los Lorraine&#8221;,\u00a0I did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genre","category-science-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}