{"id":4162,"date":"2017-05-29T20:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T00:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/?p=4162"},"modified":"2017-05-29T23:43:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T03:43:18","slug":"vira-the-she-demon-k009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/4162","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Vira, The She-Demon&#8221; (k009)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/k009a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-4164\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/k009a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"469\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/k009a.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/k009a-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/k009a-768x689.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/k009a-1024x918.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/k009a-624x560.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 469px) 100vw, 469px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Vira, The She-Demon&#8221; is a 17-page story by Jack Kirby from\u00a02001 &#8211; A SPACE ODYSSEY #2 [1977], inked and lettered by Mike Royer and coloured by Janice Cohen. Kirby did a long tabloid sized adaptation of the 1968 film, followed by a ten issue series. As of now, this is the only major Kirby work from Marvel in the 1970s never to be reprinted (most of the other work has been reprinted at least twice).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/k009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4163 alignright\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/k009.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/k009.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/k009-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/k009-768x1149.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/k009-684x1024.jpg 684w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/05\/k009-624x934.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" \/><\/a>Kirby spent the first six issues of the series doing variations on the movie&#8217;s storyline of the creation of the &#8220;New Seed&#8221; through evolutionary pushes from the Monolith. In this one, a woman named Vira gets the inspiration to clad herself in bones and use fear to rule her tribe, which pushes the whole tribe forward. That leads to the future, and astronaut Vera Gentry on the Jovian moon Ganymede escaping from an alien attack to her own encounter with the Monolith and the transformation to the next step.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.comics.org\/issue\/30655\/#193639<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Vira, The She-Demon&#8221; is a 17-page story by Jack Kirby from\u00a02001 &#8211; A SPACE ODYSSEY #2 [1977], inked and lettered by Mike Royer and coloured by Janice Cohen. Kirby did a long tabloid sized adaptation of the 1968 film, followed by a ten issue series. As of now, this is the only major Kirby work [&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":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-k100"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162","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=4162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4165,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions\/4165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}