{"id":4219,"date":"2017-06-10T22:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T02:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/?p=4219"},"modified":"2017-06-11T00:14:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-11T04:14:13","slug":"life-vs-anti-life-k021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/4219","title":{"rendered":"“Life Vs Anti-Life” (k021)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Life Vs Anti-Life” is a 22-page Fourth World story by Jack Kirby from\u00a0THE FOREVER PEOPLE #3 [1971], inked by Vincent Colletta.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Kirby opens \u201cLife vs Anti-Life\u201d this issue with a quote from Hitler, about how the members of his movement are uniform in both ideas and facial expression. This is an ideal sought by another minion of Darkseid, Glorious Godfrey (who was somewhat based on evangelist Billy Graham). Some great Kirby writing Godfrey\u2019s extolling the virtues of \u201canti-life\u201d in the service Darkseid and being a faceless \u201cJustifier\u201d. \u201cThe right to point the finger or the gun\u201d.<\/p>\n

One of those \u201cJustifiers\u201d attempts to kill the Forever People, who then use Mother Box to trace them back to their \u201crevelation tent\u201d lair. Meanwhile the \u201cJustifiers\u201d are on the loose, rounding up undesirables and burning libraries, painting offending stores with an \u201cS\u201d for scapegoat. The Forever People transform to the Infinity Man to destroy Godfrey\u2019s equipment. Unfortunately, he runs into a more powerful force.<\/p>\n

Darkseid is able to easily bring back the Forever People easily enough, and DeSaad knocks them out to take to his prison camp. There\u2019s some interesting interplay between Darkseid and two of his chief minions at the end, with one of Darkseid\u2019s classic lines, \u201cwhen you cry out in your dreams \u2014 it is Darkseid that you see!\u201d<\/p>\n

The villains definitely have the best scenes in this issue, and it\u2019s interesting to see how Kirby modified and interpreted things he saw around him to use in his fantasy setting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Life Vs Anti-Life” is a 22-page Fourth World story by Jack Kirby from\u00a0THE FOREVER PEOPLE #3 [1971], inked by Vincent Colletta. Kirby opens \u201cLife vs Anti-Life\u201d this issue with a quote from Hitler, about how the members of his movement are uniform in both ideas and facial expression. This is an ideal sought by another […]<\/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-4219","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\/4219","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=4219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4222,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219\/revisions\/4222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}