{"id":4246,"date":"2017-06-16T22:00:48","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T02:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/?p=4246"},"modified":"2017-06-16T23:36:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T03:36:42","slug":"the-death-wish-of-terrible-turpin-k027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/4246","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Death Wish Of Terrible Turpin&#8221; (k027)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/06\/k027a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-4248\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/06\/k027a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"438\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/06\/k027a.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/06\/k027a-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/06\/k027a-768x611.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/06\/k027a-1024x815.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/06\/k027a-624x497.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Death Wish Of Terrible Turpin&#8221; is a 23-page story by Jack Kirby from\u00a0THE NEW GODS #8 [1972], inked and lettered by Mike Royer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/06\/k027.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4247 alignright\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/06\/k027.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"422\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/06\/k027.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/06\/k027-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/06\/k027-768x1127.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/06\/k027-698x1024.jpg 698w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/06\/k027-624x916.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/><\/a>An excellent Fourth World story, as Kalibak runs wild in the streets, attacking the home of Dave Lincoln in his search for Orion. The police respond, led by Dan \u201cTerrible\u201d Turpin, who\u2019s got no time for those \u201cSuper Weirdos\u201d taking their war to his streets. I love Turpin in this issue, taking on Kalibak one-on-one.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually Orion and Lightray arrive, having seen the battle on TV, and Orion takes on Kalibak, showing his true face and giving some allusions to their common ancestry (which had only been confirmed the previous issue).<\/p>\n<p>The Lightray\/Orion interaction is great in this issue, too, including the last scene in the issue:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou saw my face!!\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cI saw scars \u2014 both old and new \u2014 taken in the cause of New Genesis!\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cYou\u2019re a good friend, Lightray.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.comics.org\/issue\/25006\/#170690<br \/>\nNEW GODS #4 [1984]<br \/>\nJACK KIRBY&#8217;S NEW GODS [1998]<br \/>\nJACK KIRBY&#8217;S FOURTH WORLD OMNIBUS #3 [2007]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Death Wish Of Terrible Turpin&#8221; is a 23-page story by Jack Kirby from\u00a0THE NEW GODS #8 [1972], inked and lettered by Mike Royer. An excellent Fourth World story, as Kalibak runs wild in the streets, attacking the home of Dave Lincoln in his search for Orion. The police respond, led by Dan \u201cTerrible\u201d Turpin, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4246","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\/4246","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=4246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4249,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246\/revisions\/4249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}