{"id":527,"date":"2005-11-04T23:09:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-04T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/2005\/11\/04\/new-gods-3-death-is-the-black-racer\/"},"modified":"2005-11-04T23:09:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-04T23:09:00","slug":"new-gods-3-death-is-the-black-racer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/527","title":{"rendered":"The New Gods #3 [1971] &#8211; Death Is the Black Racer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, I&#8217;m not entirely sure what the deal with the Black Racer is either. I&#8217;m sure Kirby had something unrealized planned for the character\/concept, but we&#8217;ll never know. Anyway, in this story the Racer, an envoy of death, pursues Lightray, but is redirected to Earth by Metron, where he&#8217;s drawn to paralyzed Vietnam vet Willie Walker, who takes his role as an aspect of the Black Racer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/11\/The-New-Gods-3-1971.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3174\" alt=\"The New Gods #3 [1971]\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/11\/The-New-Gods-3-1971-688x1024.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/11\/The-New-Gods-3-1971-688x1024.jpg 688w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/11\/The-New-Gods-3-1971-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/11\/The-New-Gods-3-1971-624x927.jpg 624w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/11\/The-New-Gods-3-1971.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I may not understand it, but that&#8217;s some pretty art. Elsewhere on Earth, Orion and Dave Lincoln pursue the local gangs that have been recruited into the plots of Apokolips.<\/p>\n<p>Colletta inks the 23-page story and cover (which features a photo background of a cityscape).<\/p>\n<p>Published 1971<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, I&#8217;m not entirely sure what the deal with the Black Racer is either. I&#8217;m sure Kirby had something unrealized planned for the character\/concept, but we&#8217;ll never know. Anyway, in this story the Racer, an envoy of death, pursues Lightray, but is redirected to Earth by Metron, where he&#8217;s drawn to paralyzed Vietnam vet Willie [&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":[5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genre","category-superhero"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","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=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}