{"id":529,"date":"2005-11-07T22:28:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-07T22:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/2005\/11\/07\/destroyer-duck-5-shatterer-of-worlds\/"},"modified":"2005-11-07T22:28:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-07T22:28:00","slug":"destroyer-duck-5-shatterer-of-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/529","title":{"rendered":"Destroyer Duck #5 [1983]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is Kirby&#8217;s last issue of DESTROYER DUCK, as usual inked by Alfredo Alcala on the 20-page story &#8220;Shatterer of Worlds&#8221; and cover. Steve Gerber was joined on the writing by Buzz Dixon, who would take solo writing chores on the next two post-Kirby issues.<\/p>\n<p>This story finishes up the main story with GodCorp&#8217;s plans in the oil-rich nation of Hoqoom. Some very weird stuff, including possibly the only time cannibalism was so explicit in a Kirby story. Also, a nice battle with the Destroyer Lawyer against the Cogburn:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/11\/Destroyer-Duck-5-1983.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3339\" alt=\"Destroyer Duck #5 [1983]\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/11\/Destroyer-Duck-5-1983-712x1024.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/11\/Destroyer-Duck-5-1983-712x1024.jpg 712w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/11\/Destroyer-Duck-5-1983-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/11\/Destroyer-Duck-5-1983-624x896.jpg 624w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2005\/11\/Destroyer-Duck-5-1983.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(I have to mention the Cogburn, as I still get one or two searches a week for Cogburn leading people to this weblog)<\/p>\n<p>This was a fun series, a bit uneven and a few dated references but a lot of good qualities. It would be nice to see it reprinted some day in a nice permanent format.<\/p>\n<p>Published 1983<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Kirby&#8217;s last issue of DESTROYER DUCK, as usual inked by Alfredo Alcala on the 20-page story &#8220;Shatterer of Worlds&#8221; and cover. Steve Gerber was joined on the writing by Buzz Dixon, who would take solo writing chores on the next two post-Kirby issues. This story finishes up the main story with GodCorp&#8217;s plans [&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":[5,8,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genre","category-humour","category-science-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","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=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}