Disappointing compared to the previous volumes. I had hoped it would be better since it didn't include any of the Jimmy Olsen issues, but Mr. Miracle turns into typical super hero stories of the era and the concluding New Gods stories feel rushed and unsatisfying, although there are some good action moments.

Even the concluding statement by Kirby's kind-of protege is not very excited about this book. Mister Miracle was perhaps the weakest link in the chain. The problem with a Mister Miracle story is that they almost always end with Mister Miracle saying, "I was just too fast" or "I had a special circuit to solve this problem." The resolution seems so deus ex Mother Boxina that, you know, not that satisfying. Here, Kirby tries to expand the Mister Miracle universe and it's possible he might have gott...

I don't think it's too big of a spoiler to say that the original story that Kirby wanted to tell here was essentially left unfinished. Due to circumstances beyond his control, Kirby had to rush to throw together some sort of ending for his epic tale of the battle between Apokolips and New Genesis, and the single issues in Volume 4 were the result. They definitely feel rushed, but they're also ridiculously fun, especially for fans of Mister Miracle and Big Barda (and really, we should all be fans...

You can tell Jack Kirby was getting close to the end of the series run by the way stories just fall off and plot lines were dropped (DC's fault, not his) but I'll be damned if he doesn't still put everything he has into trying to tell good stories.

I'd almost give this a pass, honestly, because it mostly serves to clearly spell out how much the Fourth World disappointed, given its promise in the first two (and some of the third) volumes. Not Kirby's fault, really, but the fault of an unready comics market and an unsteady DC, and that's a story that we've all seen repeated over and over again with various "brilliant but canceled" series.The Mister Miracle stories devolve into one-off, cheesy superhero tales versus silly (often unintentional...

The weakest volume in this series, due to the fact that New Gods and Forever People were cancelled (last issues are here) and the Fourth World saga was abruptly terminated. The last New Gods issue featuring Kalibak vs Orion was great, especially nice to see the Black Racer finally nail some one. The Forever People ends on a note of mystery. Mister Miracle makes up for the bulk of this volume, taking up with the after effects of his escape from Apokolips. I had forgotten that Big Barda's Female F...

Último tomo compilatoria del trabajo de Kirby en el Cuarto MundoComo es habitual en la industria del comic, vemos como historias que estan pensadas en un larog aliento, son cortadas por decisiones editoriales no muy claras, pero que deben ser acatadas.Ya sin Supeman's Pal Jimmy Olsen a cuestas, solo tenemos comics relacionados directamente con el Cuarto Mundo, como Forever People y New Gods; que vemos sus números finales en este tomo, donde se da conclusión rápida a la historia desarrollada; los...

And there you have it. The "end" of the Kirby epic. The first of its kind in comics.Everything I want to say about the series as a whole is wrapped up nicely in the Afterword (a great historical document throughout all four volumes) but let's go ahead and look at the merits of this volume alone.Forever People and New Gods were wrapped up rather nicely in the beginning. The majority of this book is Mister Miracle and that is just fine with me. Kirby went to great lengths to distance Mister Miracl...

The first three volumes are, honestly, my favorite comics ever. Kirby puts so much energy and passion into each page, I'm just drawn right in. Although he's clearly making up a lot of the mythology as he goes along, DC's decision to print the Omnibuses in publication order allows you to see how each element of the cosmology was introduced and spread out into the other titles to become part of the core of the Fourth World.And volume three... wow! "The Pact," "The Death Wish of Terrible Turpin," a...

Jack Kirby's Fourth World saga has changed the way I view myth and comics. These four volumes are an absolute must-read for fans of comics, tales of gods, cosmic adventures, and good ol' fashioned superheroes.

Levitz's introduction is the shortest and least informative of the four volumes, including some wild errors suggesting he knows absolutely nothing about Marvel Comics, crediting DC with the shared universe in All Star Comics in 1942 (when Namor and the Human Torch had met in 1940 and mentioned each other a couple of issues beforehand), and claims that Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four were never meant to be in the same story world, when the Fantastic Four appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #1, a...

The final volume of Kirby's Fourth World is basically the story of how DC ruined the Fourth World. With the other three titles cancelled, Mister Miracle turns into a more conventional Kirby hero, fighting Nazis, gangsters and monsters, and gaining an annoying kid sidekick. It's fun stuff, and the rest of the New Gods do come back for the wonderful final issue, but it's hardly a real ending to the entire meta-series. When Kirby returned to DC a decade later, he tried once again to complete the se...

I read these in the original comic format when they came out. Jack Kirby changed his style in the early 1970s and I fell out of being a fan of his art and stories. While I do like several of the characters he created for his 4th world stories, particularly Darkseid and Orion, overall I never could seem to get into the books. If you are a Kirby fan then these are the core of his creation. Recommended

The last volume in Kirby's Fourth World series is by far the least interesting, though there are glimpses of what it could have been. It includes the last issues of "Forever People" and "New Gods", and the last good "Mister Miracle" stories (though that series continued for another half dozen crappy issues and a string of increasingly stupid villains, none of which involved the Fourth World storyline). Finally, the book comes to "Even Gods Must Die" and "Hunger Dogs", the two stories done a deca...

Kind of a sad way to see the Fourth World series end. Most of this book is Mister Miracle, since that title outlasted the other three Fourth World books by about seven issues or so. Since the others were canceled, Kirby went to great lengths to make sure the title seemed like any other superhero title (kid sidekick in Shilo Norman, Barda wears "pretty" clothes, a "Satan" house issue). Then there's "The Huger Dogs". I had heard about this graphic novel that supposedly was his ending to the Fourth...

Gems include "Mr. Miracle to Be!", "Devilance the Pursuer", "Darkseid & Sons!", "Dictator's Dungeon!", "Quick & the Dead!", "Secret Gun!", "Murder Lodge!", & "Wild, Wild Wedding Guests!".

I’m not really going to be discussing the whole volume. Most of it is the final nine issues of Mister Miracle, most notable historically for the debut of Shilo Norman, who would later be featured under that name and role in Grant Morrison’s Seven Soldiers of Victory. There’s also the final issue of Forever People, which takes Infinity Man off the table.And there’s the final issue of New Gods, a later issue’s worth of new material from a reprint series, and the graphic novel The Hunger Dogs, Jack...

i liked this last volume of Kirby's Fourth World saga, but it was very much his weakest efforts. the cancellation of the core titles, the move to make Mr Miracle a regular super hero, plus the tired effort of his wrap up to the saga, wore this volume down compared to the first three. there are still flashes of Kirby genius, but it's easy to tell he was discouraged and ready to move on.

Not with a bang, but a whimper. Kirby's Fourth World titles were unceremoniously cancelled after just a couple of years, and so here we have the final issues of New Gods and Forever People, along with several issues of Mister Miracle (which they kept on for a while). These are all great, but their abrupt cancellation took a toll on Kirby, and I have to say that the belated attempts to wrap things up in the 1980s just weren't up to the same caliber as the earlier books.There's discussion about ho...

The final volume of the Omnibus is a letdown after the tremendous stories in the previous volume. It contains the final issues of The Forever People (#11) and The New Gods (#11), and the final 9 issues of Mr. Miracle (#10-18). And it has Kirby's final contributions to his epic, the 1984 "Even Gods Must Die!" (New Gods reprint series #6) and the 1985 graphic novel, The Hunger Dogs!.According to Mark Evanier's Afterword, Kirby learned that The Forever People and New Gods were "suspended" (i.e., ca...