The perfect American comic

I read color scans of original Kirby's run. (Not a b&w version.)I always wanted to read smth by Kirby after Morrison's book about comics. But I was hesitant as I find old comics mostly unreadable. This was the first vintage comic book I genuinely enjoyed.Quick notes:-Jack is a god of form and color. I felt intense energy from his panels. That was my main insight. It felt like this guy doesn't even need story to make his work enjoyable.-The best parts visually are mechanisms and Apokolips/Genesis...

Hell of a ride Jack. Thanks

This was not what I expected at all. But I guess that is everyone's take on this stuff. Even after reading the Marvel rip off The Eternals, this stuff was really off the wall. I put off reading this for a while but this was good.I'm a fan.

A masterpiece of postmodern American art.

I read this in faded color, individual issues online. Not sure I could do it on B&W, the main draw for me is the eye-popping art. It's Kirby! His shift from Marvel to DC in 1971, where he was given carte blanche. Kirby worked on creating a new mythology superhero story, so massive respect for a legend pushing himself to keep creating more original, deeper stories. Writing, editing, and penciling each issue: You can tell Kirby really challenged himself, put so much of himself in the book. He bala...

Jack Kirby’s ‘New Gods’ is the holy grail of comic book science-fiction. Filled with Shakespearean-like dialogue and absolutely jaw-dropping art from the King himself, I find it incredibly difficult to find a flaw here. The ability Kirby possessed to create such a rich universe one splash page in, is simply masterful. From the opening lines of the book, “There came a time when the Old Gods died...” Kirby ropes you in and never lets you go. This is a stunning, epic and heartwarming superhero adve...

I was excited and I was really hyped for this comic. Jack Kirby is an incredible artist and it shows. This book was really hyping up this whole universe called Fourth World (or something like that I can’t remember) only for most of the comic to be set on earth. Why? Idk but that was really disappointing. Jack Kirby’s new universe was what I was looking forward to but they end up going to earth to stop Darkseid there and it focuses on this boring story that had so much potential with Fourth World...

We'll begin with the negatives, Kirby's writing isn't great. His dialog is far too over the top, on point, and HE WRITES IN EXCLAMATION POINTS!!! Even when two lovers are sweetly exchanging lover thoughts THEY SPEAK IN EXCLAMATIONS! It's genuinely funny even though it's not supposed to be. That being said, the plot and story are great in a Kirbyesque epic scale way. The characters are also a bit simple but their stories are engrossing and fit the grand cosmic scale of the work. And then there's

Finalmente consegui ler na íntegra aquela que consideram a obra-prima do Rei Jack Kirby, Os Novos Deuses. As onze edições foram publicadas em dois volumes da Coleção de Graphic Novels DC Comics da editora Eaglemoss. E eu percebo como eu sabia muito, mas muito pouco sobre os Novos Deuses. Não sabia, por exemplo, que a série era protagonizada por Órion e também não sabia que ele tinha o nome terrestre de O'Ryan. É interessante que Kirby usa deuses poderosos e com uma tecnologia ultra-avançada, mas...

Incredible piece of work from a legend. Vivid mind-bending imagery. Writing that is non-nonsensical, purple & dated in the best way possible. Some section were boring. Some sections had me asking, "Is this racist?"

I'd always kind of looked at Kirby as comics' version of, say, Bill Haley - an important player in the development of the artform, but not much else. His Thor, for example, I found atrocious. Reading New Gods, though, was a complete turn-around for me in regards to the man and his legacy.The basic plot: Ragnarok has already happened, and the "old gods" have all died out. In their wake, however, the New Gods have formed on the twin planets of Apokolips and New Genesis. (Bonus points if you can gu...

Visually stunning, especially if you love Jack Kirby's larger than life art style. Beautifully creative visuals and concepts but sadly the dialogue and execution are not good. The dialogue is dated as can be and tends to be dull. It doesn't flow well, aspects of it genuinely don't make much sense. However, (spoiler alert) the ending is insanely bleak yet true to the characters. Two stars: Mainly for the gorgeous visuals and the bleak ending (which I personally loved).

I'm torn between a 3 and 4 star rating on this. This volume marks my third attempt at trying to read the entirety of Jack Kirby's 4th World- not because I have not enjoyed the work, but because of the immense difficulty I have had at getting all of the volumes. Sadly, unlike my 4th World omnibus, which contains some of the same stories, but not all, New Gods is in greyscale here, and while the art still manages to be striking, there is a richness absent from Kirby's striking color scheme. Althou...

My experience with the New Gods has been limited to the Kenner action figures from the 80s and random guest spots in other things I'd been reading. They were never favorites, though I've always had a soft spot for Orion and I love that Kirby sheen.Anyway, I finally picked up the tome that started it all and had a surprisingly good time. It's quirky and it's out there, but darn it if it doesn't look fantastic. Seeing the New Gods in the environment in which they are meant to be has changed my fee...

2.5Só foi melhorando a partir da sétima edição e o abuso de diálogos me incomodou bastante, mesmo sendo o normal da época não consegui ignorar.

Black and white and gray does not really favor Kirby's art in this edition. Other than that, awesome stuff. A pity that DC didn't let him complete the story as he wanted. Also, DC was still re-doing the same plot points 30 years later. Come on! Darkseid killed Desaad in issue 11!Update: Kirby himself had Darkseid revive Desaad. Poor Darkseid was feeling lonely and also he wanted to prove that he could do it without the aid of the machines. This appeared in a reprint 10 years later.

I loved every single word and each and every panel. Sucked all the way in.

I believe that writing is the only capacity where humans become God and think beyond any limit or boundary because the writer is a thinker and a creator. He/she builds his/her own universe, creates characters and gives lives whatever he/she wishes for them, and constructs a story. The life and death of the characters are simply in the writer's hand.My latest reading encourages my belief. Jack Kirby's The New Gods was an accomplishment in comic book history. More than thirty years had passed to D...

if you feel like silver age comics were a little too grounded then this is the series for you