Talkin' Jack Kirby

Since January Tim Young from Deconstructing Comics and I have been putting out regular deep dives on Jack Kirby’s Fourth World.

What started as an idle curiousity - the crisscrossing collection of comic books under the banner of Kirby’s Fourth World have a reputation for being impenetrable - quickly developed into a fascinated appreciation on my part for what the King was trying to achieve here.

Jack Kirby’s Orion, from New Gods: Even Gods Must Die (DC Comics).

You can listen to our chats here:

• Kirby’s Fourth World: “Jimmy Olsen” pt 1

• Kirby’s Fourth World: “Jimmy Olsen” pt 2

• Kirby’s Fourth World: “The Forever People” #2-#8

• Kirby’s Fourth World: “New Gods” #1-#6

• Kirby’s Fourth World: “Mister Miracle” #1-#6

• Kirby’s Fourth World: “Forever People” and “New Gods” end

• Kirby’s Fourth World: “Mister Miracle” #7-12

• Kirby’s Fourth World: “Mister Miracle” #13-18

• Kirby’s Fourth World: “Even Gods Must Die”

• Kirby’s Fourth World: “The Hunger Dogs”