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Post by shaxper on Jun 16, 2016 22:49:59 GMT -5
Welcome to the next in the CCF poll series!
Be sure to provide your rationale in the form of a reply in addition to voting!
Polls are open until 11:30pm Eastern Standard Time on June 23rd.
What was Jack Kirby's best solo work after 1970?
In 1970, Kirby left Marvel in search of more creative independence and, arguably, produced some of his finest work between 1971 and 1984. Please note that works in which he shared creative control are not included here -- no Silver Surfer: The Ultimate Cosmic Experience, Destroyer Duck, nor Super Powers. Beyond that, I'm deeply curious: what do you believe Jack's greatest solo work was? |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 16, 2016 23:02:14 GMT -5
I voted Kamandi. But I could easily have voted 2001.
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Post by shaxper on Jun 16, 2016 23:19:39 GMT -5
I voted Kamandi. But I could easily have voted 2001. Though there are many works on this list that make this choice tough for me, 2001 is not one of them. What did you get out of that series that I did not?? |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 16, 2016 23:27:30 GMT -5
I voted Kamandi. But I could easily have voted 2001. Though there are many works on this list that make this choice tough for me, 2001 is not one of them. What did you get out of that series that I did not?? For one thing the tabloid "adaptation" is absolutely brilliant. It out Kubrick's Kubrick. Honestly I think that it may be Kirby's most beautiful work. The comic is just unfettered crazy. One idea after another. For some reason that just works for me. |
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Post by shaxper on Jun 16, 2016 23:33:49 GMT -5
Though there are many works on this list that make this choice tough for me, 2001 is not one of them. What did you get out of that series that I did not?? For one thing the tabloid "adaptation" is absolutely brilliant. It out Kubrick's Kubrick. Honestly I think that it may be Kirby's most beautiful work. The comic is just unfettered crazy. One idea after another. For some reason that just works for me. Oh, I love when a Kirby comic goes for "one idea after another," which is why I'll probably end up following your lead and going with Kamandi, but that is not how 2001 came off to me. In fact, it struck me as severely repetitive, and slavishly imitating one aspect of a much larger and more complex cinematic work. Don't get me wrong; it had its moments. I really enjoyed issue #2 where the cave woman inadvertently invents religion, as well as #5 and 6 where the guy living in Earth's future tries to be the living embodiment of a comic book hero and ends up rescuing that alien princess, but the series was so constrained by its format. |
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Post by Bronze Age Brian on Jun 17, 2016 0:54:25 GMT -5
Oh, this poll is simply torture. Can I vote for them all?
Seriously, this is going to be tough. Many of these are just too good, I can't find a way to decide.
I guess for me it's between New Gods, Kamandi, and The Eternals.
Devil Dinosaur, OMAC and 2001 will also be considered.
Hmm. What to pick?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2016 1:12:36 GMT -5
Oh, this poll is simply torture. Can I vote for them all? Seriously, this is going to be tough. Many of these are just too good, I can't find a way to decide. I guess for me it's between New Gods, Kamandi, and The Eternals. Devil Dinosaur, OMAC and 2001 will also be considered. Hmm. What to pick? I hear you brother. I have a lot of love for most of the ones on the list I have and have read, but there are some on there that I haven't read because I have large gaps, but have really dug the samples of the runs I have read. I simply can't vote yet because I just feel there's too much I haven't read to make an informed opinion, but I amy change my mind and vote before the poll closes. -M |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2016 2:48:42 GMT -5
New Gods, Black Panther, Captain America, Mr. Miracle, and Forever People are my top 5 Jack Kirby works of all time with Kamandi in close 6th and I just fell in love with his: FOREVER PEOPLE and I have the complete set of his work including this issue!  It's was very difficult to pick from! |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 17, 2016 5:24:49 GMT -5
Lots of good solid entertainment bordering on genius at times, but I picked Mr. Miracle. I had a special love for the escape artist trappings and I felt it explained more of the Apokolips than the other titles did. It edged out Kamandi , for me.
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Post by Warmonger on Jun 17, 2016 7:18:58 GMT -5
Kamandi
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Post by Cei-U! on Jun 17, 2016 7:33:38 GMT -5
I went with "Other," because I feel his autobiographical Streetwise was the most heartfelt work from the tail end of his career, but I could just as easily have picked The Eternals, New Gods, The Demon, or Machine Man.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2016 8:41:04 GMT -5
Kamandi
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Post by tingramretro on Jun 17, 2016 8:59:45 GMT -5
I really liked both Kamandi and Kirby's Black Panther, but I have to vote for that brilliantly mad mid 70s run on Captain America. He created Arnim Zola, for God's sake! how can anyone not love a Nazi geneticist who amputates his own head and replaces it with a TV screen in his chest?  |
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Post by shaxper on Jun 17, 2016 9:05:19 GMT -5
I generally tout Kamandi as being Jack's finest work, but I feel like I need to revisit New Gods before voting, and I've just started reading Captain Victory for the first time. Choices choices choices!
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Post by hondobrode on Jun 17, 2016 9:52:29 GMT -5
This is SO hard to pick just one : Jimmy Olsen, New Gods, OMAC, Eternals, Captain Victory, Silver Star, Devil Dinosaur, Kamandi. As much of a New Gods nut I am, and I love the whole Chariot of the Gods - Eternals concept, and Kamandi, I have to go with OMAC. Really a futuristic Captain America by Kirby's own admission, it's crazy future sci-fi, and the Brother Eye concept is so incredible, I have to vote OMAC.  |
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