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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2014 12:21:57 GMT -5
Simon Garth - You made some good points about Karnilla's hands and I did not see that. I like the ending of your description of that character - snooty, arrogant, and self-assured. Your description was right on the money!
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Dec 21, 2014 13:17:19 GMT -5
I started with Ron Lim being my first Silver Surfer so he's more familiar to me but Mr Kirby's Surfer is the bee's knees. He gets the tragedy in his face and gestures that Lee wrote for him very well. As a drama or tradgeic character his is the best. Mr Lim has him better as the cosmic character. Did Doom ever commandeer Surfer's board like he did in the second FF movie? I thought I vaguely remember reading that. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2014 14:28:04 GMT -5
Simon Garth - You made some good points about Karnilla's hands and I did not see that. I like the ending of your description of that character - snooty, arrogant, and self-assured. Your description was right on the money! Probably the biggest problem I have with Kirby's art is that I find things like that leap out at me, and tend to dominate my view. In this case, the rest of it is so well done that it's just a little niggle - but most of the time, I immediately notice Kirby's weird faces, square-muscled anatomy & random light sources, and find them so off-putting that the things he is so good at - dynamism, story-telling, weird machinery - are just completely over-whelmed. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2014 14:43:58 GMT -5
I started with Ron Lim being my first Silver Surfer so he's more familiar to me but Mr Kirby's Surfer is the bee's knees. He gets the tragedy in his face and gestures that Lee wrote for him very well. As a drama or tradgeic character his is the best. Mr Lim has him better as the cosmic character. Did Doom ever commandeer Surfer's board like he did in the second FF movie? I thought I vaguely remember reading that. Yes, there was an issue (around the 50s or 60s, I would guess) of F4 where he did precisely that - stole the power cosmic and hence the board EDIT: looking at comics.org, I reckon issue 57 is probably the right one |
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Post by berkley on Dec 21, 2014 20:23:01 GMT -5
I think Kirby does a lot with both characters there: they're ostensibly interacting, talking to each other, but really each is totally engrossed in him/herself: neither is looking at the other - Loki's closed eyes make his arrogant pose (trademark sneer, raised chin, hand on hip, chest stuck out) and the speech he aims at Karnilla all turn in on himself - it's all for his own benefit and enjoyment, he's so completely taken with himself; Karnilla doesn't even bother turning around to face Loki as she speaks to him, but stares off dreamily into space as she talks about how much she loves Balder - but ends with the cold, calmly delivered promise that if she can't have him no one will. Yeah, I'll say they're too much alike!
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Post by hondobrode on Dec 21, 2014 22:37:32 GMT -5
 Ron Frenz Kirby tribute Not sure who the bottom guy on the left is though It appears these are all DC or indie characters No Marvel. hmmmm ? Less chance of attracting legal action that way ? LOL |
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Post by hondobrode on Dec 21, 2014 22:58:59 GMT -5
 FF # 38 Kirby / Chic Stone |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2014 1:05:29 GMT -5
Satan's Six was a neat, slightly unrealized Kirby concept from out of the 70's. I say slightly because Topps tried their hand at the series in the 90's, but that one featured horrible McFarlane-like art that did no justice to Kirby's idea. The plot behind Satan's Six is simple: "Six lovable dopes from limbo, in order to get rid of them, Satan sends them back to Earth to earn their pitchforks!". Here's some of Kirby's concept art for the project: |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2014 1:14:55 GMT -5
Here are the eight pages Kirby created for Satan's Six, inked by the likes of Steve Ditko, Frank Miller, Mike Royer, Terry Austin and Joe Sinnott: |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Dec 22, 2014 8:27:52 GMT -5
That looks really fun! I was able to track down the 9 issues of Devil Dinosaur, so once they all arrive, I'll post something  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2014 9:31:34 GMT -5
bronzeagebrian, the art of Satan Six looks fabulous and it's too bad that this wasn't put into a comic book - I would love to grab a copy of it!
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Post by MDG on Dec 22, 2014 12:19:23 GMT -5
Never mind...
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Post by hondobrode on Dec 22, 2014 16:08:46 GMT -5
 4 issue series from Topps I liked seeing the next generation working on Kirby's stuff. |
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Post by gothos on Dec 22, 2014 17:15:11 GMT -5
Ron Frenz Kirby tribute Not sure who the bottom guy on the left is though It appears these are all DC or indie characters No Marvel. hmmmm ? Less chance of attracting legal action that way ? LOL The guy at bottom left looks to me like Ben Boxer from KAMANDI. |
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Post by gothos on Dec 22, 2014 17:17:03 GMT -5
I have never, ever seen this before in my life and I just wanted to say thanks for posting it ... Karnilla looks fabulous in this picture shown here. If I'm not mistaken, this is very early in Karnilla's career, from the "Tales of Asgard" days. (If I am mistaken, I apologize for misidentifying this panel. I haven't read those early Thor comics for a long time.) I can't place the issue, but no, it's from the later period when Thor's feature took over the whole comic. |
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