A momentous milestone in the history of this blog:Help us bid farewell to the gods, angels and demons unleashed on the world by visionary madman, Jack Kirby. This hits all of those Secret Sun sweet spots, believe it.
I burned a lot of bandwidth in the early days of The Secret Sun talking about comics legend Jack Kirby. Some folks dismissed it as fanboy indulgence, until Kirby's delirious psychedelic visions of modern-day gods, angels and demons conquered Hollywood and defined pop culture for an entire decade.
Kirby died thirty years ago last month, just as the overheated, post-Batman comic book market began to crash. We'll be looking at his legacy as his heroes ascend to Valhalla and as the superhero genre finally collapses and leaves the world stage forever.
Kirby's life and work is one great, big game of Secret Sun Scrabble and this presentation hits all the bases. Kirby saw the cold new world that was coming more than most, and tried to warn us of manmade horrors beyond our worst imaginings the only way he knew how.
Kirby's life and work is like one great, big game of Secret Sun Scrabble, as these images make manifestly clear...
... and that's just the smallest sampling of the high weirdness and parapolitical insanity we'll be poring over on Sunday. You don't want to miss this one.
The Spandex Filesis 280 action-packed (and lavishly illustrated) pages of information and edutainment, filled with the chills, spills and laughs you've come to expect from your pal here at The Secret Sun!
The Spandex Files has a painstakingly-curated mix of out-of-print articles from classic comic fanzines, revised and expanded Secret Sun classics, and several never-before-published pieces as well!
The Spandex Filesis my final farewell to comic books and superheroes, both of which defined my life and career for so very long.
There's a special emphasis on superhero and comic book-inspired movies, as well as several pieces on Alan Moore and - of course - Jack Kirby!
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