Mister Miracle #18 (Feb.-Mar., 1974)
Has it really been only fifteen months since I last wrote about Jack Kirby’s Fourth World? Somehow it feels like a lot longer. Which is a little odd, since I’m pretty sure the time between the release of New Gods #11 in August, 1972, and that of Mister Miracle #18 in November, 1973, practically flew by for my younger self, back in the day. And as we all know, time progressed at a much slower pace fifty years ago than it does today. So what gives?
I’m not sure, but it may have to do with the fact that in August, 2022, after having blogged about Kirby’s Fourth World comics at least a couple of times per month ever since my first such post two years earlier, I wrote my final blog posts about Forever People and New Gods, conducted my postmortem on the whole Fourth World project… and called it a day. I then moved on to thinking, and writing, about other fifty-year-old comic book-related matters, allowing Jack Kirby’s unfinished opus to quickly recede in my mental rear-view mirror. Read More