Synopses & Reviews
After co-creating comic book heroes including the Fantastic Four, the Hulk, and the X-Men, legendary writer/artist Jack Kirby came to DC Comics in 1970 to publish his magnum opus: four interlocked adventures series that were known collectively as
The Fourth World.
This fourth and final volume collects the remaining issues of these classic series The New Gods, The Forever People, and Mister Miracle in chronological order as they originally appeared. Also included in this volume are Kirby's sequel to The New Gods, plus the graphic novel The Hunger Dogs and rarely-seen Kirby art from DC's Who's Who series, all from the mid-1980s.
Review
"[A] weird saga of warring gods that for a brief moment hijacked the normally staid line of DC Comics and plunged it into bracing, beautiful oddness....[I]n this collection, [Kirby's] at the height of his powers." John Hodgman, The New York Times Book Review
Review
"Kirby's work looks even bolder and crazier now than it must have at the time. The combination of science-fiction concepts and psychedelic philosophizing is the work of a man on the far side of middle age...nurturing an odd faith that the wildly attired younger generation marching in the streets could set the world aright. (Grade: A)" The Onion AV Club
Review
"[T]aken on their own, the issues reprinted consecutively in this Omnibus have a ton of charm....I found those final hundred-plus pages [of Hunger Dogs] to be absolutely brilliant, some of the most stunning stuff Kirby's ever done." Jeff Lester, The Savage Critics
Synopsis
After co-creating comic book heroes including the Fantastic Four and the Hulk, legendary writer/artist Jack Kirby came to DC Comics in 1970 to write and illustrate four interlocking series known collectively as
The Fourth World. Now, for the first time, DC collects these four series
The New Gods, The Forever People, Mister Miracle and Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen in chronological order as they originally appeared.
These comics spanned galaxies, from the streets of Metropolis to the far-flung worlds of New Genesis and Apokolips, as cosmic-powered heroes and villains struggled for supremacy.