Tomorrow, we see the release of Infinity Man & The Forever People. This is DiDio and Giffen's follow-up to their OMAC project from the first wave of DC's New 52. So, what do you guys think? I'll probably check it out but I'll be honest, I didn't like OMAC. I read three or four issues and it just felt like OMAC wandering from one fight to another.

Thoughts?

Giffen does a passable faux-Kirby,but I'll pass on this.

I'll give it a miss, but I do like the look of it. I live about 400km from the nearest comic shop now, so unless it comes out in trade form at some point, I pretty much give everything a miss.

I agree with your premise of Kirby's work being seen as its own separate genre. Ditko's work is similarly self-contained (except he's still around to continue it himself).

Actually, the whole "Kirby as a Genre" concept is something from The Jack Kirby Collector magazine.

It's a solid idea - he pretty much did his own thing wherever he worked, so it makes sense to define him as being distinct from everything else going on around him.

I like Giffen's Kirby riff better than Tom Scioli's.

Me too. And he's being doing it in one form or another for a long, long time.

I like the Forever People but never cared for Infinity Man as a concept. Nevertheless I will probably pick this up when it goes to trade. Looks pretty cool.

I look at a lot of the original 4th World Stuff as beat poetry or jazz. I have to just go with the flow and enjoy it for what it is without getting hung up on the structure.

<snap, snap>
Cool, cool, daddio
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I liked OMAC. Not a lot of depth, but fun, popcorn entertainment. I'll probably check this out in trade or on Comixology eventually.

This new Captain Victory series looks more interesting to me. I'm a fan of Casey as a writer and the artists listed are right up my alley.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/06/13/ ... n-victory/

Yeah, it does. Not familiar with many of those guys but Fiffe is awesome.

Jose Ladronn did some awesome Kirby-esque work in the late 90s. Cable with James Robinson and Joe Casey and Inhumans with Carlos Pacheco.

Yeah, I wish they'd collect that In humans mini into a trade. I also wish I kept that run of Cable he did.

Looking at his two issues of FF after Jack split, I gotta say I think Romita did a great job melding his style with Kirby's --

Well, he's been doing Kirby swipes off and on for about four decades now.

Today is the 99th anniversary of Jack's birth.

I wish that were real.

Happy Birthday, King.

Happy Birthday Jack Kirby. You are the King now and forever.

I really want a Scorsese-directed movie about Marvel comics, focusing on the relationship between Stan, Jack and Steve. Barring that, I'll take Sorkin/Fincher.