I saw this Godland trade (Vol. 2) this week. I'm not familiar with it. It looked a little bit interesting.

Anybody got anything to say about it, good or bad?

Nope, I don't have anything to say about it, sorry.

I dig it. It's trippy!

Yes, quite good, and what comics are all about. Or, a lot of what they SHOULD be about, in my esttemed opinion (shut UP, Saxon!).

I've heard nothing but good things about this book!

A discussion on another board got me Googling Godland to find out more. Intruiging. It's some fellow riffing on the wild imaginative exploits of later Kirby. Really wild stuff. Aliens and monsters and adventure and action and all sorts of stuff.

The entire first issue is online, free and legal and readable in your browser.

More than the aping of Kirby's visual style, what's interesting to me is that the guy seems to be trying to tap into the wild imagination behind Jack's 70s work. That's interesting, I think. It's my favorite Kirby period.

I haven't seen anything more than that first issue, but I'm now interested in seeing more. Looks like fun. To repeat Jay's question, anyone read this?

I've read two issues online (they posted a second free one some time back--don't recall which it was). I couldn't make heads or tales of either, or of other glimpses I've seen.

I guess we don't hold the same opinion on late Kirby work. I personally believe his late work should give people a new appreciation for just how much Stan Lee brought to classic Marvel when he wrote scripts and reeled Kirby's imagination in far enough to create lucid stories. Jack Kirby was a fantastic artist and a remarkable idea man. But he was not by any means a gifted writer. His late independent work, where he had no collaborators or editors to influence him, shows this all too well.

"Godland"'s like a parody of Kirby's wild period. If you really do like late Kirby, it would be worth your while to check out more "Godland." If you can't help wishing the comics you read had a coherent story and dialog that actually made sense, it's probably not a good bet.

As noted in this thread devoted to it, I really do love that larer Kirby stuff. The post-Marvel that I've seen, too. It was just wild. The man was a fountain of imagination, and I really liked how wildly stylistic his art became.

I've read a good chunk of it, but I'm not very good at reviews.
Like Fraxon said, it's very trippy, and that trippiness leads to some very funny moments, which is why I've probably kept buying for as long as I have. It's kind of a 70's cosmic comic, mixed with Kirby strangeness, mixed in with some modern sensibilities and presented in an over the top manner. (If that makes any sense...) But I'm not a big fan of Kirby, and after a while, the artwork starts to come off as bad Kirby. Not that the artist is ripping off Kirby (other than copying his style), he does have a good imagination when it comes to designing the characters and settings, it's just, to me, he's not a very good artist.
I liked the book at first, but I've kind of gotten bored with it and removed it from my pull list.


Eric, if you'd like the first 20 issues of the book, and don't mind covering the postage, let me know. I'll be happy to send them to you.

I started read comics in the 70's,and I really loved Kirby's 70's output.It was crazy and weird,yet a child could completely understand it....on all the intended levels.
Even though I read Killraven,Howard the Duck,Man-thing,and Deathlok...a lot of the writing probably went over my head.