{"id":547,"date":"2007-06-25T14:39:37","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T21:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alertnerd.com\/blog\/archives\/547"},"modified":"2007-06-25T14:39:37","modified_gmt":"2007-06-25T21:39:37","slug":"jack-kirby-you-are-a-delight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=547","title":{"rendered":"Jack Kirby, YOU ARE A DELIGHT."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yep. The recently-released Jack Kirby Fourth World Omnibus Vol. 1 is so tasty that I had to bust out my James Lipton impersonation for the title.<\/p>\n<p>How awesome is this book? I am just about halfway through it, and already, I have seen:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;A giant Jimmy Olsen who&#8217;s green and looks kinda like The Hulk with freckles.<br \/>\n&#8211;A group of weird kids, patterned after the hippies of the late sixties, known instead as the Hairies.<br \/>\n&#8211;The old, bearded Mister Miracle, who I did not even know existed.<br \/>\n&#8211;More cosmic Kirby bubbles than I can shake a stick at.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously. This is great stuff, people. The energy in one panel of Kirby&#8217;s artwork blows away anything being done by any other artist at any other time in the entire history of the medium.<\/p>\n<p>Wow, Jack Kirby&#8217;s COOL. News to me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep. The recently-released Jack Kirby Fourth World Omnibus Vol. 1 is so tasty that I had to bust out my James Lipton impersonation for the title. How awesome is this book? I am just about halfway through it, and already, I have seen: &#8211;A giant Jimmy Olsen who&#8217;s green and looks kinda like The Hulk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}