Blogotional: Comic Art

Saturday, March 01, 2008

Comic Art

In our continuing series looking at the great "world's" created by Jack Kirby, we return this date to The New Gods as published by DC Comics. Unlike Asgard, which focused exclusively on the good guys with the bad guys just popping in, The New Gods was conveniently, and interestingly divided between good and evil

The evil world Apokolips, carried with it the fact that all chidren of consequence were taken from the parents and raised in a orphanage by Granny Goodness. As ugly as she was mean, Granny, in that never ending way things go in evil places, served the ruler of Apokolips, Darkseid, by creating his people for him, but she also had delusions of one day taking the throne herself. Granny Goodness was a real piece of work.

As you can see in some of the frames here, she was not afraid to mix it up when needed, but she preferred to work through surrogates, as all the truly powerful do. Some of her "children" have overcome her evil training and joined the good guys, but she continues her efforts to conquer both the world of the New Gods and Earth - sometimes for herself and sometimes for Darkseid.