Saturday, August 09, 2008
Comic Art
One of the More promising, but underdeveloped characters of Jack Kirby's New Gods is Lightray. Visually he is classic, classic Kirby - a real gem, but he has never gotten the writing treatment necessary to bring such an iconic image to the fore. Anytime you see images of the New Gods, Lightray is there, but when you read, well he is just mostly window dressing.
One can certainly see Lightray come home to roost in the character of Firestorm - the resemblance is just too strong to miss. Nonetheless, the subtlety of the red hair appearing like flame seems much preferable to the actual flame of Firestorm. Firestorm has certainly gotten more writing effort than Lightray, but he too suffers from a lack of compelling narrative to really move the character forward - so bit player in the Justice League it is.Lightray strikes me as prime miniseries material. In the right hands he could be something special. Heck one could even throw Firestorm into the mix and come up with quite the yarn.
Too bad the Master could not be here to draw it!
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