Blogotional: Comic Art

Saturday, October 04, 2008

Comic Art

We continue today our look at the Masterworks of Jack Kirby, Marvel's Asgard and DC's New Gods with a look at what is rapidly becoming the most important New Gods character ever. Seems the New Gods are dying and Infinity Man seems to lie at the heart of it somehow.

It all gets very confusing and frankly even with a scorecard it can be hard to tell the players from each other, but Infinity Man is darned important in the whole thing somehow.

DC Database describes the history of Infinity Man this way:

Infinity-Man was a man named Astorr, a powerful warrior from another planet. Astorr came across Drax (Darkseid's brother) who was horribly burnt. After nursing Drax back to health, he died from old age. Before he died, Astorr was able to pass the role of Infinity-Man to Drax. It took Drax years of study before he was ready to assume the title of Infinity-Man. Drax (Infinity-Man) eventually came to serve Highfather on New Genesis, where he was acquainted with The Forever People and became a protector. Whenever Infinity-Man was needed, all the Forever People would touch the mother boxes and recite the word Taaru, thus tossing them into limbo until Infinity-Man returned the power to them.

Darkseid saw Infinity-Man as a threat and figured out a way to place him in another dimension, where Infinity-Man made a planet called Adon his home. The Forever People were able to free him from this prison. Devilance the Pursuer had a personal vendetta against the Forever People and especially the Infinity-Man. Devilance tracked down Infinity-Man and the two battled, which resulted in the island they were fighting on exploding. The two appeared to die, but Infinity-Man returned due to the effort of the Forever People and Maya to defeat Darkseid.

I will leave it to you the read to figure out the mystery that is Infinity Man and his role in the Death of the New Gods, the links are all here.

To conclude, how could I resist the Kirby-drawn splash page of the New Gods below? There is debate as to whether the character in the upper right there in Infinity Man or not, but who cares - classic characters by classic Kirby. It is just nice to look at.