PODCAST: This one is all about Jack Kirby’s 1976-77 comic of “2001: A Space Odyssey” - which, by editorial pragmatism or simple desire, is both an unusually free and personal work, and a startling bleak and satirical thing:https://www.factualopinion.com/the_factual_opinion/2020/07/jack-kirbys-2001-the-podcast.html …
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Replying to @snubpollard
1970s Kirby is one of the peaks of the comics -- although I think all of it is "unusually free and personal" not just 2001. Looking forward to this.
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That’s reasonable. But with 2001 — and my understanding is that this was partially an editorial concern about avoiding continuing characters that might *gasp* not be owned by Marvel — it uniquely adopts a sort of anthology form. So the structure too is free.
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That's fair. It is very visionary even for Kirby, although the basic theme (the potential for human transcendence but also the atavistic emotions that will remain) is one that is a constant with Kirby.
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