2. I have mixed feelings about this whole Synder Cut business in part because it involves the popularization of what I think is the greatest achievement of American commercial comic books, Jack Kirby's truncated Fourth World epic. But alas in depoliticized & domesticated form.
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14. The Mother Box is very much part of the Freudian thematics Kirby was exploring. In the movie, Mother Boxes are just easter eggs (like the Infinity Stone). In Kirby's narrative they are attempt to imagine a technological response to Freudian family drama.
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15. A Mother Box, in Kirby's narrative, is a handheld AI that offers psychological, spiritual and medical relief: a super-smart iPhone: A substitute mom in a world where biological reality has been erased (the high tech world of both New Gods & Darkseid).pic.twitter.com/lNMTZhANSf
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16. In other words, the Mother Box is also suggestive distillation of social critique. That's all lost in Synder's Justice League. I'm not sure how any of this could be adapted short of a multi-year miniseries.
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17. All of which is to say I really hope people read Kirby's Fourth World books (available in multiple reprint iterations) which have a richness that has yet to be fully mined.
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