4. The influence of Kirby's Fourth World is pervasive in the superhero genre in the move from crime-fighting stories to cosmic epics. But it also extends to Start Wars & the Marvel Cinematic Universe (Thanos was Marvel's response to 4th world villain Darkseid).
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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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Also can trim your eyebrows, good to know
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I just want to say that I love these in depth explorations of the material you do.
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The Mother Box also connects to Timothy Leary’s observation 15 years later that all the early web theorists were trying to recreate the womb. Prescient.
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It's a technological replacement for Avia - none of the New Gods have a mother, so they have the Motherboxes.
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In the age of smart phones, I get that they had to change the Mother Boxes to something a bit more than the comics version, but egads they botched it so bad.
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Snider sucks. I thought these movies were terrible and now I know why. Just like with Dawn of the Dead he took an established great story and did a version Ayn Rand would love. These movies should’ve been awesome.
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american evangelion!
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