1. Because people deserve a break, I want to talk a bit about how Jack Kirby predicted suicide bombing a terrorist technique.
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8. Secular suicide bombing has been around for a long time (anarchist, kamikaze pilots) but religious version took off in early 1980s in Lebanon.
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9. So a full decade before religion inspired suicide bombing became a visible mass phenomenon, Kirby portrayed it.
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10. Incidentally, Glorious Godfrey turns out to be a minion of Darkseid, a great metaphor for religion in the service of tyranny.pic.twitter.com/aybQCsAzsI
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11. Kirby's own life was strangely intertwined with history of terrorism. His close childhood friend was Leon Klinghoffer, killed by Palestine Liberation Front in 1985.
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12. In 1979, Kirby art was used by the CIA for their Argo project, a fake film used as cover to rescue hostages in Iran.http://comicsalliance.com/jack-kirby-cia/
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13. Future potential twitter-essays on Jack Kirby as a prophet: the Mother Box as proto-iphone, "the project" & Silicon Valley, Darkseid & Nixon.
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pretty awesome tbh
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