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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Nov 2017

      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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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Nov 2017

      2. Kirby's great, unfinished epic, The Fourth World Saga (1970-1973) which seemed so bizarre on first publication now looks visionary.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Nov 2017

      3. One major thread of Fourth World was story of Glorious Godfrey, leader of Justifiers religious cult.pic.twitter.com/6jQaGbDYsZ

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Nov 2017

      4. Justifiers have a militant wing that dress in medieval fashion & harasses sinners (modelled I think on real life Carlist sect of Catholic reactionaries)pic.twitter.com/UfqM72mUR9

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Nov 2017

      5. In Forever People #3 (June-July 1971), the Justifier turns out to be a suicide bomber.pic.twitter.com/ofrYNA10V8

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Nov 2017

      6. Dialogue from that sequence: "The Justifier is a human bomb!" & "There is no stopping a Justifier! He can justify his own death!"

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Nov 2017

      7. The entire Glorious Godfrey sequence is about how the fusion of religion with politics of fear leads to violence.

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Nov 2017

      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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Nov 2017

      9. So a full decade before religion inspired suicide bombing became a visible mass phenomenon, Kirby portrayed it.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Nov 2017

      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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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Nov 2017

          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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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Nov 2017

          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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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Nov 2017

          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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        1. Chrs Rd‏ @ccharlesreed 9 Nov 2017
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          The Tiger Force!!!!

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        1. cgt‏ @cgtzeno 9 Nov 2017
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          I remember this scene. One of the great Darkseid drawings. But What happened to GGodfrey? I forget...

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