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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5. In Forever People #3 (June-July 1971), the Justifier turns out to be a suicide bomber.pic.twitter.com/ofrYNA10V8
6. Dialogue from that sequence: "The Justifier is a human bomb!" & "There is no stopping a Justifier! He can justify his own death!"
7. The entire Glorious Godfrey sequence is about how the fusion of religion with politics of fear leads to violence.
8. Secular suicide bombing has been around for a long time (anarchist, kamikaze pilots) but religious version took off in early 1980s in Lebanon.
9. So a full decade before religion inspired suicide bombing became a visible mass phenomenon, Kirby portrayed it.
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
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.
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/
13. Future potential twitter-essays on Jack Kirby as a prophet: the Mother Box as proto-iphone, "the project" & Silicon Valley, Darkseid & Nixon.
A few years back I wrote about Kirby's proleptic vision (in conversation with Simon's reactionary Prez)https://themiddlespaces.com/2014/12/23/omg-omac-4-prez-future-past-prolepsis/ …
Looking forward to reading!
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