1. A few thought Jack Kirby's 1971 satire of Billy Graham: Glorious Godfeypic.twitter.com/S6pHYb30W9
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6. Visually, Glorious Godfrey owes something to Burt Lancaster in "Elmer Gantry" but also, in showmanship & pizazz, to Graham. As Kirby biography Mark Evanier explains.pic.twitter.com/5mFBei7akE
7. Key to understanding Kirby's satire on Graham is Graham's relationship with Nixon. Kirby really, really hated Nixon. Darkseid is a Nixonian villain & his henchmen echo Nixon's cronies (Desaad = Kissinger).
8. The strange thing is when you read transcripts of the private conversations between Nixon & Graham, they do sound like super-villain & lackey.pic.twitter.com/zwFLzB7zaP
9. Here is my favorite moment between Glorious Godfrey & Darkseid.pic.twitter.com/AGWqFMwuJ8
10. "I like you, Glorious Godfrey! You're a shallow, precious child — the Revelationist — happy with the sweeping sound of words! But I am the Revelation! The Tiger-Force at the core of all things! When you cry out in your dreams — it is Darkseid that you see!"
11. Kirby's satire was aimed not a religion but religion allied with power. Godrey made himself a servant of "the Tiger-Force at the core of all things" not knowing where it would lead.
12. Kirby's "Fourth World" cycle was a commercial flop (perhaps too strange for 1970s audiences) yet hugely influential: it provides narrative undergirding of both DC & Marvel cinematic universes. Alas, they've denuded the visionary satire.
Godfrey's human? I thought he was a New God who only looked like a human? (No disrespect is meant, this is meant as an honest question.)
I took him to be a human. I could be wrong.
Related: The movie of Hal Lindsey's LATE GREAT PLANET EARTH is getting released on Blu-ray later this year.
That movie terrified me as a child.
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