Henry Homesweet - Jet Set Lets Go!
Holy shit I love chiptunes
“Any man dies with a clean sword I’ll rape his fucking corpse!” - Hound
That guy is so metal. \m/
I’ve been getting way into Jim Starlin lately. I can’t help comparing him to Jack Kirby in my head. Not because of the obvious debt Thanos owes to Darkseid (although I think the two are actually very distinct villains who are great in different ways, despite their similarities). It’s more the fact that Starlin swept into these Marvel books and filled them with his own richly textured cosmic mythology. A single Starlin issue, much like a Kirby book, is crammed full of new concepts and characters. Thanos is the big one, of course, but along with him came Mentor, Kronos, Eros (who didn’t become the creepiest Avenger until much later), Drax the Destroyer, Eon, and so forth. And it all interlocked, in the way that mythologies do. I was surprised to learn that Starlin didn’t actually create Adam Warlock or the first Marvel Captain Marvel, because it’s impossible to imagine what those characters would be without him. And then there’s his art (see above)- the experimental layouts and the positively enormous scope. It’s not that it resembles Kirby’s work; it’s that it seems to spring from a kindred creative spirit.
I have more to say about Starlin soon. I’m having a busy week.
i totally agree that the scope of starlin’s imagination, especially visually, seems as limitless as kirby’s but i always saw him as more of a “kindred spirit” with steve ditko. pages like the ones you’ve posted, the last one for sure, remind me so much of the surreal quality ditko pioneered in books like strange tales.
but man, jim starlin’s “death of captain america” was the first marvel comic i ever read, when i was 5 or 6 and if there’s anyone deserving of wider recognition, it’s him.
Picture from a few shows back where my DMG would turn off if I touched anything other than the buttons. I like this one a lot for whatever reason.
Credit to Paul Schlieter for the photo.
