KIRBY GENESIS #1

Review by: shiveringking8

What did the
iFanboy
community think?

166
Pulls
Avg Rating: 4.3
 
Users who pulled this comic:
Users who reviewed this comic:
Kurt Busiek, Alex Ross, Jackson Herbert

Size: pages
Price: 3.99

Can’t believe this isn’t getting more pulls!  I guess the small(er) name publisher really just lessens how much people hear about it.  But it’s Busiek, Ross, and KIRBY! 

I was pleasantly surprised with this issue…the #0 was disorienting and without direction, but this one sets up the story very nicely.  The Kirby inspired artwork is breathtaking in sections, particularly when the panelling gets very interesting.  I also loved the breaking-the-fourth-wall stuff that made it just a bit more fun.  Definitely worth a pickup–now just to decide which of the 10+ covers you should pick!

Story: 4 - Very Good
Art: 5 - Excellent
 

Comments

  1. Avatar photo cahubble09 says:
    June 19, 2011 at 1:40 am

    At this point, I’d also give the story a 5. I’d say it deserves it based on pulling off breaking the fourth wall, wouldn’t you? I thought that was done well.

    RE # of pulls … I wonder if the mediocre Project Superpowers has made people leery of Dynamite projects involving resurrecting unused characters and ideas for today’s readership. Alex Ross wrote PS and the drawing model was the same … he did the covers and someone else used his sketches to draw the artwork. And this was definitely better artwork than in Project Superpowers.

    The story in this also feels superior to Project Superpowers. There was no cohesion in Project Superpowers. Maybe it helps that every one of these characters (except Kirby and Bobbi and their parents) are Kirby properties. I’m going to stop comparing this to Project Superpowers beginning with issue #2. 😉

  2. Avatar photo PhantomPhrenemy says:
    June 19, 2011 at 8:55 pm

    I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would.  I’m looking forward to more.  It’s a worthy homage to King Kirby so far.

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