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by Ken
Fri May 05, 2023 11:42 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef! Sweetums! Gonzo!)
Replies: 35320
Views: 7077260

Re: Jab’s Builds! (Glorious Godfrey! Mantis! Devilance! Black Racer!)

As a thought experiment, picture the Silver Surfer wearing stylized medieval armor and realize that it isn't just the skis and poles.
by Ken
Fri May 05, 2023 7:36 am
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef! Sweetums! Gonzo!)
Replies: 35320
Views: 7077260

Re: The Black Racer

Jack Kirby did his best work when he had a collaborator, whether it was Joe Simon or Stan Lee or whomever. I said it before, I'll say it again. Jack Kirby needed a collaborator. Whether Joe Simon or Stan Lee or whomever, Jack needed to be working with someone to help filter the good ideas from the ...
by Ken
Thu May 04, 2023 12:23 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef! Sweetums! Gonzo!)
Replies: 35320
Views: 7077260

Re: Jab’s Builds! (Warhounds! Glorious Godfrey! Mantis!)

I always proffered his last pictured look over Kirby's design. I thought it made Mantis look more unique. I believe that last design is also a Kirby design. He was involved with redesigning the New Gods for the Super Powers toy line. The picture itself was penciled by Jack Kirby and inked by Greg T...
by Ken
Wed May 03, 2023 5:50 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef! Sweetums! Gonzo!)
Replies: 35320
Views: 7077260

Re: Jab’s Builds! (Granny Goodness! Warhounds! Glorious Godfrey!)

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/a/uploads/original/1/18154/1343938-g_gordon_godfrey_04.jpg Sometime circa 1987, my dad was in charge of his union's publicity when they were striking. The superintendent was particularly unpleasant and unbudging. Dad swiped some of the G. Gordon Godfrey pictures from ...
by Ken
Mon May 01, 2023 10:25 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef! Sweetums! Gonzo!)
Replies: 35320
Views: 7077260

Re: Mister Miracle (Shilo Norman)

Jabroniville wrote: Mon May 01, 2023 9:45 pm Was he even black in the original continuity?
Yes. Younger. When he showed up in the late '80s/early 90s he was drawn as an adult.
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by Ken
Mon May 01, 2023 1:42 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef! Sweetums! Gonzo!)
Replies: 35320
Views: 7077260

Re: Jab’s Builds! (Mr. Miracle! Big Barda! The Female Furies!)

Aside from Lashina, the Kirby designed Furies just look sooo silly; when you toss in Granny Goodness, Glorious Godfrey, Kanto, and Vermin Vunderbar…I mean, Jack Kirby wanted to tell this epic story with grand themes, but seemed to have one foot stuck in really goofball Silver Age stuff. Just materi...
by Ken
Mon May 01, 2023 5:04 am
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef! Sweetums! Gonzo!)
Replies: 35320
Views: 7077260

Re: Mister Miracle (Scott Free)

Scott ended up being trained by an escape artist named Thaddeus "Mister Miracle" Brown, who was impressed with Scott's hard-fought escape-artistry (used to avoid punishment in the orphanage). Scott befriended Brown's assistant, a dwarf named Oberon, and took the name Brown had used when t...
by Ken
Sat Apr 29, 2023 7:41 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef! Sweetums! Gonzo!)
Replies: 35320
Views: 7077260

Re: Jab’s Builds! (Metron! Highfather! Takion! Mr. Miracle! Big Barda!)

Jack Kirby did his best work when he had a collaborator, whether it was Joe Simon or Stan Lee or whomever.
by Ken
Sat Apr 29, 2023 5:16 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef! Sweetums! Gonzo!)
Replies: 35320
Views: 7077260

Re: Mister Miracle (Scott Free)

And recently, in the vast wasteland of misunderstanding comics that is DC, we have learned that Thaddeus Brown was the "golden-age Mister Miracle" and was a member of the "Justice Society Dark." I threw up a little when I read that comic, and I told my dealer to stop pulling Jus...
by Ken
Fri Apr 28, 2023 4:58 am
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef! Sweetums! Gonzo!)
Replies: 35320
Views: 7077260

Re: Mister Miracle (Scott Free)

Scott ended up being trained by an escape artist named Thaddeus "Mister Miracle" Brown, who was impressed with Scott's hard-fought escape-artistry (used to avoid punishment in the orphanage). Scott befriended Brown's assistant, a dwarf named Oberon, and took the name Brown had used when t...
by Ken
Thu Apr 27, 2023 6:40 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef! Sweetums! Gonzo!)
Replies: 35320
Views: 7077260

Re: Takion

Ares wrote: Thu Apr 27, 2023 3:29 pm
Jabroniville wrote: Thu Apr 27, 2023 2:07 am LOL he looks so sad in most pictures.
Ken wrote: Thu Apr 27, 2023 1:13 pm
Every time I've read a story with Takion, he just seemed sad, no matter his mood.
To be fair, with that character design, I'd be sad all the time too.
That was my point.
by Ken
Thu Apr 27, 2023 1:13 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef! Sweetums! Gonzo!)
Replies: 35320
Views: 7077260

Re: Takion

Jabroniville wrote: Thu Apr 27, 2023 2:07 am LOL he looks so sad in most pictures.
Every time I've read a story with Takion, he just seemed sad, no matter his mood.
by Ken
Tue Apr 25, 2023 12:35 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef! Sweetums! Gonzo!)
Replies: 35320
Views: 7077260

Re: Orion

Orion as A-hole: Fixed it. Orion is one of those characters that DC kept trying to redesign. In the post-Kirby years, in the 1970s, he got a completely different super heroish look. https://comicvine.gamespot.com/a/uploads/original/10/108504/2588585-orion_new.jpg Then in the mid-1980s, Kirby himsel...
by Ken
Sun Apr 23, 2023 12:02 am
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef! Sweetums! Gonzo!)
Replies: 35320
Views: 7077260

Re: The Forever People

They dressed and acted like the "Flower Children" of the 1960s- Jack says "The Forever People were the wonderful people of the ’60s, who I loved. If you’ll watch the actions of the Forever People, you’ll see the reflection of the ’60s in their attitudes, in the backgrounds, in their ...
by Ken
Sat Apr 22, 2023 11:22 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Miss Piggy! The Swedish Chef! Sweetums! Gonzo!)
Replies: 35320
Views: 7077260

Re: The New Gods

However, with Darkseid, DC at least had a mega-villain- their own "Doctor Doom" but even grander in scope. This dark, calm, malevolent force in charge of a huge alien army, he immediately struck a chord with readers, and began getting used a bit more after the New Gods stuff folded. He wa...