tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post4342538903305845837..comments2024-03-19T10:41:35.976-05:00Comments on Bronze Age Babies: The Legion: The Great Darkness Saga, part 4Doughttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04248324005584963229noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-25593704713448156772011-02-01T06:21:01.577-06:002011-02-01T06:21:01.577-06:00Well, Darkseid was asleep for a thousand years. I ...Well, Darkseid was asleep for a thousand years. I assume he lost some weight.Jonathan Stoverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07751600613741713162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-63562720276347568712011-01-31T22:33:36.582-06:002011-01-31T22:33:36.582-06:00My first exposure to Darkseid was in the X-Men/Tee...My first exposure to Darkseid was in the X-Men/Teen Titans crossover, which is also the only Marvel/DC crossover title in my collection. Later I did get several of Kirby's New Gods issues, both originals and reprints -- visually impressive and many great ideas but various aspects of his writing put me off. And to be honest, while IMO Kirby drew the definitive versions of Dr. Doom and Galactus, among many others, Walt Simonson's version of Darkseid impressed me far more than Kirby's. As for Thanos, no question that he's Starlin's version of Darkseid, but even after learning that ages after having been awed by those Captain Marvel & Warlock stories of the mid-70s, well, they remain among my favorite Bronze-Age epics. <br />As for the topic at hand, never read this particular story, and aside from acquiring a lackluster tale involving the Tornado Twins, the Legion of Superheros were never part of my comics habit. Still, this looks like a good cosmic saga in the Kirby/Starlin mold. Looking at that panal of Darkseid's full entrance, though, I gotta agree with Karen -- he should look much bulkier. But maybe Giffen, ironically, was trying to make him not look too much like Thanos. Comics can get goofy like that.Fred W. Hillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07602124919964053532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-32663462543700228352011-01-31T17:45:38.832-06:002011-01-31T17:45:38.832-06:00That's interesting about the JLA/JSA Darkseid ...That's interesting about the JLA/JSA Darkseid appearance -- I mean to pick up that Perez JLA volume anyway.<br /><br />I too was buying these off the spinner rack at a local drugstore. My knowledge of Darkseid was entirely from mentions in Amazing World of DC Comics and Comics Journals I'd picked up second-hand in bookstores, so he was sort of like a legendary figure (for me, anyway). While Babylon 5's whole 'Coming of the Shadows' build-up owed a lot to Lord of the Rings, I always thought J. Michael Straczynski must also have read the Great Darkness saga, or at least the prologue in which Shadow Lass and Mon-el stumble across Apokolips.Jonathan Stoverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07751600613741713162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-29484773109958925252011-01-31T11:11:05.900-06:002011-01-31T11:11:05.900-06:00Actually, Jonathan, Darkseid appeared in the JLA/J...Actually, Jonathan, Darkseid appeared in the JLA/JSA crossover which involved the New Gods and a trip to New Genesis/Apokalips. I think those were also the earliest JLA issues drawn by Perez.<br />As to the issue at hand, I was pulling these off of the spinner rack at the time and absolutely loved them. The story had me hooked from the start, I loved the build-up and, like I said in an earlier comment, I had no idea the Master was Darkseid. I still remember the "wow! awesome!" reaction I had when I read the big reveal here.Edo Bosnarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-63531281508026214862011-01-31T07:37:49.343-06:002011-01-31T07:37:49.343-06:00Not really into DC with any depth (outside of skim...Not really into DC with any depth (outside of skimming with GL/GA, Flash, Bats, and original/new Teen Titans..), Darkseid seemed like a very cool villain, providing DC some good traction against their 'competitor', in the fine tradition of Doom, Thanos, you name it. I'll have to do more reading, but YES, I always love when the cover logo gets messed up a bit.<br /><br />Both Batman and Flash has some noticeable logo play back in the '60s. Marvel not so much if I recall.david_bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00218727673816200051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293155946761960913.post-43141637174350180832011-01-31T07:21:22.853-06:002011-01-31T07:21:22.853-06:00It's pretty hard to assess Darkseid's powe...It's pretty hard to assess Darkseid's power levels from Kirby's 1970's Fourth World books -- Darkseid rarely gets into anything resembling hand-to-hand combat. Also, throwing Daxam and Apokolips through giant boom tubes to exchange them doesn't contradict anything from Kirby (and I suppose may be done by one of those nifty giant Kirby machines and not directly by Darkseid).<br /><br />This may actually be the first DC Comics appearance of Darkseid in something other than the early 70's Kirby books and the short-run 'Return of the New Gods' title from the late 1970's, so anything sorta goes -- in a later example from FINAL CRISIS, Grant Morrison has Darkseid threatening to collapse the entire universe simply by incarnating in the normal DC universe in the body of "Terrible" Turpin. Of course, here Apokolips is in the normal DC universe, and isn't on a higher plane of existence as Morrison would later have it.Jonathan Stoverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07751600613741713162noreply@blogger.com