In 1976, Jack Kirby wrote and drew a comic adaptation of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Let's read it.
Kirby's 2001: A Space Odyssey Storytime
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Andrew Wilson
Colton Stewart
Landon Scott
Connor Baker
Jayden Gray
Grayson Baker
Luke Peterson
Angel Jones
Easton White
Evan Sanchez
Caleb Brown
Levi Ward
Samuel Reed
Logan Miller
Gavin Hughes
Aaron Fisher
Luis Robinson
Nathaniel Davis
Lucas Butler
Mason Ward
Michael Diaz
Luke Nelson
Luis Edwards
Ryan Gray
Bentley Wilson
Aaron Sanders
Adrian Long
Adam Bennett
Lucas Johnson
Jaxon Cruz
Parker Phillips
Hunter Jenkins
Joshua Morgan
Jaxson Peterson
Levi Myers
Andrew Gray
Bentley Scott
WHERE IS THE REPRINT MARVEL
Nolan Roberts
Austin Thomas
Nathan Walker
Caleb Ortiz
Gavin Campbell
Dylan Reyes
Kevin Williams
Benjamin Watson
We can only pray
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Eli Flores
Robert Robinson
Benjamin Gomez
Jordan Johnson
Ian Roberts
Kayden Edwards
Xavier Bailey
Connor Taylor
Carter Roberts
Dylan Diaz
Wyatt Morris
Angel Morgan
Logan Nelson
these next few pages are amazing.
Alexander King
Robert Collins
Brayden Brooks
Charles Adams
Carter Brown
Chase Allen
Evan Walker
Tyler Howard
Grayson Rivera
Dominic Scott
William King
Jace Lopez
Dylan Cook
Xavier Garcia
Daniel Flores
Kayden Nelson
wow
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Parker Watson
Bentley Campbell
Joshua Reyes
Daniel Young
Ryder Gonzalez
William Cook
There you have it! I hope you enjoyed. After this Kirby did an original sci-fi series called 2001, I haven't read it but I can only assume it's good. See you next storytime!
Logan Gomez
Great storytime OP. God, Frank Giacoia is such a wonderful Kirby inker. Really underrated.
Yes the series is really out there. Most notably Machine Man first appeared in issue 8 but the better story can be found in issue 5 and 6. It's a two part story about Harvey Norton as the White Zero in a superhero virtual realty game and he turns into Captain Cosmic.
Cooper Clark
Kirby knew absolutely _nothing_ about orbital mechanics. Poole, the space pod, and Discovery are all in approximately the same gravitational field. No "tremendous force" is pulling Poole away.
Furthermore, unless the ship was already on an impact course with Jupiter, everything would swing past with a change of direction but no loss of their hyperbolic velocity relative to the planet.
Jack couldn't even draw a dead-black monolith without covering it in Kirby Krackle.
Ryan Phillips
thank god then he wasn't a rocket engineer he was the greatest fucking cartoonist ever
Easton Jackson
>Jack couldn't even draw a dead-black monolith without covering it in Kirby Krackle
Look at this tourist trying to throw shade at Kirby's favorite method of illustrating stars in space.
Daniel Gutierrez
neat
Jayden Nguyen
Nothing wrong with drawing stars that way.
It was almost his trademark.
But the utter blackness of the monolith was repeatedly stressed by Clarke and Kubrick.
If he didn't like "adapting" someone else's work, he should have done something original. Which he did, as noted. That was a hodge-podge of crazy concepts whirled through a blender. His artwork is a matter of taste. But it seems like Stan was the "stable and restrained" one of the pair; rather ironic given his flamboyance and self-hype.
Evan Hall
>1976
Why so late?
Jonathan Foster
this and the ongoing might be my favorite kirby work
Hunter Lopez
>But the utter blackness of the monolith was repeatedly stressed by Clarke and Kubrick.
Almost like we're dealing with a different sort of medium where a plain black monolith wouldn't look as remarkable without a framing of sorts that makes it stand out against the background, huh. Such is the nature of comics! Makes you think.
Justin Rivera
Ah yeah, the famous scene.
Levi Gonzalez
Fantastic story time. Thanks OP. I need to check out more of Kirby’s work and Marvel Treasury Editions in general so this is great
James Hall
In Clarke's novel these two chapters have the same ending, which is very, very fitting.
After monkey kills another monkey with a bone, effectively creating tools:
>For a few seconds Moon-Watcher stood uncertainly above his new victim, trying to grasp the strange and wonderful fact that the dead leopard could kill again. Now he was master of the world, and he was not quite sure what to do next. But he would think of something.
After Dave is "reborn" in space and uses his powers to destroy nuclear warheads and prevent armageddon:
>A thousand miles below, he became aware that a slumbering cargo of death had awoken, and was stirring sluggishly in its orbit. The feeble energies it contained were no possible menace to him; but he preferred a cleaner sky. He put forth his will, and the circling megatons flowered in a silent detonation that brought a brief, false dawn to half the sleeping globe. Then he waited, marshaling his thoughts and brooding over his still untested powers. For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next. But he would think of something.
Blake Torres
Huh, learn something new everyday.
Jack Clark
A perfect sequence that has nothing to envy to what the movie showed us. This really needs a reprint in hardcover.