#jackkirby — Public Fediverse posts

On this show, I play a song from Burden's Landing; my kid got us a table at the restaurant and it almost made me cry; the notion of "imposer syndrome" made me laugh; working on the Vito X Dino podcast led me to Devil in Detail, a Grendel comic re-read podcast; I volunteered to be a coordinator for the FediZineFest with very little forethought; those early Comico comics were some slapdash affairs; the very worst comic book you've ever read was actually printed and distributed; making a terrible thing is still making a thing which is hard work; if you don't sing you don't get to criticize anyone's karaoke performance; Jack Kirby was a great artist and an imaginative thinker but never had the courage to back himself; I am thinking to myself about the viability of going into business fulfilling crowdfunding campaigns; I have been thinking about the successes and failures of our CREATE South conference; a bickering old couple really bummed out what was already a bad takeout experience.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, September 4 2026.

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More material previously published by Marvel getting re-published by Dark Horse
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/63270/dark-horse-collect-jack-kirbys-marvel-westerns-three-volumes
#comics #JackKirby

Suddenly just remembered "The King and The Worst" exists! It's a 2009 short movie about Jack Kirby and Ed Wood in the army during WWII, and the two of them stumbling on and having to defeat the daughter of Baba Yaga! 😁
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjcuxSl991s
#JackKirby #EdWood #comics

Jack Kirby plaque unveiled at Avengers Campus, CA...
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/jack-kirby-plaque-unveiled-at-disneys-avengers-campus-on-his-birthday/
#comics #JackKirby

In honor of #JackKirby ‘s birthday, here’s a #blof post I wrote earlier this year after seeing the #KirbyWay exhibit.

https://aarubin.wordpress.com/2026/05/28/what-i-learned-fromjack-kirby/

The annual Jack Kirby Walking Tour of NYC is this weekend, timed with Kirby's birthday. I believe this will be led by Randolph Hoppe, who is insanely knowledgeable about all things Kirby!
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/jack-kirby-museum-hosts-yancy-street-annual-walking-tour-this-saturday/
#comics #JackKirby

NEW LISTING! #Marvel Essential #FantasticFour vols 1-5 ALL first printings, ENTIRE #JACKKIRBY RUN! https://www.ebay.com/itm/298613405798

#comics #MCU #film #movies #superhero #FF #drdoom #namor #blackpanther

The Art of the #FantasticFour Flip-Through

#JackKirby #Comics #Marvel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDA5W0NHM3o

@benroyce I still have all my #JackKirby comics though (both DC and Marvel). I could never part with those...

#Marvel #Comics covers of #JackKirby from #DarkHorse

Jack was at the right place, but wrong time.

... or maybe the time was right to a certain degree as this stuff wouldn't have been realized without The King.

Volume 3 will be coming out at the end of this year.

My four favorite #XFactor40 covers from May! Which one is your favorite?

#XmenADay #XMen #XFactorV3 #UncannyXMen #NewMutantsV3 #DavidYardin #JackKirby #AlexRoss #NealAdams

What I Learned From #JackKirby: #WriteWhatYouKnow, but don't let it curtail your fantastic imagination.

#comics #kirby #kingkirby #Marvel #fantasticfour #NYC #LowerEastSide #writingcommunity

https://aarubin.wordpress.com/2026/05/28/what-i-learned-fromjack-kirby/

NEW LISTING! Steve Gerber & #jackkirby DESTROYER DUCK 2+5 VF!
#comics #1980s #eclipsecomics #satire #humor #iran #superhero
https://ebay.us/m/EVazG5

Dedication ceremony to *permanently* name Jack Kirby Way...
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/watch-the-unveiling-of-jack-kirby-way-at-his-birthplace-in-new-york/
#Comics #JackKirby

The latest Jack Kirby Collector should be out on Wednesday in your local comic shop. Check out my Incidental Iconography column! #comics #JackKirby
https://twomorrows.com/index.php?cPath=98_57

You Are An Avenger 😎 #Mastodon #YouTube #TBGN #TwoBrosGameNight #YoungerBro #OlderBro #LEGOMarvelsAvengers #LEGO #TravelersTales #Disney #WarnerBros #StanLee #JackKirby #SteveDitko #Stream #PS4 #PlaySation #newseries #announcement #videogames #playthrough #gaming #actionadventure #building #combat #openworld #goodVSevil #excelsior #May #Wednesday #post #link #playlist @TBGN_Older_Bro @Marvel

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrVoPQdxs8RJlITa3XCLDfqjXEbKrOk-M

𝐑encontre 𝐈mprobable

𝐂𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐞 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐞𝐧𝐲 (Alien Romulus) 𝐕ersus 𝐖𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐞

#RencontreImprobable #CaileeSpaeny #AlienRomulus #FedeÁlvarez
#Wolverine #HughJackman #XMen #MarvelComics #StanLee #JackKirby
#cinegenres #culte #classic #cinema #film #movie

𝐕ersions 𝐂omplètes :
https://cinegenres.com/news/

Sandrino Russo (@sandrinorusso.bsky.social)

https://bsky.app/profile/sandrinorusso.bsky.social/post/3midzd636nk2b

> #hulk #theincrediblehulk #jackkirby #popart

I'm all for keeping as much Kirby in print as possible, but at 560 pages, this sounds downright unwieldy.
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/61818/jack-kirbys-new-gods-dc-finest-format
#Comics #JackKirby

Do you need a great reason to visit New York? Monday May 11th in the Lower East Side is the planned honoring of #JackKirby with a street naming. https://www.amberunmasked.com/jack-kirby-way/ #MarvelComics #NYC #ThingsToDo

The Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City has a stunning collection of art and artifacts from Mesoamerica. Toltec, Olmec, Aztrec, Maya, and Mexica peoples along with so many others.

But the more I looked at Olmec carvings, the more they reminded me of Jack Kirby art — especially characters like Galactus, Kang, or the Sentinels. Now I’m wondering if Mesoamerican art was a big influence for him.

(A quick web search tells me that I am not the first person to notice this)

#JackKirby #Mexico #comics

Summary of the Jack and Roz Kirby Awards ceremony...
https://www.comicsbeat.com/enter-the-first-class-of-jack-roz-kirby-award-winners/
#Comics #JackKirby

The ‘godfather of #AI’ reveals the only way humanity can survive #SuperintelligentAI

By Matt Egan
Updated Aug 13, 2025

Las Vegas — "#GeoffreyHinton, known as the 'godfather of AI,' fears the technology he helped build could wipe out humanity — and #TechBros are taking the wrong approach to stop it.

"Hinton, a Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist and a former Google executive, has warned in the past that there is a 10% to 20% chance that AI wipes out humans. On Tuesday, he expressed doubts about how tech companies are trying to ensure humans remain 'dominant' over 'submissive' AI systems.

" 'That’s not going to work. They’re going to be much smarter than us. They’re going to have all sorts of ways to get around that,' Hinton said at #Ai4, an industry conference in Las Vegas.

"In the future, Hinton warned, AI systems might be able to control humans just as easily as an adult can bribe 3-year-old with candy. This year has already seen examples of AI systems willing to deceive, cheat and steal to achieve their goals. For example, to avoid being replaced, one AI model tried to blackmail an engineer about an affair it learned about in an email.

"Instead of forcing AI to submit to humans, Hinton presented an intriguing solution: building 'maternal instincts' into AI models, so 'they really care about people' even once the technology becomes more powerful and smarter than humans.

"#AISystems 'will very quickly develop two subgoals, if they’re smart: One is to stay alive… (and) the other subgoal is to get more control,' Hinton said. 'There is good reason to believe that any kind of agentic AI will try to stay alive.'

"That’s why it is important to foster a sense of compassion for people, Hinton argued."

Read more:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/13/tech/ai-geoffrey-hinton?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

#AISentience #Terminator #SkyNet #AreYouAlive #BattlestarGalactica
#MotherBox? #JackKirby #NewGods

@bazkie Ok, just for you, (and so that I don't forget it)...

First, I was somehow invited to a banquet at some fancy hotel somewhere.

The banquet hall was a large ballroom type place, with a stage. Kind of art-deco, lots of curves, all white. Tall ceiling.

The tables were long and rectangular, with white tablecloths and flower centerpieces and so forth. Attire was formal, some men in tuxedos. Women in ball gowns.

I had gotten my food and was headed to my assigned table. I sat down in my place, which happened to be the "head" of that particular table.

To my left and right were two attractive young women. Both brunettes, I believe.

But as I'm happily married, and figured I didn't have anything in common with them anyway, I minded my own business as usual, and began eating while they had their discussion in front of me.

The woman on the left was explaining her comic book collection to the other. This intrigued me, because I'm a nerd. So then I began paying attention.

All of a sudden, a bookcase with her entire collection appeared to my left, and she pulled out her "prized" possession... a first edition X-Men #1, signed by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.

She pulled it out gently with careful fingers, showed it to us with both hands, while looking suspiciously around the room, and then gingerly put it back onto the shelf.

I had a vague idea in my head of it being worth something around $150,000,000. (In reality, it's only worth around $15,000).

In any case, we begin talking about comic book collecting. The conversation continues and I tell them about my wife and family and my comic book collection, etc. It's a nice little conversation. Pleasant. Friendly.

I mention off-hand, that it seems to me that it's rare that young attractive women are interested in vintage comic book collecting.

--Record-scratch--- Everything stops.

All of a sudden, at the next table over, Dana White, of the UFC, stands up and glares at me. Taken aback, I say, "What's up, Dana? What's the problem?"

Dana White, of the UFC, proceeds to stalk over to me in his tuxedo, completely fired up, angry as a bull, and begins lecturing me about how sexist I am and how women are allowed to collect comic books, and that it's not rare, and that I should be ashamed of myself for even suggesting that it's out of the ordinary. He starts screaming that I was a sexist pig. He really wanted to hit me, but his thugs pulled him back.

The two women attempt to defend me, telling Dana that there is no reason to get upset, and that they agreed with me, and that he's out of line and out of control and should go sit back down.

Everyone's cooler heads prevail, and they go back to their table, Dana still glaring at me the whole time, and we all sit back down.

At that point, I notice that my silver metal spy briefcase is sitting on the table in front of me. And I realize that I had better protect that case, otherwise Dana's thugs might take it and get what's inside.

What's inside the briefcase, you ask? Poker chips. Just a generic set of nice poker chips so that I could play poker with the guys later that week. I was just carrying it around with me, for safe keeping. Because they're special, nice poker chips. Of course.

At that point, I realized that I was late for the Mountain Bike race. (You know, as banquets often precede mountain bike races.)

So I jump up to leave. The briefcase is still on the table, and another man at the table says he'll watch it for me, but that it's risky because Dana's thugs are still mad at me. But he'll do his best.

Flash forward and I'm in the middle of a cross-country MTB race. I'm barrelling down a course with small hills and lots of blind turns. Essentially singletrack, but flanked on each side by tall, green opaque fencing. So it's a bit like riding through a hedge maze.

Nobody can pass anyone. I remember thinking that this was a stupid layout for a race, because it's too tight and nobody can overtake. It's just impossible. So I settle in and just continue the race at a normal pace, and just try to enjoy it for the nice bike ride that it is. Riders behind me are furious.

I get to the finish line and then ride straight back over to the banquet hall, ditching my bike on the floor as I run to the table to make sure my briefcase is still there.

It's not there.

I walk over and question Dana White's thugs. Dana is nowhere to be found.

This leads to shouting, and the shouting leads to a fistfight. A classic barroom-brawl style fistfight. Real Cowboy stuff. Like, dudes swinging, and ducking and letting the other dude behind them receive the punch to the face. People being thrown over tables, hitting each other with chairs that instantly break apart, etc.

I nope right out of there and high-tail it to my car. I open the hatchback and there, miraculously, is my briefcase. I don't know why or how, but I'm relieved and thankful.

I close the hatch, hop in the driver's seat, and peel out of the parking lot.

The end.

Weird, right?

#ufc #mtb #mountainbiking #dreams #comics #comicbooks #x-men #xmen #stanlee #jackkirby #sexism #weird #poker #pokerchips #spy #spythriller #spies #spybriefcase #cowboy #cowboys #fisfights #fight #fighting #brawl #hatchback #slapstick #cycling #bikes

Reading now. #MarvelComics #SilverSurfer #Galactus #Crystal #StanLee #JackKirby #MisterFantastic #TheThing #InvisibleWoman #HumanTorch #Thor #SpiderMan

Reading now. #MarvelComics #SilverSurfer #Galactus #Crystal #StanLee #JackKirby #MisterFantastic #TheThing #InvisibleWoman #HumanTorch #Thor #SpiderMan

Today's #ShakeYourCLZ #random #comicbook generator. #MarvelComics all-reprint all #StanLee -written 1974 comic featuring a 1961 Rawhide Kid origin by #JackKirby and Dick Ayers and two tales by a couple of #EC defectors, a 1960 Two-Gun Kid by #JohnSeverin and a 1957 yarn by #AlWilliamson ! Cover featuring "Uncle Ben" by Larry Lieber and Frank Giacoia.

#MarvelComic #Comics #ComicBooks #WesternComics #KingKirby #MyCollection #MyComicsCollection​ @comicstodon
@comics

Today's grab, Marvel Two-In-One #19 (1976) $2 pickup!

Cover art by Jack Kirby

#MarvelComics #TheThing #Tigra #JackKirby #BillMantlo #SalBuscema