THE NEW GODS

Fourth World problems

Saxon Bullock

▸ RELEASED OUT NOW! ▸ Publisher DC Comics ▸ Writer Ram V ▸ Artists Evan Cagle, Jorge Fornés, Jesse Lonergan, Riccardo Federici ISSUES 1-4 Few comics are as wildly inventive or as spectacularly “of their time” as Jack Kirby’s Fourth World saga. Originally published in the early ’70s across multiple titles written and drawn by Kirby, it’s a mythological sci-fi epic bursting at the seams with bizarre concepts and iconic heroes. It’s also unironically earnest to a staggering degree, packed with melodrama, florid dialogue and offbeat character names like Big Barda, Granny Goodness and Glorious Godfrey. Despite this, Kirby’s characters and ideas have been a regular presence in the DC universe for decades, and this new reboot of one of the original Fourth World titles is doing a great job of modernising…

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SFX (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2025

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