Paul Gulacy - Unpublished Captain Victory #1 cover (1994)
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This is the Buddy for March 25th. It's Surfing Buddy.
Everyone knows our friend the Silver Surfer. That's a fun character, and a Jack Kirby creation on top of that. It seems like Silver Surfer was a character close to Jack's heart, and a beloved design all around.
Kirby tried to reinvent the character with no success a few times, too.
First, with Orion, of the New Gods, and his astral-glider thing. That's an interesting character, and I quite like his mode of transportation gizmo, but he was never that popular. In fact, he turned out to be something of an appendix in the DC universe. His father, Darkseid, is this big powerful villain who can trash Superman around, but Orion himself is there in the corner, despite all the prophecies that say he'll be the one to beat Darkseid. It's like if Luke Skywalker ended up being a forgotten character and we saw the final battle between Darth Vader and Lando Calrissian.
Then, there was the Black Racer. Everything about that character screams badass. An avatar of death, a Vietnam war vet trapped in a coma, coming out to collect souls, a superhero grim reaper. But, the design, woof. One of the worst, if not the worst, designs Jack Kirby ever did. Red and blue tights, a yellow collared cape, and a cartoonish knight's helmet. If that wasn't bad enough, he's got flying skis.
I know the norse goddess Skädi would use skis, so that might've been an inspiration, but skiing will never be as badass as surfing, I'm sorry. And it doesn't really match a character that's supposed to represent the ultimate fear.
DC comics have tried its hardest to make the Black Racer look cooler. He's supposed to be an important character on par with Darkseid himself, but he's always felt like a cut-rate Silver surfer. They tried making his skiing poles look like scythes, make his costume all black, turned the skis into alien looking animal paws...
A lot of people who don't know better assume the Black Racer wasn't created by the same guy who created Silver Surfer. It does look like a ripoff, after all.
There were some other Silver Surfer-ish characters in Kirby's later work, in Captain Victory and Phantom Force, but those are way too obscure to be remembered.
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People say Jack Kirby was a bad writer. And I wouldn't necessarily be willing to say he was a good writer, but... he was a uniquely entertaining writer...
(From Captain Victory #10)
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After seeing Primal I definitely want Genndy Tartakovsky to do an adaptation of Jack Kirby's New Gods. Or maybe one of his later properties, such as Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers.
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CAPTAIN VICTORY #1
1981, Pacific Comics
Jack Kirby writing and art, Mike Royer inks, Steve Oliff colors
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For those unsure why this is labeled a “family portrait,” Jack Kirby's creator-owned series, Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers, was a continuation of his New Gods/Fourth World saga. Kirby heavily implied that Captain Victory was Orion’s son, and that his grandfather (called Black Maas in the comic, but only ever seen as a shadow) was actually Darkseid.
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Wanda: Are you guys worried about Y/N?
Carol: Totally!
Kate: Yeah, they called me in the middle of the night and just yelled “what do I do, what do I do, what do I do, what do I do?!”
Jennifer: And what did you say?
Kate: “I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know!”
Jennifer:
Jennifer: ...They’re lucky to have you as a friend.
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i have a history exam tomorrow on the world war two but i dont need to study bc i know everything about the london blitz (a nazi bomb fell in a church and kickstarted a romantic night for an angel and a demon) (a little kid was looking for his mummy while a blonde girl and an immortal dude met a 51st century guy for the first time) (an exterminator alien race took over and tried to control london while becoming ‘pure’ again)
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