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Joe Simon is a comics legend, for his role in creating the iconic superhero Captain America alone. But in recent years, many of us have gained a new appreciation for all his other great work with seminal artist Jack Kirby. He also co-created the 1940s version of the Sandman, plus some other great Golden Age superheroes like The Fly, the Fighting American, the Stuntman, and many others. Titan Books has done some great massive hardcover collections of Simon's writing and Kirby's art, and we featured a selection from one of them a while back. More »
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Over at the ever-entertaining Comic Twart, illustrator Tom Fowler and colorist Kyle Latino have realized that Stooges-era Iggy Pop had some interesting parallels with Jack Kirby's Last Boy on Earth. This would have been my third favorite Iggy Pop film role, right after Yelgrun and The Adventures of Pete and Pete. More »
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Superheroes are great at solving crimes, but downright awful at the intricacies of spatial design. More »
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Comic books have come a long way since the 1960s, but publishers have since sadly phased out one of my favorite aesthetic flourishes: that histrionic nobody who was perpetually screaming his lungs out on the front page. More »
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American Barbarian is a gleeful homage to comics great Jack Kirby by way of the post-apocalyptic barbarian genre – with robotic dinosaurs, a Pharaonic immortal with tanks for feet, and a red-white-and-blue-haired barbarian who must fight them all. More »
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In 1962's Strange Tales #94, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby teamed up to create the short comic "SAVE ME FROM THE WEED!" In this tale, a weed is bombarded with radioactive dust and immediately conspires to take over the world. More »
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With a name like the Fantastic Four, you'd think the superteam would have a fairly static membership. But no, Mr. Fantastic, the Invisible Woman, the Human Torch, and the Thing frequently go on sabbatical and/or die, thus requiring awesomely ridiculous replacements. More »
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In this obscure Jack Kirby strip from 1957's Alarming Tales 1, a man chases a burglar into a geometric hellhole, where he falls in love. It's a priceless, wondrously nonsensical example of Kirby's pre-Marvel work. More »
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It's Election Day in America. Before you vote, evaluate your candidate using this unassailable metric: will this politician make the world more or less like Jack Kirby's technocratic cetacean metroplex from Kamandi? The truth will set you free. More »
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In this cover by Jack Kirby, Darkseid's supposed to be lighting a stick of dynamite that will blow up in his foe's face. Thanks to a coloration error, the dynamite becomes something more illicit, but there's still blowing going on. More »
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Jack Kirby and Joe Simon didn't just create Captain America — they had a long partnership, during which they created countless other heroes. Here's an exclusive first look at a new collection of their lesser known stories, featuring... the Fly! More »
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This week's comic crop brings us some wacky anachronism. Vampires run amok in 1930s Sin City, Billy the Kid investigates the Whitechapel Murders, and supernatural firearms invade the Old West in a new title from Oni Press. Here's what's up. More »
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We weren't crazy about Iron Man 2, and now rumor has it Jon Favreau and Robert Downey Jr. weren't either. A new report from Cinemablend says Favreau wanted to direct The Avengers as a do-over... but Marvel said no. More »
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Here's our favorite moment from last night's Warehouse 13 — the slinky catsuit, Sean Maher in full-body purple, the impassioned speech, all culminating in the hand blasts. Seriously cute stuff. More »
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Jack Kirby helped to shape modern comic books as we know them. Want to understand how Kirby changed the face of comics with ideas from Radium Age scifi? Joshua Glenn explains it all to you. More »
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Sid and Marty Krofft, the mad geniuses behind triptacular kids' shows like H.R. Pufnstuf and Land of the Lost, are teaming up with Ruby-Spears Productions to animate comic-book legend Jack Kirby's lost 1980s cartoons. Pass the brown acid, brah. More »
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The heirs to Jack Kirby, co-creator of a large chunk of Marvel's intellectual property, have filed suit to terminate Marvel's copyrights to Kirby's creations, a move that could cost the publisher millions of dollars... and lead to competing Avengers movies. More »
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Quentin Tarantino's violent alternate history of World War II isn't a comic yet, but these Jack Kirby-inspired comic book covers are begging to be made into a full series. Perhaps someday we'll see Tarantino's Nazi-killing violence in four colors. More »
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Somewhere out there, the ghost of Jack Kirby is happy, because last night's return of Batman: The Brave and The Bold gave his OMAC character the best treatment he's had in 30+ years. Shame the episode was still pretty dull. More »
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It's been confirmed that that Jack Kirby's heirs are, indeed, including Spider-Man and supporting characters in their list of Marvel characters that they want the rights to. The only problem with that? Well, Kirby didn't really create the character. More »
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The legal battle between DC Comics and the heirs to co-creator Jerry Siegel now looks like the prelude to a much larger battle over comic book IP: Jack Kirby's heirs now want their rights to, well, the entire Marvel Universe. More »
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92 years ago today, Jack Kirby was born, and the worlds of sci-fi, fantasy and entertainment would never be the same. Here are just some of the characters he created, and reasons why he was called the King of Comics. More »
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Dynamite Entertainment's planned revival of classic patriotic superhero Fighting American has hit a roadblock, with one of the character's creators proclaiming that he had no idea it was happening. Perhaps he should've talked to his lawyer? More »
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It's a bold book about the end of the world, full of big ideas, epic events and beautiful art, and starring some of pop culture's biggest icons. So why does the hardcover collection of DC's Final Crisis disappoint? More »
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The conclusion to Batman RIP has finally arrived. Two months after the end of the story, and in a different comic altogether, yes, but the final fate of Batman is now (kinda) known. Spoilers, obviously. More »
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Say you want to get your loved ones some "comic books" for the holidays - Which ones would make their yuletides merry? We've chosen ten of our favorite recent SF graphic novels to help out.

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He's the sole survivor of a secret military program to create robotic super soldiers who became an alcoholic perverted government operative, and in between worked as an insurance adjustor and mutant-hunting hacked machine. It's been a long, strange road for Jack Kirby's Machine Man. The one-time pacifist robot that spun out of Marvel Comics' short-lived spin-off from 2001: A Space Odyssey gets a new chance at stardom in this week's issue of Marvel Comics Presents, giving you the chance to look inside his head and find out what makes him tick - literally. More »
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If there was ever a contest for "most perfect new comic for io9 readers," Jonathan Hickman and JM Ringuet may have come up with a winner with their new series Transhuman. Add in a new anthology of SF and fantasy for kids, some collections of classic and... well, less than classic material and a new comic based on Peter David's Star Trek: New Frontier series of novels, and this Wednesday may be the day that you have to give all your money to the comic man. Find out more after the jump. More »
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While the mainstream sites are telling you that Arthur C. Clarke will have a secular funeral - apparently, it's a bit of a slow news day - we here at io9 would rather remember the great man's greatest work: 2001: A Space Odyssey. We'd just like to do it by remembering the little-known comic book version, is all. More »
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All of the coolest comics arriving this week are reprints of classic material. But when that includes a Grant Morrison pop-art gem, Kirby at his spaciest and the weirdest Marvel mash-up ever, it's not such a bad thing. Read on for our recommendations. More »
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I know, I know; you want to get into comics, but you don't know where to start. And who can blame you? This week alone sees the release of more than 100 comics and graphic novels, many of which are unspeakable dreck. What you need is someone smart to give you a heads-up on what you should be spending your time and money on. Instead, you have me. More »
]]> http://io9.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=324722&view=rss&microfeed=true Must-read comics are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-read is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale. More »
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Must-read comics are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-read is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale. More »
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Must-read comics are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-read is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale. More »
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Must-read comics are futuristic classics that shouldn't be missed. Of course, not every must-read is perfect. That's why we've rated them 1-5 on the patented "crunchy goodness" scale. More »
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