CBR: Busiek And Ross Plot "Kirby: Genesis"

**CBR News** · 01-27-2011, 10:06 AM

CBR News takes readers inside the story summit behind Dynamite Entertainment's gathering of Jack Kirby's creator-owned characters in one epic byÂSpamKurt Busiek and Alex Ross with an exclusive first look at the #0 issue.

Full article here.

**Ziza9** · 01-27-2011, 12:40 PM

This has "Win" written all over it. I'm in.

**TinyJoseph** · 01-27-2011, 12:56 PM

I desperately need this!

**Sean Walsh** · 01-27-2011, 01:54 PM

I have fond memories of those TOPPS Comics, as well as the sheer insanity of CAPTAIN VICTORY (which is when I first realized Kirby was.....really something else

). Will DEFINITELY be looking at this issue and series.

**Babylon23** · 01-27-2011, 09:13 PM

I love almost all things Kirby. It's great to see Captain Victory and silver Star returning. I'll definitely be picking this up.

**Manga4life** · 01-27-2011, 09:15 PM

I'm bummed that it's only going to be a limited-series, I was hoping to see a whole new universe of character unleashed with solo titles and other projects to come, I guess maybe if Genesis does good that this could/will happen. I was kind of thinking that this was going to turn out like Project Superpowers, you know, with a core series and then some mini's and an ongoing running in the background, but I guess not, or at least not right off the bat.

**Rod G** · 01-27-2011, 10:32 PM

Okay, the Ninth Men and the Teenagents have been mentioned, but what about Satan's Six?

Brian Bluedragon, Dezira, Kuga the Lion Killer, Hard Luck Harrigan, Dr. Mordius and Frightful the demon.

What about them?

**diablo7** · 01-28-2011, 03:39 PM

Originally Posted by Manga4life

I'm bummed that it's only going to be a limited-series, I was hoping to see a whole new universe of character unleashed with solo titles and other projects to come, I guess maybe if Genesis does good that this could/will happen. I was kind of thinking that this was going to turn out like Project Superpowers, you know, with a core series and then some mini's and an ongoing running in the background, but I guess not, or at least not right off the bat.

They might start of with this mini then if it does well start putting out more books or an ongoing series. I just hope if they do dynamite puts some good artistic talent on it, I've not been impressed with the artist they have drawing their books now.

**Manga4life** · 01-28-2011, 07:13 PM

Originally Posted by diablo7

They might start of with this mini then if it does well start putting out more books or an ongoing series. I just hope if they do dynamite puts some good artistic talent on it, I've not been impressed with the artist they have drawing their books now.

I'm on a different boat with the artists, I'm actually enjoying the artists on most of the Green Hornet stuff as well as the Project Superpowers books, some of the other titles have generic artists though and it does make the company look low budget in certain ways. I do like most of the artists though and I don't have any real complaints about the artwork in the books I follow, if DE grabbed a superstar artist aside from Alex Ross then it would be kind of cool to see, but I'm not expecting anything like that for a while.

**diablo7** · 01-28-2011, 09:22 PM

Originally Posted by Manga4life

I'm on a different boat with the artists, I'm actually enjoying the artists on most of the Green Hornet stuff as well as the Project Superpowers books, some of the other titles have generic artists though and it does make the company look low budget in certain ways. I do like most of the artists though and I don't have any real complaints about the artwork in the books I follow, if DE grabbed a superstar artist aside from Alex Ross then it would be kind of cool to see, but I'm not expecting anything like that for a while.

If he wasn't dc exclusive, I'd love to see simonson do some work on the kirby books.

**Derrick Fish** · 01-28-2011, 09:29 PM

Originally Posted by diablo7

If he wasn't dc exclusive, I'd love to see simonson do some work on the kirby books.

Indeed. There are a LOT of major talent in the industry known for evoking a Kirby-esque style that it would be interesting to see on this project such as Walt Simonson, Bruce Timm, Mike Oeming and more.

**saidestroyer** · 01-30-2011, 01:48 PM

Originally Posted by Derrick Fish

Indeed. There are a LOT of major talent in the industry known for evoking a Kirby-esque style that it would be interesting to see on this project such as Walt Simonson, Bruce Timm, Mike Oeming and more.

I was thinking of Keith Giffen. The issue of Doom Patrol with his art looks quite Kirby-y.

However, I would love to see some new artists getting their break and doing new miniseries/OGN's/etc if this project goes any further than Kirby: Genesis. I don't know, it just seems apropos.

Wouldn't mind if Ross stays, doing covers for all of them, of course :)

**Ed Love** · 01-31-2011, 07:00 AM

I don't want artists with works that look like Kirby, that's the problem of too many Kirby projects. They try too hard to mimic style and you get something that's far less. Give me artists that work the same way, that know how to draw the fantastic alongside the normal, that draw superheroes as looking and being heroic without gore and "realistic" changes, and action that excites. Give me artists like Simonson, Perez, Byrne, Grummett, Bagley, Lyle, Ordway, Oliffe.

Goes double for the writers.

**doolbnoom** · 01-31-2011, 01:28 PM

i think someone like simonson would be perfect. has his own style, but he's close to kirby's- not imitating really.

but otherwise i am definitely in on this.
and other projects that may come from this (i'm sure they'll have more stuff)- like Project Superpowers has had/is having (great title by the way, and Black Terror!).

kirby's idea/characters + Dynamite=success.