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Here’s a preview: http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=preview&id=13139
This is it, the next to last issue of the comic. It’s big (50 pages) it’s crazy (craziest comic I’ve ever done) and it’s a bargain ($3.99).
Today would be Jack Kirby’s 95th Birthday. Consider donating to the “Kirby4Heroes” campaign at http://www.heroinitiative.org/
Now you can get the Final Frontier Comic Strip Tee: http://www.comicstriptees.com/comic/?id=969
Here’s a link to a short documentary film by Julie Sokolow starring Tom “Final Frontier” Scioli, Jim “Afrodisiac” Rugg, Jasen “Gypsy Lounge” Lex, and Ed “Wizzywig” Piskor. Enjoy: http://boingboing.net/2012/09/21/video-about-new-dimension-comi.html
I’ve been thinking about Supreme a lot the past few days. I felt like doing a quick drawing to get some of it out. Here’s Ethan Crane in an exo-suit made of trashed Suprematons vs. Mean Supreme, with Optilux in a crystal skull spaceship.
Okay, so Kirby drew the Kree Supreme Intelligence once and never again. Here’s what it looked like:
When other artists picked up what Kirby created they interpreted this as a giant floating disembodied alien head:
But looking at Kirby’s original drawing, it looks to me that within all that crackling energy, there’s the suggestion of a slug-like, worm-like body. Something akin to God Emperor of Dune. Here’s what I imagine it would look like:
The added tendrils are optional. One last bit of speculation: just like Captain Marvel was a Kree version of Fawcett’s Captain Marvel, I wonder if The Supreme Intelligence was a Kirby-ized version of the Shazam villain, Mr. Mind. It would seem natural for Kirby to introduce an imposing character like this, who the heroes later discover is a tiny tyrant, similar to what Kirby did later on with Overlord in Mister Miracle #2.
Kree Supreme Intelligence, Captain Marvel and all that jazz is TM and copyright Marvel Comics.
Jack Kirby is neither portrayed nor mentioned in the new film Argo. There’s no Kirby artwork in it either.