>>105200975Oddly enough today is Richard Milieus Nixon's birthday. Kirby based Darkseid on all the tyrants he witnessed obviously Hitler was the big one as he himself was Jewish and fought in World War 2. Since moving to California (Nixon's home state) Kirby also came into contact with the counterculture and hippies which influenced his work and world views. He probably saw Nixon with tyrant like qualities and it turned out to be all true especially as his war on drugs was just an excuse to wage war on his enemies like the minorities and hippies who were all smoking dope. This could be a deeper and chance reading of what Anti-Life Equation really is, the government regulation and control over your own body.
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Mark Evanier is on record saying Jack was channeling Richard Nixon when writing Darkseid's dialogue. Kirby hated Nixon as quoted in "Come Into The Darkside: A Look Inside the Mind of Darkseid, the Tyrant of Apokolips", by James Heath Lance; in Back Issue #104, (June, 2018), p.26
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http://sequart.org/magazine/49427/jack-kirby-and-his-pal-darkseid/the author connects how Kirby's upbringing in New York could have resulted in Darkseid being modeled after slum lords... and there's also Jack Palance's role in Shane to which Evanier wrote in Kirby: King of Comics, served as the visual inspiration for Darkseid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIi-HGKlL_0>>105190553The first issue was a tad more interesting in regards to hypercrisis because Morrison is pulling from Silver Age Green Lantern like the Counter Earth. I'm really liking all this Broome era lore I've totally have forgotten about most of those crazy concepts with especially with the direction Johns and his copycat writers were taking the Lantern books in.
