>>108006940very interesting. what were kirby's original intentions of his gods? as one can see in the kirby collector, they present original art with margin notes by jack himself. lee changed most of the drama of the inhuman and kree connection. not saying one or the other is better or worse than the other, all that is suggested is that while lee/kirby were the best pairing ever in this medium, things might have been less collaborated as sold to readers.
https://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/effect/2012/06/12/a-failure-to-communicate-part-one/silver surfer is another prime example of each creator having their own view but alas, i digress.
kirby was really into mythology. his first god was tuk the cave boy and his search for attilan. hurricane, son of thor came later most would know him as makkari because he was retconned to be one of the eternals. this later stuff is where gods had extrtaerrsital origins. kirby was really big on chariot of the gods ancient alien theory. in the eternals he rationalized that mortals confused space gods to be their actual cultural deities in a surreal version of passport to magonia. celestials has to be one of the biggest mysteries next to the ant-life equation that kirby ever left behind. what are they exactly? well not even kirby knew. there's a quote by mark evanier talking about kirby's vision for the anti-life equation and he said that kirby would always be changing his mind on what it is in origin. he knew what the concept meant for his series but he never fleshed out the details. he would tell mark on way on day and tomorrow would be a different tale. kirby wouldn't sweat the detail until he sat under and drew it. i can't seem to find the actual quote my mark, so if anyone could find that sauce and post it here i would appreciated it very much.
anyways i'm rabbling i bring this up to open a discussion and analysis of marvel cosmology that's between the drawn line, underneath the surface of ink and color.
