Do Comics Villains Look Stupid?

Originally posted by tjcoady
Just on the point of Galactus being made to illustrate Jack Kirby's story of Good Vs. Evil....

that's not really at all the backstory of the creation of Galactus. Even from his first appearance, it was stressed that it was not a conflict of good versus evil. It's pretty well established in Stan and Jack's original FF versus Galactus story that Galactus is not evil- he's a cosmic force. Stan Lee just said the words "I want the FF to fight a cosmic God" and Kirby designed Galactus.

Darkseid- that's a character designed to be evil. But I'm pretty sure Kirby never intended for Galactus to be perceived as evil, or even "bad."

You know something that is a very good point there...I can't argue agaisn't that POV.

The only thing I could counter argue with that is that Galactus was no evil per se. But more like a cosmic force that could become evil. Meaning that what we humans see as evil...to Galactus it's nature. I must say Kirby really was philosophical about his characters.

Props to ya.

Originally posted by Val

Originally posted by WrathfulDwarf
You know something that is a very good point there...I can't argue agaisn't that POV.

The only thing I could counter argue with that is that Galactus was no evil per se. But more like a cosmic force that could become evil. Meaning that what we humans see as evil...to Galactus it's nature. I must say Kirby really was philosophical about his characters.

Props to ya.

thats what you have to love about Kirby. Even the concepts that today look silly and absurd- the stories and the characters still have such great depth of meaning. There's a reason Kirby is the King.