Darkseid's Pantheon of NEW GODS Get Their Own Series, As DC Goes All In on Jack Kirby's Fourth World. Story by Robert Wood • 10mo. Spinning out of San Diego Comic-Con, ...

According to Evanier, Kirby based Darkseid (his face at least) on actor Jack Palance. The lead of the Fourth World is not ...

Kirby directs the reader’s eye across the page’s layout, which conveys the dizzying appeal Godfrey makes to his viewers. Godfrey preaches that Anti-Life is Darkseid’s “gift to us, his friends!

Beyond the crazy Jack Kirby designs, the bold naming conventions and the wild colors, Apokolips’ culture and Darkseid’s plans for Earth are all about warping the truth beyond recognition.

Darkseid, the most cosmic character in the eight-decade publishing history of DC Comics, is finally coming to the big screen in the upcoming live-action Warner Bros film The New Gods, according to ...

To say the art and vision of Jack Kirby was a force of nature in superhero comics is an understatement. He scored his first hit in 1941 with Captain America at Timely Comics — now better known ...

When Darkseid was first introduced in 1971 as the villain of Jack Kirby’s “Fourth World Saga” comics — New Gods, Forever People, Mister Miracle and Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen — he ...

Darkseid was created by the legendary writer-artist Jack Kirby, and first appeared in “Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen” #134 back in 1970. Over the years, he has grown to be one of the most ...

The stone-faced Darkseid both updated Kirby’s older masked, cape-wearing Dr. Doom (who fought the Fantastic Four) and anticipated Darth Vader of Star Wars. Indeed, ...

The quest for the Anti-Life Equation has put Darkseid at odds with many heroes over the years, including Wonder Woman and Superman, usually introducing the characters of Kirby’s Fourth World to ...

When Kirby moved to DC in 1970, ... miserable gargoylish monsters ruled over by the stone-faced Darkseid (Kirby was later convinced that George Lucas’ Darth Vader was modeled on him).