Shankie's House of Guns & Spandex

I was sorting through my Kirby books and ran across something I haven't looked at in quite some time; Jack Kirby's Fourth World Gallery, a collection of various pin-ups and portraits of the heroes and villains. As you'd imagine, there were a handful of my favourite recently deceased couple; this isn't all that were in the book, but these are the ones that caught my eye.

( Barda amongst fallen enemies, Scott in water bondage, and more! )

This is totally my background right now. :D

We go back in time to Mister Miracle Volume 3, in which Granny Goodness finally kills Barda for the Black Racer, and Scott accepts his godly powers to bring her back... only to ultimately free himself of them again. Mostly.

Because off-panel deaths are not befitting of warriors. At the statement "The man never bothered to seek out a God power," well that's just wrong, Mr. Darkseid. And you know it firsthand.

( Scott denies his Godhood. It goes south from there. )

Of course, it's a Mister Miracle comic, so there's bondage involved. Only... well, it's heavier bondage than usual. Involving the Source.

( The door or the trap. )

He finally accepts his Godhood, and uses it to go to Hadis and confront the Black Racer. Who tells him to build and army and what-not to get Barda back. Which leads to a huge zombie fight.

Barda makes a cool zombie. And there's a little problem; Barda zombie just loves the endless battle of death too much. But Scott gets her back, anyway. Being a God. The Black Racer is pissed.

( You want me to use my power? )

But let's end this on a better note, shall we?

A note like say...



...Barda and Diana sparring to an Amazon audience, perhaps?

That took up most of Mister Miracle #6. Good times.

A panel on the last page of Mister Miracle vol. 3, #4. "For Everything Left to Lose."




It pretty much speaks for itself. ::all melty::

I must also add that all this recent attention to these two is great. It was pretty darn recently that a lot of people didn't even know who they were, and now they're all headliners again.

I could do without this 'death of the New Gods' thing lurking overhead, though.