We’ve met the whole Fantastic Four! We’ve learned about their mission! Now, we’ve got to go to the Negative Zone!
To take on a Fantastic Four story is, I think, to attempt to do justice to the King: Jack Kirby. A visionary artist, whose influence on visual media is nigh impossible to calculate, as well as a veteran who didn’t indulge Nazis or those sympathetic to them, and a victim of the economic system that victimizes most all of us, every single day. A man whose story is as compelling and as fascinating as any of his characters’.
We’re far enough into this comic strip to recognize that I am not a visionary artist, not in the way anybody who puts pen to paper (physical or digital) every day is. Images don’t spring to my mind in a way that they can be fashioned on a blank page, but I do think this is the best work I’ve done with my style, since beginning these comics.
In this way, in doing the best that I can do, and sharing my work, I think I’m living up to the legacy of the King of Comics. At least, I hope I am.