Gary Lactus’ Vault of Tymbus#12
September 21st, 2009
Wowzers! We sure had a lot to talk about last time I visited Tymbus in my vault. I’ve decided to give it to you in seven handy-dandy sections in the vain hope that it might make the whole experience less tedious.
vault-of-tymbus-12-1 (Fantastic Four # 570)
vault-of-tymbus-12-02 (Archie Comics # 600)
vault-of-tymbus-12-03 (Jack Kirby’s Captain Victory)
vault-of-tymbus-12-05 (Asterios Polyp)
vault-of-tymbus-12-06 (Blackest Night)
vault-of-tymbus-12-07 (2000AD # 1650)
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Gary Lactus’ Vault of Tymbus #7
June 1st, 2009
Everyone loves Jack Kirby, right? Come listen now as I, Gary Lactus discuss with that corpulent comic critic, Tymbus, The Losers from DC Comics. Originally published in Our Fighting Forces, this podcast deals with the recently collected hardback. We also try an experiment in which I use the sound effects from the book to generate some Dadaist sound poetry.
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Beyond The 4th World, with Jack Kirby: The Demon
March 23rd, 2009
Jack Kirby’s much lauded return to DC comics is best remembered now for his monumental 4th World proto-epic. Its fate and subsequent rescue as a lost classic are now extremely well documented, and Grant Morrison’s recent Final Crisis was pretty much a love letter to Kirby’s grandiose and complex vision. But Kirby’s other later works often get lost in the mix, viewed by many as lacklustre work for hire; contract-fulfilment by a man crushed by the general apathy that greeted his masterwork. Simply not true. Whilst they may have not stemmed from the same visionary core that Darkseid and Co sprung from, it was virtually impossible for Kirby not to infuse even his most meagre creations with a manic, creative energy that still read like nothing else.
Kirby’s greatest helmets part 1
April 14th, 2008
Hello, Lactus here. I’m just sitting at home enjoying an Excelsior lager and thinking about The King’s Crowns.
