#Mark Moonrider

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Art Adams' page for the Forever People's entry in Who's Who? in the DC Universe.

The appearance of Beautiful Dreamer's and Big Bear's daughter, Maya, is from the six-issue 1988 mini-series, not on Jack Kirby's original series in 1971.

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The DC Body Swap Brawl

Round 2, Brawl 1

Location: Warworld

A planet. A weapon. A world of danger. Among its many armaments, automated guns and lasers protect its corridors, and firey turrets prevent access to its surface. It is a dark place where only the toughest might survive.

Team 2

Bruce Wayne (Batman) in the body of Bart Allen (Impulse)

Lightray in the body of Lex Luthor

Mark Moonrider in the body of Lightray

Team 4

Harleen Quinzel (Harley Quinn) in the body of Jason Blood (Etrigan)

Talia al Ghul in the body of Jaime Reyes (Blue Beetle)

Tim Drake (Red Robin) in the body of Big Bear

Discuss how you think the fight will go in the notes, and in five days we'll vote to see who comes out on top!

Brawl Rules | General Rules | Bracket

[splooosh]

“Read”

Jack Kirby

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Art Edit Credit to Roberto Coltro

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[ID: Two comic exerpts from Forever People by Jack Kirby. The first is Beautiful Dreamer hugging Big Bear, who is holding hands with Mark and Vykin who have arms around each other.

Big Bear: My friends! We’ve been re-united! Beautiful Dreamer: Oh! Big Bear!! What a thrill it is to see you!! Mark: Vykin! We’re back! Vykin: Darkseid’s work as been undone!

Second page, panel one is a random man and Big Bear laughing.

Man: Ha, ha- Dat’s easy! All ya gotta do is show him a bathtub- an’ if he runs- he’s a hippie! Big Bear: Ha ha ha ha! It’s like direct involvement with ancient Vaudeville! Panel two is Big Bear, hugging the man to his chest with a CRUNCH sound effect: Thank you for the experience, brother! Panel three is Big Bear, walking away towards Vykin and Mark: Even the brother was overcome by this joyous emotional release! End ID]

two big bear hugs

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Mister Miracle

Volume: 4

Issue: 9

Writers: Tom King

Pencils: Mitch Gerads

Inks: Mitch Gerads

Colours: Mitch Gerads

Covers: Nick Derington

DC

[pluckyredhead]

For your Fourth World reading do you have a reading order you could share with us? Or recommendations on where to start? Sorry if this has been asked before

No need to apologize! I've been meaning to write up my Fourth World recs so thank you for the reminder. Also it is unfortunately a short list lol.

The Fourth World by Jack Kirby:

Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen: Kirby wrote and drew issues #133-148. This is where he launched the Fourth World, and where we first saw Darkseid and a number of other characters and concepts. It is a little tangential to the main Fourth World storyline (and some of it, like the two Goody Rickels issues, is REALLY weird and not necessarily in a good way). I would say if you are interested in the Fourth World from a comics history perspective, you should read Kirby's Jimmy Olsen, but if you are interested from a blorbo perspective and just want to read about Orion or Scott or whoever, you can skip it.

New Gods (1971): This is Orion's series. An absolute must, this is the heart of the Fourth World. The original run is issues #1-11 (there are a couple series that pick up the numbering, but the first 11 issues are the real deal).

Forever People (1971): I would say this is the other book that is really central to Kirby's magnum opus and the themes he was exploring. Again, less interesting from a blorbo perspective (I'm sure Mark Moonrider is someone's blorbo...) but it's only 11 issues so I would recommend reading it for the historical/thematic value. Do it for Kirby!

Mister Miracle (1971): The other blorbo! Kirby's original run is #1-18.

New Gods (1984) #6: In 1984 DC reprinted the original New Gods run as double-sized issues (so #1 contains the original #1 and #2 from 1971, etc.). Issue #6 reprints the original New Gods #11 and then adds new material to "conclude" Kirby's story. But you'll want to continue and read...

The Hunger Dogs (also called DC Graphic Novel #4): This was Kirby's conclusion to the Fourth World saga. It's not his original vision, but it's the most DC would allow him. He is not quite at the heights he was in 1971, but it's nice to see him get a chance to conclude his tale, and it's a must-read if you ship Orion and Lightray.

The Fourth World by people who aren't Jack Kirby:

New Gods (1991): This is Rachel Pollack's run and it's excellent. The art is extremely 1991 but the writing makes up for it. The last three issues of the series are written and drawn by John Byrne instead, and they're fine - you can read them or skip them, doesn't matter.

Orion (2000): Walt Simonson's run, AN ABSOLUTE MUST-READ. RUN DON'T WALK. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE READ THIS. Orion suffers so much and it's so delicious to me.

Solo #7: There are only two pages of Fourth World content in here but it's Orion betting Scott he can come up with a death trap Scott can't escape and then literally just trying to kill him for fun while Lightray has a panic attack. Orion and Scott are both lunatics and I love that for them. Brothers of all time.

Both of DC's YA graphic novels about these characters, Mister Mircle: The Great Escape by Varian Johnson and Daniel Isles and Barda by @ngoziu, are excellent.

AND UNFORTUNATELY THAT IS IT. Scott and Barda are in JLI which I will always recommend, but it's not strictly speaking a Fourth World book. Orion is in Grant Morrison's JLA which is a classic, but he doesn't have a huge role in it as I recall. You should already be reading Kelly Thompson's current run on Birds of Prey because it's perfect but Barda is especially perfect in it.

The nice (?) thing about the Fourth World is that every writer basically completely ignores all previous writers except Kirby so there's not a lot of continuity to track. If you read Kirby, you can encounter the characters anywhere else and know everything you need to know.

Happy reading!

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✨- OK SO BASICALLY new genesis is where the new gods and bugs are (forager my baby boy) major characters there would be: Orion (son of darkseid, he hates his father and is a good guy, also a war god), big barda (a fury of apokalypse, escaped apokalypse, eventually joins justice League), high father (ruler of new genesis and the new gods. Kind of odin like as far as I know), mister miracle (Scott free, escaped apokalypse, greatest escape artist in the universe), lightray (new god version of Apollo basically, he meets incoming ships to guide them onto the planet, most enthusiastic and least prone to violence of the new gods), metron (truly a bitch. He's got a vault of a shit ton of things. Unethical Scientist, his chair is super smart and can be used to do a lot of stuff with tech), infinity man (brother of darkseid but he's a hero, got banished but can return when the forever people [team of new gods: Beautiful Dreamer, Big Bear, Mark Moonrider, Serifan, and Vykin] use their mother boxes to switch places with him so he can fight in their place. Kind of like Captain planet I guess)

Bear, Mark Moonrider, Serifan, and Vykin

The bugs: main ones would be the green lantern forager, the red forager who typically gets the focus when bugs get focus during new genesis plots, mantis (ruler of the bugs basically)

There's other ones but these are who came to mind

Also this is where the super cycle came from

OH I KNOW BIG BARDA AT LEAST...

Hsjdnjfg thank you for the rundown omg. My brain is ballooning with all this knowledge... Phew..... I'm grateful my friend...

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Nia Nall: Thank you for helping us fight off the invasion from Apokolips. My name is Dreamer, what are your names.

Mark Moonrider: I am Mark Moonrider, this is Serifan, that's Vykin the Black, that's Big Bear, and that's his wife... umm I'm sorry

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DARKSEID'S OMEGA EFFECT IN FULL EFFECT -- TARGET: THE FOREVER PEOPLE!

PIC INFO: Spotlight on a splash page of Boss Darkseid's dreaded "Omega Effect" on the hunt for Sonny Sumo, Big Bear, Mark Moonrider, Serifan, & Beautiful Dreamer of the Forever People, from the pages of "The Forever People" Vol. 1 #6. December 1971/January 1972. DC Comics.

"The Omega Effect is swift! Relentless! It reaches through walls for hundreds of yards and looks on to its prey!"

-- "THE FOREVER PEOPLE" Vol. 1 #6 (winter 1971-'72)

Story/script/artwork by Jack "King" Kirby

Inks by Vince Colletta

Letters by John Costanza

Source: http://diversionsofthegroovykind.blogspot.com/2014/08/making-splash-jack-kirbys-forever-people.html.

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Many of the denizens of Jack Kirby’s Fourth World by Alex Ross.

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The DC Body Swap Brawl

Round 1, Brawl 1

Location: Gotham City Docks

It's nighttime at the docks. Barges stacked with shipping containers rest silently in the water, and tall warehouses wall off the area. Flood lights illuminate where the asphalt ground drops off to the murky water below.

Team 1

Bart Allen (Impulse) in the body of Sir Justin (Shining Knight)

Slade Wilson (Deathstroke) in the body of Vykin the Black

The Joker in the body of Barda Free (Big Barda)

Team 2

Bruce Wayne (Batman) in the body of Bart Allen (Impulse)

Lightray in the body of Lex Luthor

Mark Moonrider in the body of Lightray

Discuss how you think the fight will go in the notes, and in a week we'll vote to see who comes out on top!

Brawl Rules | General Rules | Bracket

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“Big Bonus”

Jack Kirby

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Picks of the Week - May 3, 2023

Did those April Showers bring May Flowers? A line up of activities certainly bloomed in this picks of the week Musical:  Royal City Musical Theatre presents its 31st Season bringing the Gershwin comedy musical Crazy for You, starring Todd Talbot (Love it or List it-Vancouver) to the Massey Theatre from April 27 – May 14.

Todd Talbot in RCMT's Crazy For You Photo: Moonrider Productions, Mark Halliday Blooms: The Fraser Valley’s annual cavalcade of colour continues to bloom for the next few weeks, the 17th annual edition of the Chilliwack Tulip Festival covers acres of flowers Festival: Continuing until May 28th, Urban Ink and The Cultch welcome new works and past favourites to a free, all-digital TRANSFORM Cabaret Festival focuses on empowering Indigenous artists and encouraging collaboration with non-Indigenous artists. Legend: When an Elvis impersonator finds career troubles, he finds a new way to make ends meet, The Legend of Georgia McBride brings a banquet of fabulous outfits, fierce performances, and epic drag anthems to the Arts Club Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage until May 21st Opera: Closing out its 2022-23 season, Vancouver Opera brings Wagner’s epic opera, The Flying Dutchman with two more performances, May 4 and May 7, at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Improvise: The Improv Centre on Granville Island debuts its spring show, Bring Back The ‘90s!, on Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm until May 27 Femme: The Cultch’s continuing Femme Festival, features seven performances from women in music, theatre, dance, comedy, and circus, on its three stages with Body Parts and útszan (to make better) coming to the stage this week. Choir: Chor Leoni and its star ensemble The Leonids prepare for a busy month of music, beginning with its May 5th Schubertiad collaboration with Early Music Vancouver.  

The Leonids in The Turning (left to right):Eric Alatorre, Jacob Perry Jr., Steven Soph, Enrico Lagasca, Erick Lichte, Steven Caldicott Wilson, Dann Coakwell, Jonathan Woody, Andrew Fuchs, Sam Kreidenweis. Photo: David Cooper. Project: Pi Theatre, adds a touch of intrigue to its next production. Continuing its Provocateurs Series with the next presentation, Untitled Peter Tripp Project, running from May 4 - 6 at a secret location which will be announced to ticket holders days before the performance. Balls: Hoping to make it an unbeaten in 8 MLS matched, Whitecaps FC take the field at BC Place to host Minnesota United FC, Saturday at 7:30pm Futures: Until January 14, 2024, 25 years since the artist’s passing, the Bill Reid Gallery presents the Canadian premiere exhibition of Bright Futures, co-curated by Bill Reid Gallery Curator Beth Carter, Assistant Curator Aliya Boubard, and in consultation with Jordan Wilson (Musqueam).  Quintet: Saturday May 6th, New Westminster's Anvil Centre presents Huu Bac Quintet's, Mekong Waters, a skilful fusing of the traditional sounds of his Vietnamese and Chinese heritages with North-American jazz. Huu Bac Quartet at Anvil Centre Saturday May 6th. Photo: Johanna Katrina Comedy: Running to May 7, The Firehall Arts Centre and Savage Society present the remount of Taran Kootenhayoo’s White Noise, a comedy about two families who have dinner together for the first time during Truth and Reconciliation week. Exhibition: On display until June 11, Richmond Art Gallery, in partnership with the Richmond Public Library, presents A Small but Comfy House and Maybe a Dog the first major solo exhibition by Amy Ching-Yan Lam, guest curated by Su-Ying Lee, featuring sculptures made in collaboration with HaeAhn Woo Kwon, with objects from the collections of the Gallery and the neighbouring Richmond Public Library. Gallery: On display until May 14, Polygon Gallery presents As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic Curated by Elliott Ramsey, the exhibition is organized by Aperture and features more than 100 photographs from the Wedge Collection — Canada’s largest privately owned collection committed to championing Black artists. Read the full article

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