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Feb. 2nd, 2021 09:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Since the beginning of the pandemic, my family has done a weekly Zoom call on Friday nights. It's not always my favorite thing, but it's nice to be able to see my sisters and sibling-in-law and mostly they're pretty fun. But we've noticed that they can turn pretty depressing if we don't have a structured thing to talk about and the conversation devolves into how things are honestly kinda terrible.
A few weeks ago, one of my sisters (who creates and runs Zoom programming for an organization that helps dementia patients) had put together an art appreciation powerpoint for a work program and wanted to show it to us. We had a blast discussing the art together and having a focused topic made the call a lot more fun. So, because we are definitely the coolest people, we decided that we would each try making a presentation on anything we wanted and present them to the group, one each week.
It's my turn this week, and my presentation is "An Intro to Jack Kirby's Fourth World*" because, again, we are extremely cool people and I am the coolest of all. Which has meant going through various Fourth World comics to extract panels that everyone definitely needs to see and rereading bits I particularly love and thinking about how to sum up what Fourth World is without running out of time or going off on weird tangents that would require a lot of explanation**. And, like, I haven't thought about Fourth World in at least a year but I still love it so much, you guys.
So now I'm going to have to read all my comics again.
*Not to be confused with Jack Kirby's Fourth World which is a different much later comic book that was not actually written by Jack Kirby. Comics!
**Look, no one needs to hear me pontificate about how Scott is the ultimate apotheosis of the gods of the Fourth World, due to Mister Miracle vol 2 wherein he settled down in the suburbs to live a quotidian human existence, because he thereby both transcended and renounced the eternal conflict between the forces of New Genesis and Apokolips and therefore he is the only possible wielder of the Life Equation because he's the only one of the New Gods that actually understands the nature of freedom. I'm right, but no one needs to hear it.
A few weeks ago, one of my sisters (who creates and runs Zoom programming for an organization that helps dementia patients) had put together an art appreciation powerpoint for a work program and wanted to show it to us. We had a blast discussing the art together and having a focused topic made the call a lot more fun. So, because we are definitely the coolest people, we decided that we would each try making a presentation on anything we wanted and present them to the group, one each week.
It's my turn this week, and my presentation is "An Intro to Jack Kirby's Fourth World*" because, again, we are extremely cool people and I am the coolest of all. Which has meant going through various Fourth World comics to extract panels that everyone definitely needs to see and rereading bits I particularly love and thinking about how to sum up what Fourth World is without running out of time or going off on weird tangents that would require a lot of explanation**. And, like, I haven't thought about Fourth World in at least a year but I still love it so much, you guys.
So now I'm going to have to read all my comics again.
*Not to be confused with Jack Kirby's Fourth World which is a different much later comic book that was not actually written by Jack Kirby. Comics!
**Look, no one needs to hear me pontificate about how Scott is the ultimate apotheosis of the gods of the Fourth World, due to Mister Miracle vol 2 wherein he settled down in the suburbs to live a quotidian human existence, because he thereby both transcended and renounced the eternal conflict between the forces of New Genesis and Apokolips and therefore he is the only possible wielder of the Life Equation because he's the only one of the New Gods that actually understands the nature of freedom. I'm right, but no one needs to hear it.
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Date: 2021-02-03 02:11 pm (UTC)