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From: gdavis@noscvax.UUCP (Gary L. Davis)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Curious (Really Kirby)
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Date: Wed, 8-May-85 12:19:59 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  8 12:19:59 1985
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Sadly, I have to admit that there was one thing which disappointed
me with "The Hunger Dogs", namely Kirby's characterization of 
Darkseid.  I agree with Joe Kalash when he says that Darkseid is
one of the best (if not the best) villains to ever grace the
comic page.  But things sure have changed for Darkseid and gang
lately on Apokolips.  In the initial run of Kirby's Fourth World
epic, Darkseid was truly an awe-inspiring entity-unquestioned master
of his world and filled with motives which were pretty much above
and beyond the scope of the average comic book villain.  Just look
at Darkseid's speech to Glorious Godfrey in Forever People #3 to see
what I mean.  You have to admire a villain who thinks like that.

However, in the current versions, most of the populace is in revolt
and the big D seems to spend more time running from danger and 
mourning for "the good old days" than anything else.  This is just
not the Darkseid I used to know and love.  Rather this is the Darkseid
of the terrible "Super Powers" series.  Somehow, Kirby really lost
his way between here and 1973.  I really wonder if this is what
Kirby had in mind for Darkseid all along.