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Kirby's New Gods (i.e., the real stuff) had both the massive grandeur and the dingy little ghetto bits. Gods stepping down to our level to infiltrate organized crime, and all.
That's one big reason I'd prefer Morrison over Starlin - temporarily ignoring that, I just don't think Starlin gets it any more than Byrne - doing a big gigantic New Gods story, is that Morrison keeps it in mind that even when Gods walk the Earth and Loneliness, Fear, and Evolution killing people left and right, while antilife does its thing... normal folks don't stop getting hungry or needing a three minute smoke break. Whereas the Thanos stuff, and much else of Starlin's has always reminded me of a kid setting up action figures in some big battle diorama that doesn't have time or space for visiting the toilet or picnics in paradisical fields (whether they end in a fight and death, or not).
Besides, Morrison understands and champions the central conceit of the whole Fourth World, which is that these are modern deities, they are mythic conglomerates of pure essential communication. They're superheroes and supervillains, yeah, it's true, but that's because Kirby, like Morrison, often treated/treats the superhero/villain as that purified, essentialized demonstration.
Flex Mentallo would have made a good Fourth World book. For that matter, so would The Filth, after a fashion. Moreso than Infinity War. |
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