Go, Read: Gary Groth On Jim Shooter And Jack Kirby



I think this article by Gary Groth may be processed by a lot of people in comics as either a) ancient news so it doesn't matter or b) some sort of "there are two sides to every story"/"look at those two duke it out" thing where we can't possibly figure out who's telling the truth. I see it as more very important and pertinent recent history, with obvious lawsuit and tentpole film-franchise present-day relevance. I'll admit that the thing that got me was that even though I was in high school at the time of all this, and I'm not exactly an expert on the Kirby art story, even my eyebrows raised when Shooter suggested in relation to one of those recent essays that the "kangaroo court" panel was in '79 or '80, which was so far off it seemed to me to indicate some sort of fundamental disconnect from the matter. I'm glad Groth was reading them, too.
 
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