Gødland, Vol. 1: Hello, Cosmic!

If you took Kirby, old FF comics, Grant Morrison, the New Gods and a heavy dose of snarky modern dialogue, you'd get this book. Can't wait for the rest of this!

In this graphic novel, Casey and Scioli blow the dust off the vast cosmic machinery of 1960's-era Kirby-Lee collaborations, and reboot it for the contemporary present (by deploying it in a world that contains junkies, S/M, punk rock girls, and irony). It makes an ambitious attempt to be both parody and homage and a satisfying SF/adventure story in its own right—and if it occasionally falls short of getting this balance exactly right, it at least gets points for trying. Fun.

This was a fun read, but some of the characters are beyond annoying, especially the protagonist's sisters. The art was a bit hit or miss for me. Sometimes it was breathtaking, other times it was it was hideous. I haven't read any of Kirby's work so IDK if the terrible perceptive is something being rifted from his art, but it kept distracting me here. Overall an enjoyable book, and I'll definitely be reading more.