Much has been written about Kirby and his masterwork at DC， I don't belieive I'm able to add anything to that， I just want to comment on the way the book is presented， telling the full Fourth World saga as it was published， and it makes a different kind of universal sense from reading each one of the collected titles separately。The scope of what Kirby was trying to achieve （and yes， sometimes falling short from） is overwhelming: new concepts and ideas are thrown every other panel， new， fully for Much has been written about Kirby and his masterwork at DC， I don't belieive I'm able to add anything to that， I just want to comment on the way the book is presented， telling the full Fourth World saga as it was published， and it makes a different kind of universal sense from reading each one of the collected titles separately。The scope of what Kirby was trying to achieve （and yes， sometimes falling short from） is overwhelming: new concepts and ideas are thrown every other panel， new， fully formed characters introduced in everyone of these 50-odd issues， world shattering， undoubtly in the DC Universe， but far beyond it。The book is comprehensive， including also the eighties return， with obvious diminishing returns （Kirby was no longer a young man and there is a bitter outlook in all the material on top of that）。Something that every comics reader should read at least one， in probably the best format possible。 。。。more