5/8/2023 0 Comments Jack kirby gods![]() But what of cosmic superhero team The Eternals, whose own feature film from Marvel Studios arrived in theaters this week?Īs it happens, one of creative powerhouse Jack Kirby's final major contributions to the expansive Marvel Universe was riding the wave of a new myth being perpetrated by a German author who began espousing his theories of mankind's evolution at just the right time. ![]() For instance, Thor and the Asgardians are taken wholesale from Norse legend Ghost Rider has his basis in spectral horsemen folklore gathered by the Brothers Grimm Black Panther takes cues from Egyptian culture as well as 20th Century Afrofuturism and what is The Hulk but a play on Robert Louis Stevenson's 19th century classic Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. ![]() One of the big reasons Marvel Comics characters continue to resonate throughout the decades is their strong mythic underpinnings. ![]()
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