Geek Syndicate Issue 7 | Page 63

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Image © DC Comics, 1971

series would be killed off. It is a bittersweet, yet still a highly enjoyable finish to a fantastic epic that led to so many changes to the comic medium and the main stream without them even realising it.

Luke Halsall

The origins of the New Gods, from Issue 7 of The New Gods

Must Die and The Hunger Dogs. Both are really enjoyable stories. However they do not feel like the continuation on from The New Gods 11 that I had hoped for. Instead they feel like a snap shot into this universe. Further, a lot had changed for Kirby in the time it took him to finally pen the end to his epic. He had often stated that the finale would see the end of Orion and Darkseid but at the same time his finale was always in a state of flux. One thing that helped to add to this state of flux was the time it took for Even

Gods Must Die to be produced. The final issue of Mister Miracle was released in March 1973, the final issue of The New Gods was November 1972. Even Gods Must Die was published in November 1985, thirteen years since the last issue of The New Gods. Kirby had changed and consequently his story had changed with it. Also DC had just released Orion, Darkseid and their cohorts as toys. Now that they were a success with the kids, DC were less keen with the possibility that the two most intergral characters in the

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