Jack Kirby's Galactic Bounty Hunters

Jack Kirby's Galactic Bounty Hunters #1-6

by Lisa Kirby, Richard French, Steve Robertson

When Garrett Berkley discovers his parents' secret - that the science-fiction stories his father writes aren't fiction at all, but autobiography - he's blasted into a whole new universe. Jack Berkley must put down his pen, reassemble his old team & take up the mantle of being a Galactic Bounty Hunter for one final mission!

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels

256 pages, Paperback

First published December 12, 2007

About the author

Lisa R. Kirby is the daughter of Jack Kirby.

Reviews

[Devero · Rating 3 out of 5]

Una bella miniserie disegnata con stile kirbiano, ma senza esagerare, che riprende alcuni personaggi del tardo Kirby, quello di fine anni '80.
Raggiunge lo scopo d'intrattenere e il fatto che la figlia del Re abbia partecipato alla stesura dei soggetti fornisce una patina di fedeltà al lavoro del grande Jack Kirby.
Direi che 2 stelle e mezza è il voto corretto, ma mi piace l'iniziativa.

[Matt Sautman · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is one of those books that I think ages better outside of the initial hype surrounding this book’s publication. This also is a book that I would not recommend to newer comic readers, and especially not to ones who are not massive fans of Jack Kirby. What is here is a relic, Kirby’s daughter Lisa’s adaptation of her father’s abandoned ideas that allows its readers to explore a side of ideas that Kirby had not made public in the first of a series that was immediately canceled. Galactic Bounty Hunters resonates so much with ideas present in works like the New Gods, the Eternals, and OMAC. While plot holes do exist in this book, the book also has a novel premise, what if the works of a hardcore sci-fi novel series were actually a series of memoirs but no one other than the author or his wife know this, at least at first. This is a book whose value is less in the storytelling than it is an artifact that glimpses both into the mind of Kirby and a version of comic’s history where this project’s success enabled it to set-off more of Kirby’s abandoned ideas to be expanded into greater adventures.

[Brannigan · Rating 2 out of 5]

I’m honestly not sure why I bought this one. It’s basically an ode to Jack Kirby. His daughter took some of his ideas and character sketches and turned it into a graphic novel. Reading it just makes you wish Jack had done it and you leave depressed.

[Billy H · Rating 4 out of 5]

it just nice to get away and enjoy an old school type classic comic. Story not the greatest but didn't need to be Art was fun.

[K De · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a interesting release by Lisa Kirby whose father was Jack "King" Kirby. The characters and story is based on sketches which Lisa and several Kirby collaborators had gone through his estate. The idea is about "Galactic Bounty Hunters" but quickly becomes a more standard story of search and rescue upon a prison planet as well as a subplot father having a hidden past and son relationship on Earth. The initial artwork by Jack Kirby and additional pages by Michael Thibodeaux show a robust and dynamic layout and figures. There is a surprise guest appearance in a crossover from another series that Jack produced after Marvel/DC.

Well worth reading for the potential that could have been if Jack had finished his ideas in the sketches.

[Mark · Rating 3 out of 5]

This takes characters developed by Jack KIrby for a comic book called Captain Victory, and discarded when he decided to go with another idea, and left untouched until his daughter found them while sorting her father's art after his death. I don't think they had a lot to go on and had to make up most of it from whole cloth. I had a lot of fun reading it, I got a kick out of the characters and it had a nice offbeat sense of humor. But the storytelling has a sort of dated feel to it, and shows the limitations of Jack Kirby's work of the 70's and 80's, specifically some clunky plotting and corniness, but it's still a good read for comics fans.

[Travis · Rating 3 out of 5]

A noble effort by one of Kirby's old assistants and his Granddaughter to bring to life some characters that never made it out of Kirby's 'to do someday' file.

Funky aliens, lots of action and some nice bits of humor, but feels like it's trying too hard to be Kirby, and can't quite pull it off.

Still, it's better than 3/4's of the attempts to be Kirby out them and had some neat character designs.

[Patrick Scattergood · Rating 3 out of 5]

Up now on COASM, a review of 'Jack Kirby's Galactic Bounty Hunters' released by Icon and Marvel and finished from designs by 'The King' himself.

http://curiosityofasocialmisfit.blogs...

[Karl Kindt · Rating 2 out of 5]

Great art, stupid story. Nice try at extending the Jack Kirby metaphor, but it needs a writer equal to the art.