#JackedKirby - I Hate Reprinted Re-colorings from The King! ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ One of the major drawbacks of reading comics digitally (there are quite a few) is that companies often replace original newsprint comics printed in their OG 4 color styles with slick digitally colored reprinted editions... and it downright sucks! Even though the original art is still spectacular and the story is as great as ever, there is something about the garish recoloring of the pages that takes me right out of it.... ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ Take this opening splash page from #Issue170 of The Mighty Thor. Published in November of 1969, we get a beautiful headshot of the Thunder God from Jack inked by comic legend Bill Everett. Pic 1 of this post show you how this page appeared in a he original issue, with the standard style credits along the bottom of the page and the slightly washed out newsprint color that comic aficionados adore. Itโs beautiful... and a powerful image considering Thor, the God of Thunder himself, is flabbergasted in fear at whatever he is gazing upon!!! ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ In Pic 2 we see the exact same image, except this one comes from a 2015 recolored reprint edition. The bottom page credits are also a bit different, but the heinous thing about the new image has to be the off putting colors and sharpness of the resulting image. The colors (especially the blue background and yellow of Thorโs luscious locks) are way to pronounced.... and the perfect texture of the title bar makes it seem to clean. I hate it. And Iโm not sure exactly why... ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ Just something about that flat matte coloring and slightly black infused tint of the old style pages that made them a bit more beautiful. The new reprints are ok... but far to sharp and slick for my likings. Give me the old newsprint any day of the week... and TWICE ON SUNDAY!!! ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ #JackKirby #KingKirby #Kirby #Thor #TheMightyThor #BillEverett #StanAndJack #RecoloredReprints #60sComics #ComicsOfThe60s #Comic #ComicBook #Comics #ComicBooks #igcomicfamily #igcomiccommunity #igcomicbookcommunity #ComicsOfIG #ComicsOfInstagram #KirbySplashPage #SplashPage https://www.instagram.com/p/BrDCEVRBeqe/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=qyuzwntr3xic
