#JackedKirby - Chi-Town Gangsters in a Post Apocalyptic World??? 🔫🔫🔫 Jack never followed any rules when it came to his creative process... he never let anything like reality limit him and the design decisions he would make in the pages of his comics... especially in the pages of Kamandi! 🔫🔫🔫 Despite the fact that Kamandi was set in a post apocalyptic world that has seen the animals take over the dominant roles in society from humans we get a set of classic Kirby gangsters in #Issue19 from July of 1974!!! While this seems illogical considering the protagonist Kamandi is supposed to be the “Last Boy on Earth” and he is being pursued by a group of Gorilla soldiers... there it is right from the opening splash page (pics 1/2)!!! 🔫🔫🔫 These 1940s Chicago styled gangsters may seem out of time with the rest of the book, but despite the very traditional settings, Tommy guns and fedoras (pics 3/4/5) these gangsters are definitely there... but how? 🔫🔫🔫 The big reveal on the last page is that these hoodlums aren’t actually South Side hoods... instead they are robots!!! (Pics 6/7). We get a very “Westworld” style shot of one of these robots missing a face and shooting a Tommy Gun at the end of the book... very fitting. 🔫🔫🔫 Our very own @tommylombardozzi loves to talk about how Jack could always find a way to incorporate gangsters in pinstriped suits into anything... and this is just another example!!! 🔫🔫🔫 #JackKirby #KingKirby #Kirby #Kamandi #Gangsters #TommyGuns #DCComics #70sComics #ComicsOfThe70s #Comics #Comic #ComicBook #ComicBooks #IGcomics #ComicsOfIG #thejackedkirbypodcast https://www.instagram.com/p/BwUlI_bBokX/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1acgc0qkvpfs1
