Friday Night Fights: Off-Panel but not Forgotten.

Should I happen to die someday off-panel...

I hope it is Orion who eulogizes me on-panel.

(Ineligible for but in the spirit of FNF

The call is coming from INSIDE YOUR MIND!

Yesterday I wrapped up reading the first volume of the Jack Kirby Fourth World Omnibus series as well as the first issue of Grant Morrison and JG Jones' "Final Crisis." Were I feeling more eloquent I'd talk about the similar feel the works share, but mostly I wanted to show this panel of Dr. Bedlam letting his fingers do the walking:


Everyone loves Kirby machinery, but there's a simple joy to be had in a panel of a dude with a big pink noggin on a phone, cranking a guy in a green, red, and yellow leotard.

I figure if I want to show the next panel I should explain what's going on. Doctor Bedlam drops something called THE PARANOID PILL into an office building and challenges Mister Miracle to make his way from the top floor, through all the raving paranoid cubicoids, and out through the lobby. Many fantastic Kirby-style freakouts occur, but this fellow on the right is my favorite:


And now it's time for...

SEPARATED AT BIRTH?

Doctor Bedlam
Architect of the Chandler Towers Experiment

Dr. Philip Zimbardo
Architect of the Stanford Prison Experiment

U-DECIDE!