One of my favorite books going right now is Joe Casey and Tom Scioli’s GODLAND – the book has the look of classic Jack Kirby and all of the sense of wonder, but with a more “modern” feel and a fantastic sense of humor. If you haven’t tried it – I might recommend the upcoming hardcover collection: “GODLAND CELESTIAL EDITION”. While it may seem a little steep at 35 bucks – the book features BEAUTIFUL design work from Richard Starkings and ComicCraft as well as over 40 pages of cosmic-powered, behind-the-scenes extras. The following from the introduction by Grant Morrison: “Kirby's work in the late '60s gave rise to a '70s wave of so-called 'cosmic' comics; as the 'relevant' superhero titles of the period tried and failed to offer any lasting insight into the soul of America, it took a generation of acid-tripping writers and artists to confront the real questions of Life, Death, Time and Transcendence in the pages of books like 'Captain Marvel', 'Warlock' 'Doctor Strange' and 'Silver Surfer'. Emerging at the end of the Vietnam War, the cosmic comics held up a mirror to the sick and weary American psyche and offered, in place of South East Asia's blood-soaked mire, an imaginative vision of human possibility and a destiny in the stars. In a time of war once more, at a point where the mainstream comics aesthetic is again working its way through a periodic obsession with filmic 'realism' and heartfelt, ham-fisted, globo-political commentary, Joe Casey and Tom Scioli have elected to swim against the prevailing current and to go 'cosmic' again. Perhaps it's this acute awareness of what it most definitely does not want to be that gives GODLAND its laser-like focus and powerfully contemporary resonance.” -Harold