In the second volume of Jack Kirby’s Fourth World Omnibus we witness the introduction of several characters new to the world of comics from the forces of good and evil (New Genesis and Apokolips). There is a strong sense of story development as Kirby moves from one title to another giving the reader a broad canvas from where to pick favorite characters and through which the many contributions to this new world are realized. It’s a credit to DC that they allowed this force of nature unfettered control of his creation at this time. The engines of creation move on to delight the reader with magnificent expressions of cosmic reality well established in the here and now of the times he lived. We hear the echoes of the Vietnam War and the crisis that was unfolding in his culture due to conflicts his country was involved in and how generations were marked by it. This never escaped from his sight and saw light in his characters and their interactions. We also see how his ideas run sometimes away from him and how difficulty it must have been to keep all this new characters straight as his stories evolved an took shape to include concept so wild and cosmic that one feels being in the presence of someone incredibly talented in the process of history making. There is no better tribute to Jack Kirby than the publication of his Fourth World in Hard Cover for generations to be in the presence of a master.