New Gods

1. Shazam

2. Orion

3. Aqualad (Kaldur’ahm)

4. Mister Miracle

5. Cyborg

By this, I mean the original 11-issue Kirby run in the '70s. I am reading it, and have 2 more issues to read, but spoilers are OK since I will probably be done reading it by the time I check the post again.

I am enjoying it so far.

I’m just curious on which hero that resides from space or is heavily associated with space happens to be your favorite? Mine is Mister Miracle. He has a good design, awesome power in my opinion, and his backstory of him and Orion being traded between The Highfather and Darkseid is quite compelling to me.

Ever since I read Blood of the Demon, along with The Demon subplot of his Wonder Woman run, I have had contempt for John Byrne’s writing. I haven’t read enough of his Superman, nor a big enough fan of the character to be more than apathetic about it, but I have seen heated opinions regarding this as well. The notorious Sleez introduction being enough for me to trust their judgement.

For the longest time I have labeled him a self-indulgent Kirby fanboy too arrogant to fact check or respect the work of other writers. Despite all this I decided to take a risk and procure the omnibus collecting Byrne’s Fourth World run. All I really knew about it going in was the “Genesis” event took place in this era. An event not well received, and I can see why. I understand the grand scale he was trying to attempt but the high cosmic stakes lacked any emotional weight with an unsatisfying conclusion.

Genesis was only one small part of Byrne’s run and a frustrating experience for him as well, but the rest of his expansion of his idol’s magnum opus was surprisingly complementary to the source. (No pun intended.) Byrne had read the original Kirby stories on their release and must have reread them to plan his evolution of the mythos. He unobtrusively fills in some blank spots involving character’s histories; most enjoyably the ascension of Uxas to Darkseid and his link to the Infinity Man. The characterisations of key characters such as Darkseid’s inner circle, Scott and Barda, Metron, and the Forever Peopke are all spot on. I was pleasantly shocked that Byrne was capable of emulating another author so well while telling his own story. There are things to nitpick but, over all, it was a valid contribution to one of the most iconic properties under the DC umbrella.

The one thing I could always praise Byrne for was his pencils. He does wonderful renditions of Kirby’s cast that’s recognisably Kirbyesque while modernising it slightly in his own signature. I do not regret the purchase and happy to have it in my collection.

How powerful/terrifying would a Kryptonian-New God hybrid be?

If New Gods are, as Batman theorized, living concepts of the collective unconscious what are Old Gods? My theory is that they were also living concepts, but while the New Gods are more complicated ideas, such as Orion being Righteous War, Old Gods are primordial conepts such as Yuga Khan being evil or S'ivaa being strength. The one problem I find with this idea is what about Heggra and Steppenwolf are they even Old Gods? And while Steppenwolf could easily be seen as the primordial concept of War, what would Heggra be?

I was wondering about The Godhead thing that the New Gods have, where there true form is splintered throughout the Orrery of Worlds in different versions of themselves, does this apply to planetary pantheons like the Olympian or Norse gods.

And another question is the Endless also manifest as different gods to different people does that mean every time we see Morpheus in a wonder woman comic it's really just her perception of Dream?

Hello, so I was just wondering about the whole Godhead thing that the New Gods have, where there true form is splintered throughout the orrery of worlds in different versions of themselves, does this apply to planetary pantheons like the Olympian or Norse gods? And what about the Endless do they have diffrent versions of themselves throughout the multiverse, because in Sandman Overture Dream meets diffrent versions of himself, so are they just diffrent species perceptions of him (like how Manhunter saw him as a Martian god) or are they alternate universe versions of him? I know it is a lot, but I'd be very grateful for some help.

What is the difference between a Lord of Chaos and a New/Old God?

It actually a special one-shot which was released back in 2017. And no one even create a page for this issue. Kindly if any helpful moderator could create it.