All in review

I just finished Charles Hatfield's new book, Hand of Fire: The Comics Art of Jack Kirby, which is the latest addition to the University Press of Mississippi's "Great Comics Artists" series. I'm not a Kirby expert or acolyte, though I've always appreciated the manic, insane energy of Kirby's work—most especially of his Fourth World comics of the 1970s. But I really enjoyed this opportunity to revisit Kirby's artistic output as guided by a real fan and really insightful critic like Hatfield.