Hilarious post-modern take on a cosmic superhero a la Kirby and Lee. The art is a wonderful tribute to the style and imagination of Jack Kirby, who as I understand it really conceived most of the characters and stories during his collaboration with ego-maniac shyster Stan Lee, who would mostly just write cliched dialogue for the stories. In this book almost every line is a cliche and it is absolutely hilarious! With villains like Discordia, who gets her kicks as a sadist, and Basil Cronus whose

I recently o'ded on collections of Jack Kirby's The Fourth World, so this is just like reading more of the same, though with a satirical wit the classics lacked. Joe Casey has the larger-than-life quality of the storytelling down pat and I loved Basil Cronus, the bad guy who's only looking for the "ultimate high." Pretty good stuff and the art is a knockout.

Thanks Brian! I have been trying to get a copy for 5 1/2 years! So excited. Best comics score since The Killing Joke with the original coloring!

Godland is a pure, somewhat twisted tribute to Jack Kirby, the king of superhero comics. if you're not a fan or familiar with his work, this probably won't do much for you. In fact, you might be completely turned off. I rated it 5 stars because it captures the 10 yr old in me, while being intentionally hilarious. Very tongue-in-cheek, and winks at us Kirby fans constantly. The mere fact that the team of Casey and Scioli were able to capture the purity of Kirby(and Stan Lee to a lesser extent) is...

Very fun! Sort of Jack Kirby reimagined for the new millennium. Casey and Scioli do an exceptional job of referencing the Master's work while making something distinctly their own. All the cosmic sparkle and mind-blowing concepts flying thick and fast are there. Definitely on board for more of this!

Fun read. Straight to the point, funny, full of action, and great art. I’d say this is closer to 3.5 stars

I wanted to like this more than I did. I love a Kirby homage, but I was expecting to have more fun reading this.

On an ill-fated mission to Mars, Adam Archer met alien forces beyond our comprehension and became the next step in humanity's cosmic evolution! Now he has become humanity's first line of defence against both human and cosmic super-villainous threats.Casey's said that with Godland he was trying to view Kirby as a genre unto himself, rather than just a singular creator. It's an interesting idea, and he definitely accomplished that while at the same time retaining his own voice. Recommended for fan...

Just enough puns and social commentary to make it fun, although early 2000s is starting to feel dated. Damn, I'm getting old.

A good origin to a world much in the vain of early Marvel comics, but with a outward discontent where they held a childish optimism. Not to mention a great panel for panel mimic of Kirby's classic art style, which lends a fun feel to this story's cosmic basis.

Picked this up on recommendation from the guys at my comic book store. A totally crazy and mind-bending read about a guy who gets superpowers on Mars, encounters alien-giant-dog people, dukes it out with villains such as a floating skull in a jar looking to get high and a crazed dominatrix who gets off on suffering superheroes. Great art that blatantly (but lovingly) rips off Jack Kirby. I'll definitely be buying up more of this stuff -- it's pure fun!

A great collection of comics in the Godland series, in the pseudo-Kirby cosmic sub-genre.An astronaut given cosmic powers by aliens becomes a super hero and an ambassador for the aliens. His friends and family have mixed reaction to this. The super villains are totally against it.Fun stuff. Too bad pseudo-Kirby stuff doesn't sell better.

My new favorite mainstream comic, the kind that makes me want all the goddamn trades, right now. Might be the super science that does it for me; might be the cosmic-power-bestowing fetus-gods.But probably it's Basil Cronus, who is far and away the best-named villain since... well, since Cronus/SATVRNVS himself was cast as a foil to Zeus/IVPITER and his band of merry incoming war/sky gods.Basil's addiction to alien brains is one of the great narrative engines in comics today--so much more interes...

Godland is said to be in the style of the famous Kirby. As I’m not a comic/superhero fan, I don’t fully comprehend the entirety of what that means. Just a basic scraping of the meaning. So, as an outsider looking in, it was very corny and over-the-top, which I think is what they were going for in this series. But it was lost on me. All the characters seemed to be stock superheroes and villains. A head in a jar villain? Really?! It was different that he was addicted to getting high and that was,

Big wild, cosmic stories that look and feel like vintage Kirby with some modern cultural references added.Every character is larger than life and make you want an action figure of them ( Love the giant alien bulldog!) the stories are just pure big action with a little bit of philosophy and angst thrown in.So many people try to be Kirby and fall flat. Godland is the rare comic that gets it and manages to tell it's own story why paying tribute to Kirby on every page. Amazing stuff.

Fun stuff, cosmic with a modern, sardonic wit. The characters are crazy-ass comic book characters in a good sense, visually and personally memorable, and Casey and Scioli really have fun with grandiose adventure, social satire (Discordia's trial) and personal conflicts.

Not sure what I think of this one. Scioli’s art copies Jack Kirby’s style very well and made for an entertaining read while using Casey’s more meta writing style, but I don’t know if I’d pay money to read further volumes. A shame the library here doesn’t have it.Favourite character was the giant alien dog <3

This was a fun read, but some of the characters are beyond annoying, especially the protagonist's sisters. The art was a bit hit or miss for me. Sometimes it was breathtaking, other times it was it was hideous. I haven't read any of Kirby's work so IDK if the terrible perceptive is something being rifted from his art, but it kept distracting me here. Overall an enjoyable book, and I'll definitely be reading more.

Yeah, this isn't the greatest graphic novel in the world, but I had such a great time with it, I'm giving it 5 stars! Godland is SO Stan Lee/Jack Kirby, but with a postmodern slant and lots of snarkiness. LOADS of fun!