Silver Star 2 pg 15 Darius Drumm Origin

This page reminds me of Jack's text-heavy '50s work in the crime and romance genres in it's densely detailed backgrounds and complex sociology. Of course, he still had optimism in the '50s. In this late work, a ruthless businessman (with elements of Glorious Godfrey and Billion Dollar Bates) raises a a mutant child in a cult of self-denial -- Kirby's next iteration of the anti-life theme he'd been pursuing since 1970. On the brutal next page young Darius throws his father to his own hooded followers to tear apart, in a darker, patricidal echo of Funky Flashman throwing Houseroy to the Female Furies in Mister Miracle 6.