#JackedKirby - Half Man, Half Demon... All Kirby! By 1974 Jack was finishing up one of his coolest projects, The Demon... and the funny part is that he never wanted to do the book in the first place. After DC stripped down his 4th World titles as well as OMAC, they asked Kirby for a horror themed series. He wasn’t really intrigued at doing this... but then he was struck with the idea for Etrigan and ran with it. The results are amazing! . Throughout the life of the series we saw many macabre things in its pages... monsters, witches, demons, killers... you name it, Etrigan fought it. But the coolest part of the series has to be the dichotomy of the main character. On one hand we have Jason Blood, resident of the 20th century and regular dude. But deep inside he possesses the power of Etrigan the Demon, a magical monster conjured by the great magician Merlin to battle the evil witch Morgan Le Fey back in the Camelot days! . Throughout the series we saw Jack balance the delicate game that exists between Etrigan and Jason’s existences. But this is never captured better than in the opening splash page of #Issue16 from January of 1974... which also happens to be the last issue of the series. . Jack does a masterful job of illustrating the duality of the two characters in one powerful headshot, Split right down the middle of the face. On the left we see Jason’s stern good looks and red hair with the white streak in it... and on the right we have the yellow skinned, horned head of Etrigan with his blood red eyeball. Even the background is split, with the fire behind Jason featuring considerably less Kirby Krackle then behind Etrigan. Simply beautiful... a great way to end the series. . #JackKirby #KingKirby #Kirby #JasonBlood #Etrigan #TheDemon #SplashPage #KirbySplashPages #Comic #Comics #ComicBook #ComicBooks #70sComics #ComicsOfThe70s #IGcomics #ComicsOfIG #instaart #mikeroyer #RoyerAndKirby #InstaComics #igcomiccommunity