Comments on: Little Lord Fauntleroy Smash!

By: Matt Weiner

Matt Weiner — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I didn't pick up on this in the first post, but I kind of like "And inevitably, the years passed." It reminds me of "To begin with, she was just a baby, then a four-year-old, then twelve years passed and she was Paul’s age, sixteen." And I think it sums up certain parts of To The Lighthouse and The Years very well (please tell me you're not a Woolf-hater). Pity that Ronin Ro has ripped off the plot of Kavalier & Clay, though.

By: Jeremy Osner

Jeremy Osner — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I can’t make any sense of that paragraph about David. Does it mean something? If there’s a grammatical switch that would make it make sense I am missing it—John’s surrealistic vision seems like the only plausible interpretation of the text. But surely that’s not what the author means?

By: jholbo

jholbo — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I honestly don’t know what it’s supposed to say, Jeremy. You might think it was supposed to say Jack Kirby himself was a big 12 year old. But he wasn’t. He was a little guy.

By: Jeremy Osner

Jeremy Osner — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Yes, and anyway a 6’+, stocky 12-year-old would be similarly freakish to a 7-year-old of those dimensions.

By: Aryky

Aryky — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I was thinking that maybe it was a typo – “junior” for “senior.” And Jack was just being an impressively loyal, if rather over-ambitious, younger brother. But when I continued reading the passage, I realized that made no sense.

By: Matt Weiner

Matt Weiner — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

If you strike “and over six feet tall” it makes sense (right)? I’m tempted to say that that phrase must be what’s called an editing error. Or aryky’s reading might make sense if you also take away “stocky,” though I don’t see why a 17-year-old would submit to being dressed like that. Oh well.

By: imag

imag — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

On Jack Kirby’s war experience: “War was a series of events.”

A series of unfortunate events?

“That’s not the army, Mr. Poe! It’s Count Olaf in disguise!”

By: John Emerson

John Emerson — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The champ is Van Halen: “Only time will tell if we stand the test of time”.

By: Tom T.

Tom T. — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

As to young David and Jack Kirby, I'm picturing something along the lines of Snookie McFoul and his big brother Snake-Eye.