A lesser known cover by Simonson, but still one of my favorites, for SECRET CITY SAGA # 0, in April 1993. And even better, an interior 8-page origin story by Simonson.
Simonson is one of the few who did work on Kirby characters, where I felt Simonson's work, like so few other artists expanding on Kirby concepts, is as good or better than what Kirby would have done. This is a great little origin story, that covers 15,000 years of time in the span of 8 pages, telling the story of an advanced civilization that chooses to end their civilization, to make room for the emerging human race, amid what appears to be a foretold global electrical / wind storm/ earthquake that destroys their civilization. This is a recurring theme in Kirby's work, such as ETERNALS, where civilizations rise and fall and are completely erased and unknown to the next civilization that rises.
Whether MANHUNTER or THOR or X-MEN/TITANS, or ORION, Simonson has a tremendous dynamic energy to his work, that mirrors the power of Kirby's art. But Simonson has a style completely his own and is not an imitation of Kirby, unlike so many others. The remaining issues of SECRET CITY SAGA 1-4 are by Ditko, would that they could have been done by Simonson as well. But it's also interesting to see how Ditko, Heck and Severin handled the same characters, in what was essentially a brief reunion and resurrection of the 1960's Marvel house style and creators.
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