Talk:Fourth World (comics)

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Omnibus[edit]

Has DC announced whether or not the forthcoming Omnibus will include Jack's 1984 ending to New Gods, and/or the Hunger Dogs graphic novel? I think the information, if known, should be mentioned in the article. -- Macduff 16:37, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Why "Fourth" World?[edit]

One thing I've always wondered was why is it the "Fourth" World? What does that mean? What were the other three? Jccalhoun 15:46, 3 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That's always bugged me as well. The most straightforward explanation is that it's an extention of the Cold War terminogy categorizing nations as belonging to the "Free World", the Warsaw Pact, or the unaligned "Third World". Thus a new player on the global political stage (such as Apokolips) might be described as a "Fourth World". Unfortunately that's rather prosaic by comicbook standards. I'm hopeful that there's a more cosmic explanation in keeping with Kirby's bigger-than-life imagination. Asat 03:23, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Should it be noted on the page that even jack kirby didn't understand the numbering at first? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.181.108.194 (talk) 06:40, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Have you got a source for that? Interesting if true. Macduff (talk) 06:57, 9 November 2009 (UTC)I've been thinking about that as well. The universe proper must be one of those worlds. Possibly the first would be the source of all matter in the universe, possibly the Source so sought after in the series. God's world, for want of a better term. The third world belonged to the old gods. Thetrellan (talk) 01:19, 12 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

On the Road to Armagetto[edit]

This article states that the Omnibus will include Kirby's unpublished "On the Road to Armagetto" conclusion, yet the cited references only mention that "Hunger Dogs" will be included. Where is the information/claim about Armagetto coming from? -- Macduff 03:50, 5 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No response here; I edited the article appropriately. -- Macduff 06:35, 9 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect[edit]

Since Kirby's "Fourth World" is a storyline across several comic-book series, and in this context not a proper-name series itself, I've changed the article name. However, for no reason I can understand, the article title automatically and improperly italicized "Fourth World." Can any of my fellow editors fix this? --Tenebrae (talk) 22:51, 11 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Meta series" infobox - it needs "|theme = y" added to ID it as a thematic group instead of a series title. - J Greb (talk) 23:17, 11 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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