Why do you think the Fourth World was not a commercial success initially?

[Jim Kelly]

Baseball is #1 for me, too, though I like most sports. If it's competition, I'll give it a try.

As a Canadian, I’m legally bound to say hockey.

[Zero Hunter]

I will admit it. I am not a huge Kirby fan when it comes to his writing or art. On the other hand I think the ideas and designs he came up with were brilliant. I just think alot of time his designs looked better under different artists and some of his big ideas worked better under other writers.

[Darkseid Is]

You’re entitled to your opinion. But your main criticism of Kirby’s Fourth World seems to be that it has clunky dialogue. If thats the litmus test for a great comic than 99% of Golden and Silver Age comics would be considered crap. Most of the dialogue from those eras is very clunky and it over explained the plot. So Siegel and Shuster, Bill Finger, Will Eisner, Kirby, etc. would all be considered overrated or something that “most people don’t like.”

If you can’t appreciate the insane amount of imagination and creativity leaping off the pages of Kirby’s Fourth World, I feel sorry for you.

I'm reading through the Spider-man omnibus and it's truly excellent. Stan's dialogue isn't this amazing stuff haha. I mean it's fun and very enjoyable to read but Kirby's is just as fun in a different way.