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The Fourth World
The fourth world was my way into Jack Kirby because it's a so fascinating and be like, once I knew the biography. And just politically, I mean, since you mentioned that, it is exactly an allegory of, you know, the political struggles of America at the time - which are still going on. Some of it was like very sort of prescient or very sort of timely,. Because part of the Richard Nixon,you know, space villain is, he's a lied with the sort of religious right.
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