Jack Kirby's New Gods Omnibus
Volumes 1-4

As first reported on Newsarama Moving over to the monster project on Brewer’s schedule, New Gods Omnibus should be, the editor feels, the definitive collection of Jack Kirby’s Fourth World saga, from start to finish. "We're still trying to determine the final contents, but essentially, it’s going to be a hardcover collection of the full New Gods saga,” Brewer said. "Right now, and this is subject to change, my bias would be to collect the stories across titles, as they were released chronologically, so it gives you a sense of how the concepts evolved, so that way you're not stuck with a full Mr. Miracle collection or a full Forever People, but rather, build the larger story as the issues and pieces were released chronologically.” The Omnibus will include the full run of New Gods and The Hunger Dogs, but will also include, as Brewer said, assorted other issues which contain pieces of the larger whole, such as the debut of the characters in Kirby’s issues of Jimmy Olsen and others. "Those are some of the details we're still working out, but it’s looking like it will be four collections of 200-plus pages each,” Brewer said. "They'll be color hard covers – a nice, definitive collection. I think that’s something that the core Kirby fans have wanted to see for a long time.” As for the coloring, Brewer isn't certain if the pages will be fully recolored or touched up fro the originals. "We rescanned a lot of the black and white line art for the toned books we did a few years ago, and the question now is whether or not we have that art reproduced well enough so we can go back and color it, or we have to get the art again…or what we have to do. The intent is to make this the definitive, good-looking version of this classic story. 400 pages and $50 each, Deluxe Hardcover Volume One Released May 30, 2007 Introduction by Grant Morrison Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen #133-139 The Forever People #1-3 The New Gods #1-3 Mister Miracle #1-3 Beautiful Dreamer vs. Darkseid pin-up Concept drawings of the New Gods Afterword by Mark Evanier Volume Two Released September 6, 2007 Introduction by Walt Simonson The New Gods #4-6 The Forever People #4-6 Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen #141-145 Mister Miracle #4-6 Infinity Man pin-up Lightray pin-up Kalibak pin-up Jack Kirby self-portrait pin-up Afterword by Mark Evanier Original pencil pages Volume Three Released November 21, 2007 Introduction by Glen David Gold The New Gods #7-10 The Forever People #7-10 Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen #146-148 Mister Miracle #7-10 Afterword by Mark Evanier Original pencil pages Volume Four Released March 26, 2008 Introduction by Paul Levitz The New Gods #11 The Forever People #11 Mister Miracle #10-18 The 48-page story "Even Gods Must Die," originally published in 1984’s New Gods #6 "The Hunger Dogs!" DC Graphic Novel #4 The Fourth World character entries from Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe New Gods reprint series ad New Gods reprint series covers Afterword by Mark Evanier Mike Royer's original inks Original pencil pages

New Gods created by Jack Kirby
All stories written and penciled by Jack Kirby
Inks by Mike Royer

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