Wishing a very quick recovery for Joe Sinnott’s son Mark, who underwent successful coronary bypass surgery today.
Marvel Man on the Mend
Category: Joltin’ Joe Sinnott
The late, great Marvel Comics Legend, Joe Sinnott
Joe
Six years ago today, the world of comic books lost one of its finest talents, Joe Sinnott.
From IEM to AI and AIM
Jack Kirby now has a New York street named in his honor.
Advanced Idea Mechanics, AIM, was created by Jack Kirby to oppose another one of his creations, SHIELD. An organization of brilliant, amoral scientists and engineers, wearing outfits lifted from Dr. No, AIM didn’t see itself as being necessarily evil or good. It was simply working for itself, as if the only goal of the Manhattan Project in developing and testing the first atomic bombs had been to prove it could be done.
Where AIM screwed up was in creating Modok. He was supposed to serve the aims of AIM, but he quickly dominated them and took over the organization. You can see where I’m going with this, regarding Artificial Intelligence.
Right now I’m listening to American Top 40 on SiriusXM, with one of my ten pairs of inexpensive wired IEM earphones. I enjoy making comparisons between them.
Today’s listening selection is with the first version of the 7Hz Salnotes Zero IEM. (There’s a second version that I also have.) I came upon this website with a review of the Salnotes that I hadn’t seen before.
https://audioreview.frieve.com/products/en/7hz-salnotes-zero/
Frieve Audio calls itself, “An audio company and product meta-review site that surveys dozens of sources worldwide and publishes reviews that can be treated as final conclusions.” I’m pointing this out because Frieve is obviously a work of AI that’s dependent upon other sources, most notably Audio Science Review.
The process of AI’s recursive consumption and regurgitation of its own sh*t will eventually prove the old adage of garbage in, garbage out. If it isn’t doing that already in some areas of interest.
Panel Discussion
This stat of an un-inked comic book panel is from a 5-page Inhumans backup story, in a 1967 issue of Thor that I remember very well.
It’s an example of why I consider Jack Kirby to be the all-time greatest comic book artist. Original art dimensions would soon downsize to 10″x15″, but this panel was drawn 12″ wide, giving Kirby extra space to convey a sense of depth and solidity in the objects and surfaces.
Joe Sinnott applied his impeccably clean and precise inking to the story. Unfortunately, the coloring is much too bright and flat in this clipping from a digital comic.
Blues from ME
“As I’ve mentioned, I was recently the victim of a robbery — and what really hurts is that I know who did it and it was someone I trusted a lot and not for a short time.”
— Mark Evanierhttps://www.newsfromme.com/2026/04/07/more-about-the-missing-masterpieces/
A robbery implies the theft occurred while Mark was present. I’m thinking it’s probably more likely that he is the victim of a burglary, committed while he was away at WonderCon.
The Kirby Way
A New York City street renamed in honor of Jack Kirby?
Joe Sinnott said Stan Lee struggled with the introduction of Black Panther in Fantastic Four #52. Was it because of the potential controversy resulting from having a black leading character in Marvel Comics? Nope, it was simply that Stan kept changing his mind about the character’s costume. Full face mask like Spider-Man, or a half-mask like Captain America? Short cape or no cape?
There is little to go on, regarding the influence that Jack’s stint at the Fleischer animation studio in New York had on his later work. But I can infer something from the fact that, besides Kirby, Carl Barks, Walt Kelly and Hank Ketcham all had animation studio experience.
https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/in-his-own-words-jack-kirby-at-fleischers/