This is something I've been wanting to read for a while now and never got the time but I finally did it. And it's... slightly disappointing. Now the art is absolutely amazing when it comes to everything New Genesis or Apokolips. You can see how Kirby got a lot of ideas from the war experience, from Greek mythology, but he didn't just combine this stuff, he revolutionized it with some glorious designs. I could Marvel all day at his creations, he really is in his own league. Now the writing is another issue. Never mind that it's dated, I can get over that, it's just that the first six issues take place mostly on Earth and I'm not very interested in all that. It gets slightly better after that, especially in #7 where we get a lot of background information but when it gets back to Earth it's again very dull, I couldn't care less about the Earth characters. I did like the nuance he put into Darkseid and Lightray and I enjoy Orion's character, what happened in King's Mister Miracle... yeah, that wasn't Orion, this is Orion.

"Even Gods Must Die" is probably the best issue, though, by far. It takes place on Apokolips so the art is absolutely amazing and the story is genuinely good.

"The Hunger Dogs" is... a mess, yeah, I can't put it any other way. Again, it takes place on Apokolips so the art is great but the story is just hard to follow. Kirby has some ideas he wants to put forward but he just does it in a very messy way and I can't enjoy it.

Again, I cannot recommend enough to check this or Kirby's work in general, at least for the art. There's this cover from his Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers #1, which is, if I understood correctly, basically a continuation of his New Gods (and New Gods is basically a continuation of his Eternals from Marvel, he even throws some tongue-in-cheek lines about Eternals and Marvel characters here and there) just at Pacific Comics, Captain Victory looks strikingly alike to Orion. Captain Victory has some guns on that cover that really put Cable's to shame. The man just had some amazing concepts of machinery and dashing superhero costumes. Just check his concept work on superhero costumes, not all of it made it to page for reasons I can't understand, they're genuinely awesome. But the writing? Yeah, it may not be for everyone, maybe others will appreciate it more, I kinda didn't.