Sunday, February 02, 2014

365 Days of KirbyTech, Day 33: The Government's Secret Dual Computer for National Defense

Here's why I want to live in Jack Kirby's world: because it's a world where an innocent-lookin' spiked multi-ton barbell...


Panels from Thor #173 (February 1970), script by Stan Lee, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Bill Everett, letters by Artie Simek

...is actually The Government's Secret Dual Computer for National Defense in disguise.


More to the point, it's a world where The Government's Secret Dual Computer for National Defense looks like that. And as we all know, Jack Kirby predicted what military computers were going to look like in his future, our present, completely accurately.

1 comment:

DC Sheehan said...

I've always found computers work well after you hit them really hard with a hammer.