Today wraps the second full week of this year’s Jack Kirby Tribute Month. This week’s theme has been the D.N.Aliens generated by the DNA Project and the Evil Factory, from Jack’s Jimmy Olsen run. Today’s prompt is Jimmy “Homo-Disastrous” Olsen.
As mentioned before, one of the tropes that had long been part of Jimmy Olsen stories was to put poor Jimmy through strange changes. And when Jack took over the title, using DNA as a plot element allowed him to take Jimmy through some very strange transformations! Most were in the form of clones, but in this instance, Simyan and Mokkari of the Evil Factory altered Jimmy himself into this very savage and dangerous form. They overestimated their ability to handle the altered Olsen. Or some of the other creatures he freed from their menagerie.
I must admit that it was kind of fun to draw a savage Jimmy Olsen! Hope you enjoyed this, and please tune in again tomorrow to see a new week’s new theme!
Wow! Hands on Homo-Disastrous. I had not thought about the fact that Jack turned Jimmy is trouble for this or that story line into a huge mess. HaHaHa. The storyline sure worked for me, and your today’s image captures the wacky Jimmy terrifically. Seems even meaner than in the original floppies. Thanks Mark.
It was a lot of fun to draw a wild, primal version of Jimmy Olsen. I think for most artists, it’s fun to take a well-behaved character like Jimmy Olsen, and do a version where they run wild like this. The fun of contrast, I guess. I’m sure Jack must have had fun coming up with this.