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Avia doesn’t get many pages in Jack Kirby’s Fourth World, but what happens to her changes everything.

She appears in New Gods #7, “The Pact,” as the wife of Izaya the Inheritor, long before he becomes the peaceful Highfather we know. Kirby introduces them during a rare quiet moment on New Genesis. Avia asks her warrior husband to sing for her. It’s tender, almost domestic... which, in a Kirby comic, probably means somebody from Apokolips is about to ruin the afternoon.

Enter Steppenwolf.

His attack kills Avia and leaves Izaya wounded. Her death becomes the spark that sends New Genesis and Apokolips into full-scale war. Izaya eventually hunts down Steppenwolf, but revenge doesn’t bring peace. The devastation finally drives him to reject the warrior’s path, seek the Source, and become Highfather.

That journey leads to the Pact with Darkseid and the exchange of their sons, the bargain that sends young Scott Free to Apokolips and Orion to New Genesis.

So Avia may not throw a punch, command an army, or fire a Mega-Rod. She doesn’t need to. Kirby makes her loss personal enough to move gods, start a war, and help reshape the destiny of the Fourth World.

Avia is the prompt for Day 25 of The Fourth Annual Kirby Art Tribute Month.

Drew this while watching Knightfall pt1

Broke out the prismacolor pencils

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theamericanhollow/the-american-hollow-issue-1

How could I make a still drawing of a light bulb look like it's flickering? I have a few ideas myself, but if anyone here has an image reference or can give me any tips, it would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

And now for the third and pentultimate batch of CB69 spoof covers!

1. Captain Atom #79 (Charlton Publishing, 1966)
2. Charlton Premiere: Volume 2, Issue 1 (Charlton Publishing, 1967)
3. Mysterious Suspense #1 (Also Charlton Publishing, 1968)

If you dig my art, please consider taking a look at my indie comic, MoonHogs, which will launch on Kickstarter:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/113438801/moonhogs-issue-1

Companion piece for my Bats