User blog comment:Rassilon of Old/Displeased with "Disordered"/@comment-3465526-20111112052216/@comment-3465526-20111112154742

Its something Kirby has done that no other fantasist (before or since, to my knowledge) has done. He created a complete Pagan mythology based on the modern world. Darkseid is not the "god of evil", he's the god of POWER -- political, military, social power, and personal ambition. He is the god of Autocracy -- God of dictators. He is the god of Hitler and Napoleon (who he most resembles) and Gaddaffi for that matter. But he is a creation of the modern world, not like the barons and emperors of old.