2.5 stars

It's difficult to assess older comics I don't connect with. It's obvious that the storytelling style wasn't made for me and I don't begrudge Jack Kirby's Jimmy Olsen for that. But I can't deny that I didn't find these stories engaging. Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen was occasionally amusing. The absolute absurdity of stuff like secret cloning programs (whose ethics are never questioned), Jimmy becoming the leader of a gang, and the antagonist running a literal evil factory did make me chuckle but I couldn't connect to the stories being told even on a surface level.

Don't get me wrong I loved a lot of Jack Kirby's art. His visuals were inventive and distinct and his fourth world shows a ton of imagination. I was especially intrigued by his collage art, something I've never seen in comics before. But the characters and stories surrounding that world often fell flat