Kirby Krackle

[2][3] It is typically used in illustrations of explosions, smoke, blasts from ray guns, "cosmic" energy, and outer space phenomena.

attraction in Avengers Campus at Disney California Adventure,[6] and Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur.

[7][8] Philosophy professor and author Jeffrey J. Kripal wrote: For Kirby, the human body is a manifestation or crystallization of finally inexplicable energies—a superbody.

[...] What Mesmer called animal magnetism, Reichenbach knew as the blue od, and Reich saw as a radiating blue cosmic orgone becomes in Jack Kirby a trademark energetics signaled by "burst lines" and a unique energy field of black, blobby dots that has come to be affectionately known as the "Kirby Krackle" [...].

The final result was a vision of the human being as a body of frozen energy that, like an atomic bomb, could be released with stunning effects, for good or for evil.

Fantastic Four #72 (March 1968). Cover art by Jack Kirby and Joe Sinnott . The pseudo- fractal nature of the red light comes from the negative space created by the Kirby dots.