 "The Hunger Dogs" was designed to give an ending to the story of the New Gods, while fulfilling editorial mandates that the New Gods be kept alive in order to ensure future use of the characters by later writers.It incorporated several pages from the unpublished "On the Road to Armagetto" story and brought Kirby's "New Gods" series to a close as the final battle between Orion and Darkseid is averted when the "hunger dogs", the tortured citizens of Apokolips, finally overthrow Darkseid and his regime, forcing Darkseid and his allies into exile.Concurrent with DC's "New Gods" reprint series in 1984, Kirby worked on two "Super Powers" comic book limited series for DC Comics in which he continued the Fourth World characters and mythology.