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3.43 AVERAGE
3.43 AVERAGE
As someone who knew nothing about the Eternals prior to this, this was a handy introduction to the characters and general story. I definitely want to go back and read the Kirby stuff at some point. It felt a bit weird seeing the softer, more circular Kirby style of the costumes juxtaposed against Romita Jr.’s more angular art.
Neil Gaiman and John Romita Jr. do a great job capturing the excitement and energy of Kirby while still doing their own thing.
The origins of the Marvel Universe is interesting to me—this added layer added more information without a lot of clarity. But, John Romita’s images are well done and Neil Gaiman tells a good story.
I read this as it was coming out and decided it was time to dig it back out. How is this already 16 years old?!
Anyway, I don't normally care for JRJR art but it worked enough for the big, otherwordliness of the Eternals and I liked Gaiman's take of this facet of the Marvel Universe. I do think that it's a story more rewarding to people who are already fans than to newcomers but that is what it is I guess. It's also very clearly setup for bringing the Eternals back into the MU but I never read any of what happened next (though I remember this is about when the X-Men relocated to San Francisco so the Dreaming Celestial was a presence in those books). I am reading the current Marvel event, Judgement Day so I know that the remaining 90 Eternals were eventually awakend and their society restarted (with Druig as Prime Eternal?!) but re-reading this has me curious to go back and find the stories I missed.
Anyway, I don't normally care for JRJR art but it worked enough for the big, otherwordliness of the Eternals and I liked Gaiman's take of this facet of the Marvel Universe. I do think that it's a story more rewarding to people who are already fans than to newcomers but that is what it is I guess. It's also very clearly setup for bringing the Eternals back into the MU but I never read any of what happened next (though I remember this is about when the X-Men relocated to San Francisco so the Dreaming Celestial was a presence in those books). I am reading the current Marvel event, Judgement Day so I know that the remaining 90 Eternals were eventually awakend and their society restarted (with Druig as Prime Eternal?!) but re-reading this has me curious to go back and find the stories I missed.
Not even Neil Gaiman can write a lucid story out of this Jack Kirby created pile of self-indulgence.
What a terrible day to finally read this. Aside from that it was annoyingly good.
Unpopular fannish opinion but... doesn't this suck?
I mean I know it's Gaiman and he's awesome. But... I really don't rate this at all.
I mean I know it's Gaiman and he's awesome. But... I really don't rate this at all.
This really should have been better than it was. While I loved the concept of him playing with these characters Gaiman's initial idea was a little too pat. Add into that the unnecessary integration into the Marvel Universe crossover event Civil War and you end up with a story that lacked coherence then and has some laughably dated flaws now (all the Civil War stuff that was so important it had to be included then is well out of date and almost inexplicable). John Romita JR's artwork can be great but he needs a stronger inker to rein in some of the grittiness of his line work. All told this should have been a lot better than it was.
Fun, cleverer-than-average, summer superhero read.