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Eternals by Neil Gaiman by Neil Gaiman

moodreader04's review against another edition

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adventurous informative mysterious tense slow-paced

3.25

clockworkp's review against another edition

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3.0

3.5
Los primeros 3 capítulos son increíbles, se lee como una película thriller. Apasionante, tanto los personajes como las situaciones en que se meten. Bien hilado y con buena explicación. Los "deviants" bastante graciosos y con trama y los "buenos" siendo imperfectos.
Pero el final es meh. Es curioso ver como se integran en el universo Marvel (y más aún descubrir que esto era una controversia desde los primeros comics) y lo conciso que es el plot. Pero no sé si por haberlo visto antes, pero me gustan más las versiones de los personajes de la peli (menos Sersei. en la peli era una santa y en el comic tiene mucha más personalidad). Que hubiera menos Eternals ayudó a que la historia fluyera mejor en el comic, si hubiera una continuación de este tomo no creo que la leyera. Los personajes fueron muy típicos. El que menos me gustó fue el "jefe" estilo Odín.
Ah, se me olvidaba, el arte no me entusiasmó. Funcional.

danpalooza's review against another edition

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adventurous informative mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

bigoldan's review against another edition

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slow-paced

2.0

bri__gu's review against another edition

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3.0

This was fine.

mschlat's review against another edition

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2.0

I've never been a fan of Kirby's superfamilies (this, the Inhumans, the New Gods), but I was intrigued by the recent Marvel movie and thought this might be an influence. It was, but I didn't care much for the story. Gaiman is clearly reinventing the characters, but he's also setting the whole thing within a particular slice of Marvel continuity. (We get a lot of Iron Man and superhero registration.) The result doesn't feel timeless and, worse, gets confusing in terms of plot. I did like the Romita Jr. art, however --- it reminded me strongly of Frank Miller.

jammasterjamie's review

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3.0

This book was pretty okay. It had the foundations to turn into something great, but just never really made it there. I'm a fan of Romita Jr.'s art, so that wasn't the problem for me, but rather the characters all turned out to be fairly flat. Things started strong and it really felt like Gaiman was delivering a fresh take on the Eternals, but it just never really came together in a way that made it feel like the stakes were as high as the narrative was claiming. All in all, I'm glad I read it, but I don't think I'll ever feel some driving need to revisit these characters.

shibosan's review against another edition

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2.0

Даже удивительно, насколько мне не понравилось. Хотя казалось бы - Гейман.

Отчасти потому что знал сюжет в общих чертах - его неоднократно заспойлерили в преддверии выхода фильма. Но только отчасти - самая серия вышла на мой взгляд довольно слабой, большинство персонажей раскрыть удалось еще меньше и хуже, чем в фильме, плюс раздражающие, обязательные для марвела, привязки к очередному масштабному ивенту - в данном случае первой гражданке.

Ну и рисунок Ромиты Младшего не помогает делу, а совсем наоборот - терпеть его не могу.

danaherrmann's review

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adventurous mysterious fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

rhiannoncs's review against another edition

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2.0

This all starts very well - regular people begin to have dreams and encounters that clue them in to the fact that they are actually Eternals (one of Marvel's Kirby-created races). The first couple of issues introduce the characters and bring them together well, and I really enjoyed them. But it all kind of falls apart after that; I'm not sure what they were trying to accomplish in terms of a lot of the characters. Also, it's hard not to notice that Gaiman has a definite bag of tricks he pulls things from - the two Deviants are essentially written word for word as though they were Croup and Vandemar from Neverwhere, for example.

Props do need to go to the colorist, though - particularly on the flashback sequences. They managed to do an incredibly retro color scheme in a beautiful fashion.