Around the same time, Marvel had created their own villain, Thanos, which after Kirby brought Eternals to Marvel, was connected to the Eternals storyline. At DC, he had written a series called “New Gods” and created the villain, Darkseid.
There are subsequent issues in the series, but they are not part of this book and this gives it an incomplete feel to things.Įternals started out in Marvel when Jack Kirby came back to Marvel after leaving DC Comics. The collected series, which covers 7 issues of the series (two of them double sized) ends right at the time a reader would not want it to end – When the actual story of Eternals begins. There is a crisis of life ending proportions that needs to be resolved, but it gets over by the time the reader is immersed into the story of Eternals. There are also guest appearances from Marvel’s roster of familiar superheroes like Iron Man and Ant Man, tying the Eternals to the remaining Marvel storyline, but not intervening in it.īut it fails to go beyond this origins story. It also gives a glimpse of the Celestials, the beings that created the Eternals, and the Changing People, their eternal foes. On the whole, it is an excellent story to set up the Eternals.
Initially centred around a medical student, the story branches out with more characters as the secret of the Eternals’ forgotten past is slowly revealed.
Set in the present day world, it has few supernatural human looking beings go around normal human lives, not knowing they are immortals whose memory of immortal life has been wiped clean. Neil Gaiman, someone who is very familiar with godly fantasies, wrote Eternals in 2006 expanding on earlier work by Jack Kirby, but giving it a more recent timeline. Thus, the gods continue to be the receptacles of the best of us, but also the worst of us. But we still have not let go of our fascination of beings superior to us and so, we enrich their lore with our fantasies of superheroes. As we unravelled many of the marvels of nature, many of these gods got relegated into stories. Humanity’s fascination with gods is as old as humanity itself.
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