I decided to go back to the original source material and read it before the movie came out. I'm about ready to commit fanboy blasphemy but this isn't good. Sure, Kirby is up to his normal great standards for art but, man, this story is all over the damn place. It's like he was throwing ideas against a wall in an attempt to see what stuck. That and everything that happens in here has absolutely zero effect on the Marvel Universe in general. You would have thought giant space gods showing up would...

Fast-paced and massive in scope. This series really is one of Kirby's best, with numerous, incredibly interesting ideas spilling forth in page after page of highly thrilling comics. Hard to put down once I hit the third issue or so.

Jack Kirby’s art is original and filled with energy. However, his writing is a bit of a mess. There are too many two-dimensional characters, simplistic plot lines laid on top of a half-baked concept about space alien gods, and dated gender roles. Really only worth reading for some historic context.

Sort of a watered-down New Gods - Eternals as the denizens of New Genesis, Deviants as Apokoliptans, and the Celestials as a more active, but still unknowable Source - and the book starts to lose some fun in the second volume when Ikaris fights the Hulk for almost three issues straight.Still, there's some fun here (even in the Hulk issues, where they refer to Hulk as a Marvel character, suggesting that - SHIELD agents in the early issues aside - it does not take place in the Marvel Universe. I l...

Jack Kirby art: 5 stars all day every day. Story is pretty good but kinda falls flat at the end.

Another run that proves that Kirby really did need to work with a writer.In this series, which I got for free through Amazon Prime Reading, Kirby has some interesting ideas about the “true” origins of Earth’s 3 species (humans, Eternals, and Deviants). The problem is that his world-building is the story, and it doesn’t work. It’s not a world revealed through its characters, and without consistent characters or a plot from issue to issue, it makes it hard for a reader to care about the fictional

So I know little to nothing about the eternals. I wanted to read something to get to know the characters before the movie release. I've mixed feelings on this volume. Taking in just the first 11 issues, we don't get an overall conclusion. I thought the story started off very strong. I liked the use of myths, legends and lost history with the humans etc. It is heavy in narration but I get that it was written in 1976 so I let that pass. I think after the first half dozen issues or so it loses its

Humanity discovers it is not alone on Earth. In pre-historic times, the Celestials came to the Earth and created three races of men. First are the Eternals, an undying people who have superhuman powers and have been mistaken through the ages by mere mortals as gods like in the Greek pantheon. Second are those mere mortals, humans who live and die and have rather normal lives. Third are the Deviants, a genetically unstable people who become more and more monstrous with each generation. They have

It's Jack Kirby. What else is there to say? The story is what it is. It brought us the Celestials so that's cool. The Eternals and the Deviants? Meh. Whatevs. Hit or miss for me.But that Kirby art?Now, that's the gold.

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Kirby’s ideas were always better than his writing, and this is no exception. Even for 1976 this is dated and clunky. There’s no question the art is full of energy, but it can’t overcome the script. Kirby was clearly taken by the ultra-goofy notion of Chariots of The Gods, using it first for the New Gods over at DC, then more directly here at Marvel. Which is a decent idea to borrow for comics, but it’s so awkwardly presented it kind of takes the fun out of it.At one point the character of Margo

Jack Kirby is a hyperactive mad genius. This isn't necessarily his best work but the whole set up and the tie to Chariots of the Gods tomfoolery hits me in a soft spot. As does the bizarre linguistic match up of high fantasy (you know you are there when someone talks about how they "disported" themselves) and 60s hip-speak – "Hang Loose, girl" says Makkari (the "god" whom we call Mercury). This is the first half of a story arc in which the gods who visited the ancient Incans (and who came to Ear...

that was... the worst.

It’s hard to believe that as I write this (May 21, 2019), not a single person on Goodreads has given The Eternals a one star rating. Seriously? I guess I shall be the first.I get this series is from the late 70’s and definitely isn’t up to snuff with the more modern Marvel catalogue, but that’s not an excuse for such a lousy comic. Even though Kirby was trying to do something different by combining ancient myths, UFOs, and superheroes, it fails and the story is stupid. I hated every character an...

A good introduction to the world of the eternals, but I wish this collection was more of a complete story

Like most fans of comic books, I am familiar with the name Jack Kirby. Though until now I’m not sure I’ve actually read any of his work, so my main experience with him must have been cinematic. The man’s importance in the genre can’t be underestimated and yet this seems to be the note his has gone out on, the spectacular and spectacularly jumbled mess of The Eternals. This was not a revered or even especially well received entry into a superhero realm. And yet it has received plenty of attentio...

I will be fully honest regarding the material contained herein:Firstly, this is the work of Jack "King" Kirby - an artist and writer synonymous with the "good years" at Marvel. Arguably, there are good comics in every year if you know where to look, but I'm referring to the "Silver Age" of Marvel's once-loveable and now increasingly-bland-and-mechanized YA empire.You don't have to be young (or an adult) to like the stories herein - the concept is part Paradise Lost, part heroic Classical Studies...

Probably the finest work of Jack Kirby's 70s return to Marvel, the main problem with Eternals vol 1 is the company's subsequent strip-mining of the concept. Assume - as the stories almost all strongly suggest - that this is a stand-alone science fiction freakout rather than another iteration of "cosmic Marvel", and everything gets a lot stronger. Eternals is an Erich Von Daniken riff wrapped in a grand fantasy saga, with an ever-expanding cast which quickly becomes more complex than the simple E...

The story is kind of interesting, but it hasn't directly gone anywhere yet. Very lofty ideals that kind of break a lot of what has already been set up in the Marvel Universe, unless this takes place in a different dimension?

A little bit of Lovecraft, some ancient mythology, and a dash of H.G Wells makes this one of the most philosophically fascinating high science fiction editions to the Marvel Universe. In many ways, the reminded me of the sense of wonder I felt when I played the original Mass Effect trilogy.The myths and legends are all true. Gods and demons have always populated the earth... only, they were Eternals and Deviants and they were created the the REAL gods... the mighty and mysterious celestials.Kirb...