The first time I read this I was a diehard Gaiman fangirl and I gave it 4 stars.This time around?Eh. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't exactly satisfying (to me) in any sort of a meaty story sort of way. It does, however, have that typical Gaiman smell to it. So, if he can do no wrong in your book, then you'll want to check this out. The Eternals are these super-powerful & immortal beings that were created before humanity, and they (I guess) act as our protectors when even bigger, more powerful, olde...

I didn't know anything about the Eternals and I was excited by this Marvel outing. I hope they do make this into a movie and give it a good treatment. I do feel like there was much more to the story. This was simply a beginning and I don't see more volumes for this run. The Eternals have been on this world from the beginning of time. There are children of the Celestials which is what Ego was in Guardians 2 I believe. They are supposed to protect humanity, although, one of them has now taken over...

Do you just love backstory?! Then this graphic novel may be for you! Cuz, there's really nothing else besides the backstory. The characters not even wooden so much as paper dolls marching around scenery, barely distinguishable. Except for the Deviants, our Bad Guys; it is obvious who they are because they are ugly! They have gross deformities like tentacles and fangs and mouths in their stomachs. Everyone knows that ugly/deformed/otherwise differing-looking people are Teh Ebuls. And also, Bad Gu...

The Eternals were one of those lesser known groups that I'd often heard about but rarely seen. Thankfully, for me, they are the basis for this superb graphic novel by Neil Gaiman.In the beginning the Celestials seeded the Earth with life. They created two races the nearly indestructible Eternals and the quickly multiplying Deviants. In time the Deviants took over the world and the Eternals were required to summon a Second Coming of the Celestials. The Deviants were scoured from the land and only...

I had low expectations for this volume, which I read because several younger people are eventually going to drag me to the Marvel movie that is breaking box office records, blah blah blah, that I still have low expectations for. And no, I don't recall reading Jack Kirby's original comics, though I appreciated the background information Neil Gaiman gets at in this volume to get readers up to speed on these folks, and I liked the interview with Gaiman in the appendix. But you can tell even from th...

The Eternals were originally created by Jack Kirby in the 1970s. A young Neil Gaiman read them and was inspired. Many years later Gaiman was approached to write an Eternals tale. I am truly glad he did. A superb story with pretty good artwork, though not a huge Romita Jr fan the art works well with this story.In NG's version the Eternals are on Earth, but few remember who they are. Ikaris is the only one who remembers and is on a quest to reawaken the rest of his brood. Makkari, who thinks he is...

In the Neil Gaiman canon, this rare example of his work for Marvel is only average. I just have to be honest. It's fun and interesting to see his take in this universe, with the likes of Iron Man showing up and the Avengers in the background. And the John Romita Jr. art, even if his style is not for everyone, shows phenomenal storytelling which gives this semi-postmodern spin on the Eternals the gravitas it deserves. But Jack Kirby's space gods, in my view, never fit that well into the Marvel un...

Rereading as part of a buddy read.Neil Gaiman brings back Jack Kirby's Marvel version of the New Gods. The Eternals have all forgotten who they are and are living as humans. As they slowly begin to regain their memories, we find out that someone has done this to them in order to awaken the Dreaming Celestial. Strangely enough, Marvel was also publishing J. Michael Straczynski's Thor run around the same time which had some similar themes. Ragnarok had happened and the Asgardians were also living

Until I read Neil Gaiman's rewrite, I had never heard of Jack Kirby's Eternals series. And I think I'm rather glad about that. The conceit is an intriguing one--the gods of the ancient world still exist among us today. The problem with this is Kirby's explanation for their existence. They are the products of alien life forms known as the Celestials who came to our planet (in ginormous robot suit, apparently) and created three species of life: the humans, the Eternals, and the Deviants. These ali...

I picked this up after Marvel announced their new movie and I honestly don't know how to feel about it, the book is good on its own, but it doesn't fit like a glove in the Marvel universe. I thought the main plot was fun and engaging, but all the connections they made to the Marvel universe felt extremely unnecessary, and those were some pretty massive connections. What's the point of having yet another whole group of superpowered invididuals, with a set of powers that are not even that unique,

You can find my review on my blog by clicking here.There’s a point in our life where we are confronted to an existential crisis. For some, it simply goes through them, impervious to the numerous rumination that it could provoke, as they remain completely content with where they are and what they’re doing in their life. For others, it is a dark and depressive time where nothing makes sense anymore. While there are no answer to our purpose in this world, there is one decision that we are all capab...

My experience of Neil Gaiman and his estimable oeuvre is, in large part, a recent acquirement, having come into being over the last year and a bit. If you don’t count an earlier, regrettable experience with Sandman—an experience than by no means offered justice either to Gaiman or his grainy little fellow. Or indeed to myself as a reader. I feel fortunate that Anansi Boys came along and changed everything.Because otherwise, I might not have given Eternals its due shot. And that would have been s...

This is Gaiman's re-boot of Jack Kirby's Eternals, very ably and nicely illustrated by John Romita, Jr. I was not a huge fan of the original version; I read a few issues, but thought Kirby was just essentially re-hashing what he had started or wanted to do with The New Gods and the whole fourth empire thing at DC, and I wasn't a huge fan of that, either. The basic concept of an ancient god-like race of super-beings had been around for a long time, and was pretty well covered by Green Lantern...

A tale about gods of our mythology existing but forgetting who they are because their trickster child god set them all up for the fall. It's blended in with several Marvel heroes in a world where superheroes have to register themselves and a great antagonist is about to be awakened. I felt the first half was more engaging than the latter half and some of the more interesting asides should have been mined but they were not. That said it was a fun enough read but it doesn't compare to Gaiman's SAN...

This was an OK book. The Eternals are living as humans, not remembering who they are. One of them has “awakened” and is trying to do the same to everyone else. We eventually find out who was behind doing this to the Eternals. We also find out about a bigger threat in the Dreaming Celestial that’s been contained in the earth. Someone is trying to wake him up. This is from Kirby’s run. Pretty cool if Gaiman to use this. I believe this is what Jason Aaron was pulling from for his first arc on his A...

I expected something different from a Gaiman Marvel comic which... this is not quite as different as I hoped.What’s it about?Basically this doctor is told that he’s a million year old god-like being and thinks the guy that told him is nuts. Then the doctor guy and other people have weird shit start happening to them so yeah, y’all probably know how this storyline goes.Pros:The story is an interesting little sci-fi superhero tale.The artwork has a nice look to it. Sorta like a more modern renditi...

There's an old chestnut of wisdom that goes, "You can't polish a turd." Gaiman has adapted some nifty things, but this is not one of them.I'm usually excited when I hear Gaiman has put out a new comic. I was excited for this one right up until I heard it was a reimagining of a late-era Jack Kirby story.I have to confess something here: I think Jack Kirby is lame as hell, and his later works are doubly cheesy.In his later years Kirby drifted away from super hero writing into territory involving m...

3.5 starsI greatly enjoyed the start of this series. I really liked Mark Curry as a character. I felt like I really understood his voice and I loved watching him interact with Ikaris, a believer, because Mark was pretty sure Ikaris was crazy. I love when the strong believers interact with the doubters and try to get them to believe in the impossible. I wish there was even more of that in this series.Around issue 3 or 4, Ikaris and Makkari are separated and it becomes a weird, slightly confusing

Gaiman's take on the celestial. It is, it would seem, a remake/mainlining of an old Jack Kirby series. I suppose it was meant to bring the New Gods-ish Eternals fully into Marvel continuity. Sadly for the book, this was in the middle of Civil War, so you have a bunch of nonsense about registering. Tony Stark doesn't come off all that well here, which is, I suppose, in keeping with his other Civil War era appearances. (Demanding that an Eternal register seems awfully like missing the forest for t...

Brilliant, and yet I felt like it was a bit too much for insiders- fans of the original. Also that it was all prologue for a greater adventure. Loved the art, the way they updated the characters, and as always the writing was fantastic.Reread 2021: Picked this up to reread because I couldn't remember much of it, and I thought that perhaps some of the storyline was going to be used in the movie. Loved the movie. Nothing from this was used in the movie, but I had forgotten how sad and poignant the...

Neil Gaiman is a favorite, and The Sandman is one of the great comics of all time. But just because Gaiman wrote something doesn’t automatically make it good. Remember, he’s responsible for that absurd Beowulf script 15 years ago, and that was just awful bad to its core. Gaiman’s reimagining of the Eternals here isn’t anywhere that terrible, but it’s flawed and flat, and he could have done something a lot more interesting. After all, the storyline has so much potential, and Gaiman (after Starlin...

The end is just the beginning.... I'm not really sure how I feel about this one. I want to say it was good but you don't get a whole lot of information to go off of. There's a giant celestial that's stating to wake up again. He's the worst of the worst because he may have wanted to help the life forms that the other celestials were eating. Now he's back and he is going to destroy everything! Maybe, he hasn't decided yet. The only ones who can stop him are the Eternals! But they can't actually hu...

This collection is Neil Gaiman's attempt to do a soft reboot on Kirby's Eternals concept from the 1970s, and for the most part it works. Kirby was great at putting forward these grand, madcap sorts of ideas, like alien gods who created not only human civilization*, but who also genetically engineered a race of super-powered humans who would protect the Earth (but from what?! FROM WHAT?!) and inspire many of our myths about the gods. Gaiman, on the other hand, is an absolute master of taking gran...

More of a 3.5, but we're rounding up.When a seemingly unconnected set of civilians begin to exhibit strange powers, it soon comes to light that there's more to them than meets the eye. The only one of them who has any clue what's going on, escaped mental patient Ike Harris, soon disappears, leaving paramedic Mike Cary, party planner Sersi, Vice Prime Minister Druig, weapons designer Thena Eliot, and teen idol Sprite to get to the bottom of the biggest question they're ever going to face - who or...

Really fantastic reimagining and connection to the original Eternals, coupled with an uneven and odd execution. Internal consistences issues are pretty apparent and it has a bit of a phoned in feel after about the halfway part. But it really does have some interesting ideas when it isn’t silly. I far prefer the movie version.

This was just the Introduction I needed. After watching the film, I needed more and this has satisfied me

This was an interesting comic book; I was not familiar with the Eternals, and discovering who they were, what they're doing, and how they got here was fun. I liked the colorful art--the characters were expressive, and it was easy to see what was happening. The dialogue is good, too, and I especially enjoyed the normal, "everyday," non-superhero-action sequences. I think my favorite parts of the book were the first few "chapters," where the characters are in normal surroundings trying to unravel

A solid storyline that is an enjoyable read and only suffers from trying to fit in slightly too many characters. Includes a marvel spotlight at the end that is an interesting insight into Neil Gaiman.

Gaiman’s storytelling and Romita Jr’s art make this solid sci-fi Marvel story very intriguing with it’s worldly lore and shifting story. B+ (Very Good)

Being 51 years of age, The Eternals were part of my youth as a comic book geek. This was long before there was such a thing as a Geek, I believe. Ok, i'm not really that old in years, but I am indeed 51! Jack Kirby was an amazing man and it hurt me greatly when he passed, several years ago. The Eternals, The New Gods, Kamandi, OMAC, and so many others were part of my youth. It hurts me greater still that I knew nothing about this new version of The Eternals. I am ashamed to say this but I discov...