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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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 mystery 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 range of powers that are not even tha...

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 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

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)

Not having read any of the previous Eternal stories by Jack Kirby, I had no idea what to expect from this this collection. I was pleased with the story though, and found it engaging and it quickly drew me in as layer by layer the background was revealed. With good artwork and dialogue it was definitely a pleasurable read and made me quite curious about the original source material.Unfortunately I found the ending somewhat disappointing - perhaps because it was not intended to be an ending at all...

Okay I will start by saying I am a huge Gaiman fan. So, I really like his stuff. When I saw that this had been released I stuck on my wish list and finally got it for Christmas!Supposedly this is a revamp of The Eternals as done by Kirby back in the day. I never read any of the originals but this still looked pretty cool.The drawing is fantastic; the super heroes and Eternals have undergone a revamp and are now sleek and updated. I thought it was fun that some classic super heroes made appearanc...

I prefer Gaiman on his own, but he's done an excellent job of honoring the original author, Jack Kirby. In my youth, we called them "comic books" and I was (still am) a great fan of Wonder Woman. However, this book shows the movement into the world of graphic novels, although still under the aegis of MARVEL. (In fact, Iron Man has a cameo.) The storyline is intricate, with the most powerful scene for me being when Zuras (Zeus?) is with Sprite on the train and must end the life of this boy who ha...

I knew nothing about Eternals before reading this, and pretty much just got it because it's by Neil Gaiman. So I didn't know about the original series (and still don't know much about it). Some of the character designs and ideas are kinda cool, and the art works well enough, but I don't think Gaiman managed to rescue this from the wtfery of its apparent origins.The longer he drew out the mystery, the better it was; all the explanation was kinda... this is what you were setting up for? Really?I d...

I liked this better than I thought I would! And it may be the first time I've really been in awe of Romita, jr's work. There are some beautiful two-page spreads here. Gaiman does an excellent job making the eternals his own while still respecting Kirby's characters. I'm not familiar with the eternals and i never felt lost or bored.

Regular readers of my reviews (:: waves to all both of you ::) know how much I dislike the whole “woke up without a memory” trope. It’s so lazy. Here we have an entire cadre of superpowered immortal beings in just that condition, so we get the fun tedious banality of hitting that same goddamn note over and over and over and over again. This came out in 2006 and even then there was nothing new or original to this story.I borrowed this because at San Diego Comic Con (2019 edition) Marvel introduce...

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...

Wow, I didn't think the day would come that I'd be so horribly disappointed in a Gaiman project. Granted, he's hamstrung here with Kirby characters and concepts that I personally don't find interesting, not to mention burdened with Marvel continuity, but he's proven in the past that he can put a fresh polish on the oddest concepts. Alas, this effort is just poor on all writing fronts. The pacing is frustrating and inconsistent, with the opening chapters being painfully glacial, then kicking into...

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...

Chariots of the Gods is one of those types of books that I loved as a kid (crazy stuff like the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, aliens, crop circles, ghosts, and everything else in 001) but that I avoid now. So reading Eternals - which is a remake of comic series inspired by Chariots - is kind of childlike fun. It's not childish, not written for kids, but the general themes, and the storytelling style, make it just that kind of story. An adventure.Despite taking place in an established universe of s...

While I'd never read Kirby's Eternals, this book makes me want to read them. Gaiman works his magic again bye updating and reintroducing these unique characters. The setup is simple: the world has forgotten the Eternals, and more importantly, the Eternals have forgotten themselves. While the ddirection of the story is somewhat predictible, Gaiman's writing skill more than makes up for it. My only possible complaint is that the last issue feels a little shaky, which makes sense since it was plott...

Neil Gaiman takes on the Eternals, artistically speaking. Jack Kirby's Celestials and their Earth-protecting servants the Eternals are a eon-spanning concept that Gaiman picks up and runs with in a grand way. A story that is millions of years in the making, I really liked the way Gaiman explored some of the ramifications of the scale of this story while still grounding it to the then contemporary Marvel universe. I also liked the way he put his own unique stamp on the Marvel universe; a half-mil...

This isn't such a bad graphic novel. It's filled with the sort of Neil Gaimanian goodness you expect from him, really strong interesting lines.It's also nothing at all like a story I've been playing around with since 1999 which makes me happy though I don't think I'll publish that story, it's so fun to play around with.