Neil Gaiman, John Romita Jr.: Eternals by Neil Gaiman and John Romita Jr (2020, Marvel Worldwide, Incorporated)
256 pages
English language
Published Aug. 5, 2020 by Marvel Worldwide, Incorporated.
You are thousands of years old. You have amazing powers. You have watched civilizations rise and fall. So why does no one remember any of this? Bestselling Author Neil Gaiman (Marvel: 1602, Anansi Boys, Sandman) is joined by superstar artist John Romita Jr. (Amazing Spider-Man, Wolverine) to present a tale that will change the Eternals and the Marvel Universe forever!
Not bad or anything. Just not particularly original or noteworthy. Just a fairly run of the mill powerful superhero story. It feels like Gaiman is phoning it in a bit in this one.
Didn't realize this was just the beginning of the story. Was interesting, but inevitably felt incomplete. I wonder if there's more somewhere.
Gaiman takes an idea from legendary comics creator Jack Kirby and brings it to a new generation of readers. Overall it is a pretty good story with the good blend of mythology and imagination that Gaiman is known for. The Eternals have been gone from the world, and now they are waking up once more. They lived their lives basically as common humans, and they have to remember who they are once more in order to save the world. The events happen during the Civil War story arc, with some small appearance by Iron Man and some of the Avengers. The art is also very good in this volume, plus this volume does include some extras such as cover galleries, art galleries so you can see how some of the characters looked in Kirby's day compared to today, and an extended interview with Neil Gaiman. Marvel fans will probably like …
Gaiman takes an idea from legendary comics creator Jack Kirby and brings it to a new generation of readers. Overall it is a pretty good story with the good blend of mythology and imagination that Gaiman is known for. The Eternals have been gone from the world, and now they are waking up once more. They lived their lives basically as common humans, and they have to remember who they are once more in order to save the world. The events happen during the Civil War story arc, with some small appearance by Iron Man and some of the Avengers. The art is also very good in this volume, plus this volume does include some extras such as cover galleries, art galleries so you can see how some of the characters looked in Kirby's day compared to today, and an extended interview with Neil Gaiman. Marvel fans will probably like this one. Gaiman fans who like his other graphic novel work may like it as well even if they are not "real comics readers." Overall, a pretty nice story.
Neil Gaiman takes on one of Jack Kirby's creations for Marvel.
Despite the fact that these are two very big names, the biggest reaction I can muster is "meh". It was okay, but there was nothing that really grabbed me about it. Gaiman and the artist managed to squeeze the Kirbyishness out of it, without imparting anything particularly great or new.
It was okay, but that's about it. Nothing about it was particularly memorable; it didn't stay in my mind. In a fractional system I guess I'd give it a 2.5.
