I’m catching up on the various comics I collect. My subscribe list at my local comic shop is fairly small, so I tend to let a few months pass before I buy up my lot. That way I get bigger chunks of story in one sitting for my serial satisfacation.
During the summer, the new book Eternals as written by Neil Gaiman debuted. It is to be a 6 issue limited series, though I’d guess there’d be an option to continue it if the series proves popular. The Eternals have been around for ages. Created by Jack “The King” Kirby, they are an offshoot of humanity created by the mysterious Celestials. They’re long lived, small in number, and superpowered. they are an analogue of Kirby’s New Gods and, in the Marvel universe, the greek, egyptian, etc etc gods of old.
Although the Marvel U tends to have “real” gods mixing in with the normal and supernormal hoi polloi. Asgardians like Thor and the Greek demi-god Hecules are among that number. Marvel Corp likes to keep their universe populated with damn near every kind of fictional alternatives.
Neil Gaiman’s Eternals is focusing on the mythic nature of the eternals as well as the normalness, the humanity, found in each one. Gaiman doesn’t excel in the superhero genre. He’s said as much himself. It’s not a huge mark against him as his style is a bit more subtle than your casual “men/women in tights” fair. I’m hoping he’ll have the time to turn the Eternals book more towards his own vision. I’m 3 books in to the 6 part series and it feels a bit stifled. It’s almost as if I’m not getting the full Gaiman experience. Maybe I should read the full series before I make any hard decisions.
The wallpaper below was fashioned from a rendering of Sersi as drawn by Rick Berry. I do wish Berry was drawing the content for the entire series cause I have serious issues with John Romita, Jr.’s art. I have ever since Romita’s stint on Spiderman. Every character he draws just doesn’t feel right to me. It definitely detracts from the story.
Berry’s art is below. All you widescreen users enjoy it as I have.
