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The Eternals Omnibus (The Eternals Omnibus)
by
Jack Kirby
"The Gods Are Coming Back " Jack Kirby reveals a secret history of heroes and horrors as humanity's cousins, the Eternals and the Deviants, vie to inherit the Earth It's a time of Titans, Terror and Time Travel - as only the King could conceive Guest-starring the Incredible Hulk (or at least an unreasoning facsimile thereof) Collects Eternals #1-19 & Annual #1 This is...more
Hardcover, 392 pages
Published
July 12th 2006
by Marvel Comics
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Collecting all of Kirby's Eternals, i.e. #1–19 and Annual #1, this volume provides another glimpse into the mind of a master storyteller in the medium of comics.
Chronologically appearing in Kirby's bibliography when he returned to Marvel (after the highly productive stint at DC which gave us Kamandi, O.M.A.C., The Demon and the entire Fourth World saga and mythos), it is hard not to see certain similarities between The Eternals and Kirby's Fourth World creations. In fact, in many ways (given the...more
Chronologically appearing in Kirby's bibliography when he returned to Marvel (after the highly productive stint at DC which gave us Kamandi, O.M.A.C., The Demon and the entire Fourth World saga and mythos), it is hard not to see certain similarities between The Eternals and Kirby's Fourth World creations. In fact, in many ways (given the...more
Another Jack Kirby Opus, I don't know which came first, but this felt like a retelling of his NEW GODS stories only set in the Marvel Universe. Despite the obvious self-plagerism in the obvious cases of the Fourth World in New Gods and the Fourth Host in the Eternals, and redundant archetypes like Marvel's Ikaris to DC's Orion, the story was very interesting as it brought up ancient cultures' myths as pertaining to actual events that led to the creation of the Earth and all things living upon it...more
I kinda think all Eternals series go wrong by focusing on Ikaris too much. He's pretty boring. More adventures of Ajak/Tecumotzin Hero of the Incas, or Kingo Sunen, Samurai Eternal, or even future Avenger The Forgotten One, would have rocked. Issue 7 "The Fourth Host" is pretty much this collection's shining star. "SHIELD wants solid fact, not old wives tales! Gods, Devils, or Space Giants -- This Tactical Nuclear Device will decide what they are!"
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Jack Kirby (born Jacob Kurtzberg) was one of the most influential, recognizable, and prolific artists in American comic books, and the co-creator of such enduring characters and popular culture icons as the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, the Hulk, Captain America, and hundreds of others stretching back to the earliest days of the medium. He was also a comic book writer and editor. His most common nick...more
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Mar 05, 2008 01:30pm