Eternals
by Neil Gaiman
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Author: Neil GaimanIllustrator: John Romita
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-05-23
ISBN: 0785125418
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Marvel
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Book Review: "explosive art work", inconsistant story line
Summary: 3 Stars
I picked up this very slick volume having already read five Neil Gaiman books, but no graphic novels yet. I mostly like Mr. Gaiman's work, particularly "The Anansi Boys" and a couple of the kid's books. Gaiman has worked in an amazing variety of genres, but, even so, most of them have some underlying theme of pagan gods. While "Eternals" is no exception, the gods here are actually an alien race called the Celestials, who visited earth eons ago and created three types of beings: Eternals, Deviants, and mortals. This story, as most readers no doubt know, is a re-working of the 70's Marvel comic book series featuring the original Eternals by Jack Kirby.
I found this book to be quite visually pleasing. The pages are heavy and slick, and the drawings are dynamic and colorful. The Eternals when fully powered are kind of corny looking in their costumes, and also it seems strange that the Celestials would be represented as ginormous robot creatures. Of course that is just their material "shell". Anyway, artist John Romita, jr succeeds in making them appear incredibly massive and powerful. The Deviants are a variety of fang-mouthed monsters, not unlike Ghostbuster or other villain type creatures. I liked the part where the Celestials grabbed up handfuls of Deviants and...well, you'll have to see that for yourself.
The basic story is that the Eternals have been morphed into mortal-type beings and have lost the memory of their true nature, due to a scheme by Sprite, a youngster-looking Eternal, and they must re-awaken from that state and take up their special powers in order to save the earth from eminent doom, presumably from the Deviants. The story was somewhat entertaining, but bogged down at times trying to get the immortal thing going. Also, parts of it were contradictory or did not make sense. Such the character Druig, who was uniformly evil, although he belonged to the race of Eternals, whose express purpose was to protect humankind. And some of the events and characters seemed disconnected from the story, with no explanation, such as the Avengers and the Superheros.
I think I'll try Gaiman's "The Graveyard Book" for a light read soon. Also I am excited to read the books in the Amazon order which I've just received! I ordered five well-known graphic novels, including: "Sandman", first in the series of Gaiman's acclaimed graphic novel series; "Watchman", by writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbon; Art Spiegelman's "The Complete Maus"; and "Understanding Comics:the Invisible Art" by Scott McCloud, a sort of literary-critical book. Also "Epileptic" by French writer/artist David B. I'll be posting a reviews about these books soon. It was absolutely astonishing! Anyway, these are a few ideas that might be useful.
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