The artwork was wonderful, I loved all the colors and the intensity that Romita was able to bring to each scene and each character. After they remember that they are Eternals they awake other characteristics, like confidence, leadership, and determination to figure out what they need to do next. Thena is a scientist in her human life and actually is creating some weapons for the government while Zura is a homeless man who is lost in his mind. That being said, there were some characters that I did like right away, like Thena and Zura. The characters were interesting but I did feel like there was less character development than I expected and I’m not sure if it is because of the format of the story (comic vs novel) or if it has to do with the fact that I haven’t read all the other comics featuring these characters. That in itself made me curious to go and read the other installments of these comics.

It was also cool to see the flashbacks to how the Eternals interacted with ancient civilizations, from Egypt to Greece to Mexico and how they were basically the gods in those ancient civilizations. These comics give a possible answer of these Celestials, scientists in their own way, setting up various experiments in what might be many different worlds (can’t imagine they’d only do it once on Earth), and seeing what happens. While we can have many theories regarding the origins of life, it is something that we might never really know for sure how it happened. Of course there are multiple theories on how intelligent life came about but the one saying that it came about from outer space is a very popular one. We also get a peek at how the superhero world is doing, there is now mandatory registration for superheroes and even a superhero reality competition!Īnother thing that was very interesting to me was the philosophy and theories on the origin of life on Earth. One of the Eternals, Ikaris, does remember and is trying to get others to do the same since there’s some trouble brewing. They are living like normal human beings as medical students, party organizers, scientists, and even gardeners. In this particular set of comics we find that the Eternals have forgotten that they are immortal and that they have superpowers.

On the other hand they created the Deviants, who had an unstable genome, were prone to constant mutations, and which created deformed beings that were not ideal.

The Celestials are another type of being that came from outer space and basically started out a kind of experiment on Earth where they examined an ape-like creature (precursor to humans), played around with its genetic material and created what would be the perfect being, one that wouldn’t age, would have special powers, and would live to protect the experiment that they were setting up. The Eternals are 100 beings that were created by the Celestials.

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