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ratcreature) wrote2007-06-10 12:12 am
ratcreature) wrote2007-06-10 12:12 am
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Marvel: Eternals
I've just finished reading Eternals #1-7 (written by Neil Gaiman, pencils by John Romita Jr., inks by Danny Miki) and-- this was just weird. I'm completely unfamiliar with any previous incarnation of these characters which were presumably created by Kirby judging from the credits, but clearly I've been missing a *lot* of weird mythological set-up of the Marvel universe by mostly just following Daredevil and Spider-Man, if this is the set-up of things in their main universe. Really a lot.
I mean, a sleeping God-robot ("Celestial"), reminiscent of Lovecraft, others of that kind who come visit as a horde to eat Deviants (or I guess more correctly "Changing People" in their own nomenclature) who are somehow a previous monster evolution that subjugated humans. And the Celestials put the one to sleep because he protested the Deviant eating, but the vegetarian God-robot isn't really a good guy either, because he now kind of wants to destroy earth and only waits to judge for a bit after he watched a lot of tv and absorbed the internet or something? Meanwhile strange immortal protector things (machines?), i.e. the Eternals have secret cities in Antarctica that nobody noticed? Also now one of them is a Messiah for the Changing People somehow?
It's not that I disliked the story, I was even kind of hooked, but also very obviously missing all kinds of context.
ETA: Rereading my entry, I am making much less sense than the comic about what confused me. Well, the story as I understood it is more or less like this:
We start out being introduced to Mark, a med student who has strange dreams of fighting monsters and being rescued by or working for the giant god-robots. Over the course of the story he's contacted by another guy who tells him they're both immortal beings, "Eternals" who were created by the giant god-robots, called "Celestials", just like the monsters, called "Deviants" by the Eternals and "Changing People" by themselves, when the Celestials first messed with human evolution ages ago.
The Celestials created the Deviants to multiply and they ruled Earth for a while until the Celestials came back to eat them. One of the Celestials was against that and got put to sleep and buried for his trouble while the Eternals' job was to protect him and keep an eye on him. The Eternals are programmed to protect the Celestials and maybe wait for their return? Anyway they can't hurt them.
Because the Celestials have a sick sense of humor one of the Eternals was stuck as a kid for eternity and got sick of never having sex, so when an earthquake disrupted the buried god-robot's sleep, and the Eternals joined in a kind of psychic communion to repair its prison, he exploited that power and somehow made the Eternals forget their true nature. The parts that I didn't quite grasp was the what the original plan of the Eternals's leader was that he worked with the Deviants, which lead to the Deviants using Mark to wake the buried Celestial, through which he also became some sort of prophesized Messiah. Which I also didn't understand.
I mean, a sleeping God-robot ("Celestial"), reminiscent of Lovecraft, others of that kind who come visit as a horde to eat Deviants (or I guess more correctly "Changing People" in their own nomenclature) who are somehow a previous monster evolution that subjugated humans. And the Celestials put the one to sleep because he protested the Deviant eating, but the vegetarian God-robot isn't really a good guy either, because he now kind of wants to destroy earth and only waits to judge for a bit after he watched a lot of tv and absorbed the internet or something? Meanwhile strange immortal protector things (machines?), i.e. the Eternals have secret cities in Antarctica that nobody noticed? Also now one of them is a Messiah for the Changing People somehow?
It's not that I disliked the story, I was even kind of hooked, but also very obviously missing all kinds of context.
ETA: Rereading my entry, I am making much less sense than the comic about what confused me. Well, the story as I understood it is more or less like this:
We start out being introduced to Mark, a med student who has strange dreams of fighting monsters and being rescued by or working for the giant god-robots. Over the course of the story he's contacted by another guy who tells him they're both immortal beings, "Eternals" who were created by the giant god-robots, called "Celestials", just like the monsters, called "Deviants" by the Eternals and "Changing People" by themselves, when the Celestials first messed with human evolution ages ago.
The Celestials created the Deviants to multiply and they ruled Earth for a while until the Celestials came back to eat them. One of the Celestials was against that and got put to sleep and buried for his trouble while the Eternals' job was to protect him and keep an eye on him. The Eternals are programmed to protect the Celestials and maybe wait for their return? Anyway they can't hurt them.
Because the Celestials have a sick sense of humor one of the Eternals was stuck as a kid for eternity and got sick of never having sex, so when an earthquake disrupted the buried god-robot's sleep, and the Eternals joined in a kind of psychic communion to repair its prison, he exploited that power and somehow made the Eternals forget their true nature. The parts that I didn't quite grasp was the what the original plan of the Eternals's leader was that he worked with the Deviants, which lead to the Deviants using Mark to wake the buried Celestial, through which he also became some sort of prophesized Messiah. Which I also didn't understand.