New Eternals: Apocalypse Now #1

Eternals: One-Shots

by Karl Bollers, Michael Higgins, José Ladrönn (Cover Art)

Apocalypse has turned his attention to the cosmic characters that walk among us! His plan: Spark an all-out war between the humans and the subterranean-dwelling Deviants to learn who is worthy of survival! And only a handful of beings can save the day... all-powerful beings known as the Eternals! This wondrous one-shot uncovers several revelations about these fascinating entities' true place in the Marvel Universe and introduces new Eternals!

Genres: Comics, Marvel

48 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 1, 2000

About the author

Bad Idea Managing Editor, former Valiant Ent. Sr Editor, Eisner Award-nominated writer, former Marvel Comics writer, former Sonic the Hedgehog comic book writer.

Reviews

[˗ˏˋ n a j v a ˊˎ˗ · Rating 2 out of 5]

★★½

[Andrei · Rating 1 out of 5]

Uhm...no.

I don't know if I was supposed to have read something else before this, or if this leads into something else afterwards, but I found this story confusing and disjointed. For example, there are 4 new (?) characters who each get their own 2-page intros, only for them to barely have an influence in the rest of the issue, other than appearing in the background. The big bad villain appears out of the blue after ~20 pages, and gives a classic villain-speech-to-nobody in which he says how he was behind everything that happened so far. Etc.

Easily skippable, can't recommend this to anyone.

[Devero · Rating 1 out of 5]

Nel 2000, per chissà quale motivo, uscì questo one-shot che secondo qualcuno avrebbe dovuto essere il primo passo per il rilancio dei personaggi inventati da Kirby nella seconda metà degli anni '70.
La copia che ho è in uno stato non ottimale, ma di fatto questo non pregiudica che storia e disegni siano decisamente scarsi.
Come scarsi sono i nuovi personaggi che affiancano quelli classici di Kirby, scarsa la conoscenza degli autori dei personaggi (la confusione tra Zuras e Virako spicca) e scarsi i disegni in stile anni '90, tutte pose e ipertrofismi.

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[Rockito · Rating 2 out of 5]

Reading all the Eternals stuff. This was kind of pointless to read, I asume it must be important in the whole Apocalypse Now event but as a standlone story it did not add much to the Eternals.