Eventually, Kirby’s relationship at Marvel soured, and he jumped over to the competition, DC Comics, creating The New Gods and their Fourth World, born from Kirby’s rejected concepts surrounding Marvel’s The Mighty Thor. Alongside Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, he created the whole thing, igniting the big bang with The Fantastic Four #1 in 1961. To say the least, Jack Kirby‘s relationship with Marvel was complicated. They weren’t born with The Amazing Spider– Man. To read Eternals comics is to experience constant reinvention. Every time a new writer tackles The Eternals, they have to bash it and smash it to make sense for the reader of that day. You will uncover their origins here, and you will discover modern literary masters attempting to make sense of those origins. What you’ll find below is a mix of old and new comic book sensibilities. Not all of them will be your jam, but one or two should connect profoundly with your enthusiasm for the cinematic iteration.
This Reading List is designed to take hold of your curiosity and channel it toward five essential Eternals comics. Why is that? A number of factors, but mostly, they’re really, really, really weird, and it takes a particular kind of oddball to appreciate their eccentricity. The characters have been around since 1976, but their popularity never solidified, leaving them mostly residing at the bottom of comic book readers’ attention. However, if you’re excited about this new Eternals movie, the pile of comic books associated with these characters is not impossible to climb. To the Wikipedia page, they go! I can’t be too mad about it. The mountain of Marvels is still just too damn big, and most won’t bother with that first step.
As Douglas Wolk, the author who recently read every Marvel comic book ever published and wrote a book about it, says, “ You have to embrace not-knowing.” Like everything, reading comics is a practice, and you’ll figure it out as you go along.īut when I tell my non-comic-book-reading-friends this, they roll their eyes. I want to tell those friends that there is no good place to start you just have to do it and play catch-up. These are characters that have been around for decades, and in that time, there have been very few gaps in publication, resulting in thousands of comic books to sift through. The most common frustration I hear from my non-comic-book-reading friends is, “There are too many comics! I don’t know where to begin!” Attempting to wade into Spider-Man comics or Captain Marvel comics feels intimidating.
This entry ranks the best comics to read alongside Eternals. This article is part of The Reading List, a recurring column where we encourage you to take your enthusiasm for a particularly groovy movie or TV series and direct it into a wide array of extracurricular studies.
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