We start in 2115 Germany, with Ben Urich's granddaughter (a reporter, naturally) asking a shadowed Eternal what happened 100 years ago.
Cut back to Frisco, as The Horde descends upon Earth and kills the X-Men in a few panels.
Ikaris and Druig argue about whether to find more Eternals to fight, or go to Tiamut to form a Uni-Mind to take control of him and fight that way.
Tiamut's talking with Uatu about what's happening to him, and it turns out that the Dreaming Pinocchio is a real boy now, and papa Giopetto gave him his very own conscience. Gee whiz - whatever will a Celestial do with a conscience?
Zuras, Thena, Ajak and "all" the Eternals show up in Frisco (but not Gilgamesh) and form the Uni-Mind, and they drive the shell of Tiamut to fight the Horde.
Meanwhile, the creepy guy Sersi's been talking to in The Vestibule is apparently The Fulcrum, and Tiamut also shows up there and asks him to spare Earth. Fulcrum's all like, "Whoa, of all my seeds you're the only one to question me. You're a real boy now! Tubular!"
Fulcrum puts everything back the way it was, the shadowed future Eternal is Thena's kid (didn't he die a few issues ago?), he lies about there only being 3 Eternals left, and then Ikaris, Makkari and Sersi go to fight Deviants in Japan.
The series started promising, never went anywhere, and ended up sucking the bag. Good riddance, and I hope the Eternals get something to do worthwhile of their awesome potential.
Haha thanks for the summary NYF, wasn't able to pick this up.
You know, I think the Eternals could be made of good use in the Marvel cosmic scene. After WoK wraps up, the cosmic landscape could look very different. Maybe the Eternals somehow join the fray. And their connection to the Celestials makes it even more interesting. I've been dying for Marvel to use the Celestials more in the current cosmic stories... _________________ When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world--"No, you move."
-Captain America
Not a bad issue. I was expecting some more fireworks from Tiamut. What the heck is the Fulcrum? Is it TOAA? What do Celestials evolve into? The Fulcrum stated that other Celestials have evolved past their programming like Tiamut so there's obviously more of them out there. I can't think of a race of hyper-powerful beings other than the Celestials or Watchers. The Beyonders maybe? The Infinities? _________________ "I grow weary of your sexually suggestive dancing. Bring me my ranch dressing hose!"
collarbone acolyte Joined: 08.28.2006 Posts: 12
Posted: 03.19.2009 4:36pm
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Wow. What a let down from the promise Neil Gaiman brought to the series. I was absolutely let down with the end. Was this suppose to be a mini? Was it intended to end like this from the beginning? It felt abrupt and undeveloped. Or was it intended to carry on the Eternals tradition of cancellations.
The collector in me had to get this series, since I have all the other Eternals incarnations. Otherwise I would have dropped this months ago. Especially after they switched artists. The quality of story and art really tanked fast. If this book was only intended to be 9 issues and an annual, why couldn't they have Daniel Acuna commit to all of it. At least that way there would have been at least one element of continunity in it.
Absolute disappointment. And I wanted so much for this version of the Eternals to be a winner and hang around for a while.
I think it's clear that this series was intended to be a winner, and was an ongoing.
It started as a slow burn with Ikaris and Druig fighting over the loyalties of the other Eternals, and The Horde was introduced in Gaiman's series and was the spectre hanging over this one.
Sales must have been truly disappointing, and the X-Men were brought in to boost numbers. Do you know how poorly even that first issue with the X-Men must have done to have the series so quickly dumped? They must have thought that the muties would bring a buzz, and the fact that two issues later the kibosh is final and the Horde is wrapped up and the Dreaming Celestial pushes a cosmic reset...
...I think the only numbers this book did was the ten or so people who post here about it.
What I find most disappointing about this series (and there's a lot to be disappointed about), was the fact that they had to ruin the decades-long Dreaming Celestial thread. It's been 30 or so years that Tiamut has been hinted at, and to have him be used in such a loser fashion. Jeez.
It's like all the hints of The Twelve, and that was a hugely craptacular payoff too.
What I find most disappointing about this series (and there's a lot to be disappointed about), was the fact that they had to ruin the decades-long Dreaming Celestial thread. It's been 30 or so years that Tiamut has been hinted at, and to have him be used in such a loser fashion. Jeez.
It's like all the hints of The Twelve, and that was a hugely craptacular payoff too.
Truth. I actually wish Tiamut was the rogue the other Celestials made him out to be.
Turns out he was just evolving and the other Celestials were either jealous of this or the didn't understand it and thought he was malfunctioning. _________________ "I grow weary of your sexually suggestive dancing. Bring me my ranch dressing hose!"
i actually thought it was a decent cap to a fine series....
and now that it introduced the Fulcrum...i'm actually curious about where he/it lies in the overall Marvel cosmic hierarchy? _________________ Fighting ignorance one fan-boy at a time.
