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Aliens vs. Avengers #3
Mar. 18th, 2025 08:30 am
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Aliens vs. Avengers #1
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cyberghostface
"Probably one of the coolest things about the project is how we've found really fun ways to 'Avengerize' Aliens and 'alien-up' Avengers. I think fans will be surprised at how elegantly some of those things fit together. It really turned out to be a chocolate-and-peanut-butter situation." -- Jonathan Hickman
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Eternals #12 - "Hail Thanos, Finale"
Jun. 15th, 2022 04:54 pmlaughing_tree
"Eternal" doesn't mean immortal. "Eternal" means unchanging. That's a different thing. Gaiman and Romita Jr. very much brought this aspect out, and we're pushing it even further. There can be something comforting about the Eternals, but there's also something fundamentally disturbing to it. The old superhero cliché of "The Never-ending battle against crime" is one of those lines which, if you take it out of context for a second and think about it, seems absolutely Sisyphean in its hopelessness. Yet, to lift a line from Camus, we must imagine Sisyphus happy – the Eternals have been doing this for so long, they must be accepting of it? Right? -- Kieron Gillen
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Eternals #10 - "Hail Thanos, Part 4"
Apr. 6th, 2022 12:15 amlaughing_tree
Even I was surprised what happened when I made the mistake of putting Namor and Sersi in the same room. -- Kieron Gillen
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Eternals #10
Mar. 10th, 2022 08:30 amcyberghostface"With this book, I always have to remember 'What did we have Thanos do this time?'
Every issue is Thanostime around our place." -- Kieron Gillen
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Every issue is Thanostime around our place." -- Kieron Gillen
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Eternals #9 - "Hail Thanos, Part 3"
Feb. 18th, 2022 08:20 pmlaughing_tree
I’m also interested in them as a society. They’re not the X-Men. X-Men is about a nation, but it’s really about groups of friends and family. The Avengers are basically an office, it’s a procedural, they’re a group of people brought together to do a job. Spider-Man is just a guy. Eternals is a society. There’s 100 of them. That was always up front. They’re a structure. That’s the appeal. -- Kieron Gillen
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Eternals #8 - "Hail Thanos, Part 2"
Jan. 12th, 2022 10:28 pmlaughing_tree
On the meta side, people are less interested in death when it comes to Super Heroes now. What [Jonathan] Hickman did with the X-Men was just to take [death] off the table. My idea with the Eternals is flipping that a bit. They’re characters who are afraid to die because they are heroes. They don’t want that to be on their conscience. In the case of Ikaris, now he knows because Toby died, but how many other humans have died for him? Now they have the proper Marvel Universe guilt and shame and regret. That’s what I wanted to give them and that’s where we are. Ikaris has a line where he’s like, “How can I fight like I don’t care if I live or die?” He hasn’t cared about being punched in the face for hundreds of years. -- Kieron Gillen
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Eternals #7 - "Hail Thanos"
Dec. 9th, 2021 01:12 amlaughing_tree
There is one core Kirby thing I always come back to when doing superhero comics. The question “What would Jack Kirby Do?” is something I regularly think. Most creators have their own answer for that, but mine is almost always, “Make up something new?” While this is a book which tries to take from a lot of places, it’s also a book which generates a lot of new stuff. I basically made up another 40 Eternals to complete the 100. -- Kieron Gillen
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laughing_tree
So, the Eternals have been secondary actors looking for a good place to be, and that's what the book does. By the end of the first issue, people will roughly understand exactly what they are and what they do. Then by the end of the first arc, you'll get why they're Marvel Universe characters. -- Kieron Gillen
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laughing_tree
With Eternals, I've been given a clear stage and a whole lot of space, and I can go for it, and do what I've always done in my own work, with approaches I've pushed in recent times. To choose one aspect, making mythologies from pre-existing ingredients, giving them scale beyond that of the page. WicDiv is a 6,000 year mythology, about art and artists, comprised of every single great artistic movement in history. DIE is a patchwork living critical essay of the ingredients that went into formation of Dungeons & Dragons. Once & Future turns Arthurian myth into a creature which haunts the British isles. With Eternals, I looked at all these separate events in their history and tries to work out how I can turn these stories into a proper Tolkien-styled mythology, all rise and fall and politics and people. -- Kieron Gillen
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