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Post by berkley on Jan 19, 2016 23:31:08 GMT -5
That wouldn't work, for me. I see them as individual concepts that stand on their own, and operate in very different ways. The Eternals isn't based on a good vs evil scenario, for example, as the Fourth World is. And I don't think the Eternals or even the Celestials are meant to be gods in the same way as the New Gods are in the Fourth World set-up. That's exactly why the combination would intrigue me -- discovering how those two different concepts of "gods" would stand in relation to one another. But, of course, it's neither what Kirby had in mind nor somewhere the industry is likely to head, so it's all meaningless anyway. I could see it as one of those "What If" kind of things - are you thinking of the Celestials as the Promethean Giants of the Source Wall, things like that? It might make for a fun, speculative miniseries, but I wouldn't want to see it as the permanent state of affairs. Actually this is how I look at the current, "official" versions of the Eternals and the New Gods, where those two concepts are embedded in the MU and DCU respectively. It's like that "What If ...?" issue with Conan in the 20th Century, fighting Captain America and so forth: an interesting idea to play with, but not the way you'd want to see the character written in perpetuum. |
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Post by mikelmidnight on Apr 24, 2016 13:51:35 GMT -5
I think the Eternals' inclusion into the mainstream Marvel universe did a disservice to them both, as it already had an explanation for the gods of legend (Thor), 12' unstoppable space gods (Galactus), immensely ancient aliens (the Elders), a hidden race of superhumans (the Eternals), and evolution (Darwin). They were completely redundant. The only good thing to come of it, in my opinion, was Roger Stern's amalgamation of all of Kirby's speedsters (Makkari, Mercury, Hurricane, Adam Curtis) into one person.
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