In 1976, when the great Jack King Kirby introduced his new series, The Eternals, I doubt if he knew at the time that he was setting in stone the definitive evolution of mankind in the Marvel universe. I.e., that man would owe its genetic makeup to the Celestials. Writer Mark Gruenwald (with artist Ron Wilson) would later craft a limited series which expanded on the Celestials as well as the Eternals--even folding in Jim Starlins tale of Kronos and the Eternals of Titan. Even the Inhumans indirectly fall under Kirbys origin of humanity—a race engineered by the Kree Empire, but beings which had already had their genetic makeup tampered with by the Celestials. In a later segment by writer Peter Gillis, see a reunion of sorts when Black Bolt, searching for a more isolated refuge for his people, encounters the race of Eternals. For me, The Inhumans seemed more interesting, storywise, than the mutant X-Men. The Inhumans were cast in an eerie light...anti-heroes who did not trust or appreciate the outside world. It was a step beyond the X-Men because with the Inhumans, the prejudice between their race and humans was completely mutual. The connection to their distant cousins, The Eternals, opens up so many possible story-lines. Itll be interesting to see what Marvel does with these characters on and off the big screen.
Posted on: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 20:40:42 +0000
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