Eternals (1976) 2

The Celestials!
By Jack Kirby, John Verpoorten (inks), and John Costanza (letters)
Aug 1976

- the Gods have returned
- Kro is vocally defiant and lighting shoots forth from the spaceship of the Gods in reaction to his outburst
- all are sent running; Kro and his Deviant cohort take off in their submersible craft
-Ikaris, Dr. Damian, and Margo are left behind ; Ikaris tells them about the history of the Debiants and some of his own personal exploits including when during the great flood he guided the arc of humans to dry land; the flood was the Gods' reaction to the Deviants defiance; it sank their cities thus driving them beneath the sea
- Ikaris locates and activates a resurrection chamber which brings back to life the Inca God Tecumotzin and several of his warriors; Tecumotzin turns out to be Ikaris' old friend Ajak who had been living among the Inca for years as their God
- the issue ends with a Celestial, Arishem leader of the Fourth Cohort, touching down on Earth

- not a whole lot of action but I love the way Kirby weaves various mythologies together; it fires my imagination to greater heights and gives me a bit of a head rush
- lots of splash pages including a double (pp. 2-3)

- Eternal Utterings: Gods, Myths, and UFOs
- Kirby writes about the fascination with the origins of life on Earth and what those UFOs might actually be
- he also speculates about how characters from today's comic books might influence myths and rituals in the mid 26th century

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