Wheras I wasn't hugely into 1602 BECAUSE the guys he was writing about were, basically, my best friends growing up.

Eternals tomorrow! Crap, I thought it was next week.

*calls wife*

Honey, we're off to the comic shop tonight!

ETA: Oh, and Chimeer. Neil did a Superman/Green Lantern story? Where was that?

I hope it's ok to post a link to dreamhaven:
http://neilgaiman.net/comics.php?show=2

Scroll down a bit, it's called Green Lantern/ Superman: Legend of the Green Flame. It's pretty good and bits of it are really funny.

Cool, thanks Chimeer. Hey, that's a Frank Miller cover, isn't it? I didn't know they'd worked together! And what's this "by Neil Gaiman and friends" bit? Does that mean the art team?

What the hell?

Where's my Eternals????

I thought it was coming out today!

*looks it up*

August 23rd?


Hrmph.

I made a special trip and everything to my comic book store.

Hrmph.

Gah!

Looks like I'll wait another week to hit the comic shop...nothing I want seems to be coming in today.

ETA: Interesting...isn't the cover up on the marvel site the one from issue #2?

So . . . what's the reaction to installment #3?

*bump*bump*bump*

So . . . anybody gotten #3 yet??

I really, really liked it.

The pace has picked up nicely and I really like how they're developing the characters. When they first said that they planned on having Sersi be one of those who wasn't aware she was an Eternal, I thought, "She was an Avenger, how're they going to work THAT?", but they handled it very well.

Yeah, good stuff. It is sort of odd to see Neil writing something so centered in Marvel continuity. Seeing Iron Man pop up and help break out Thena after trying to convince Sersi to join the Superhero registration act is strange. But it's great, too.

I really liked the way he described Mark Curry rediscovering using his powers.

Yeah, this was a great issue in every respect but one: it marked the halway point.

And Sersi did use her powers in a very Sersi-like fashion. Did everyone catch that?

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Originally posted by The_Raven:
Yeah, this was a great issue in every respect but one: it marked the halway point.

I know. It makes me very sad. I wish it was way longer.

quote:

Dweller said:
And Sersi did use her powers in a very Sersi-like fashion. Did everyone catch that?

Er, was it the rose? I can't really remember what powers Sersi had as an Avenger...



Holy Cow! What's happening to Iron Man is happening to me, too! What does this mean?

Sersi had high-level molecular manipulation power. To the extent that she once turned a major villain into a kitten.

So yer saying...it was her that changed the knife to the rose? Thanks for clearing that up. I thought it was the other girl, the one who broke contract to join the fray.

Well this clears up some of the things you wouldn't know if you hadn't read the Avengers or the original series.

If I got it right, Ikaris was disintegrated indeed in issue 2 and then some sort of machine in Antarctica put him back together (or built him again more like it). I guess that's how they are eternals, because they can be rebuilt. My guess is that he won't remember being an Eternal either after that.

And this also means there's only 4 of them, right? I imagine these questions are rather obvious if you read the original series.

Scoundrel - I think the Green Lantern being just one issue, it was written entirely by Neil and the "friends" would be all the art people indeed - maybe there were too many to write them all on the cover. I'd have to double-check when I get home.

I just noticed that they say that the golden Celestial created the Deviants, but in the first issue you see him destroying the Deviant city.
And I wonder, if Ajak the one that could talk to the gods has something to do with the machine in Antarctica?