Gaiman pretty much keeps the mythology intact (with some exceptions) and creates a story where the Eternals all lost their memory, but little by little they realize their true identity and what they lose by not being humans.

This is a pretty tipical story, and it feels very familiar (it even felt like House of M). There is plenty of action, and also a lot of exposition about the past.

All this is very well drawn by John Romita Jr. His style is perfect for this epic story, especially when it comes to drawing the Celestials. Every page drawn by JRJR already feels bigger than usual, and when he drawn a giant God it really shines.

The ending was surprising to me, a bit underwhelming. Minor Spoiler ahead. The story seems to bring to a huge fight with a Celestial, instead it just stops there, simply presenting us with the new status quo, one where the Eternals are part of the Marvel Universe, in fact Iron Man knows about them.

This ending felt like the setup for an ongoing series, except there is none. I felt disappointed by this. The story is fine, not very exciting or particularly original. The art is very good and perfect. I just wish Neil Gaiman would write his own stories, instead of writing what Marvel wants.

Even though this story heavily references old obscure stories, I thought the summary pages about past stories were very well done, so I didn’t think I was missing anything. I had all the relevant information in the comic itself, without needing to go back and look for those stories.

However I must admit at first I was a little bit confused, and I had to re-read the first few pages of issue 1. But that went away pretty quickly and I was caught in the present story.

And as good as this adventure was, I wasn’t exactly impressed by it. It just felt like I’d read something like that already, even though this was a well done comic.

The art is very clear, perfect for this type of superhero/adventure story. Kirk has certainly improved.

Overall it’s not a story for me, maybe not anymore. I am looking for something a little bit more substantial and deep. But this was a very well done fun story.

As I said this story has no limits in what it can do, and Robert Kirkman has a lot of fun coming up with ways to mess with the Marvel heroes. There is a subplot concerning the last remaining living humans, but I was disappointed that they didn’t get to fight with the zombies in the end.

But the biggest story is Galactus and Silver Surfer coming to earth. This is basically an event crossover, where all heroes band together to try and stop the biggest threat to earth ever. In this case, the heroes are zombies and their goal is not to save earth but to procure food. Ha!!

Sean Phillips’ art is good, and even though this is not a normal superhero book, I still think his style is not particularly suited for superheroes. But he does an incredible job with all the gore that Kirkman asks him to draw.

This is a fun book, but if you don’t enjoy a little bit of gore than skip this. In fact I am surprised that Marvel only put a T+ rating. This should have an explicit label, but I guess that’s for language and sex, not violence.

This is the story of a secret mission started by Nick Fury involving some of the Marvel heroes. This mission happened a year ago, however nobody really knew about it, including the members of Nick’s team. At least until now, when their victim has come back for revenge.

The appeal of this story lies in the mystery of the mission, which is actually already clear from the first issue. It didn’t spell out what exactly happened, but we could already deduce what did happen. So the final “revelation” in the last issue really isn’t a revelation at all.

One thing that did not disappoint is the art. Gabriele Dell’Otto’s painted art is excellent, and even though it is probably more suited for pin-ups or covers, it still is very pretty. I love his interpretation of all the characters.

A beautiful book to look at. Many cool action scenes, but the plot is quite simple and disappointing.

The story is about these group of being (the Inhuman, duh?) who try to stay away from the humans, they don’t want to be contaminated by the outside atmosphere, so they created a dome which keeps everyone else outside of their city, Attilan. One of their own betrays them though, and helps the humans to breach into the dome.

This is the overall story, but each single issue of this 12-issue maxi series stars one character and shows his/her point of view of the whole situation. And at the same time we learn about their society and how it works. I have to admit I was a bit confused throughout the series, especially because even though we learn a lot of things about them, there is still so much that I do not know, since I haven’t read much about the Inhumans. However once we got to the end, and a twist was revealed I felt better about this story. It didn’t help with my confusion, but I didn’t care about it as much.

The art by Jae Lee is gorgeous. He manages to make his figures pretty, but at the same time dark and gritty, almost an “indy” feel. I didn’t really enjoy the narration, it felt a little bit artificial to me.

A good series, but I had very high expectations for this (after all those years of hype), and it didn’t quite make it for me.

The coolest thing about the story is the way Cap dies: cancer. It’s not in battle against a great enemy, in a violent manner. No, it’s cancer, and he dies in bed, weak, surrounded by his friends. I like how this issue is dealt with, all angles are discussed (it’s better to die with your friends at your side than alone in battle), or at least aknowledged (why has nobody tried to find a cure for cancer until now?). This issue was inspired by Starlin’s own father who was dealing with cancer, so it feels pretty authentic.

The art is surprisingly appealing to me, since I don’t usually like Starlin’s style. I remember I didn’t care for it in his Supreme issues written by Alan Moore. I could understand why he was chosen, I just don’t find his style to my tastes. But here it works very very well, from the quiet moments to the battle scense.

I like that fact that Thanos was the one who basically helped him face death at the end, even though they were enemies he still respected Cap as a warrior.

Overall a very good read. It’s been recently reprinted as part of “Life and Death of Captain Marvel” TPB.