As for why, well, Sprite was jealous that the Eternals all got to have sex with each other but he couldn’t since he would always be a child. His plan is not well explained, but it has to do with using the Celestial sleeping beneath Golden Gate Park and space magic to make the Eternals human. Sprite is surprisingly forthcoming with the next big chunk of exposition, revealing himself to be the culprit behind the Eternals’ collective amnesia. Mark Curry has more questions than ever, and heads to San Francisco to talk with the obnoxious Sprite. Most of this cast is present at Sersi’s big party when violence erupts courtesy of Druig’s Vorozheikan political rivals, causing everyone’s instincts to kick in and awaken their true, super human nature. Ikaris, for his part, is beset and brutalized by burly mobsters – Deviants in a more voluntary disguise. Ajak is a groundskeeper keeping an eye on everyone and Zuras is a raving vagrant on the street. Sprite is a famous Disney Channel-type tween star. Thena Elliot is a weapons scientist working with Tony Stark. Druig, deputy Prime Minister of said country, has fallen out of political favor and is marked for assasination. Flighty party planner Sersi is hired to throw an event for the ambassador of the Soviet bloc country Vorozheika. In fact, almost all 100 or so Eternals have forgotten who they are and are living as humans in the modern world.
Mark is skeptical of course, except that some of the details fit those recurring dreams he’s been having. Ikaris’ sales pitch doubles as a helpful origin story for the reader who may be unfamiliar with Eternals (immortal, super powers), Deviants (ever-changing, monstrous, proliferous), and Celestials (Space Gods, sparkers of life, judgemental daddies). Mark Curry believes himself to be living a totally normal, human life as a med student until Ike Harris, or Ikaris, topples the apple cart trying to convince Mark, aka Makkari, of their shared immortality as Eternals. Now, with a major motion picture on the way and a new, similarly ambitious relaunch around the corner, let’s take a moment to look back at this now-evergreen, contemporary introduction to… the Eternals. It is gorgeous, cinematic, and so stuffed with fresh ideas that it can lose track of its own plot. Their Eternals miniseries plays off of the property’s own obscurity, priming it to be the definitive introduction for readers of the mid-aughts and beyond.
to create an ambitious, quasi-magical mythology, not unlike American Gods, that tapped into the then-ongoing conversations about intelligent design. Gaiman joined heavy-weight penciller John Romita Jr. In 2006, Marvel tapped Neil Gaiman (of Sandman and American Gods fame) to resuscitate their long-dormant Eternals line.
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