Eric Nguyen's Eternals: Acuna No More

I mentioned the other day that Eternals #6 was a strong finish for the first story arc (which I hadn't liked that much until that finale), and that I was pretty much just buying the comic for the Acuna art. Now I understand that Acuna is off the book, and Eric Nguyen is the new artist (at least for the next three issues). Nguyen is an AWESOME choice. The first issue of Gigantic was one of the best-looking debuts I've seen in a long time, and I'll keep buying Eternals just for his art. I'm sure the series isn't long for this world anyway, but at least we'll end up with a bunch of pretty-looking issues before it dies.

But what's Daniel Acuna doing next? I see him listed on an upcoming Uncanny X-Men Annual, and I've heard that he might be doing some Iron Man with Fraction (which I would love to see). Anyone know anything about that or any other upcoming Acuna work?

Eternals #6 and Terror Titans #3

I don't know if anyone else is reading these two comics, but even though I haven't liked Eternals much so far (but keep buying it because of the Acuna art), I found issue #6 to be quite a powerful resolution to the first story arc. It was worth hanging around for.

And the other comic is Terror Titans #3, which was also quite good, featuring some interesting bits of supervillain legacy and the first in-continuity DCU appearance (as far as I know) of Static! I don't know why I have an exclamation point there, but it seems important somehow.

Eternals Annual #1 Review

Recently reviewed by me at CBR: Eternals Annual #1, about which I write the following sentences: "Van Lente, aided by artist Pascal Alixe, provides more plot and characterization in his single story here than we've seen in the entire Neil Gaiman mini-series and the half-dozen ongoing 'Eternals' issue thus far. Van Lente uses captions to quickly establish who's who and the essence of their character (no small feat when you're dealing with a large cast like this), and then demonstrates the shifting alliances between the Eternals throughout their combat with the Young Gods."

Read the entire review HERE.

Eternals #5 Review

Recently reviewed by me at CBR: Eternals #5 about which I write the following sentences: "'Eternals' is the graphic narrative equivalent of NBC's 'Heroes.' Sure, we see more costumed characters on the pages, but the way the comic jumps from location to location and from slow-as-molasses subplot to subplot feels just like the first season of Tim Kring's television show. I stuck with that show until the season one finale, but I don't think I'll be sticking with this comic book for that long. It's not just that so little happens, it's that what does happen seems imposed and unimportant. A character in issue #5 gets beaten to a pulp, and has his back broken, and we don't even really know why. Yet that's the only major event in the past five months of the series. Other than that, it's a lot of anxious characters talking about what's to come, and a lingering sense of doom that does nothing to illuminate the lives of these proto-gods in any way."

Read the entire review HERE.

Eternals #2 Review

Recently reviewed by me at CBR: Eternals #2, about which I write the following sentences: "It's still too early to condemn this series, and the Knaufs do seem to be heading somewhere: the Deviants are scheming, the Celestials may not be what they seem, and the Eternals are trying to hold everything together while dealing with their very human problems. But after two issues, it's still all promise -- a lot of talk with no sense that anything significant will happen soon -- unless you believe the imitation Stan Lee in the 'next issue' box, which I, understandably, do not."

Read the entire review HERE.

Eternals #1 Review

Recently reviewed by me at CBR: Eternals #1, about which I write the following sentences: "If you read Gaiman's series (and if you didn't, there's that 300-word introduction on page one!), you know that every issue was a mixture of unease and strangeness, as various humans found themselves remembering that they weren't so much humans as immortal heroes and villains birthed by alien space-gods. You know, that old chestnut. It continues here, in issue #1."

Eternals #1 hits the stands today. Should you buy it?

Read the entire review HERE.