tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post5509483923696393227..comments2024-03-28T22:45:25.693+00:00Comments on Steve Does Comics: The Eternals #7. "Chew on this, Mister Big!!"Steve W.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09191442559702617745noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-32541993590259324922015-10-01T02:18:58.944+01:002015-10-01T02:18:58.944+01:00The obvious solution, if The Eternals were intende...The obvious solution, if The Eternals were intended to be separate from Marvel's superhero universe, would be to leave S.H.I.E.L.D. out of it, and to use some other agency: FBI, CIA, NSA, US Army Special Forces, etc. Or make up another fictional spy agency, one unique to the Eternals' universe. Maybe A.U.N.T.I.E. or something. (Well, U.N.C.L.E., T.H.U.N.D.E.R., SHADO, UNIT, and all the other good acronyms were already taken.)<br /><br />The use of S.H.I.E.L.D. would seem to indicate that Marvel already had at least tentative plans to integrate The Eternals into the same continuity as the Avengers and Fantastic Four. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-65131362060695650312012-04-12T00:51:00.568+01:002012-04-12T00:51:00.568+01:00This issue was the first cross over between the Et...This issue was the first cross over between the Eternals and the "official" Marvel Universe. Later, a long story arc in Thor (290?-301) sometime around 1980 brought them together with the Asgardian and Olympian gods who had been regulars in Marvel comics since the 1960's. Roy Thomas said in an editorial at the time that everything published by Marvel had to be able to cross over and tie in with everything else published by Marvel. Continuity, continuity, continuity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263300365798803459.post-39811878723375997092012-03-21T11:54:33.886+00:002012-03-21T11:54:33.886+00:00You're right in saying there's now too muc...You're right in saying there's now too much emphasis on continuity in superhero comics. I suppose it started with the first Crisis. I mean, really, who cares if some detail contradicts something said 25 years ago? They're just colourful fantasy adventures and someone like Kirby in particular had his own take on the characters, using some existing ideas and ignoring others as it suited him. Why not? Eternals was fun.Johnnoreply@blogger.com