Yatterings

I started reading the Eternals again last night, having read the comics as and when, and it sort of confirmed what I thought at the time.

This is a decent and fairly entertaining world but I always get the feeling that Gaiman is hampered by restrictions on the world building. The story as a whole comes across a little jittery and doesn’t take off in the way that 1602 does.

It has a very superhero feel to it, even in the everso preachy way that America’s Next Superhero’s remind us to register oursleves if we have special powers. Their words reek of smugness and a lack of thought for what their actions truly mean as brought out by Tony Stark/Iron Man. It is perhaps a sugar coating to the bitter pill of 1602.
The universe itself is more accessible as Gaiman has to explain the backstory for non-comic readers whereas 1602 gave you some clues and let you get on with it.

Perhaps this is a book to read with Civil War, Marvel’s response to the Patriot Act (as I understand it). I’ll see though.