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'Eternals' adds another blockbuster to Jack Kirby's Marvel-ous legacy

CNN 04 Nov 2021
But most of his signature heroes were birthed with artist Jack Kirby, who many have seen as an unsung hero in a creative explosion compared to another famous '60s writing duo, John Lennon and Paul McCartney ... Jack Kirby by Susan Skaar is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
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What you should know about the man behind 'Eternals'

CNN 04 Nov 2021
Much of that is owed to Jack Kirby, the most prolific and arguably most important comic book artist ever ... Jack Kirby, Fantastic Four. Just as Kirby helped define superhero comics in the 1940s, he helped redefine them in the 1960s ... Art by Jack Kirby ... Jack Kirby signs a comic for Diana Schutz at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square in 1982.
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“Eternals”: as if it were a mixture of The Avengers and the solo movies, all ...

The Sentinel Newspaper 04 Nov 2021
Jack Kirby, pop culture mythmaker and ardent lover of ancient mythologies, created Marvel’s Eternals in 1976 ... Kirby himself showed little interest in narratively linking the Eternals to the rest of the Marvel universe; This was taken over by later authors, including Neil ...
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The Screening Room | Bloated, meandering 'Eternals' a major misfire

The News-Gazette 04 Nov 2021
But there’s no question that Phase 4 is off to a rocky start. Based on the Jack Kirby comic, the title characters are 10 godlike creatures charged with protecting the cosmos from the Deviants, dragon-like creatures that look like they escaped from a rudimentary programmer’s laptop ... Without that, all the action scenes in the world mean nothing ... .
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Looking for a Marvel-ous superhero movie? ‘Eternals’ isn’t it

Boston Herald 04 Nov 2021
MOVIE REVIEW. “ETERNALS”. Rated PG-13. At AMC Boston Common, Regal Fenway, AMC South Bay and suburban theaters. Grade. C+. People are saying Chloe Zhao’s “Eternals” is the worst Marvel film yet ... Based on the 1976 Marvel comic book series created by the legendary Jack Kirby, “Eternals,” which was co-written by Zhao, Patrick Burleigh (“Peter Rabbit 2.
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‘Eternals’ has too much Marvel and not enough Chloe Zhao

The Spokesman-Review 04 Nov 2021
Based on characters created by Jack Kirby that first appeared in a 1976 comic, the latest installment of never-ending MCU hegemony introduces a new, post-Avengers cast of franchise players. the titular band of immortals who were sent to Earth from the planet Olympia thousands of years ago to banish a marauding monster species called the Deviants ... .
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'Eternals' has too much Marvel, not enough Chloe Zhao

The Keene Sentinel 04 Nov 2021
Based on characters created by Jack Kirby that first appeared in a 1976 comic, the latest installment of never-ending MCU hegemony introduces a new, post-Avengers cast of franchise players. the titular band of immortals who were sent to Earth from the planet Olympia thousands of years ago to banish a marauding monster species called the Deviants ... .
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Chloé Zhao: Nomadland director on becoming Marvel’s latest prodigy

The Irish Times 04 Nov 2021
It is easy to sneer ... I can see that ... Based on a Jack Kirby comic book that first emerged in 1976, Eternals stars the likes of Richard Madden, Salma Hayek, Kumail Nanjiani and (yay!) Barry Keoghan as hilariously named super-beings – Kingo, Druig, Ajak and so forth – who survive various ancient civilisations to save Earth in the 21st century ... .
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Chloé Zhao: ‘As a woman film-maker, I don’t want people to think I’m there to check a box’

The Irish Times 04 Nov 2021
It is easy to sneer ... I can see that ... Based on a Jack Kirby comic book that first emerged in 1976, Eternals stars the likes of Richard Madden, Salma Hayek, Kumail Nanjiani and (yay!) Barry Keoghan as hilariously named super-beings – Kingo, Druig, Ajak and so forth – who survive various ancient civilisations to save Earth in the 21st century ... .
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Midnight Suns' detailed character customization carries on a classic Marvel Comics tradition

Games Radar 04 Nov 2021
(Image credit. Marvel) ... Previous Marvel games such as Marvel ... Marvel) ... Stan Lee, perhaps owing to his own sense of showmanship, changed that by turning the creators themselves into celebrities of a kind, giving them nicknames such as Jack 'King' Kirby, 'Jazzy' John Romita, and so on, prominently listing them in the opening pages of Marvel stories ... ....
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Dover-Sherborn wins tiebreaker with Weston to claim first ever Div. 3 state championship

The Milford Daily News 03 Nov 2021
As scores from D-S golfers started to trickle in following the round in Northbridge, D-S head coach Jon Kirby couldn’t believe that his team was going to lose by one stroke ... But soon, things changed for Kirby and his crew ... “For Jack Potter to shoot an 84, that’s just huge,” Kirby said.
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Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: SPOILERS, A-HOLES | Marvel Games Canon Fodder

IGN Insider 03 Nov 2021
Playing as Star Lord, bossing around his motley crew of Drax, Rocket, Gamora and Groot, the game crosses paths with villains new and old, some dating back to the early days of Jack Kirby and Stan Lee ... Excelsior! .
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Divine Plan

Salt Lake City Weekly 03 Nov 2021
click to enlarge ... Superheroes are the center of our modern mythology, something comic-book icon Jack Kirby recognized as far back as the 1970s, when he created The Eternals with a history that had them serving as the inspiration for the gods and heroes of ancient legend ... All bow before them! ... ....
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Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy Ending Explained

IGN Insider 03 Nov 2021
This character first appeared in an early issue of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s Fantastic Four, where a group of earth scientists create a genetically perfect being known as “Him.” However, it’s really writer/artist Jim Starlin who deserves credit for fleshing out the character and his twisted relationship with his darker half ... .
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Behind The Scenes Of Marvel's 'Big, Cosmic, Crazy Movie' Eternals

MTV 02 Nov 2021
The 10-member team, created by comic book artist Jack Kirby in 1976, are immortal superhumans from the planet Olympia who are tasked with keeping a watchful eye over humankind and protecting them from a horde of parasitic aliens known as Deviants ... The Eternals’s costumes take inspiration from creator Jack Kirby.
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