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KIERON GILLEN ESAD RIBIĆ MATTHEW WILSON MARVEL ETERNALSIN MEMORIAM MIKE HOBSON 1936-2020 PHOTOS COURTESY OF ELIOT R. BROWN Last month, longtime Marvel Comics Publisher Mike defined the word "gentleman." He MARVEL ISSUE LIMITED SERIES Mike Hobson passed away. In remembrance of was refined and soft-spoken, had an infectious his life and work, Mike's friend and colleague laugh and was an intriguing conversationalist, Tom DeFalco, former Marvel Editor in Chief, well-versed in a variety of subjects. He knew shared his memories of the Marvel luminary. the best restaurants, the tastiest dishes, the most flavorsome wines and the finest hotels. Many are the unsung heroes of the comic An invitation to dine with Mike was always a book industry. These people are the hidden treasured event. He was the adult we all wanted giants who work behind the scenes without to be when we grew up. credit, fanfare or fame but are essential to Whenever I think of Mike, two occasions the creation of your comics. They are people spring to mind. One is the very first time Marvel like Mike Hobson. sent me on a business trip by myself. Mike As a supervisor at Marvel, Mike was the asked to see me before I went to his office greatest. He encouraged initiative, listened with pen and expecting some last-minute with an open mind and always supported his business instructions. Instead, he told me to people. He rarely raised his voice and had a make sure I made lunch and dinner reservations near-magical way of defusing tense situations. and gave me a list of restaurants. (Mixing creative people with those from I also recall sitting in my office one afternoon marketing, sales or accounting is usually a when a furious Mike burst in. recipe for disaster.) "Do you know what those two idiots are doing?" He asked. "Which two idiots?" I responded. Mike glared at me for a moment and then suddenly exploded in unrestrained laughter. ALPHA He actually fell into my couch, and it took him several minutes to regain control. It seems two of my editors had stuck a fishing pole out our seventh-floor window with an old Milky Way for bait and were trolling for passersby. While Mike could appreciate the humor in the situation, he felt our editors needed to adhere to a higher standard of professionalism. That was Mike. Mike Hobson was my boss and my friend. He will be missed. Tom DeFalco NovemberHE OPENS HIS EYES, ALIVE AGAIN. HE DOES NOT REMEMBER HOW MANY TIMES THIS HAS HAPPENED. IN TRUTH, NEITHER DO I. WE DO WHAT MUST BE DONE. IKARIS, WHAT ARE THE PRINCIPLES? PROTECT CELESTIALS. PROTECT THE MACHINE. CORRECT EXCESS DEVIATION. AT LEAST IN THIS, ALL IS AS IT SHOULD BE. HE REMEMBERS HOW HE DIED. HOW ALL THE ETERNALS DIED. THE SHAME, THE FIRE AND HANDS ON EACH OTHER'S HE FEELS IT, BREATHES DEEPLY HE FLIES AT THE AND LETS IT GO. HE AIMS FUTURE WITHOUT HIMSELF AT THE TASK AHEAD. FEAR OR REGRET. HE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A LIVING ARROW.HE IS AN ETERNAL. HE HAS ALWAYS BEEN. THE EXCLUSION. SEALED BETWEEN SIX ARTIFICIAL MOLECULES, SECRETED BENEATH THE SOUTHIKARIS, AFTER A TERMINAL STILL: PERSONALITY MATRIX MALFUNCTION, WE REQUIRE SEEMS INTACT. BRUSQUENESS FULL TESTS. START WITH WITHIN PREVIOUS BEAMS, THEN-- NO. READINGS. YOU ARE I AM AN NOT USUALLY THIS ETERNAL AND TALKATIVE. I STILL DON'T HAVE TIME TO WASTE ON THIS. HE IS CORRECT. THIS GIVES ME SOMETHING IS WRONG. WHO ELSE IS ALIVE? OTHERS WOULD USE EUPHEMISMS LIKE "AWAKE" INSTEAD OF "ALIVE." BUT ARROWS ARE NOTHING IF NOT DIRECT. YOU WERE THE LAST TO DIE. YOU ARE THE LAST TO RETURN.THE OCEANIC WATCH ETERNALS OCEANUS SHASTRA THYRIO ASTRON KALOS THE DESTRUCTOR CREATED BY JACK KIRBY THE CELESTIAN PRIESTS ARLOK ARGII AJAK MAKKARI A long, long time ago, alien space gods came to Earth. HARPOKRATIS MASTER ELO They made 100 Eternals. I-CHEL THE DELPHAN MOTHER They made 100 Deviants. TITANOS HERMITS They left. BLIND ORLA THE SILVERED BRIDE OF HEAVEN SCAB THE LEMURIAN MISSION ONLY DEATH IS ETERNAL, PART THENA KHORYPHOS OLYMPIA THE GAIAN SISTERS ZURAS ARGOS DAINA OF TIMES PAST IKARIS ALTO CYBELE OF TIMES PRESENT RAKAR CEYOTE TULAYN OF TIMES FUTURE SERSI PSYKOS THE TRICKS HELIOS SUYIN KING PERSE AURELLE JACK OF KNIVES DOMO HIPPOCRATIS THE KNIGHT UNGALLANT VERON MABB THE QUEEN OF MACES MARA BAKKUS IVANI GOLDENTOUCH THE DELPHAN BROTHERS (4) HORNED KERNNIS PHASTOS FIONNMAK TITANIS KINGO SUNEN THE FORGOTTEN POLARIA THE FORGOTTEN ONE UTUNAA DUMUZA VALKIN PANNIX ISHTA VIRAKO SOULE THE CHARRED THE ZARIN DAZH AMAA JUTRO AREX KARNAI AGINAR KREZNAK DRUIG ZORRJA DAMOCLES FOUNDATION SYGMAR TENGRAI BETILAKK THE INTERLOPER TUNGAC D LEGBA QUEEN TABTEE AZTARTAE AKPAXA DONARR ELEKTRYON ERAMIS KHONCHAN THE EXCLUSION LOCATION unknown UR-LUCIVA EXCLUDED "S" KHARON EXCLUDED "A" EXCLUDED EXCLUDED "H" ORA OF THE PANDEMONIUM BOX EXCLUDED "SP" EXCLUDED "E" 0-XXII EXCLUDED "U" EXCLUDED "T" LUIS THREE-FINGERS (ALL RECORDS LOST) WRITER KIERON GILLEN COVER ARTIST ESAD ARTIST ESAD EDITOR DARREN SHAN EXECUTIVE EDITOR TOM BREVOORT COLOR ARTIST MATTHEW WILSON EDITOR IN CHIEF C.B. CEBULSKI LETTERER & DESIGNER VC's CLAYTON COWLES SPECIAL THANKS TO LAUREN AMARO & MARK BASSOZURAS WISHES TO SPEAK. EVERYONE IS TALKATIVE NOWADAYS. WHEN WILL I GET TO HIT SOMETHING? WELCOME BACK, IKARIS. PUT HIM THE ETERNALS THROUGH. ARE OF ONE MIND. SHE IS TO BE FREED. "ONE MIND" IS A EUPHEMISM. ZURAS IS SAYING THAT THE YOU'RE AT ETERNAL POLITICAL SYSTEM THE EXCLUSION. DO HAS REACHED A DECISION. THE HONORS. WHEN A DECISION IS MADE, IT IS MADE. ALL DIVISIONS ARE HIDDEN BEHIND THIS POLITENESS BUT IKARIS IS NOT ONE FOR EUPHEMISMS. WHATEVER HAPPENS NEXT IS YOUR FAULT. MANY THINGS ARE COULTIN A LONG ENOUGH TIME FRAME, EVERYONE MAKES THE ETERNAL TIME FRAME IS AS LONG AS IT GETS. MOST MISTAKES ARE JUST PASSING AN ETERNAL IS MINDWIPED AND RE-ASSUMES THEIR POSITION IN THE MACHINE. SOMETIMES MISTAKES ARE BIG ENOUGH TO MAKE ALL AGREE THE ETERNAL ITSELF IS A MISTAKE. THEY ARE EXCLUDED. EXCLUDED "U" WAS THE FIRST. HE THOUGHT THE BEST WAY TO FULFILL THE ETERNAL PRINCIPLES WAS TO SCOUR THE EARTH OF ANYTHING BUT ETERNALS. EXCLUDED "SP's" SINS ARE THE MOST RECENT... YOU'RE FREE. ACROSS THE AGES, MORE HAVE BEEN EXCLUDED FOR UNFORGIVABLE ERRORS, FROM APOCALYPTIC AUTO- DEIFICATION TO SIRING A CREATURE THAT KILLED HALF THE GALAXY WITH A SINGLE FINGER CLICK...HEYA, IKARIS. SPRITE, THEY ARE OF ONE MIND. YOU HAVE BY THE BEEN RESTORED TO LACK OF HUGGING, YOUR LAST SAFE YOU'RE I'M GUESSING YOU'RE BACKUP. NO LONGER NOT EXACTLY OF ONE EXCLUDED. MIND WITH THE ONE MIND, RIGHT? YOU KNOW I AM NOT A "HUGGER." AND WHAT I BELIEVE DOESN'T MATTER. YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE A LOOSE CANNON WHO STOPS ME GOING FREE? AW! TOO LATE ANYWAY! BYE!SHE'S C'MON! ALREADY OUT. WE'VE BEEN SHE'S. DOING THIS FOREVER. IF I'M FREE BEHIND YOU. BY THE DOOR. YOU GOTTA CATCH ME.EXPECT CHAOS. BEAMS ARE OPERATIONAL. SPRITE UNIT'S ILLUSION FIELDS ALSO OPERATING. WOW. BRUTAL, IKARIS. NOT WORRIED YOU'D HURT M-- WE ARE NEARLY INDESTRUCTIBLE. STOP! DON'T GO... MACHINE, ROUTE ME TO YOU WHEREVER SHE'S CAN TAKE HEADED. A LITTLE FORCE BEAM IN THE FACE. WHATEVER HER PLANS, I WILL STOP HER.THE MACHINE TITANOS OCEANA CELESTIA THE EXCLUSION II POLARIA OLYMPIA Eternals' suite of abilities includes complete molecular disassembly and reassembly-as in, effective teleportation. To do this over a distance is of enormous strain. The Machine supplements this ability with the network, forming a system of subdimensional threads interlacing the planet. Any cleared Eternal can disassemble, enter the system and move between the nodes then reassemble in the required destination. The Machine will argue the system works incredibly well, considering its complexities. Most Eternals would agree though likely underline the word "considering." It is the teleportation equivalent of a mass transit system in a major Earth city. Unreliable, complicated, yet essential.OH WOW! LOOK AT WHAT THEY'VE DONE! THIS IS JUST WONDERFUL!GET OFF THE CAR. THAT'S THE BIG METAL THING YOU'RE STANDING ON, BEFORE YOU ASK. THEY WERE JUST FUNNY APES AND NOW THEY'VE GOT THESE BIG SHINY THINGS! I LOVE NYC IT! AND-- YOU GREW BORED OF WHAT YOUR STATION OF DID I ETERNAL CHILD. DO? YOU ALMOST DESTROYED THE MACHINE IN ORDER TO FREE YOURSELF FROM IT. WOW. OH. THAT'S AWFUL. DOESN'T SOUND LIKE THE SORT OF THING I'D DO. I MUST HAVE BEEN VERY BORED.ARE YOU GONNA FREAK OUT AGAIN? TONY STARK IS BEING TONY THE ETERNALS HAD DISCOVERED THE LAST TIME HE SAW IKARIS, THE THAT RATHER THAN THE GRAND ETERNAL WAS DYING IN A PILE PURPOSE THEY FELT IN EVERY OF BODIES. CELL, THEY WERE MERELY A LID FOR A PETRI DISH. THE CELESTIALS ONLY CARED FOR THE HUMANS. THEIR EONS OF SACRIFICE WAS FOR NOTHING. THEIR PROGRAMMING COULD NOT TAKE IT. THEIR SOCIETY IMPLODED IN BLOOD AND DEATH NO, IRON MAN. WE ARE FEELING MUCH BETTER. I HAVE WATCHED IKARIS FOR A MILLION YEARS.GOOD. TELL SERSI ER I'M NOT A I AM NOT DEFENDING THAT SHE SHOULD IT'S BEEN A COLLECTIBLE, YOUNG MY MASCULINITY GIVE ME A WHILE. I ALWAYS LADY. AND... IKARIS, WHO CALL. HAVE A HOLE IN MY IS THIS? SAVING-THE-WORLD- SCHEDULE FOR-- OH NO. HAS SERSI BEEN COLLECTING HUMANS AGAIN? SHE'S SPRITE. WE'VE HAD A FULL REBOOT OF THE ETERNALS, AND MANY HAVE TAKEN ADVANTAGE TO CHANGE APPEARANCES. IT IS COMMON. ER. I'VE NEVER NO, BUT IT IS COMMON. SEEN THIS EVERY 20 OR 25,000 BEFORE. YEARS OR SO. AND-- EXCESS ER.. YOU DEVIATION! HNNGH. SAID YOU WERE FINE. IS THERE A PROBLEM HERE? YES. NO. NO. NO.JUST THE BUSINESS WAS THAT A YES. IT IS IN THE OF ETERNALS. IT NEVER JOKE? NATURE OF IRON IS AMONG THE CHANGE, YOU MAN TO MAKE THINGS WE GUYS. JOKES. HANDLE. I GET IT, I GET IT. ETERNALS GOTTA ETERNAL. 1$ WOW! AN IRON MAN! A MAN MADE THEY ARE NOT THAT ENTIRELY OF IRON? IS THIS LIKE ANY MORE THAN I AM THE IRON CONSTRUCTS OF THE MYTHOLOGICAL HYBORIA? AND-- ICARUS. YOU'LL HAVE MISSED THAT. HUMANS KEEP ON MISTAKING us FOR GODS FOR SOME REASON. IT ANNOYS THE GODS ENORMOUSLY. HUMANS ARE OVERLITERAL. AND...OH, THIS NEVER STOPS BEING STRANGE. COMING BACK NO. HE'S WITH THAT MIX OF A HUMAN IN A THINGS YOU JUST KNOW, TECHNOLOGICAL SUIT. THINGS YOU ACTUALLY THERE ARE MANY OF REMEMBER AND PLAYING THESE BEINGS WITH NAMES CATCH UP ON EVERYTHING THAT HAVE ONLY THE ELSE SINCE THE BACKUP. BROADEST RELATIONSHIP TO JUST WEIRD. THEIR NATURE. IRON MAN. SPIDER-MAN. I BELIEVE THERE IS A MAN-SPIDER. AT LEAST I KNOW HOW THIS GOES. EVEN BEFORE I'D EVER DONE IT, I KNEW THAT... THE THIRD PRINCIPLE: "CORRECT EXCESS THE DEVIANTS ARE THE CHANGING PEOPLE. THEY ARE EACH A SPECIES OF ONE. BUT, STATISTICALLY SPEAKING, THE AVERAGE DEVIANT WEIGHS APPROXIMATELY 40-60 KG AND HAS THE DEMEANOR OF AAND THEN SOMETIMES THEY'RE NOT. WITH IKARIS, IT WOULD BE WITH SPRITE, A FIGHT. IT WOULD BE A GAME. FOR BOTH, IT IS SIMPLY WHAT THEY HAVE DONE FOR A MILLION YEARS.WHEN DEVIANTS DEVIATE, ETERNALS CORRECT. HAVE YOU SEEN GREMLINS? YES, THE PLANET EARTH HAS SEEN GREMLINS. THE EARTH HAS SEEN EVERYTHING. (I'LL ADMIT, IT IS STRANGE THAT I'M ADMITTING IT. I'M NORMALLY MORE WHERE WAS I? PORTENTOUS. AND SILENT. HMM.) DEVIANTS OH YES. ARE BASICALLY MOGWAIS. OCCASIONALLY THEY SPIT OUT A GREMLIN THAT DOES AWFUL THINGS FOR AWFUL BUT A DEVIANT WOULD REASONS THAT MAKE SENSE ONLY TO IT. LIKELY MENTION THAT YOU SPIT OUT SERIAL KILLERS. YES, DEVIANTS CAN BE MONSTERS. WOULD NOT BE SWIFT TO JUDGE.PERHAPS WE'LL FIND AN BUT WE HAVE BEEN TRYING TO ANSWER. FIND ONE FOR A LONGER TIME THAN YOU COULD IMAGINE. HAVE SEEN BATTLES LIKE THIS, TIME AND TIME OVER. 0THE AMOUNT OF PAPERWORK IN THE UGH. WHO WOULD THINK OF SUCH THE THE OFFICERS A THING? HUMANS HAVE A WHOLE GENRE OF LAW SAID SOMETHING OF MONSTERS WHO DO ABOUT ME BEING TOO YOUNG EXACTLY THAT. THERE TO BE DOING HERO STUFF, ARE A COUPLE OF I DISAPPEARED. I NEED "I.D." POPULAR TELEVISION APPARENTLY. THEY'RE TAKING SHOWS. AWAY THE POOR MAN IN SOME KIND OF VAN OF HEALING. THAT'S A GOOD IDEA. NO MORE TRAIPSING OUT INTO THE WILDERNESS TO FIND THE MACHINE-- LADY WHO KNOWS A LOT DEVIATION NOTE: ABOUT THE SPECIAL IT APPEARED TO BE GRASSES. HERBS IN A ATTEMPTING TO EXTEND VAN. HERBS LIFE BY FEEDING OFF THAT COME HUMAN BRAIN TO YOU! MATTER. WOW. HUMANS! THAT'S I WOULDN'T FASCINATING. RECOMMEND IT. ALSO, WHAT'S BUT "TELEVISION YOU'RE SHOWS"? GOING TO LOVE THAI. ALSO, AND... CAN I EAT THIS? AND IKARIS GOOD IS HAUNTED. WORK. THANK YOU. SEE, IRON THEY HAVE JUST MAN'S RIGHT. DISCOVERED WHATEVER NOTHING'S USE THE CELESTIALS HAD CHANGED. FOR THEM IS OVER. AND STILL NOTHING HAS CHANGED. THEY HAVE NO PURPOSE.OLYMPIA. NORTHERN GREECE, FOLDED BEHIND MOUNT OLYMPUS An BE RESPECTFUL. I AM NOT RESPECTFUL. I HAVE NEVER BEEN RESPECTFUL. WHAT ARE THE CHANCES THAT HEY! I'M GOING TO DEFY MY VERY NATURE PHASTOS! RIGHT NOW? LOOKING FEAR. GOOD! THERE IS ALWAYS FEAR OF ME. AND-- IT... IT... IKARIS. ...IT IS ZURAS.WHAT WAS FIVE THE MURDER FINGERS WEAPON? PRESSING ON HIS SKULL. ENORMOUS POWER. IT MUST HAVE HAPPENED SHORTLY AFTER HE TOLD YOU TO FREE SPRITE. WHOEVER IT WAS ARRIVED VIA THE NETWORK THEN ESCAPED AFTERWARD. IDENTITY MASKED OR LOST. HMM. IF THEY USED THE DISPLACEMENT NETWORK, IT'D HAVE TO BE AN ETERNAL.IF IKARIS IS AN ARROW, ONE WOULD HOPE BEING DRUIG IS A SNAKE. ETERNAL MIGHT TEACH YOU PATIENCE BUT THE SOMEHOW MACHINE IT NEVER HAS NO BACKLOG HAPPENS. OF ETERNALS TO RESURRECT. ZURAS WILL BE BACK SHORTLY AND TELL us WHO MURDERED HIM. EITHER WAY-- WE SHOULD BE MAKING NO MORE DECISIONS UNTIL THE PRIME ETERNAL HAS THERE IS RETURNED. AN ETERNAL MURDERER LOOSE, AND YOU SAY WAIT? YOU MAY HAVE HOPED THAT ME BREAKING YOUR NOSE WOULD GROW BUT SOMEHOW IT NEVER HAPPENS. STILL--WE SHOULD RETURN THE LITTLE ONE TO THE EXCLUSION FOR NOW. SHE IS, AFTER ALL, THE PRIME SUSPECT. WAIT, WHY? ZURAS MURDERED YOU OH. WHEN YOU NEARLY THAT MAKES MURDERED us SENSE. ALL. BUT THESE ARE NOT THE HEAD-CRUSHING HANDS YOU'RE LOOKING FOR! NO, BUT THE ONE WHO FREED YOU HAS SUCH PRIDE IN HIS POWER. PLUS LITTLE WIT, A NATURE THAT IS EASILY MANIPULATED. A SUITABLE WEAPONTHIRTY SECONDS AGO? I KNOW YOU'RE NOT. IF YOU YOU ARE, WE HAVE DON'T THINK I'M WORSE PROBLEMS THAN A SIMPLE MURDER. RESPONSIBLE? MURDERS ARE A TEMPORARY PROBLEM. MACHINE, ANY TRANSIT TRACES? YES. THERE'S A DISTORTION. SOMEONE TRAVELED THE NETWORK WHO IS UNKNOWN TO ME. SO... WHERE DID THIS MYSTERIOUSFALLEN CAPITAL OF THE ETERNALS. SUPERIMPOSED BETWEEN THREE SECONDS FROM now AND TWO SECONDS AGO. BE CAREFUL. I WOULD RATHER YOU NOT BE HERE YOU LEAVE ME, I END UP BACK IN THE EXCLUSION. I NEED TO CLEAR MY NAME. BESIDES. EARLIER, WITH THE DEVIANT--WE WORK WELL TOGETHER. WE ALWAYS DO.ALL THE ETERNALS ECHO IN HUMAN TITANOS WAS MYTH IN STRANGE PARALLELS. IT IS THE FIRST OF THE EASY TO FIND MATCHES FOR ETERNAL CITIES, TITANOS, THE CITY OF ECHOES. PROMETHEUS STEALING FIRE FROM THE GODS. THE ARROGANCE OF THE TOWER OF BABEL AN ETERNAL CALLED KRONOS TRIED TO MASTER TIME. THE INITIAL EXPLOSION KILLED ALL THE ETERNALS. BEFORE THEY COULD STABILIZE IT, IT KILLED THEM ALL SEVERAL MORE TIMES. HE SUCCEEDED AND GAVE BIRTH TO A COSMIC GOD. THERE ARE ETERNALS WHO IN THE DOUBT THAT "STABILITY." PROCESS, THEY THINK THE WOUND HE NEARLY IS THE DESTROYED CHRONAL DISTORTIONS THE MACHINE HERE WILL BUILD OVER THE NEXT FEW MILLION YEARS (I.E., ME). AND TEAR ME APART. TIME IS WEAK HERE. FUTURE, PAST, RERUNS AND PREVIEWS EVERYTHING WHOEVER IT MIXED TOGETHER. BECOMES IS, THEY WOULD TRAGEDY. BE MAD TO STAY HERE. IT-- TIME IS STRONG HERE, IN GREAT, TEARING EDDIES. HEY! LOOK! AND WITHSORRY. DIED TOBY ROBSON OLD OH MY. THAT LOOKS SAD. NO. IT IS NOT AN BUT HE'S GOING IS THAT SOMEONE EVENT THAT HAS TO LIVE. YOU KNEW? OCCURRED. I DO NOT KNOW THIS BOY. I'M SORRY I FAILED. D MORE ETERNAL BLASPHEMY. AN AFFRONT AGAINST THE UNIVERSE. ALL THAT LIVE MUST DIE. WHEN I AM DONE, THERE WILL BE BUT A SINGLE THING THAT IS AND HOW BEST TODEATH. OH. THANOS KNOWS EXACTLY WHO HE IS.VARIANT COVER GALLERY PART 1 BARTEL RUSSELL DAUTERMAN / ARTHUR ADAMS / JASON KEITH ALAN DAVIS / MATTHEW WILSON NOLAN WOODARD INHYUK LEE PEACH JENNY FRISON RIAN GONZALES GREG LAND / FRANThe gallery continues next issue with covers by Mahmud Asrar & Dave McCaig; Bosslogic; Dave Johnson; Frank Cho & Sabine Rich; J. Scott Campbell & Sabine Rich; Jeff Johnson & Dan Panosian; John Romita Jr., Danny Miki & Marte Gracia; Jack Kirby, Frank Giacoia & Rachelle Rosenberg! NEXT Email us at mheroes@marvel.com and mark "okay to print"! © 2021 MARVEL. No similarity between any of the names, characters, persons, and/or institutions in this magazine with those of any living or dead person or institution is intended, and any such similarity which may exist is purely coincidental.JOINOURTELEGRAM CHANNELmics Visi channe @Dc_Marvel_Comicss