Weaver does brilliant work with the art in the issue. The style is perfect and harkens back to Kirby and the early Eternals stories. There is a timeless element to the visuals that seamlessly weave together the past and the present. Read Full Review

What's unique about this issue is that it presents the origin of Thanos while barely showing Thanos. It's an artistic achievement and a beginning filled with promise for the battle to come. Thanos is presented as a monstrous force of hate out to destroy any he should love. It's a great take on a villain we love and it will be interesting seeing him face off against his forebears. Read Full Review

Eternals: Thanos Rises #1 is a celebration. This comic lovingly pays tribute to the brilliance of creators such as Jim Starlin and Jack Kirby with the modern mastery of Gillen and Weaver. It has painstaking details in its text and its art, using history to tell a new story. Its sad and even brutal, but that is inevitable considering what is created. It is also nice to get more of Gillens Eternals, and this hopefully will not be the last. Read Full Review

This book takes a bit of patience to allow it to flow over you, but once you're thoroughly engrossed it's hard not to marvel at the smartness of the story. Like Gillen said in AIPT's interview back in August, this is an excellent berserker sci-fi mythological comic. Eternals: Thanos Rising feels otherworldly as if plucked from another dimension, offering secrets and enjoyment we dare not touch, but must. Read Full Review

Keiron Gillen continues to weave the tapestry of the Eternals, and explores their past, and the event that caused them their greatest misstep of all: the birth of Thanos. Eternals werent born to breed life of their own, and Mentors hubris comes back to bite him, and the entire universe, in the behind. Gillen continues to excel at the development of this quite alien world, and Dustin Weavers rendition is an exquisite addition to their mythology. Unfortunately the pace proves to be a detriment to the overall issue. Read Full Review

With all that taken into consideration, this issue is still a necessity in the grand scheme of things, because it shows just how dangerous of a villain Thanos is. Not only that, Gillen and collaborators flesh out this corner of the Marvel universe tenfold, and as a result, have created a must-read issue for those keeping pace with the primary story. Read Full Review

While it may not be new-reader friendly, those already following the story in progress will likely enjoy the elaboration of Thanoss origins even if Thanos himself does not appear much at all throughout it. Artist Dustin Weaver also does a good job of approximating what Esad Ribi has established on the main title without it coming across as derivative or an exact copy; it feels epic but still kinetic in a way that Ribis art arguably isnt. With an origins issue that pulls from largely established material, the biggest plus I could give Eternals: Thanos Rises #1 is that it doesnt seem frivolous. Read Full Review

Eternals: Thanos Rises #1 focuses less on Thanos and more on the history and ramifications of his birth. It's disappointing but manages to tell a tragic tale of his father A'Lars, aka Mentor, and his mother Sui-San and the impact he has on them. The artistic depiction of the Eternals is great thanks to the art team of Dustin Weaver and Matthew Wilson. However, the Eternals' civilization feels like something ripped from the Man of Steel film's portrayal of Kryptonian society. By the end, you'll likely walk away feeling incredibly sorry for Mentor more than ever before and disliking the Eternals. Read Full Review

Absolutely fantastic.

This was really well done. I've never cared about the Eternals' history, but this makes it very interesting.

Great background story for either the Eternals and Thanos. I think the rifts in their society are very interesting because there is always an argument to be made on both sides of such divergence. The ominous presence of Thanos is always so well done, although we already know the story, it still strikes hard. Weaver's art feels more Kirby-ish, modern, but the feel is there, which I found very cool. Excellent companion piece to the amazing Gillen's Eternals series!

This historical retrospective gives a streamlined account of Thanos's origin tailored to the current Eternals series. But it also includes a lot -- maybe a little too much -- of extra mythic background. The art's a nice fusion of retro styles with plenty of Kirby, but also lots of European influence. I think it even complements Esad Ribić's art nicely. This is an informative, rewarding issue, but it narrowly misses the brass ring of greatness and must-read-itude.

Art is perfectly evocative of cosmic Kirby. The writing is of course wonderful, but very esoteric at this stage, so if you don't have at least some background here it might take an additional read to absorb.

This was pretty solid. I think it got better as it went on and felt like a good read when finished.

Eternals are eternally petty.

I liked the art more than I thought I would, I didn't like that they changed the Eternals personas to fit the current day era and that Thanos was not in this issue at all.