Did not realize it apparently is a series finale. AND did not like it either! However, YOU may or may not have liked this wrap up...

ETERNALS #9
http://www.marvel.com/catalog/ETERNALS.2008.9
http://www.comicboards.com/app/show.php?msg=comicbattles-2009031822085724
Recap (and VERY interesting poll):
http://www.marvel.com/boards/viewtopic.php?p=3692049&sid=712817104236b21aadb12575c4d1637f


The events in this issue may or may not have happened as told.
It could be the alternate future setting could have been slightly off on any number of details for the ways things went off in the 616 reality.
It offers closure for those who stop reading Marvel Comics after this issue but the Marvel zombies out there will immediately want to know exactly how things concluded in this... unsatisfying conclusion.

"The FULCRUM restored everything back to normal the world is none the wiser."

Marvel Events often get Cosmic Reset Button pushed and some are much easier to accept than others. This came across as the latter.
Elements of the the accounts and observations in this story to be biased and or flat out lies.

'MAY OR MAY NOT' Statements:
-Ben Urich will have a kid who has a daughter Michelle (who will be her grandmother will become a guessing game too).
-Tiamut the Dreaming Celestial still be in SanFran park.
-Tiamut the Dreaming Celestial remembered by the MU citizens and/or heroes.
-Tiamut the Dreaming Celestial was lobotomized earlier to this arc by High Evolutionary http://stashbox.org/461923/uncanny507magnus.JPG (see Uncanny 507).
-Tiamut the Dreaming Celestial is now a near-peer of The One Above All.
-More than 3 Eternals will appear in a Marvel comic adventure in view of the public before 2115.
-Angel judged that the Horde was not deadly enough to warrant an Archangel change (or he still wants to keep it secret from Colossus).
-No more X-men showed up to help after last issues roll call.
-The X-men appearance was the most blatant window dressing of the month.
-The Horde could be related to http://www.milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?action=enlarge&issue=97792366288%20154 the Sidri.
-Joey is feeling MUCH better an important character (with the last name, legally, Athena).
-Uatu did not feel the attack of trillions worth mentioning to Reed for some good reason.
-Los Angeles is a MAJOR city in the eyes of the Eternals.
-The Prime Eternal is needed to initiate a Uni-Mind (or someone that everyone agrees on on a whim to claim the title).
-The majority of the 100 Eternals(not sure the surviving #) formed the Uni-Mind in SanFran.
-Vestibule is were all Eternals go all the time while 'temporarily' dead before reactivation.
-No Eternal has yet been irrevocably destroyed.
-Vestibule is run by The Fulcrum who looks like Jack Kirby.
-Uni-Mind normally is formed by 3 Eternals and is a dangerous out of body experience.
-A Watcher knows that a conscience differentiates good from evil (except in the case of Galactus who gets to be ammoral).
-Pixie changed her complete look from her First Line team days.
-Ajak isnt so bad afterall.
-The Fulcrum created the Celestials as advanced automatons, beyond human sentience, to someday each individually transcend their programmed existence.
-The Fulcrum is pre-BigBang (like Galactus).
-The Fulcrum is on par, if not actually also, TOAA.
-The open ended finish works better as a series finale than the one in Young Xmen (even though The Eternals concern for humanity seem to contradict their just stated goal to shy away from humans).
-The Avengers think Sersi (and Gilgamesh) is long gone (if not dead and/or a unreliable memory).

There feels something unsavory with EACH of these statements. But this issue infers that any number may be true. Any corrections offered to these statements may or may not make the issue a little less disappointing.

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Curious, care or care less with the +links from my issuesearch being included?
Eternals 8 pencils:
http://shadedgrey.com/ericnguyen/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/eternal_8_010insert.thumbnail.jpg
http://shadedgrey.com/ericnguyen/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/eternal_8_004_5.jpg
General ETERNALS info:
http://blog.7415comics.com/?tag=Eternals
Ik vs Herc:
http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb205/thor1369/Marvel/Ikaris02.jpg
Jack Kirby Eternals:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-media/product-gallery/0785122052/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_all