Fourth installment of the hardcover collectible by The Eternals which continues with the resolution of the arrival of the Fourth Host of the Celestials in the pages of Thor. Panini comics he sings Wagner as a preliminary step to the salvation of humanity.
The Ring of the Nibelung
Richard Wagner was a great composer, playwright, poet, essayist, music theorist and also a conductor, very prolific and of profound influence and legacy. Among many other renowned works he composed what is known as the tetralogy of the ring of the Nibelung, a work that inspired Roy Thomas to take it to the pages of the series dedicated to the God of Thunder. Wagner had precisely used Norse mythology as a source to reach the musical Yggdrasil himself with his work.
Divided into four operas called El Oro del Rin, La Valquiria, Siegfrido and El Ocaso (or Twilight) of the Gods, the cycle of the Ring appears reflected in the pages of Thor going through that story through the narration that the ancient Eye of Odin makes to the possessor of Mjolnir and offspring of the Father of All. Although the adaptation includes the ten US numbers of this volume, it will not be until the last two, the one that commemorates the number 300 and the next, when the Celestials make an appearance and very in the background, being generous, the presence of The Eternal .
Clearly a Thor adventure
Therefore we find ourselves before a comic where we are hardly going to be able to enjoy the presence of the Ikaris, Sersi, Thena and company because their role is more than residual. What is vitally important is that, at last, the plot that involved the trial that was being carried out by the Fourth Host of the Celestials is resolved, affecting the human race and the rest of the inhabitants of planet Earth. A merit that no longer has to be attributed to Thomas but to the duo of screenwriters formed by Ralph macchio and Mark Gruenwald.
Both manage to finalize the Twilight of the Gods and provide an original solution to the complex framework that Jack Kirby had woven in the original collection of The Eternals. It seemed like a difficult undertaking to undertake for members of a race of powerful immortals who still did not appear to be fully grasping the situation. What better way than to turn to the gods of the different pantheons present in the Marvel universe to solve such a mess.
From Ragnarok to solving who is the mother of the Asgardian God of Thunder
Those of us who grew up in the eighties under the umbrella of Walter Simonson’s Thor publications already found ourselves with the resolution to the question about who was the mother of the God of Thunder and Frigga was not exactly the answer. Well, that revelation took place in the resolution of the saga of the Celestials, in the final pages of this volume in some episodes that featured the drawing of a very compliant, Keith Pollard, who had already relieved John Buscema in the previous volume of this collection of Los Eternos.
Pollard does not overstate his work during the adaptation of The Ring of the Nibelung, but he does give a graphic coherence to a narrative full of poses, for the greater glory of Thor. In the end, the circle is completed that completes the arrival and departure of the Fourth Host of the Celestials without having to go to more than two series, the one that Kirby started and that of the mighty God of Thunder, with a wonderful Roy Thomas who dared to adapt anything, not just literary works but also music librettos inspired by the gods.