A Moment of Comics

I'm reading the first chapter in a collection of Jack Kirby's Eternals. Sadly, it's already a slog. The opening sentence on the very first page--"Is man alone in the universe?"--disappoints. Readers of comics are always ready to acknowledge aliens and gods. Especially Marvel Comics readers. The line just doesn't excite the way the first sentence of New Gods does."There came a time when the old gods died!" has way more of a kick to it. 

Imagine if Kirby had fit that line about gods dying in a book set in the Marvel Comics universe, where every mythological figure is also an entry in their Official Handbook series. People might have lost their minds.