I just got a copy of "The Eternals" by Neil Gaiman and John Romita. The premise is that we humans share the Earth with two other groups - the Eternals, who have names like Ikarus and Thena (i.e. Icarus and Athena) and are the basis for the gods of legend, and the Deviants, who are the basis for our devil myths. They (and humans) were created by giant inscrutable aliens called the Celestials, who may be coming back soon, with unknown consequences.

The original comic book series was written and drawn by Jack Kirby, and he had a very modernistic style - his creatures and machines were all drawn with clean lines, and his stories had drama but not a lot of moral ambiguity. They were like the fiction of Asimov and E. E. "Doc" Smith - they had this post-war optimism about the future and the promise of technology.

Neil Gaiman is much more post-modern and complex, and Romita's art is a bit less comic-booky then that of Kirby. I haven't finished it yet, but so far the story is somewhat different and (I think) harder to follow.

The Eternals would make a great movie... That is, if they don't mess up the screenplay like the first Fantastic Four movie.