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It's deeply personal. Jack Kirby created the Celestials to illustrate that humans can have a cosmic destiny, but that they have to choose between good and evil. Jason Aaron claims humanity exists because a Celestial died on Earth from a literal infection and its vomit, blood and pus oozed into the biosphere, and the other Celestials permitted Earth and humanity to continue to exist because they hoped they could make some kind of vaccine from this mess. It is so petty, hateful and ugly that it convinced me there is something very, very wrong with that man. (He did something similar during his run on 'Thor'. Kirby created Odin as a wise, strict, but ultimately kind and loving father figure to basically the universe. Jason Aaron turned him into a pathetic, literally alcoholic abusive tyrant. His relationship with his own father was pretty bad.) Marvel used to be run by storytellers who either wanted to uplift us or just have fun. Now? It's a frickin' asylum. The only lights left are Al Ewing and, on a good day, Kieron Gillen. Both of whom are British, by the way. Probably not a coincidence. Almost all of Marvel's best and most lauded comics were penned by Brits.