He died as a child, decades before his time, and spent the next 30 years in Hell thanks to a mix-up in the afterlifeโs bureaucracy. Then a miracle occurred, and the Kid escaped perdition for Earth. His mission: become the new Messiah. His gift: the ability to summon any human, god or devil who ever existedโor who anyone once believed existedโwith the cry of a single wordโฆ โETERNITY!โ Redeeming humanity, however, is trickier than it seems. From Americaโs forgotten highways to the endless realms of cyberspace, from the clamor of TV talk shows to the chaos of insane asylums, from the siren song of sex to the menace of mad gods, a whole host of forcesโgood, bad and uglyโhave united to thwart the utopian efforts of this savior in sunglasses. Fortunately, he has a little help from his friendsโincluding a hacker, a hobo, Zeus, Freud, Neal Cassady, Marilyn Monroe and many more. When it comes to saving the world, not even the power of Eternity can do it aloneโฆ KID ETERNITY BOOK ONE collects the first nine issues of legendary writer Ann Nocenti and superstar artist Sean Phillipsโ classic VERTIGO saga of magic, madness and the strangeness of the twentieth-century psyche.