History ComicBook / GilgameshTheImmortal

* HumanAliens: Averted. Utnapishtim and his race, the "Martians" (but not from Mars), are LittleGreenMen. Each other alien is basically one EldritchAbomination even more horrific than the last.

Finally, a nuclear reactor explodes, and all humanity perishes. All, except for Gilgamesh of course. But he saw a chance: a project in the United States to take frozen humans to other planets. Gilgamesh completed the plan, and explored the universe to find a new planet to let humanity start again. He met other alien races, and eventually settles at another planet. The embryos become a tribe and, centuries later, a technologically advanced society. This new human race, unaware of being alien to that planet, organizes a space journey to planet earth, after discovering life in it. Gilgamesh joins it, but the tripulation dies during an accident after arriving. Gilgamesh is then left alone on a devastated planet.

''Gilgamesh the Immortal'' is an Argentine comic book, made by Robin Wood and Lucho Olivera. As it can be guessed, it's freely based on the mythical Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh.

Gilgamesh is then sent to another level of existence, similar to Olympus, where he meets other immortals, with him being the only one who was mortal once. He is proposed to move to yet another higher level of existence, but requests instead to live his life again.

* AncientAstronauts: Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh explained with aliens
* AndIMustScream: Go ahead, immortal, scream until you break your lungs. It will do you no good: the nuclear reactor exploded, and humanity perished.
* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: in Uruk, when they thought that Gilgamesh had died.
* CompleteImmortality: He does not age, and nothing can destroy him. Not a sumerian blade, not an atomic explosion of hundreds of megatons (yes, he's been in the core of such an explosion... and more than once!)
* CreatorProvincialism: Averted. Sure, Argentina as a country didn't exist in the time of Uruk, but with a character that spans from ancient times to the end of the world and beyond, they could made an episode taking place in Argentina (any time from Napoleon to the end of the world would do). But no, not a single mention of Argentina in this Argentine comic. The closer he ever got was to Peru during the colonization of the Inca empire, and crossing the atlantic ocean from Africa to Brazil.
* TheFaceless: When he was serving as a Roman legionarie, Gilgamesh heard about a man from a distant province of the Empire who was preaching revolutionary ideas: love between all people, a single god, that all men are created equal, even the slaves... so Gilgamesh headed to meet him. But he did not arrive on a good moment: the man was being judged, accused of wanting to be a king (we never see his face, just in shadows, and never hear his name). The Roman governor saw no real crime, but the people insisted, so he showed a vicious criminal. He proposed to pardon one of both them. Gilgamesh was horrorized by the answer of the mob, which echoed in his mind for all eternity: "Give us Barabass". The prisoner was sentenced to crucifixion, forced to carry the heavy cross and wear a crown of spykes. The skies turned red, and he died. And Gilgamesh could not do anything but see. [[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} It goes without saying who was this man, not shown and not mentioned, right?]]
* FromBadToWorse: Gilgamesh became an immortal king, capable to spend generations taking Uruk to the greatest glory... but people hated him. He thought that a common Empire may unite all the world and end wars... but it always ended in a bloodbath. He thought that the benevolent aliens may help to reduce human violence... and an army of barbarians crushed the aliens. He thought that Jesus may lead a social change... and you all know what has happened to him. He thought that Napoleon would finally end the monarchism... and became a conquering emperor. He thought that human development would make a change towards peace... but it was only a development in finer and greater ways to wage war. And, finally, humanity itself perishes, and he remains the single living thing in a dead world.
* HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct: Gilgamesh could not prevent World War II or the Holocaust... nor the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the conquest of America, the crucifixion of Jesus, the fall of Rome, the defeat of Napoleon, the assasination of Julius Caesar, and so on... he has been inside all of them, but he could never change history.
* HopeSpot: Several times Gilgamesh thought he has found a way to finally see humanity live in peace and prosper... and each time the hope is utterly destroyed in the end.

* LastOfHisKind: Humanity died, all the world is a dead asteroid, not even the cockroaches survived... but Gilgamesh is still roaming the empty streets

* SocietyOfImmortals: The race of the Martians, who builded a ImmortalityInducer that makes them immortal.

* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Roaming in the desert during the modern age, Gilgamesh returned to Uruk. For a moment, he closed his eyes and heared the merchants, the priests, the warriors, the people building the wall... but only for a moment. The scream of a hyena broke the nostalgia, and he saw Uruk as it really is: just some rocks, some pieces of tools... and the sand, the wind, nothing remains of the proud Uruk.
* YouShallNotPass: Gilgamesh vs. a complete army, over a frail bridge crossing the pit of an active volcano. Needless to say, the bridge broke with the weight of so much people, and they all falled into the lava and died. Of course, all except Gilgamesh, who took some days to get out (lava is a bit sticky, it's not water).