History YMMV / ElEternauta

** El Eternauta, Remake: (1969) By Oesterheld and Breccia. A leftist pamphlet with several [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks drastic changes to the storyline]], which coupled with Breccia's [[DoingItForTheArt weird and experimentalist approach]] arose an uproar from the fans. Consequently, it [[ExecutiveMeddling got rushed up]]. It's not merely that the alien invaders are depicted as TheEmpire, [[EagleLand a certain somebody even helps them and all!]]

* NightmareFuel: This comic was intended [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids FOR KIDS?]]
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: While the original series is widely regarded as Made Of Awesome and even taught in schools in Argentina, the Second Part in comparison is considered inferior by many hardcore fans. The same thing is true for the 2000's in-universe sequels made by Solano López and Pablo Maiztegui, though it was a serious product and sold fairly well, itself a miracle given the Argentine economics.

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** The original work was also somewhat left wing oriented, having in mind the protagonists are a small army (or guerrilla), fighting a bigger enemy army [[spoiler: which is obeying the villain against its will]]. Even if it's nowhere in the first part, [[WordOfGod Oesterheld's motto for the book]] was "''el único héroe válido es el héroe en grupo, nunca el héroe individual, el héroe solo''" ("the only true hero is the group-hero, never the individual hero, the lone hero)"''. All and all, the First part was a LOT more subtle than the second part (if you can call the it subtle at all).

* HarsherInHindsight: There's some right after the first battle against the ''cascarudos'' (beetles) at the roundabout, when Salvo, Favalli and the rest of the army move along. The narration then proceeds to name some distinctive buildings and locations as the characters pass by them. One of them is the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navy_Petty-Officers_School_of_Mechanics Escuela Mecánica de la Armada]], which was, from 1957 (when the story was written) to 1983, one of the most important military buildings of Argentina, so to speak. Exactly thirty years later in RealLife, the author, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Héctor_Germán_Oesterheld Héctor Germán Oesterheld]], was carried there during the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proceso_de_Reorganizaci%C3%B3n_Nacional last Argentinean dictatorship]] (then, and now euphemistically, called "National Reorganization Process"), which is infamous for the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desaparecidos#Argentina disappearance of people by arresting them illegally]], [[BodyHorror extreme physical and psychological torture]] and illegal executions. Extra points if you know about the tortures enforced there and in every other illegal detention center: [[FateWorseThanDeath drowning, raping, fusillade simulations, electric shocks to the genitals while tied up to a table, birth and appropriation of babies born while their mothers were in captivity (which didn't earn them any special treatment)]], all to be buried in mass graves afterwards. The very next year, his four daughters, [[ParanoiaFuel which were probably as young as many of the people reading this]], were also illegally arrested, systematically tortured and [[UnPerson disappeared]] like their father, one of them while being pregnant and other while already being mother of a baby. The grandson born in captivity was rescued by Elsa Sánches, Oesterheld's widow, while the other was raised by the father's grandparents.

** The original work was also somewhat left wing oriented, having in mind the protagonists are a small army (or guerrilla), fighting a bigger enemy army [[spoiler: which is obeying the villain against it's will]]. Even if it's nowhere in the first part, [[WordOfGod Oesterheld's motto for the book]] was "''el único héroe válido es el héroe en grupo, nunca el héroe individual, el héroe solo''" ("the only true hero is the group-hero, never the individual hero, the lone hero)"''. All and all, the First part was a LOT more subtle than the second part (if you can call the it subtle at all).

* FridgeHorror: The whole premise of the travelling through time and space seems really cool from the very beginning... If you don't think too hard on it. [[spoiler: Due to [[DoNotTauntCthulhu messing with Eldritch Technologies]], Juan Salvo becomes the Eternaut, the "Traveller of Eternity", travelling through time and space over and over. This mean that he was able to escape the likely complete extinction/enslavement of the human race, but he [[PowerIncontinence can't control]] this power.]] On the other hand, the same thing happened to [[spoiler: Elena and Martita, his beloved wife and daughter]], both also drifting through the many continuums of timespace together... hopefully. So Salvo faces the tragic condition of [[spoiler: being LastOfHisKind, knowing positively that [[ThereIsAnother his family]] is somewhere out there, jumping through time and space, facing the endless dangers and horrors of the universe on their own, with a infinitesimal chance of ever finding them]]. Needless to say, he holds onto the hope that he will find both, asking for them to every single creature he finds.[[spoiler: And he finally does]]... In a way... [[AlternateUniverse or does he?]]. [[MindScrew Don't ask me.]]

This work has a few controversial editions:
* El Eternauta, Remake: (1969) By Oesterheld and Breccia. A leftist pamphlet with several [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks drastic changes to the storyline]], which coupled with Breccia's [[DoingItForTheArt weird and experimentalist approach]] arose an uproar from the fans. Consequently, it [[ExecutiveMeddling got rushed up]]. It's not merely that the alien invaders are depicted as TheEmpire, [[EagleLand a certain somebody even helps them and all!]]
* El Eternauta, Third Part: (1983) By Ongaro, Morhain and Oswal. Just your [[SoOkayItsAverage average]] sci-fi comic, reusing the characters in some uninspired setting and considered by many to have been made mostly [[CashCowFranchise to cash in]].

* FridgeHorror: The whole premise of the travelling through time and space seems really cool from the very beginning... If you don't think too hard on it. [[spoiler: Due to [[DoNotTauntCthulhu messing with Eldritch Technologies]], Juan Salvo becomes the Eternaut, the "Traveller of Eternity", travelling through time and space over and over. This mean that he was able to escape the likely complete extinction/enslavement of the human race, but he [[PowerIncontinence can't control]] this power.]] On the other hand, the same thing happened to [[spoiler: Elena and Martita, his beloved wife and daughter]], both also drifting through the many continuums of timespace together... hopefully. So Salvo faces the tragic condition of [[spoiler: being LastOfHisKind, knowing positively that [[ThereIsAnother his family]] is somewhere out there, jumping through time and space, facing the endless dangers and horrors of the universe on their own, with a infinitesimal chance of ever finding them]]. Needless to say, he holds onto the hope that he will find both, asking for them to every single creature he finds.[[spoiler: And he finally does]]... In a way... [[AlternateUniverse or does he?]]. [[MindScrew Don't ask me.]]

** I got a major humanist feel from the first one, would barely say it conveyed any left wing message (Not to imply humanist and leftist messages are mutually exclusive).
*** Seconded. It is a common mistake to read his fifties' works through his seventies-late sixties political involvement. It is however true that, in any case, it was that humanism which got him more politically involved, it's all part of a slow process that is, by the way, a very useful example of what happened to many humanist and mildly leftist intellectuals in Argentina after several years of corruption, disillusionment and dictatorship.

** Let's not forget that the original work was also somewhat left wing oriented, having in mind the protagonists are a small army (or guerrilla), fighting a bigger enemy army [[spoiler: which is obeying the CompleteMonster against it's will]]. Even if it's nowhere in the first part, [[WordOfGod Oesterheld's motto for the book]] was "''el único héroe válido es el héroe en grupo, nunca el héroe individual, el héroe solo''" ("the only true hero is the group-hero, never the individual hero, the lone hero)"''. All and all, the First part was a LOT more subtle than the second part (if you can call the it subtle at all).

* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler:"Them"]].
* NightmareFuel: Hasn't anybody pointed the fact that this comic was intended [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids FOR KIDS?]] This Troper had three non-stop nightmare nights after reading some issues... just to go to the store and buy the next one even more greedily.

* {{Anvilicious}}: The Second Part is extremely left wing oriented, showing a group of young [[LaResistance gaucho-type futuristic cave dwellers]] fighting a despotic dictatorship of aliens with Juan Salvo as a Che Guevara-like [[FollowTheLeader charismatic leader]]. As always, YourMileageMayVary wether SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped or not. This doesn't apply for the original first work.