The Avengers, X-Men And Eternals Face Judgement Day This Summer

by Jay Cochran
February 1, 2022
The next Marvel Comics epic is here! From the brilliant mind of superstar writer Kieron Gillen and the incredible talents of acclaimed artist Valerio Schiti comes JUDGMENT DAY, a Marvel Universe spanning event launching in July.

Already redefining the Eternals mythos in ETERNALS, and soon to be shepherding in the next age of mutantkind in IMMORTAL X-MEN, Gillen will take his work on both titles as well as recent storylines in Jason Aaron and Javier Garron’s AVENGERS run for an odyssey that will usher in dramatic developments for these three core Marvel teams. And Schiti, already proven to be a masterful event storyteller in books like EMPYRE and INFERNO, will deliver the breathtaking action and high-stakes thrills that transpire when Super Hero titans clash. Together, these iconic creators have crafted an intense saga that’s destined to take its place among the most impactful events in Marvel Comics history.

The X-Men have achieved immortality and mutants have taken their place as the dominant species on the planet. The Eternals have discovered long hidden knowledge about their species, including a devastating truth about mutantkind. The Avengers have come into direct conflict with the Celestials and are currently using a fallen Celestial as their base of operations, slowly unlocking its secrets… When the Eternals brazenly target the mutant nation of Krakoa, the Avengers try desperately to de-escalate a potentially apocalyptic war. But this is no simple conflict. The Eternals’ purpose cannot be denied and mutantkind’s future will not be threatened. And after the opening battles, new players and revelations for both sides will emerge as the inhabitants of the Marvel Universe are JUDGED by the greatest power they’ve ever come into contact with.

“There's a classic metaphor to describe the Marvel Universe - a toybox, which creators take toys out of, play with and put back. I get it, but it's never quite how I've seen it - I think ‘play’ in another way. I think of a music shop, with all these instruments with their different qualities suggesting different songs, different stories,” Gillen explained. “For all the Marvel instruments I've played, I've never written an event. Writing an event is something different. It's not like playing an instrument. It's having all the instruments in the Marvel music shop. That's not like writing a song. That's like writing a symphony.

“I looked at everything in ETERNALS and IMMORTAL X-MEN and everything else all the X and Avengers writers have done and thought... yeah, this is an event. In fact, an event is the only way to do justice to this. The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson described the music he was reaching for as Teenage Symphonies to God. I think that's what the best Marvel Events aspire to be, and it's what we're aspiring to here. I want the scale. I want the heartbreak . I want a book that wears its heart on its sleeve even as it puts a fist in your face. I want something Wagnerian in its volume as emotional as God Only Knows.”

“It is great to have the opportunity to draw another Marvel event after Empyre,” Schiti added. “The difference is that last time I was just excited, but now I know how high the expectations are, so now I am both excited and a bit scared! Luckily for me I have the great Kieron Gillen and Marte Gracia watching my back and together we can face any cosmic threat!”

Be sure to pick up FREE COMIC BOOK DAY: AVENGERS/X-MEN #1 on May 7 for your first taste of the action. Stay tuned in the coming weeks for more information, including cover reveals, and witness the buildup to JUDGMENT DAY in upcoming issues of ETERNALS, IMMORTAL X-MEN, X-MEN, and AVENGERS.
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GrtWhiteCustoms - 2022-06-20 @ 2:15 am

Many X-Men will be killed by this clown only to be resurrected by the Krakoa protocol crap. Death has meant nothing in comics for a long time but this is just ridiculous. I remember when Phoenix died in 1980...I was honestly moved by her death. Now mutants die every issue to come back willy nilly. Means nothing.

Ok...I'm done with that rant. Sorry if you are a CURRENT X-men fan.

Bring back good stories about good characters that MEAN something. Not just these "EVENTS"

I miss classic writing and art.

Psychosomatic - 2022-06-18 @ 5:14 pm
On 6/17/2022 at 3:07 PM, Atlantis said:

After I-don't-want-to-tell-you how many years of collecting comics I've had, I can only say, I agree. For the first time since I was 16 yrs old, I've cancelled my "pull/hold" lists and haven't visited my local comic shop in over a year. Even more than the outrageous pricing, is the fact that books are just horribly written and drawn now.

I didn't leave comics. Comics left me.

I was thinking about comic creators and their creations the other day, and made an interesting observation. I started looking at the absolute best characters and when they were created and I found that Marvel hasn't had an explosion of great characters in about 30 - 40 years. Sure, every decade has shinning stars, but the 2000's have almost no standout characters. The 1990's biggest hit was Deadpool, the 1980's had their share, but when you get to the 1970's and 1960's, HOLY HELL! The absolute best characters came out of those two decades, hands down! Made me wonder what Marvel's marching orders are for their creators. I remember a writing teacher once saying that the order of priority with a film should be character, plot and then spectacle, but the problem with Hollywood is they have things in reverse order in most instances. I think the same could be said for Marvel Comics. Bet if they started with character and not the next big crossover event, we could get a cascade of great new characters like the 60's and 70's gave us.

leokearon - 2022-06-18 @ 6:55 am

THis is starting to sound like another Mass Extinction event

MonsterChris - 2022-06-17 @ 10:24 pm
On 6/17/2022 at 6:05 PM, McHogan said:

Uranos heeheeehee.. yes I know Im immature

Dude, you just beat me to it is all.

Atlantis - 2022-06-17 @ 10:07 pm
On 2/4/2022 at 7:46 AM, CajunPirate said:

Hard pass just out of frustration with Marvel.

Eternals - Never a fan, but the movie was okay. Still, not interested in learning more about them, so characters I am clueless on just don't appeal to me. And speaking of which...

X-Men - Not crazy about the whole Krakoa storyline. Too many characters over too many books. And why the heck are Rogue & Gambit NOT on the same team? Jean & Scott are. Reed & Sue too. Rogue's on the cool team and Gambit's playing Dungeon & Dragons in the Land of Oz. There was a reason the X-Men were great in the 90's.

Avengers - Anyone remember when the Avengers were a cool book that just kept chugging along, to something like 400 issues? Now it's every two years a new team, new start, new everything. And boy have they beaten the Ghost Rider to death. Johnny Blaze was great and Marvel got lucky when they upgraded GR to Danny Ketch...usually changes like that tend to annoy fans, but that one worked out pretty well. What are we up, GR #9 in a car, what's next GR #10 on a scooter? They destroyed a once great character.

IMO, DC hit rock-bottom. Not reading anything over there any more. I've clung to a couple Marvel books, but at this rate, I'm being all but shoved out of the comic-loving club. Bummer.

After I-don't-want-to-tell-you how many years of collecting comics I've had, I can only say, I agree. For the first time since I was 16 yrs old, I've cancelled my "pull/hold" lists and haven't visited my local comic shop in over a year. Even more than the outrageous pricing, is the fact that books are just horribly written and drawn now.

I didn't leave comics. Comics left me.

McHogan - 2022-06-17 @ 10:05 pm

Uranos heeheeehee.. yes I know Im immature

JayC - 2022-06-17 @ 8:41 pm

The Marvel Universe braces itself for JUDGMENT DAY! Written by mastermind talent Kieron Gillen and featuring the grand-scale artwork of Valerio Schiti and color artist Marte Gracia, A.X.E.: JUDGMENT DAY is an upcoming Marvel Comics event that kicks off when the Eternals start a vicious war with their new immortal rivalsthe X-Men! The Eternals plan for mutant annihilation will include unleashing the most brutal members of their species starting with URANOS THE UNDYING! Imprisoned for millions of years, the grand-uncle of Thanos will be instrumental in the conflict, leading the attack against the new mutant planet of Arakko.And Uranos wont be the only new Eternals threat that the X-Men will have to face. Head to Marvel.com now for the reveal of THE HEX, mega-powerful Eternals that have awakened from a millennia-long slumber to stomp out mutantkind."The Eternals are the aggressors here, Gillen explained to Popverse in a recent interview. This is the Eternals about to go to war. You get to see the prime Eternals building their armories, working out how they're going to kill people, various plans and kidnappings, and the good Eternals perhaps being a bit more lost. It's preparation for war. That's what it is. I think that's the best way of describing it, as well as being also a really good restatement of what's going on in the Eternals. Because if you haven't read issues one to 12, this is like, 'OK, I don't know anything about Eternals. I don't know, why would [they] be going to war? Who are they even?' It's that as well. This is the preparation of the war happening and everything you need to know going in."Check out a new teaser below and experience the start of Marvel Comics latest crossover epic when A.X.E.: JUDGMENT DAY #1 arrives on July 20.Retailers, dont forget to order your copies of A.X.E.: JUDGMENT DAY #1 by Monday, June 20!A.X.E.: JUDGMENT DAY #1 (OF 6)Written by KIERON GILLENArt by VALERIO SCHITIColors by MARTE GRACIALetters by VCs CLAYTON COWLESCover by MARK BROOKS & SABINE RICHOn Sale 7/20

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monron999 - 2022-06-16 @ 9:40 pm
On 6/15/2022 at 8:35 PM, Hogun said:

Why is Makkari's skin color white in the first cover? She was reborn as a black woman.

According to Bleedingcool, Mark Brooks says she was the correct skin tone and it was a simple coloring and light filter mistake that he forgot to proof check and he has already changed it and the cover will be correct by the time it hits print.

Whew! That was a close one. Twitter already had it's claws out. Probably still does until it actually comes out.

Satam - 2022-06-16 @ 2:43 am
On 6/15/2022 at 9:35 PM, Hogun said:

Why is Makkari's skin color white in the first cover? She was reborn as a black woman.

It might just be a color error. Sometimes a colorist under a time crunch to get a cover finished and who isn't familiar with all the characters makes a mistake like that.

Hogun - 2022-06-16 @ 1:35 am

Why is Makkari's skin color white in the first cover? She was reborn as a black woman.

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