A.X.E.: Judgement Day is the latest Marvel Comics event story and, ahead of its launch next month, the publisher has revealed a startling new threat that will be unleashed upon the X-Men.
Written by mastermind talent Kieron Gillen and featuring the grand-scale artwork of Valerio Schiti and colourist Marte Gracia, the story kicks off when the Eternals start a vicious war with their new immortal rivals - the 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.
Uranos won’t be the only new Eternals threat that the X-Men will have to face, though, as Marvel.com has revealed plans to introduce 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," he continued. "This is the preparation of the war happening and everything you need to know going in."
Check out a new teaser below and stay tuned for more on A.X.E.: Judgement Day before issue #1 launches on July 20.
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