Judgment Day is quickly approaching the Marvel Universe as a new trailer for the upcoming event sees the Avengers, Eternals and X-Men all ready themselves for battle.
Marvel released a new trailer for A.X.E.: Judgment Day, a major crossover from Marvel Comics launching this summer. In the trailer, Destiny tells Mystique and Nightcrawler that dark times may be ahead for mutantkind. "There will always be a war," she says. "That's the one thing one can always be sure of. The precise details are the problem. They are elusive. Orchis is ready, but it's not them..." The character goes on to explain she believes the Eternals will try to "kill us all" and that they must immediately gather the Quiet Council in preparation.
"The Avengers have become a more powerful global force than ever from their base inside a long-dead Celestial," Marvel said of the series. "The X-Men have achieved a form of immortality on their utopian island nation of Krakoa. And the Eternals have begun a new cycle of life as they continue their sworn mission to eliminate the Deviants. But when the Eternals learn that mutantkind itself is a form of excess deviation, a vicious assault on Krakoa ensues – with Earth’s Mightiest Heroes trapped in the middle."
Writer Kieron Gillen told Popverse that Judgment Day was an event that took a lot of planning and preparation to bring to fruition. "Honestly, for me, speaking as a reader as much as a writer, there's nothing worse than an event that comes out of nowhere," he said. "It had to come from the books. So yeah, I was looking at the Avengers, what Jason [Aaron] has built in the mythology there. I was looking at the X-Books, the secrets of Krakoa coming to light, and I was looking at what I was doing in Eternals, which dances with both of them, the various tensions in Eternal society there. And now, that's stuff going to blow up. It's just that kind of 'Oh, look, these are three logical strains that are intersecting, let's then bring them forth and see what happens with them."
Judgment Day begins with A.X.E.: Eve of Judgment #1 on July 13. The six-issue Judgment Day series then kicks off with A.X.E.: Judgment Day #1 by Gillen, artist Valerio Schiti, colorist Marte Gracia, letterer VC's Clayton Cowles and cover artists Mark Books and Sabine Rich on July 20.
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