The following contains spoilers for Eternals #12, on sale now from Marvel Comics.
One of the most menacing villains in the entire Marvel Universe was just defeated by an Eternal who didn't even have to throw a single punch.
Eternals #12 comes from writer Kieron Gillen, artist Esad Ribić, color artist Matthew Wilson and letterer and designer VC's Clayton Cowles. In the current Eternals run, Thanos is attempting to destroy Earth, causing the Eternals to break into Avengers Mountain and extract information out of the Progenitor without permission from Earth's Mightiest Heroes. This leads the two groups to fight, but the battle is called off when Sersi alerts everyone that Thanos is only minutes away from destroying it. With Thanos arriving in Titanos, one of Earth's six Eternal Cities inaccessible to the Avengers, the Eternals take their leave to stop the Mad Titan following some disapproving comments from Thor, Captain Marvel, Iron Man and others.
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The Eternals arrive in Titanos and find Thanos, with a massive battle then ensuing. While Thanos makes his way through most of the Eternals with relative ease, he's about to deliver a death blow to Druig when Thanos' arms begin to transform. At that point, Druig reveals that he created a fail-safe on the doomsday active that Thanos is attempting to activate. "I have been programmed so that if anything classified as the hidden armory of Uranos was ever accessed, I would activate Phastos' fail-safe codes when the countdown reached a certain dramatic point," the fail-safe says. "The order has a note attached. 'If you are hearing this, it is because you wiped my mind, presumably to make me forget how to use the fail-safe.' So I left this little surprise, to activate in case you triggered a world-ending event."
Escaping from Thanos' clutches, Druig kicks the Titan's mutated body into the timestream. Sersi later returns to Aveners Mountain to tell the heroes that Thanos has been stopped; however, tensions continue to mount between the two teams as the Avengers question why they've been kept in the dark about the Eternals' inner happenings. The tension will turn to conflict and, eventually, all-out war in the upcoming Judgment Day crossover event, which also brings the X-Men onto the battlefield. Following July 13's A.X.E.: Eve of Judgment #1 prelude, the event begins with A.X.E.: Judgment Day #1 on July 20.
Eternals #12 features cover art by Ribić and variant cover art by Arthur Adams, Federico Blee, Nao Fuji, Salvador Larroca and Edgar Delgado. The issue is on sale now from Marvel.
Source: Marvel