Before the big event AX: Judgment Day comes to your hands, we present you the previous stories that you must know to
It’s not an understatement that the road to AXE: Judgment Day was paved with good intentions. The Avengers, the X-Men, and even the Eternals had no intention of putting humanity before an angry celestial judge whose whims could destroy them all.
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Regardless, his actions set these events in motion and not even their combined divine powers are enough to stop the Celestial from deciding whether Earth should live or die.
Before this grand event kicks off, readers get a closer look at the events that brought humanity to the brink of destruction.
A mountain of hubris
Avengers (2018) #1 reunited Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor with mainstays Captain Marvel and She-Hulk, as well as Doctor Strange and Ghost Rider: Robbie Reyes. They came together just in time for the Dark Celestials to descend on Earth.
Later, in issue #4, the Avengers found out that the Eternals were all dead. After learning that their purpose on Earth was a lie, the Eternals either killed themselves or each other. That left the Avengers to deal with the Dark Celestials alone.
In issue #6, the Avengers triumphed, as they always have before. Riding the wave of that victory, the Avengers established their new headquarters on the corpse of The Progenitor, the Celestial who was the first of his kind to visit Earth. Thus, Avengers Mountain became the last home of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and the future body of a mad sky god.
A difficult resurrection
Eternals (2021) #1 marked the return of the immortal heroes (and descendants of the Celestials), thanks to their “Resurrection Machines”. Unfortunately, those machines also brought Thanos back to life, and the Eternals’ fallen cousin was soon installed as Prime Eternal, leader of his race.
More alarmingly still, Phastos learned that the Eternals’ resurrection cycle came at a high cost. As explained in issue #6, in order to revive an Eternal, the life of a normal human was sacrificed. That prompted Ikaris, Sersi, and a splinter faction of Eternals to leave their people behind and dwell among the Deviants to live as mortals.
In issues #10 and #11, Ikaris and Sersi’s plans to stop Thanos led to the rogue Eternals attacking the Avengers on Avengers Mountain. Thanos was eventually deposed from his position as Prime Eternal.
Instead, Druig assumed the role and searched for a way to maintain his control as the new leader of the Eternals. Druig decided that he needed a war and found one with the mutants of Krakoa and Arrako. Because the deviant genes had mixed with humanity, Druig declared the mutants examples of “excessive deviation” and ordered them destroyed.
Life after death
The Eternals aren’t the only race that can beat the reaper. The “Resurrection Protocols” have freed the mutants of Krakoa from the icy grip of death since House of X (2019) #5. It was also a closely guarded secret, until X-Men (2021) #11-12 changed all that with one headline.
Realizing that his enemies wanted to use mutant resurrection as a public relations weapon against them, Cyclops unilaterally decided to break the story to Ben Urich of the Daily Bugle. This undermined the agenda of the anti-mutant organization Orchis, but also inflamed anti-mutant sentiment just in time for the annual Hellfire Gala.
Former X-Men ally Moira MacTaggert infiltrated the event using the body of Mary Jane Watson. And when Moira escaped, she gave information about mutant resurrection to Druig so he would have the key to wiping out all mutants.
no one is immortal
When Moira MacTaggert was still in a physical body, her mutant power was that she would live her life over and over again while retaining the knowledge and memories of her previous lives. As revealed in Immortal X-Men (2022) #1, that ability is now in the hands of Mister Sinister.
Once Sinister learned of Moira’s abilities, he cloned her and developed a way to send new information to his clones in the past so that he could have foreknowledge of the future and shape the timeline as he saw fit.
In Immortal X-Men #3, the precognitive mutant Destiny began having visions of the upcoming war with the Eternals, though she was unable to immediately identify who her enemy would be. Unfortunately for Sinister, even he didn’t see the events of issue #4 coming.
After facing suspicion from Orchis for his connection to Dr. Stasis, Sinister surrendered to the Silent Council moments before the Eternals kidnapped him.
the red planet
One of Druig’s justifications for the war against the mutants was the fact that they had terraformed Mars and transformed it into Arakko, the new capital of the solar system. X-Men Red (2022) #1-3 chronicles Magneto and Storm’s attempts to earn their place among the Arakki. They even formed their own Brotherhood of Arakko with Sunspot and the enigmatic “Fisher King”.
Arakko has become one of the front lines of AXE: Judgment Day, and the Brotherhood has already faced its first test. But these former X-Men are survivors and warriors, and they may yet turn the tide against Druig’s Eternals and the heavenly god who plans to judge Earth.
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AX Judgment Day, the most impressive event in the Marvel Universe comes to SMASH and Marvel Comics México
The Eternals were created by the alien space gods known as Celestials to protect Earth.
The Avengers, Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, are currently headquartered in the body of a deceased Celestial.
One of the main directives of the Eternals is to correct excess divergences. Druig, the current Eternal Prime, has recently determined that Earth’s mutants, with their ability to resurrect, represent too much divergence, and has therefore set out to destroy them all.
SMASH and Marvel Comics Mexico bring you, in its Marvel Weekly format, AX Judgment Day, an event that will define the future of the Marvel Universe.
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