Judgment Day is the next big comic event for the heroes of the company. There is a three-way fight between the Eternals, Avengers, and X-men that has each team beating the other team. Unlike other events where the good guys clash, this event is about the various lies being kept and the tensions that have been bubbling between the teams for quite some time.
Gillen talked about what sets his and artist Valerio Schiti's comic apart. The new Prime Eternal is making bigger moves because several of the good Eternals have left Eternal society. There is a sense of overreach of what the Eternals should be doing.
The Eternals are in a place where they want to establish their dominance for a variety of reasons. While he admitted that the Eternals may just decide to fight the X-Men on an average day and there's a bigger reason for this war, the fact that the Mutants have recently begun dabbling in immortality doesn't mean anything. This isn't a war where either side will fight fairly, but it will be troublesome for the Mutants. They have been keeping secrets that are in danger of coming out and changing the world.
As for the Avenger? They are here because they have been lied to. The writer joked that they were already looped into this, whether they wanted to be or not, because they were living inside a dead Celestial.
Gillen pointed out that he has been talking about act one of this event. He said that act two would change the approach of the event. The third act has some of the deepest and most Starlin-esque philosophical stuff in there as well as some of the biggest explosions you'll ever see.
Judgment Day kicks off its six-issue run this July.
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