Written by Gillen with art by Valerio Schiti and Marte Gracia, the idea that would become AXE: Judgment Day began with examining the current status quo of each group, then delving into each of those groups could interact with the others. hero event series that will bring the Avengers, the X-Men, and the Eternals together for one conflict with the potential to change the trajectory of all three teams.

Now, a year-and-a-half later, Gillen's poised to do yet another thing he's never launched at Marvel before: A massive, hero vs. Two years ago, when Gillen revealed that he was returning to Marvel Comics to launch a run on Eternals, he made it clear that what excited him about coming back to superhero comics was the chance to, as he put it in the press release announcing the book, do 'something I've never done before.' To that end, alongside artist Esad Ribic, Gillen launched an epic run that reinvigorated the Eternals as characters, and rebuilt their mythology as something that both honors their past and forges ahead with a new future. Each of these teams arrives with different stakes, different goals, and different things to lose, and for writer Kieron Gillen, it all began with the desire to do something new in his acclaimed superhero comics career. This summer, three of Marvel's most iconic superhero teams will clash in AXE: Judgment Day, an epic event that builds on things that began when the Avengers conquered a new wave of Celestials, when the X-Men moved to their own island nation, and when the Eternals emerged from their last wave of deaths with new resurrections and a new energy.

Eternals, Vol. 1 by Kieron Gillen