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Did X-Men Legends #11 Tease The Plot Of Marvel's Judgment Day Event?

Published Thu, 03 Feb 2022 11:27:11 -0600

Marvel Comics is to publish Judgment Day, a new summer event series by Kieron Gillen and Valerio Schiti that will crossover the X-Men, the Avengers and the Eternals. But who will be doing the judging? And why? It turns out that this week's X-Men Legends, a series that revisits classic eras of the X-Men books may have the answer. The current storyline by Louise Simonson and Walter Simonson is revisiting both their X-Factor run as well as Louise's run on New Mutants. But in doing so, I get the word that they are setting up the Judgment Day to come, courtesy of Apocalypse and his Four Horsemen. Indeed, what better group of characters to do so?

Which might mean that Judgment Day may include the permanent return of the Celestials to Earth, and their judgment made against humanity. Which would certainly fit with the Eternals aspect of the story. That the Avengers have a Celestial as a headquarters. That mutants are all Deviants. As well as bringing back Apocalypse to the main stage.

The X-Men have achieved immortality and mutants have taken their place as the dominant species on the planet. The Eternals have discovered long hidden knowledge about their species, including a devastating truth about mutantkind. The Avengers have come into direct conflict with the Celestials and are currently using a fallen Celestial as their base of operations, slowly unlocking its secrets… When the Eternals brazenly target the mutant nation of Krakoa, the Avengers try desperately to de-escalate a potentially apocalyptic war. But this is no simple conflict. The Eternals' purpose cannot be denied and mutantkind's future will not be threatened. And after the opening battles, new players and revelations for both sides will emerge as the inhabitants of the Marvel Universe are JUDGED by the greatest power they've ever come into contact with.

"There's a classic metaphor to describe the Marvel Universe – a toybox, which creators take toys out of, play with and put back. I get it, but it's never quite how I've seen it – I think 'play' in another way. I think of a music shop, with all these instruments with their different qualities suggesting different songs, different stories," Gillen explained. "For all the Marvel instruments I've played, I've never written an event. Writing an event is something different. It's not like playing an instrument. It's having all the instruments in the Marvel music shop. That's not like writing a song. That's like writing a symphony."

"I looked at everything in Eternals and Immortal X-Men and everything else all the X and Avengers writers have done and thought… yeah, this is an event. In fact, an event is the only way to do justice to this. The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson described the music he was reaching for as Teenage Symphonies to God. I think that's what the best Marvel Events aspire to be, and it's what we're aspiring to here. I want the scale. I want the heartbreak . I want a book that wears its heart on its sleeve even as it puts a fist in your face. I want something Wagnerian in its volume as emotional as God Only Knows."

X-MEN LEGENDS #11
MARVEL COMICS
NOV210886
(W) Louise Simonson (A/CA) Walter Simonson
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