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For me, the core reason why the Eternals didn't work in the Marvel universe is they had no fundamental tragedy. Spider-Man didn't become Spider-Man when he was bit by the spider; Spider-Man became Spider-Man when Uncle Ben died. This is opposed to DC characters, which (in broad strokes) are more about a fallen world. Wonder Woman is literally sent from heaven to earth to save us all; Thor is sent from heaven to earth because he's a dick. -- Kieron Gillen

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It's not just the X-Men who believe this, the Eternals believe that, and the Avengers believe this. Druig doesn't really believe in this. Other Eternals certainly do. In fact, Uranos believes it even more. Then, if you go over to the Avengers, Tony and Steve believe different things. So there's the idea of having them be characters instead of just team labels. That's even more true over on the X-men, with the Quiet Council being in perpetual arguments with one another. It may sound really basic, but to me, that's writing these people. They're people, not props. -- Kieron Gillen

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laughing_tree

The defining thing about the Eternals, as created by Kirby, isn't the fact it's unfinished, which it shares with New Gods. It's that I feel it was still establishing itself when the run ended. It differs from his other pantheons, in that its core myth cycle is incomplete. It's the one with the most unused potential in it. -- Kieron Gillen

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laughing_tree

I don’t think Judgment Day is an art crossover – for that, you’ll be looking at Seven Soldiers – as it comes from the serious-conversation-with-god Michaelangelo part of my brain rather than the what-is-possible-in-a-Mercural-idea-chasing-fashion Leonardo [...] But even if it’s not Seven Soldiers, I’m certainly thinking about the form. -- Kieron Gillen

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laughing_tree

I think comic writers, as a whole, failed Eros. We've written people whose powers can only kill, and go out of the way to make excuses for them. We see a character whose power set circled pleasure, and to lean into rather than away from the creepiness speaks to the sex-phobic nature of our society. Why couldn't we have thought of Eros in a different way, and tried to create a positive inspirational figure who argues in favor of life and pleasure instead of death and grimness? Often we didn't. We should have tried more. -- Kieron Gillen

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laughing_tree

This is a fascinating way to think about story. The weird fractal nature of exploring a space is actively odd the more you chew it over. We say “Event” and the word has become meaningless, but it ends up being feeling more like a historical event, like – say – a war. A setting for stories, meaning you’re thinking of the nature of the backdrop for what you’re doing. Yet simultaneously, it is a story in and of itself, and the pieces are being put there to be assembled later by the reader, either explicitly (as stuff which is referred to the final issue) or implicitly (as in, your understanding of what happened which isn’t explicitly called back will influence how you feel about what you’re seeing.) It’s odd. If I published 18 short stories and had them in this kind of structure they’d be accusing me of radical experimental modernism, but in comics, it’s viewed as pure commercialism. -- Kieron Gillen

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numeronone

“When we judge of another’s assurance in death, which, without doubt, is the most remarkable action of human life, we are to take heed of one thing, which is that men very hardly believe themselves to have arrived to that period. Few men come to die in the opinion that it is their latest hour; and there is nothing wherein the flattery of hope more deludes us; It never ceases to whisper in our ears, “Others have been much sicker without dying; your condition is not so desperate as ‘tis thought; and, at the worst, God has done other miracles."” - Michel De Montaigne

( A.X.E.: Starfox #1 )

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An existential event book, really. This asks big questions to all the characters of the Marvel Universe, and I hope folk will enjoy seeing the answers we get from them. -- Kieron Gillen

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laughing_tree

Part of it is just me thinking about climate change. We are being graded as a species, not as individuals. Let’s dramatize that, shall we? It’s pretty bleak. -- Kieron Gillen

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laughing_tree

I was talking about Event comics with [poet Chrissy Williams] this week, so the absolute weirdness of their structure is really on my mind. She's got a Modernist Poetry MA, and explaining to her how Events are a fractal and non-linear exploration of a narrative, with no actual set order, and seeing her brain fitz a little made me really aware of what we tend to forget. Yes, crossovers are born of commerce, but they’re an unique narrative form, and I’m fascinated by what one can do with ‘em as a formalist challenge. -- Kieron Gillen

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laughing_tree

If I had to define my own view of the Marvel Universe it's that there's always a sense that somebody could go and get a pizza slice. That, to me, is the Marvel Universe. Throughout most of this comic, Druig is carrying a takeaway coffee. So, one of our big, immortal villains really likes his coffee. A Marvel event is moving from the sheer majesty of the Kirby scale to the low level of having a nice slice. -- Kieron Gillen

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laughing_tree

In terms of the Western comics medium, events are something that only we have. When I first saw the first Avengers movie, there was a moment when I realized, “Oh no, they’ve done a crossover. I’ve never seen this before.” And they’ve still haven’t really done an event in the way that we do events. The idea that they’re going to release three movies at once and they’ll tie into a central movie. It’s really bizarre. On an intellectual curiosity level, it’s beyond good and evil. They exist, in which case you want to take it seriously as a form. -- Kieron Gillen

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laughing_tree

I think my to-do list was Captain America’s shield doesn’t get broken, no one picks up Thor’s hammer. The classic big character Marvel beats. “No, I’ve seen them too many times. I’m not going to do that.” That would be it. Because if you’re doing the big popcorn, punch the air moments, let’s say Millar Moments if you will. If it doesn’t get the pop, it’s pointless, and then it’s just basically pantomime. That’s when I know if it’s tired and I think the flip of it is going back to that original question about events I liked earlier: “How did this make you feel?” Then how can I make this one feel like that now? -- Kieron Gillen

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NoT aLl DeViAnTs.

1 panel from Silver Surfer Annual #1.

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laughing_tree

It’s actually me kind of taking stuff I love from the big widescreen crossovers and taking stuff a bit more Starlin-esque, in terms of let’s really dig into these characters, in a more… I think philosophical is the only way I can put it. Can I essentially get Millar and Morrison back together and make them make out? -- Kieron Gillen

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numeronone

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― The Epic of Gilgamesh

( A.X.E.: Eve of Judgment #1 )

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"Eternal" doesn't mean immortal. "Eternal" means unchanging. That's a different thing. Gaiman and Romita Jr. very much brought this aspect out, and we're pushing it even further. There can be something comforting about the Eternals, but there's also something fundamentally disturbing to it. The old superhero cliché of "The Never-ending battle against crime" is one of those lines which, if you take it out of context for a second and think about it, seems absolutely Sisyphean in its hopelessness. Yet, to lift a line from Camus, we must imagine Sisyphus happy – the Eternals have been doing this for so long, they must be accepting of it? Right? -- Kieron Gillen

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laughing_tree

Anybody who likes reading the X-books will find stuff interesting in terms of a compare and contrast. In some ways the Eternals are a worst case scenario for mutantkind. Mutantkind is a new race of immortals. Eternals are kind of like, “This is where being immortal gets you.” -- Kieron Gillen

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laughing_tree

So, this certainly involves hero versus hero elements, but it's not really a hero versus hero crossover. At the start, I very clearly say that the Eternals are the bad guys. There are good Eternals that are trying to stop them, but as a whole, the Eternals are very much the black hats in this particular scenario. You get to genuinely loathe them. -- Kieron Gillen

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laughing_tree

And then he discovers... Uranos the Undying, Omnigenocidal Great Uncle, the rotting monstrous tree which Thanos' apple barely fell from, proof that perhaps this capacity of horror does skip a generation. So it's a happy ending for Thanos, really. Unhappy for everyone else, admittedly, but you can't have everything. This is a story about some of the darkest periods in the Eternals saga, as two of the worst people in the Marvel Universe get to know each other. Less Meet Cute, more Meet Execute. -- Kieron Gillen

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Avengers|X-Men|Eternals: Judgment Day: Omega #1

Avengers|X-Men|Eternals: Judgment Day #6

Avengers|X-Men|Eternals: Death to the Mutants #3

A.X.E. Eternals #1 + A.X.E. Judgment Day #6

Avengers|X-Men|Eternals: Starfox #1

A.X.E. X-Men #1 + A.X.E. Eternals #1

"I Do What I Can".

A.X.E. Avengers #1 + A.X.E. X-Men #1

Avengers|X-Men|Eternals: Judgment Day #5 + A.X.E.: Avengers #1

Avengers|X-Men|Eternals: Judgment Day #4-5

Avengers|X-Men|Eternals: Judgment Day #3-4

Avengers|X-Men|Eternals: Death to the Mutants #1-2

Avengers|X-Men|Eternals: Judgment Day #2-3

A Deviant with a personality?!

Avengers|X-Men|Eternals: Judgment Day #1-2

"Do Not Play So Lightly With Your Souls, Friends."

Eternals #12 - "Hail Thanos, Finale"

Eternals #11 - "Hail Thanos, Part 5"

FCBD: Judgment Day - "Of Deviation and Mutation"

Eternals: The Heretic #1 - "Thanos' Grandfather"

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