A major mutant dies, the Eternals get a surprising new leader, and Earth is turned to ash in AXE: Judgment Day #4
September 14's AXE: Judgment Day #4 (opens in new tab) turns the entire story on its head with huge developments for the Eternals and the X-Men, with the Avengers still caught in the middle as the Celestial makes its judgment on Earth.
And with that last bit, the event - which still has two issues to go - reaches a massive climax, with repercussions that will undoubtedly be felt throughout the entire Marvel Universe.
Because the Marvel Universe as we know it may not even exist anymore…
AXE: Judgment Day #4 from writer Kieron Gillen and artists Valerio Schiti and Marte Gracia, and letterer Clayton Cowles takes its toll on all sides involved - and passes the newly birthed Celestial's final, fateful judgment on the entire world.
But we'll get to that.
First up, the mutant casualties. In this week's concurrent X-Men Red #6 (opens in new tab) from writer Al Ewing, artists Stefano Caselli and Federico Blee, and letterer Ariana Maher, Magneto manages to hold himself together after having his heart ripped out by the evil Eternal Uranos in the previous issue. In #6, Storm backs him up, using the electromagnetic combination of their powers to supercharge him enough to keep his blood pumping through his control of its iron content.
The pair finish off Uranos's forces in X-Men Red #6 - just in time for Uranos himself to be unleashed once more in AXE: Judgment Day #4, with Magneto fighting his last stand against the nigh-unbeatable villain, dying of his mortal wounds.
You'd think that wouldn't be a problem, with the mutants having the Resurrection Protocols that allow them to be brought back from the dead. But Magneto just deleted the DNA and psychic data necessary to do so, meaning he may have just died for real. We'll go ahead and
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