Warning: Spoilers for Free Comic Book Day: Avengers/X-Men #1 ahead!
The road to Judgment Day, the latest major crossover from Marvel Comics, has started in earnest as the new villain Moira X imagines how the X-Men and Avengers could slaughter each other, in the pages of FCBD: Avengers/X-Men #1.Since betraying the X-Men, and being exiled from her former home of Krakoa, Moira is dead set on destroying all of mutantkind, and she simply does not care who is her in her cross-hairs.
In one of the most surprising twists in recent Marvel comics, the once human ally of the X-Men Moira MacTaggert was revealed to be a secret mutant in 2019's House of X, before being unveiled as a massive anti-mutant villain in 2022's Inferno, which saw Moira turned into a horrifying flesh-stealing cyborg. Now allying herself with the anti-mutant organization Orchis, and Thanos' evil order of Eternals, Moira is positioning herself to be one of the most horrific villains in the history of the X-Men and Avengers.
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The story «Let's Talk About Krakoa» in the FCBD: Avengers/X-Men #1 special — written by current X-Men scribe Gerry Duggan with art by the talented Matteo Lolli — follows Moira as she begins to set in place a series of events that she will hope lead to humanity turning against the mutants, and Krakoa being destroyed. The event A.X.E: Judgment Day has been building for months, as it has been revealed slowly that the mutant race are actually a form of «excess deviation,» similar to the Deviants metamorphosis, meaning that the Eternals are hard wired by their Celestial programming to slaughter them. As the upcoming Hellfire Gala arrives the Judgment Day looms
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