How Judgment Day Is Avoiding the Biggest Complaint About Marvel Events
Judgment Day is coming to the Marvel Universe, and by all indications it will be a massive paradigm shift for all the characters involved, as the X-Men, Avengers, and Eternals clash. Pulling together a crossover of this scale always comes with baggage and unique roadblocks, but writer Kieron Gillen recently pulled the curtain back on his approach and how he's sidestepping fans' biggest complaint about past events.
The series, which launches on July 20 from Gillen and Valerio Schiti, is a culmination of events that have transpired over the last several months in the Avengers, X-Men, and Eternals' series. Comic crossovers are unavoidably complex, and especially so when they involve this many of the company's most important characters. While the grand scale of events like House of M and Secret Invasion is no doubt exhilarating, it can also be imposing to readers not familiar with all the characters involved.
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By definition, crossover events need to seem significant, and for Marvel that often means every character involved has to put their own storylines on hold to deal with the major, world-changing adventure that's underway across the entire line. However, not every fan wants to explore the entire Marvel Universe, and so for those who simply want to follow individual heroes or series, this can effectively make event issues feel like an imposition. However, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Gillen explains that he's designed the event to emerge naturally from his own writing in the ongoing Eternals and Immortal X-Men, making this event a culmination of what's happening in those titles, rather than an intrusion on their narratives. While
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