The War Between The X-Men And The Eternals Has Begun
Warning: contains spoilers for Immortal X-Men #5!
The war between the X-Men and the Eternals has officially begun in Marvel Comics, and it starts off with a bang in the center of the mind. The two groups haven’t seen eye to eye in quite some time, but recent events have forced the leaders of each group to blows (in a sense). Immortal X-Men #5 exclusively chronicles the first battle of the war – and it is ultimately the Eternals who fire the first shot.
In current X-Men continuity, Mr. Sinister has cloned Moira MacTaggart and seeks to use her unique mutant power for his own personal gain. When a Moira clone dies, she obliterates her entire timeline, reverting it to the moment of her birth – or cloning, and Sinister thus obtains information from potentially decades in the future, all stored within the clone’s mind. Unfortunately, it appears someone has grown wise to his plan, and Sinister disappears during the events of Immortal X-Men #4.
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In Immortal X-Men #5, written by Keiron Gillen with art by Michele Bandini, the remaining members of Krakoa’s Quiet Council debate about the nature of Sinister’s vanishing act; he is immature enough to stage the entire affair as a prank, but Professor X believes his disappearance is an abduction courtesy of the Eternals. Exodus, one of the few X-Men to know the Eternals, realizes – as he reminisces about his past encounter with Sersi – that the Eternals are attacking the X-Men at this very moment. “We’re under psychic attack from the Eternals. The Uni-Mind is upon the Quiet Council…they are trying to paralyze us. They try to lose us in our memories.”
Exodus realizes the trap: the Eternals are forcing the
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