How does Marvel’s AXE: Judgment Day crossover end?

There’s still one more bookend issue to go in the saga of AXE: Judgment Day, but it’s safe to say it’s Marvel’s best crossover event in years — maybe the best Big Two crossover in years. You can find it here AXE: Judgment day#6 we learned how the Avengers (X-Men) and Eternals prevented the Progenitor Celestial (5th week’s issue) from executing humankind. All that’s left is the fallout, to be contained in next week’s AXE: Judgment Days Omega.

The secret of the arc’s success is that it never bites off more than it can chew, which sounds farcical to say about a book in which the Avengers AndThe X-Men AndThe Eternals created a god inadvertently that tried to destroy humanity. But under the stewardship of writer Kieron Gillen and his collaborators — both on the main Judgment Day title and the majority of its one-shot tie-ins — the story has obeyed the first rule of writing event comics:

People don’t keep coming back to superhero comics for the events themselves — what matters is how the characters react to them.

There were many deaths and devastations in Judgment DayTo use an industry term,… Dope like hell.The Progenitor lifted its thumb and began to judge all the heroes and villains on Earth. This event was a prompt for operatic writing, asking you to explore character history and interiority. And that’s the best of event comics, baby!

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Image: Kieron Gillen, Valerio Schiti/Marvel Comics

This is another example of the story not taking on too much. All the chaos and confusion, Judgment Day is about how you shouldn’t wait for an excuse to do better, but strive every day to be a little better for the world than you were yesterday.

It’s a simple moral, and perhaps an obvious one, and certainly one we’ve heard before, but not one of those is a criticism of any significance. Sometimes it’s better to be cautious. The Good PlaceYou can also read comics. Both can be correct.

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These stories, which imagine Gotham City after Batman passes away or becomes old, are not uncommon. One of these stories just appeared for Xbox Series X, Windows PC and PlayStation 5. Catwoman, Lonely City, which concludes with its fourth issue, is among the best of them, genre-blending the “old superhero” story with an “everybody comes out of retirement for one last heist” movie. It’s probably one of the best comics of the year, the first collected edition drops in December, and you should read it. Yes, you.

Image: Simon Spurrier, Charlie Adlard/Boom Studios

Let’s not get too critical; it is enough for me to enjoy You can’t blame them all #1 because it’s got a hard-boiled lady exorcist wielding a claw hammer, and that rules.

Image: Charlie Jane Anders, Alberto Alburquerque/Marvel Comics

Charlie Jane Anders is a writer extraordinaire. New Mutants this week, and… it’s just nice! It’s just a nice kickoff to an arc, and I love Cerebella (formerly No-Girl).

Image: Paul Dano, Stevan Subic/DC Comics

If you were a big fan of Matt Reeves’ Batman, you’ll definitely want to check out Riddler: The Year OneThe text of the poem, authored by Paul Dano (Riddler) and illustrated by Stevan Subic. Me? I’m just here for the 2048 references.