Its the opening salvo, and Gillen and Ferry are on top of their games here, giving us an info dump in the best way possible. Its a setup, and the team are setting up the major players. Gillens characterization is on point, while Ferry has shown up, and shown out. Read Full Review

Ferry delivers some interesting and visually engaging art throughout the issue. There are some great character moments that are enhanced by the imagery and look of the art. Read Full Review

For the fan who hasn't been keeping up with Eternals, A.X.E.: Eve of Judgment is necessary reading. It fully captures the complicated nature of their waring sides, establishes why the main villain wants to kill mutants and sets up the summer event with necessary details. If you're at all interested in Marvel's summer event, A.X.E.: Eve of Judgment is required reading. Read Full Review

It provides both a great starting point and satisfies the yearning readers must feel to see more of this very inventive group as their actions encompass much of Marvel Comics. Read Full Review

A.X.E. - Eve of Judgement #1is a solid set-up for the events of Judgement Day, although it could have been made a bit more inclusive for new readers. Read Full Review

Avengers X-Men Eternals: Eve of Judgment #1 is an excellent charter-building prologue for the Judgement Day event. This issue is all talk and no action, but you get the key behind who wants the mutants dead and why. The art is excellent, and every dialog scene is well-written, but you may find this issue a struggle to get through if you're unfamiliar with the Eternals. Read Full Review

A.X.E.: Eve of Judgement #1 is an interesting opening. It leaves no room to debate who is right and who is wrong. It treats the action Druig takes so nonchalantly as to make it feel like it's not a big deal. It just kind of is. Maybe with what's to come in the first issue it'll flow a bit better but as presented, the comic doesn't get me excited for what's to come, it sets up what feels like a rather predictable narrative to fill our summer months. Read Full Review

A.X.E.: Eve Of Judgment #1 has a huge problem. It should have been Eternals #13, but Marvels zeal for hyping events and using them to pump sales is a huge mistake. Gillens writing is on point, but the art by Ferry and White has some problems. All in all, this is a serviceable comic, but it could have been better. Read Full Review

With this preamble out of the way, we finally begin our journey in next weeks A.X.E.: Judgment Day #1. Until then! Read Full Review

Entertaining but a bit opaque, this beginning may be a bit hard to dive into directly. Read Full Review

The art throughout the issue is beautiful but dull. Pasqual Ferry does not do enough to differentiate the various worlds and characters. The colors by Dean White are interesting but everything still feels muted due to a lack of detail in the background. This book tries hard to help us understand the current landscape of the Eternals. Unfortunately this issue creates too much distance through its impersonal narrator and dull art. It sets up why the Eternals want to take down the X-Men but piles on too many other conflicts and priorities not clearly central to the story. Read Full Review

This is a decent (maybe?) groundwork issue for the event to come, but it's a much better Eternals #13.

I love the art. It's clearly related to Esad Ribić's work, but it has a more elastic style and a brighter finish.

I love the foreshadowy bits of plot and character development salted over the script. And I love the oh-so-catty narrative voice of the Machine. I don't love so much the deepest of the conversations, which stray well afield from clarity.

Because "Eternals #13" suits my taste exactly, I'll call this very good. But I wouldn't call it great, mostly (but not entirely) because I know it'll be a lot less enjoyable for a reader who skipped Eternals #1-12.

The response to this issue was to be expected. It really is just another issue of Eternals, although the narrative tries to elevate it to be more. That's not a dig at the issue because Eternals was great.

This issue does set up a lot of the moving pieces and motivations for the event that follows, and I can't help but feel that not nearly enough people picked this up. But that is a failure of Marvel's marketing, not Gillen's writing. He's killing it.

The only issue I have with this book, genuinely, is the art. It feels a bit unpolished and unfinished, which is not how you want an event book - even a prelude - to look. Pasqual Ferry needs a good colorist to back his pencils, and I'm not sure that's what happened here. Still, it's narratively satisfying for someone following Eternals and someone interested in this event. more

As usual, Gillian is on point writing the eternals. Hes at home.

This event is going to be ridiculously loaded with tie ins, and I'm certainly not going to read all of them but I will be following the main story because it is intriguing. Like all good eternals stories it asks questions pertaining to philosophy and morality.

The art here is decent. I think it could use a bit of a polish but I love the expressions and the figure work.

Im looking forward to this.

The art is a real let down compared to Ribic on Eternals (even with his wonky faces), but its a nice epilogue to the series and prologue to AXE.

A bit repetitive but it might work better if you're not up to speed with Eternals or maybe it will be too much info. Still looking forward to A.X.E. but will skip almost all tie-ins except for what I'm pulling already. Pasqual Ferry is rough and simple on purpose. The excess and rough lines on the male figures vs the female figures is a nice touch but the style doesn't suit the tone of the story. Still, props to him for the eternals designs of sets and the antimatter bomb.

Gillen's writing is up to his usual standards, though he's certainly done better, but as glad as I am to see Pasqual Ferry's art around, his character-focused art doesn't really sell the epic scale of Gillen's Eternals and meshes poorly with Dean White's colors. Not bad, per se, but it didn't meet my expectations.

Continuation of the Eternals series and preparation for big summer event. Eternals series is essential for understanding of this issue. A lot of new questions and big expectations.

If you read Eternals recently, it's a little redundant but, I can't say it was bad. I felt it laid a decent template for the start of the event.

Mind numbing for most part... but I like the premise and the last pages. "Death to the mutants" it is, huh?

If ya'll know me, you know Kieran Gillen is my all time favorite comic book writer. He's just so amazing and passionate and creative in what he does. And his strengths are what I love about stories: myth, archetype, pop, and larger than life emotion.

But I ain't been a fan of his Eternals work.
Frankly put: I find it quite boring.

A.X.E.: EVE OF JUDGMENT #1 is no different. It is quite the dry book. Interesting stuff is happening on the page, and the art is pretty decent, but I just don't care about these characters, I don't care about the Eternals. And so far, Gillen hasn't been able to make me successfully care about them.

(And I am someone who more or less enjoyed the movie but I realize that the CAST had a lot to do with my connection there)

Anyway, I'm still excited for this event because a lot of strong creatives are behind it.
And as I mentioned in my Hellfire Gala review, I expect nothing but the best from this team.

As a prelude issue, it's filled with a ton of exposition BUT with very little emotional characterization to make me care about the Eternals.

Their passive way of deciding (and failing) to commit genocide just... isn't engaging and already puts The Eternals in the antagonist camp of things. I just wish they made better villains but let's see how this event goes. more

This comic was so boring. So boring.

There was nothing particularly wrong with it, I take no issues with characterization, the plot idea is kinda of fun, I enjoyed the free comic book day teaser leading into this. I could not keep my attention on the boring dialogue and almost no pacing, in that the story goes next to no where the entire issue. The Eternals, in my opinion, have always been so uninteresting. Neil Gaiman's run was okay, I've read other appearances in old Avengers, even their New Warriors appearance from 2012 (around there) and I just can't find a way to care about them. I picked this up because I like the Avengers (most of the time) and I read X-men and X-Force, so this is going through several series I follow and felt I would need to follow this too.

I cannot recommend this to anyone unless you are some die hard Eternals fan or just happen to like reading page after page of boring dialogue where, an otherwise good artist, just has next to nothing to illustrate.

This comic took an interesting premise and made it as boring as possible. I even skipped parts because it just kept meandering. ugh. more