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 By Mark Rodriguez The Fantastic Four is coming back with yet another issue 1, just in time for their upcoming movie. Free Comic Book Day not only gives us a new adventure with the modern day Fantastic Four (Johnny's facial hair) and also some relating to the X-Men and others. Let's check it out.   "Strange New world" opens with the Fantastic Four testing out their new teleporter when they suddenly get summoned to an alien world. Three alien kids are surprising the summoning worked and ask if Reed is the Deathmaster. Johnny introduces himself as the Human Torch and says the others with him are the Thing, the Invisible Woman, and 'Guy Stretchomatic'. Reed tells the kids he's actually known as the Mr. Fantastic and they are the Fantastic Four. The kids explain that they summoned them using the cursed symbol of the Deathmaster. Sue asks if they're having a sleepover. The kids ask how she knew. Sue says they're playing at summoning demons at a sleepov...

 By Mark Rodriguez The Eternals ruled by Druid have decided to end all mutant due to their current ability to resurrect themselves endlessly. Druid unleashed giant Eternals to hunt them down. Some of the Eternals that oppose Druid teamed up with the Avengers to revive their fallen Celestial base as a new god to end the madness. The Celestial did indeed send the giant Eternals away, but now it has decided to pass judgment on the world. Everyone will be judged within 24 hours, individually and as a group and if the wicked outnumber the good, humanity will cease to exist. Upon hearing the words of The Progenitor, Ajak is in disbelief and thinks this might be a test since their god cannot be so unjust. Makkari tries to comfort her. Ajak says maybe they shouldn't have used Tony Stark as an element. Tony says they can't blame him for this, as only he can blame himself. Captain America says blame can wait and asks how they intend to fix this.  Captain America is the first to be judge...

 By Mark Rodriguez  The leader of the Eternals plans to wipe out mutants since they have mastered immortality due to never-ending cloning technology on their living island of Krakoa. The Avengers find out about the upcoming war and capture Sersi to get some answers. Druig announces to the world how he will use giants to find and kill all the mutants. Ajak and Makkari arrive with the captured Mr. Sinister wanting help from the Avengers. To stop this upcoming war, they will need to create a god. The story opens with different civilians from different parts of the world reacting to the worldwide message sent from Druid via their mobile devices. Some act with indifference and others act with concern or worry.  Meanwhile on Krakoa, several members of the X-Men fight off the army of demonic monsters called The Hex that were sent after them. Exodus manages to knock one of them off the island. Cyclops feels the team needs more help as suddenly Captain America's shield clashes aga...

 Mark Rodriguez The leader of the Eternals plans to wipe out mutants since they have mastered immortality due to never-ending cloning technology on their living island of Krakoa. They have even captured Mr. Sinister as part of their plans. How will this go, especially when the Avengers also get involved? The story open in a restaurant in New York as Tony Stark wants to find out from Sersi why they will be fighting each other soon. Sersi says their fight will most likely be against the mutants. Suddenly Phoenix swoops in and socks Sersi in the face, taking out into space. Captain Marvel and Thor confirm that they have captured her and will bring her in.  Meanwhile in The Treehouse, still in New York, Cyclops saw Phoenix flies by and comments that it's odd that she's an Avenger. Jean is distracted reading the minds of enraged people in a protest, angry that mutants can now cheat death but aren't sharing that technology with humans. Jean reads the mind of a woman crying asking...

 By Mark Rodriguez It seems the Marvel heroes are always fighting each other rather than fighting villains. From what I gather, the X-Men have overcome death with some sort of cloning technology in their current base of Krakoa. This brings the attention of other-worldly beings that will bring judgment upon the Earth. I'm assuming the Avengers, X-Men and Eternals will fight each other a lot before they team up to stop these guys, but let's see how this huge crossover event gets started.  The story opens with 'The Machine Called Earth' narrating how happy it is that everything is in peace. The Avengers are relaxing and eating Tony Stark's slightly overdone waffles, the X-Men are chilling out on the living island of Krakoa, but on Olympia, one of the Eternals is up to no good.  Druig, who is now Eternal Prime, asks Domo how he would kill all the mutants if he were him. Domo simply answers he can set a anti-matter bomb set beneath the island. The bomb would be created w...

 By Mark Rodriguez The Phoenix Force arrived on Earth and it was split into 5, lending its power to Scott, Emma, Namor, Colossus and Magik. After several defeats, only Scott and Emma remained with Phoenix powers. Xavier tries to make Scott stand down and after the Avengers and the X-Men joined forces to take them down. In desperation, Cyclops attacked Emma and took on the full powers of the Phoenix upon himself. Killing Xavier, Cyclops blames the others for pushing him this far and becomes the Dark Phoenix.  The story opens 72 hours before the present with Tony explaining how The Scarlet Witch once said 'no more mutants' and her chaos magic somehow affected the world and rid the world of mutants. The Phoenix Force somehow took note of this and decided to bring mutants back, Hope being the first mutant born in a while. It was heralded that she was meant to take the full power of the Phoenix. Wanda's mutant magic and the Phoenix's divine power are caught in some crazy cyc...

 By Mark Rodriguez The Phoenix has arrived to Earth and in an attempt to stop it, Iron Man managed to split it into 5 parts. These powers went to Cyclops, Emma, Namor, Colossus and Magik, but whenever one of them gets defeated, their power goes to the others. At this point only Cyclops and Emma remain with those godly powers. After Hope was able to defeat Cyclops after she absorbed the powers of the mystical dragon Shao Lao, Cyclops now goes after Emma's powers.  The issue opens with Captain America asking someone for help since at this point this is a fight against Scott Summers and the Phoenix Force that they just can't win. If they lose this fight, they will lose everything. The person he is talking to is none other then The Hulk, and he will agree to help them.  The Avengers and the X-Men all gather together including Spider-Man, Storm, She-Hulk, Psylocke, Gambit and Rogue to name a few. Iceman tells Xavier to look into his mind and they both know that Scott is like a...