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In which we remain frustrated with Morrison’s Magneto; Esme Cuckoo’s hat game is lacking; and the status quo dies with Jean Grey.
X-PLAINED:
- Dubious X-relationships
- Some excellent songs from an excellent show
- New X-Men #149-150
- Various atrocities and catastrophes
- The resistance, such as it is
- Magneto’s limits
- A rebirth
- Neutron warheads
- The cavalry
- Yet another death of Magneto
- Yet another death of Jean Grey
- A peculiar epilogue
- A legacy of retcons
- A miasma of bleakness and futility
- The Xorn retcon
- Disability in “Planet X”
- Miracles of Magnetism
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I never took Morrison’s comments about Magneto being a “terrorist twat” at face value, for the simple reason that they literally give the character an out in the next arc. We don’t look at Sublime-Beast in “Here Comes Tomorrow” as if it’s some kind of author’s statement on Hank McCoy, so I don’t understand why we don’t extend that same grace to Sublime-Magneto. (Well, that’s not entirely true – I suspect I know why, but no need to get into that.)