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Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
529 – Magneto Was Wrong
JUN 29, 202662 MIN
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Description
Illustration by David Wynne
In which many plot threads come together; Charles Xavier is a catastrophically bad listener; you should probably not live in the Marvel Universe; bridges are really important; there’s nothing sexy about dying of heat exhaustion; and we judge Morrison’s Magneto and find him wanting.
X-PLAINED:
What Xorn did after dying
The story so far
New X-Men #146-148
Beast’s typing gloves
Several innovative ways to type loudly
Doomed plans
A manufactured confrontation
A trap
Magneto reimagined
Visual depictions of sweat
“New Genosha”
Death and rebirth
Whether Magneto has a place in New X-Men; and if so, what
A name for an era
NEXT EPISODE: Yet another death of Magneto
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