529 – Magneto Was Wrong

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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