The latest issue of New X-Men

[avram]

OK, I like as good surprise twist as much as the next guy, and I never did buy that Magneto could have been killed by Sentinels, but what the fuck? Has Morrison had this planned all along, or is he pulling it out of his ass?

Xorn has a bunch of powers that Magneto’s never demonstrated. Look back at the annual in which he was introduced. “This is what a three second exposure to the face of Xorn does to a living being.” And we’ve seen him heal; how did Magneto fake that? And that big gravity-event-horizon thing at the climax. And disrupting G-Type on the Shi’ar cruiser: “My core is in flux. There is an unknown gravitational source interfering...”.

How did Magneto fake all the background around the facility where they found Xorn? The Chinese officials who seemed to believe it had been there for decades? How did he fool Emma’s telepathic scan?

This has all the signs of a sloppy ret-con.

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[cattitude.livejournal.com]

Next issue he gets a new costume (autumn colors), a new name (Unifiedfieldo), a 5-panel speech (boring exposition), and a year's supply of Turtle Wax. What do we have for the villains, Johnny?

I'm reading my first Marvel title in years - 1602, because Neil Gaiman's writing it.

[avram]

I read the first issue of 1602 in the store, and it totally failed to capture my interest.

Chris Priest’s Black Panther is probably the best thing Marvel’s published in a decade. Check out the first few collections.