Back in the 1980s, Charles Xavier left Earth to go have sex with his alien bird empress girlfriend, and in doing so left the school, and the New Mutants, to his friend/archenemy/boyfriend? Magneto.
Magneto, famously, did a bad job. The Beyonder kills all his students, he fights the Avengers, he joins the Hellfire Club, he fails to notice when Sunspot and Warlock run away to join the Fallen Angels, and Doug Ramsey dies on his watch. Eventually, he hits “fuck it” and goes back to villainy, though that may have more to do with Jim Lee rising to power behind the scenes.
What this four-issue Magneto miniseries by J.M. DeMatteis and Todd Nauck presupposes is, “What if Magneto did even more bad stuff,” like get Axis-flipped into attacking his own students?
With frenemies like this, who needs … wait, what’s the opposite of a frenemy?
Check out our exclusive preview of Magneto #4, out next week, and scroll down for the basic deets.
(W) J.M. Dematteis (A/CA) Todd Nauck
IS HE EVIL MUTANT, OR IS HE HERO … OR IS HE BOTH?
MAGNETO must come to grips with his past as the Head of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, as well as his present as the Headmaster of the Xavier School’s NEW MUTANTS! What is the TRUE destiny of Erik Lehnsherr? How can these two aspects co-exist in the same man? Don’t miss the astounding final chapter of the character-defining saga by J.M. DeMatteis (SPIDER-MAN: Kraven’s Last Hunt, CAPTAIN AMERICA) and Todd Nauck (X-MEN LEGENDS, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN)!
Rated T+
In Shops: Nov 01, 2023
$3.99
Dan Grote is the editor-in-chief of ComicsXF, having won the site by ritual combat. By day, he’s a newspaper editor, and by night, he’s … also an editor. He co-hosts The ComicsXF Interview Podcast with Matt Lazorwitz. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, two kids and two miniature dachshunds, and his third, fictional son, Peter Winston Wisdom.
