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X-Men: Black #1
X-Men: Black - Magneto #1
MAGNETO IS BACK…and so is Chris Claremont! For years, Magneto has done everything he can to achieve his goals for mutant domination. But now Magneto has declared that enough is enough. So what revolutionary plan does Magneto have that will change the face of mutantkind? And will anyone be able to stop him? Will anyone want to? PLUS: Includes Part 1 of X-MEN BLACK: APOCALYPSE the back up story by Zac Thompson, Lonnie Nadler, and Geraldo Borge!
34 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 3, 2018
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Chris Claremont
3,277 books888 followersChris Claremont is a writer of American comic books, best known for his 16-year (1975-1991) stint on Uncanny X-Men, during which the series became one of the comic book industry's most successful properties.
Claremont has written many stories for other publishers including the Star Trek Debt of Honor graphic novel, his creator-owned Sovereign Seven for DC Comics and Aliens vs Predator for Dark Horse Comics. He also wrote a few issues of the series WildC.A.T.s (volume 1, issues #10-13) at Image Comics, which introduced his creator-owned character, Huntsman.
Outside of comics, Claremont co-wrote the Chronicles of the Shadow War trilogy, Shadow Moon (1995), Shadow Dawn (1996), and Shadow Star (1999), with George Lucas. This trilogy continues the story of Elora Danan from the movie Willow. In the 1980s, he also wrote a science fiction trilogy about female starship pilot Nicole Shea, consisting of First Flight (1987), Grounded! (1991), and Sundowner (1994). Claremont was also a contributor to the Wild Cards anthology series.
Claremont has written many stories for other publishers including the Star Trek Debt of Honor graphic novel, his creator-owned Sovereign Seven for DC Comics and Aliens vs Predator for Dark Horse Comics. He also wrote a few issues of the series WildC.A.T.s (volume 1, issues #10-13) at Image Comics, which introduced his creator-owned character, Huntsman.
Outside of comics, Claremont co-wrote the Chronicles of the Shadow War trilogy, Shadow Moon (1995), Shadow Dawn (1996), and Shadow Star (1999), with George Lucas. This trilogy continues the story of Elora Danan from the movie Willow. In the 1980s, he also wrote a science fiction trilogy about female starship pilot Nicole Shea, consisting of First Flight (1987), Grounded! (1991), and Sundowner (1994). Claremont was also a contributor to the Wild Cards anthology series.
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October 6, 2018
Part of a new collection by Marvel the X-Men Black will focus/created series around villain (Magneto, Mystique, Juggernaut, and more) so the collection look promising in itself. This first one about Magneto was very good. It's a first, so a bit of a slow start, putting the bases and the storyline around, but I enjoy it and really looking forward this new series and collection. The most promising new lines of comic Marvel has release in a while. Let's hope it deliver it right!
October 4, 2018
Something, happened in this issue is really shocking.
July 15, 2021
What the heck did I just read? That. Was. Awwwwwful. Rancid artwork, preaching ad nauseam, and enough text to choke a horse.
November 11, 2018
Ich weiß noch nicht so recht was ich von der Story halten soll: Das quasi illegale Kindermutanten-Gefängnis hat Magento schnell in Besitz genommen. Die ersten Seiten in der Bar und dem Mädchen sind auch ziemlich rührselig. Aber sonst tut sich nicht viel. Geschrieben hat Chris Claremont die Story wunderbar, nur gibt sie noch nicht viel her. Die Zeichnungen leider auch nicht. Für meinen Geschmack ist Dalibor Talajic ein Fehlgriff – wenn auch kein kompletter.
Spannender wird es schon in der Backup-Story, in der Apocalypse nach einem unsterblichen Wirt forscht und es zu einem Unfall kommt und er in einer unbekannten Dimension oder Welt landet, dort scheint er menschlich zu werden. Jede X-Men: Black soll auch diesen Teil der neuen Apocalypse-Story weiterspinnen, welche immer bedeutsamer werden soll. Autor Zack Thompson und Zeichner Lonnie Nadler arbeiten auf einem ähnlichen Niveau wie die Akteure der Hauptstory. Daher: 10 Punkte für die Story und 8 für die Zeichnungen.
Spannender wird es schon in der Backup-Story, in der Apocalypse nach einem unsterblichen Wirt forscht und es zu einem Unfall kommt und er in einer unbekannten Dimension oder Welt landet, dort scheint er menschlich zu werden. Jede X-Men: Black soll auch diesen Teil der neuen Apocalypse-Story weiterspinnen, welche immer bedeutsamer werden soll. Autor Zack Thompson und Zeichner Lonnie Nadler arbeiten auf einem ähnlichen Niveau wie die Akteure der Hauptstory. Daher: 10 Punkte für die Story und 8 für die Zeichnungen.
October 4, 2018
A pretty standard tale of old school Magneto. The Apocalypse story has intrigued me quite a bit.
October 5, 2018
Very nicely written. Chris Claremont in nostalgia form here. Art suffers a bit, but completely forgiveable. Magneto is a force for left politics here, which is interesting since he is generally considered a villain and minority rights are more relevant today than in recent times. I doubt Claremont means to portray him solely as an extremist liberal, but one can’t help latching onto that idea while inside our current lack of bipartisanship.
The Apocalypse stuff at the end is pretty interesting, yet I find myself being all confused between him and Thanos. I mean- I know the difference, but man the movies really didn’t do a good job with Apocalypse. Goes to show how swiftly films take over from literature.
The Apocalypse stuff at the end is pretty interesting, yet I find myself being all confused between him and Thanos. I mean- I know the difference, but man the movies really didn’t do a good job with Apocalypse. Goes to show how swiftly films take over from literature.
March 26, 2019
An enjoyable read
It was very nice to read a Chris Claremont X-Men related comic from 2018. I loved the conversation between Erik and Kate. Though, I do wish that Erik hadn't compared her to Kitty Pryde so early in their conversation. Perhaps later, when they were outside. Also, I wish the Apocalypse side story hadn't been in the issue. I would have preferred if the issue had been completely written by Chris Claremont.
It was very nice to read a Chris Claremont X-Men related comic from 2018. I loved the conversation between Erik and Kate. Though, I do wish that Erik hadn't compared her to Kitty Pryde so early in their conversation. Perhaps later, when they were outside. Also, I wish the Apocalypse side story hadn't been in the issue. I would have preferred if the issue had been completely written by Chris Claremont.
June 9, 2019
A single-issue story about Magneto attacking a concentration camp for mutant children. The parallels to modern day America are obvious, and they deserve to be. We should be so lucky to have a Magneto like Claremont's in our real world.
But the arc of the story is Magneto getting knocked back into hoping again. His self-righteousness is inescapable, but seeing him show kindness and gratitude to others reminds me why the character can be so moving to readers. This is a fine read.
But the arc of the story is Magneto getting knocked back into hoping again. His self-righteousness is inescapable, but seeing him show kindness and gratitude to others reminds me why the character can be so moving to readers. This is a fine read.
October 5, 2018
This issue had just what I wanted and more. A quiet scene where Erik talks about his past and the horrors of human nature to a young girl? Check. References to classic Magneto stories? Check. Direct, unambiguous political analogues between fictional mutant policies and real immigrant policies? Check. Thank you, Chris Claremont. Thank you.
December 29, 2023
2.5 stars rounded to 3. I like Claremont and the way he writes Magneto, but even he can't save this book. The art is awkward and odd looking on many pages and the story is just not that interesting. Read it if you're interested in reading all of Claremont's writing but in general this and the other X-Men: Black books can be skipped.
October 23, 2018
Really good issue! Enjoyed the comparisons to the Holocaust and the various points in America’s history where we have interned people again their will and rights. Important to never forgot the atrocities your own people commit.
March 4, 2020
REALLY love the artwork, this magneto is peak jewish gay grandpa. good story too: not particularly difficult, but it puts magneto in exactly the right light: righteous, powerful, angry, loving, kind and, above all, Correct. very touching characters.
October 10, 2018
Erik ily so much 🤧
October 6, 2018
A solid Magneto tale beyond the usual. He is one of the most interesting X Men and I can tell you this he's not wrong.
October 9, 2018
It was really good. A bit of a rehash of the X-Men movie back in the day, but still very good.
November 12, 2023
⭐⭐. 75 (2.75)
August 5, 2024
Might be worth doing the rest of this series cause alone this didn't do all that much for me.
April 23, 2019
One would think that the guy who basically rewrote Magneto into it's most prominent form and wrote him for many years would manage to get him write, but whoever this is, this is not Magneto.
The guy here comes across like some jaded X-Men and not the mutant supremacist Magneto is known for. The intro prior to the story already has this flaw as it talks about him becoming a leader for mutant rights with a severe anti-human streak because he witnessed bigoted genocide. But in truth Magneto's life is more like "becoming a racist and potential genocide perpetrator." This here seems written to excuse his racism with his past.
And speaking about his past: we are told that as a kid he liked to read Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Burrows. Bu ´t not only do I ask myself when Magneto was ever shown to be a reader but also whether these were even popular in 1930s Germany.
And why he is supposed to be called Erik when it is allegedly Max, I have no idea either. As if there was another retcon again that I don't know about.
Then there was this talk about jailing kids (and Natives, and Japanese) that just sounded so hollow, not only because Marvel introduced god knows how many mutants with lethal powers that are a danger to everyone, but gosh I wish they would not repeat the same examples over and over again. Is it so hard to mention the Romani, Herero, Armenians, Dzungar or the Khmer Rouge Killing Fields for a change?
But from that stupidity to the next: One of the oh so racist white people is confused in regards to the claim that Magneto is a Holocaust survivor, as he looks way too young to be a Holocaust survivor and considered how weirdly his tattoo crosses his arm, it would be reasonable to assume that he is lying. But nope, they believe it. And why that girl shoves his tattooed arm into their faces is beyond me, as no normal person acts that way (then again, no person, and especially no child acts even remotely realistic or human in this comic). And despite the comic claiming that Magneto has a severe antihuman streak, there was nothing of that so far. Instead we get some idiotic stuff about his trust being betrayed too often and how he is the face of the mutant resistance. No idea what he is rambling about there.
If this even is Magneto, as the original probably would be smart enough to just create a magnetic impulse to shut the facility down.
And this comic comes across like it wants to distract long time readers from the fact that Magneto did horrible things in the past by making that superwoman believing him to be a monster because he is a mutant, even though Magneto is a monster because of his actions who would not have let any of the guards alive.
In the end, this was dull. And confusing.
The guy here comes across like some jaded X-Men and not the mutant supremacist Magneto is known for. The intro prior to the story already has this flaw as it talks about him becoming a leader for mutant rights with a severe anti-human streak because he witnessed bigoted genocide. But in truth Magneto's life is more like "becoming a racist and potential genocide perpetrator." This here seems written to excuse his racism with his past.
And speaking about his past: we are told that as a kid he liked to read Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Burrows. Bu ´t not only do I ask myself when Magneto was ever shown to be a reader but also whether these were even popular in 1930s Germany.
And why he is supposed to be called Erik when it is allegedly Max, I have no idea either. As if there was another retcon again that I don't know about.
Then there was this talk about jailing kids (and Natives, and Japanese) that just sounded so hollow, not only because Marvel introduced god knows how many mutants with lethal powers that are a danger to everyone, but gosh I wish they would not repeat the same examples over and over again. Is it so hard to mention the Romani, Herero, Armenians, Dzungar or the Khmer Rouge Killing Fields for a change?
But from that stupidity to the next: One of the oh so racist white people is confused in regards to the claim that Magneto is a Holocaust survivor, as he looks way too young to be a Holocaust survivor and considered how weirdly his tattoo crosses his arm, it would be reasonable to assume that he is lying. But nope, they believe it. And why that girl shoves his tattooed arm into their faces is beyond me, as no normal person acts that way (then again, no person, and especially no child acts even remotely realistic or human in this comic). And despite the comic claiming that Magneto has a severe antihuman streak, there was nothing of that so far. Instead we get some idiotic stuff about his trust being betrayed too often and how he is the face of the mutant resistance. No idea what he is rambling about there.
If this even is Magneto, as the original probably would be smart enough to just create a magnetic impulse to shut the facility down.
And this comic comes across like it wants to distract long time readers from the fact that Magneto did horrible things in the past by making that superwoman believing him to be a monster because he is a mutant, even though Magneto is a monster because of his actions who would not have let any of the guards alive.
In the end, this was dull. And confusing.
October 13, 2018
chris claremont is IT, and this issue is IT. i said THANK YOU
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