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Uncanny X-Men (1963) #366-367
Magneto: Rogue Nation
Collects: X-Men, vol. 2 #85–87, Magneto Rex #1–3, X-Men: The Magneto War one-shot, and Uncanny X-Men #366–367.
Once a close friend of mutant mentor Charles Xavier, the charismatic subversive known as Magneto is now his deadliest foe. The self-anointed Master of Magnetism has dedicated his life to the advancement of Homo superior, even if he must bring about humanity's downfall to ensure the ascendance of mutantkind
Once a close friend of mutant mentor Charles Xavier, the charismatic subversive known as Magneto is now his deadliest foe. The self-anointed Master of Magnetism has dedicated his life to the advancement of Homo superior, even if he must bring about humanity's downfall to ensure the ascendance of mutantkind
Still recovering from a cataclysmic clash with his own doppelganger, and beset by a violent faction of mutate rebels, can Magnus maintain his hold on the troubled island-nation? And the question remains: Once his rise to power is complete, will the Master of Magnetism tolerate the humans living within Genosha's borders? Humans he considers inferior in every way? Humanity's days are numbered
192 pages, Paperback
First published April 15, 2002
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Alan Davis
1,025 books68 followersAlan Davis is an English writer and artist of comic books, known for his work on titles such as Captain Britain, The Uncanny X-Men, ClanDestine, Excalibur, JLA: The Nail and JLA: Another Nail and others.
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May 16, 2022
Pulling together Magneto War crossovers and the Magneto Rex limited series where Magneto takes over Genosha leaving the X-Men to defend and protect the vulnerable, the humans! ... wake me up when it's over. Also includes the weak origin of Joseph. Actually worth around 5/12 on my scale; but no way am I giving this two stars!
January 6, 2019
Magneto threatens the world with destruction if he doesn't get his mutant homeland. Joseph's past is finally revealed. Then Magneto is handed Genosha and boredom ensues in a crappy Joe Pruett penned miniseries. The first issue is the best of the bunch where Magneto tests a normal human to see if humanity is worth saving.
September 8, 2018
Another very uneven collection of late 90s/early 200s X-Men. This volume exists mainly to end the Joseph storyline and to have Magneto become a teeth gnashing villain again, before he's given everything he's ever wanted.
The first issue, by Joe Kelly and Alan Davis, is the highlight of the collection. It takes the X-cliche of Xavier's dream contrasting with Magneto's dream, and shows both of them questioning their methods' validity. Kelly was, by far, the best writer of this period of the X-books, so this story, particularly shines.
Unfortunately when Davis takes the reigns of the title, he chooses Fabien Nicieza, who is my least favorite writer of the era, to overscript the story that follows: Magneto decides to destroy the world again (yawn), while his...clone? alternate personality come to life? doppelganger? younger version of himself? Joseph finds out precisely who he is. And that story is immediately thrown in the trash (where it belongs...but why bother to tell the story at all, if you're going to dump the character as soon as it's over) and followed up with Magneto becoming the ruler of Genosha, a nation most known for a mutant slave caste system.
The idea behind giving Magneto his own country is interesting. And it is used more interestingly in the future. In this volume, it just serves as the scene for a typical X-men morality play by a mediocre writer.
The art in this book is erratic, as well. Davis's work is not his best, and with all the grief people give Rob Liefeld for not being able to draw feet, I'm surprised nobody's ever called out Leinil Francis Yu for his inability to draw necks. The characters alternate between looking like overly muscled Pez-dispensers to looking like paper dolls where the chin has been glued just above the chest. The final story looks like an otherwise talented artist's project from an Introduction To Cross-Hatching class.
It's not an unreadable mess, and it is important to X-Men continuity. But it's not very fun. There are also a ton of awful dad puns by Fabien "I've Never Heard Humans Converse Naturally Before" Nicieza.
The first issue, by Joe Kelly and Alan Davis, is the highlight of the collection. It takes the X-cliche of Xavier's dream contrasting with Magneto's dream, and shows both of them questioning their methods' validity. Kelly was, by far, the best writer of this period of the X-books, so this story, particularly shines.
Unfortunately when Davis takes the reigns of the title, he chooses Fabien Nicieza, who is my least favorite writer of the era, to overscript the story that follows: Magneto decides to destroy the world again (yawn), while his...clone? alternate personality come to life? doppelganger? younger version of himself? Joseph finds out precisely who he is. And that story is immediately thrown in the trash (where it belongs...but why bother to tell the story at all, if you're going to dump the character as soon as it's over) and followed up with Magneto becoming the ruler of Genosha, a nation most known for a mutant slave caste system.
The idea behind giving Magneto his own country is interesting. And it is used more interestingly in the future. In this volume, it just serves as the scene for a typical X-men morality play by a mediocre writer.
The art in this book is erratic, as well. Davis's work is not his best, and with all the grief people give Rob Liefeld for not being able to draw feet, I'm surprised nobody's ever called out Leinil Francis Yu for his inability to draw necks. The characters alternate between looking like overly muscled Pez-dispensers to looking like paper dolls where the chin has been glued just above the chest. The final story looks like an otherwise talented artist's project from an Introduction To Cross-Hatching class.
It's not an unreadable mess, and it is important to X-Men continuity. But it's not very fun. There are also a ton of awful dad puns by Fabien "I've Never Heard Humans Converse Naturally Before" Nicieza.
February 1, 2022
Eu havia lido Guerras Magnéticas - o arco de histórias que este encadernado abriga - quando sairam originalmente pela Editora Abril nas últimas edições em formatinho das revistas X-Men e Wolverine. Antes disso, havia adquirido algumas edições importadas que compunham a saga num esforço inútil de tentar entender o inglês quando era pré-adolescente. Naquela época a história me soou contraditória, porque por muito tempo esperava ententer como podia existir dois Magnetos: Joseph e Erik, mas não tinha gstado muito da forma como os envolvidos na tram desenvolveram-na. Retomando a leitura acabei achando melhor do que antes e os meus olhos se abriram mais para a arte, de artistas consagrados como Davis, Weeks e Yu e como a colorização por computados - como chamavam na época -, destacava a arte deles. Outros, como Brandon Peterson, parecem ter involuido na arte, com seus desenhos hoje em dia parecendo bonecos de plástico. Guerras Mgnéticas marca o último suspiro dos formatinhos da Editora Abril quando as histórias, inclusive essa, eram cortadas para caberem melhor nos gibis.
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September 2, 2016Read this back when it was first published. I'm now adding it to my re-reading list.
August 27, 2017
There are some good creators involved here, but the whole Magneto/Joseph storyline was bad from the beginning. Plus, the three issue Magneto Rex miniseries is horribly written, with enough dialogue to make Claremont blush.
August 22, 2022
I wanted to read the tail end of the Kelly/Seagle era of X-Men, so I picked this up because the more comprehensive volume, "Magneto War," currently resides way outside my price range. Joe Kelly scripts an issue or two, but this is mostly Alan Davis's book.
It was... fine. Maybe better than fine at times. Mad zealot Magneto is not my favorite version of the character. I actually cringed a little when he made the bad-faith arguments with the contractor in the first issue and then went totally berserk.
The X-Men were mostly sidelined for this story, and the Joseph subplot was cleaned up thoroughly if not gracefully. Magneto ended up with his own country in to he end, which worked out for him, I guess. (Until the Morrison run anyway.)
The follow-up, Magneto Rex, wasn't bad, but it was pretty by the numbers.
All in all, it wasn't bad. I've read much worse. There were some good ideas, but mostly this book read as a way of clearing the deck for the next creative team.
It was... fine. Maybe better than fine at times. Mad zealot Magneto is not my favorite version of the character. I actually cringed a little when he made the bad-faith arguments with the contractor in the first issue and then went totally berserk.
The X-Men were mostly sidelined for this story, and the Joseph subplot was cleaned up thoroughly if not gracefully. Magneto ended up with his own country in to he end, which worked out for him, I guess. (Until the Morrison run anyway.)
The follow-up, Magneto Rex, wasn't bad, but it was pretty by the numbers.
All in all, it wasn't bad. I've read much worse. There were some good ideas, but mostly this book read as a way of clearing the deck for the next creative team.
April 17, 2013
Uneven collection of late nineties X-Men stories.
The first half of the book is the story of how Magneto is given his own nation to rule, competently plotted by Alan Davis. It's perfectly fine, but Davis is capable of downright excellent work (as he hints at in his beautifully drawn chapters). Davis was hired to hit major plot points set down in advance, and the paycheck nature of the work shows. They're decent ideas--get the X-Men down to a decently sized team to allow for characterization, set them against a classic foe and give them a Pyrrhic victory at best, but there's no real inspiration here. The whole thing reads like a real retread in its attempts to recapture the golden days. The innovation that Grant Morrison would bring is a few years down the line.
The book is unfortunately filled out with the promising but dreadfully plodding, by-the-numbers Magneto Rex miniseries. A story about him taking the reigns of a country at long last should be exhilarating. But an extremely wordy script and dull plot by Joe Pruett isn't helped by the art. Brandon Peterson did some pretty work in the early 90s, but the inking does him no favors, as every character is depicted as overly sharp and unpleasant to look at.
Great Alan Davis art for those few chapters, though.
The first half of the book is the story of how Magneto is given his own nation to rule, competently plotted by Alan Davis. It's perfectly fine, but Davis is capable of downright excellent work (as he hints at in his beautifully drawn chapters). Davis was hired to hit major plot points set down in advance, and the paycheck nature of the work shows. They're decent ideas--get the X-Men down to a decently sized team to allow for characterization, set them against a classic foe and give them a Pyrrhic victory at best, but there's no real inspiration here. The whole thing reads like a real retread in its attempts to recapture the golden days. The innovation that Grant Morrison would bring is a few years down the line.
The book is unfortunately filled out with the promising but dreadfully plodding, by-the-numbers Magneto Rex miniseries. A story about him taking the reigns of a country at long last should be exhilarating. But an extremely wordy script and dull plot by Joe Pruett isn't helped by the art. Brandon Peterson did some pretty work in the early 90s, but the inking does him no favors, as every character is depicted as overly sharp and unpleasant to look at.
Great Alan Davis art for those few chapters, though.
April 6, 2007
I bought this from the 70% shelf at Midtown. Its a collection of stories all about Magneto, and all sharing the same theme - sucking. This is one of those volumes that makes you embarassed to read comic books in public. The only good thing about this TPB is that the cover has the most amazing crotch-shot ever. I don't know what the editors were thinking, but the world gets to marvel at Magneto's package.
June 11, 2007
This is a particularly great compliation of the story of Magneto. I find his character fasinating, and his morale somewhat split right down the middle, and then shoved toward evil in his later years. a good read - the first page will particularly get you thinking.
March 17, 2014
This was just so bad in so many levels and get more bad the further the collection went, ending to almighty bad Magneto Rex story.
But then there were all those nice pictures Alan Davis did. That was a real treat.
But then there were all those nice pictures Alan Davis did. That was a real treat.
April 21, 2017
Picking up (roughly) where I left off back in the 90's.
This one makes me feel like I shouldn't bother. It isn't awful, it's just... boring.
Well, that apparently didn't take back n 2014. I since have restarted the great X-men catchup project and in so doing reread this volume. I think that I was a little harsh in 2014. I enjoyed it quite a bit in my reread and it sets up some interesting plotlines that I hope they follow through with...
This one makes me feel like I shouldn't bother. It isn't awful, it's just... boring.
Well, that apparently didn't take back n 2014. I since have restarted the great X-men catchup project and in so doing reread this volume. I think that I was a little harsh in 2014. I enjoyed it quite a bit in my reread and it sets up some interesting plotlines that I hope they follow through with...
November 1, 2013
Very hit and miss. Some decent parts but altogether underwhelming.
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