What do you think?
Rate this book
X-Men: The Trial of Magneto
X-Men: The Trial of Magneto #3
JUDGE, JURY AND HEXECUTIONER! The truth won’t stay buried. Nor will other things… Who lurks in the shadows, and what do they know?
24 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 20, 2021
2 people are currently reading
15 people want to read
About the author
Leah Williams
243 books211 followersLeah Williams is an American writer originally from Oxford, Mississippi. She has written comics for Marvel, BOOM! Studios, Vault Comics, and is working on more. Her debut novel was a YA Fantasy book titled The Alchemy of Being Fourteen and she is currently writing its sequel, The Divinity of Hitting Fifteen. Leah has nonfiction articles and essays published in The Atlantic, Oprah Magazine, and Salon.
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 18 of 18 reviews
October 29, 2021
I am growing more disenchanted with each issue of this. Sure, my "thing" is about paying attention to logical inconsistencies and continuity errors. Some people may call that a fault, but I think it's just that I'm imagining any 10-year-old kid reading a story and wanting it to make sense. And this story does not.
The writer keeps emphasizing the oddest, wrong details. A resurrected version of the Scarlet Witch shows up this issue, apparently created from an "old backup," so she doesn't remember much of anything that has happened in comics since the 80s. I could deal with that. Hell, it might even give writers a chance to "fix" the Scarlet Witch, after she has at various points been made a villain, mentally ill, no longer a mutant, no longer Magneto's daughter, no longer using chaos magic, and BACK to using chaos magic.
But the writer keeps making Wiccan and Speed refer to Wanda as "Mom," and she keeps portraying them as so upset about Wanda's death. This makes no sense. Wanda didn't raise them. We know for a fact that Billy grew up with a happy family with two parents and siblings (the Kaplans). Tommy, probably not so much, because he was introduced as a prisoner in some superpowered version of Juvie. But regardless, Tommy has a different birth mother, at a minimum, even though readers have never been shown who that woman was. Billy and Tommy both lived something like 16 years of their lives with absolutely no clue that they were in any way related to Wanda, or each other. Hell, they STILL probably aren't related to her, unless we are explicitly told that whatever "spiritual reincarnation" process created them also rewrote their DNA. They're just young adults who for some reason look similar to each other, and share powers associated with Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, based upon some convoluted magical explanation. These people are NOT relatives in any other sense.
This whole storyline is offensive to adopted people, or people who have adopted children. You expect me to believe that Billy, with his happy Jewish family in New York that completely accepted him for being gay and welcomed Hulkling into the family (even though they were both still in high school), chooses to reject all of that? So that he can call some woman he has barely met "Mom"? He doesn't feel at all conflicted about calling this strange woman by the name he usually uses for the woman who raised him for 16 years of his life?
THEY WOULDN'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT WANDA. She didn't raise them. Arguably, she also didn't even give birth to them. She is a spiritual egg donor, at best. They have no relationship.
Leah Williams continues to demonstrate that she has a bizarre misunderstanding of telepathy. In the previous two issues of this miniseries, she acted like it was so difficult for telepaths to just look up Magneto's recent memory of whether or not he killed Wanda. But in this issue, Jean and Rachel casually talk about looking up Wanda's most recent memory as if it will be effortless. And it was. Then, Rachel talks casually about updating Wanda's memories, and does so within moments.
Shouldn't that have been difficult? Rachel showed Wanda some classic panels of Wanda acting like a villain ("No more mutants" is featured prominently). But those were events Rachel wasn't present for. How would Rachel have access to those memories at all, let alone from Wanda's perspective? Is Rachel otherwise just telling Wanda about everything that has happened since the 80s?
This is at least the second time in the last month X-writers have talked about updating someone's memory from another person's perspective. X-Men #4 talked about how Laura could get her memories of being in love with Synch from Synch, by way of a telepath. But that doesn't make a lot of sense. From Synch's point of view, she would have memories of looking at her own face, and being sexually attracted to the sound of her own voice and the shape of her own body. Getting memories from Synch wouldn't provide her any insight as to how she actually felt about Synch in that timeline. Maybe that version of Laura had a lot of animosity for Synch and was only staying with him because he was literally the last man in the world, and Synch never knew that. So in that scenario, would the present-day version of Laura really be getting her own memories if she were somehow to have Synch's downloaded?
With Wanda, it's the same problem, but even less logical. Rachel wasn't standing around watching Wanda declare "No more mutants." She couldn't even update Wanda's memories from an outsider's point of view, looking at Wanda's face. She definitely can't give Wanda any insight as to Wanda's reasoning and feelings while she did the things that she did.
And for all that I love Wiccan (he and Rachel are both in my top 3 favorite characters of all time), and he is supposed to be so powerful, Leah Williams gave him a power here that he isn't supposed to have. Wiccan is overpowered, sure. Generally speaking, his power is that he can reshape reality based upon speaking his intent aloud. At least once he was given the limitation that he must hear the sound of his own voice. But his early appearances contradicted this, because he was shown flinging lightning bolts and creating force fields without speaking aloud at all.
But no matter which version of Wiccan's powers you're looking at, he has NEVER had sensory powers. That's one of the few ways in which Wiccan has been consistently limited. He has no telepathy or precognition. Yet, somehow, in this issue he takes one look at Wanda and talks about knowing that pieces of her are missing, as if she were from the past.
A) Wiccan can't do that, and B) even if Wiccan could do that, how would he even know what Wanda of the present is supposed to "feel" like? I can only think of 3 occasions in which Wiccan was in the same room as her. He met her once before he joined the Young Avengers in a flashback scene; though, they didn't seem aware of the fact they were "related" back then. Then he met her once during Avengers: The Children's Crusade. Then she was in the background at his recent wedding with Hulkling, but we never actually saw her talk to either Wiccan or Speed.
So, what the Hell?
The writer keeps emphasizing the oddest, wrong details. A resurrected version of the Scarlet Witch shows up this issue, apparently created from an "old backup," so she doesn't remember much of anything that has happened in comics since the 80s. I could deal with that. Hell, it might even give writers a chance to "fix" the Scarlet Witch, after she has at various points been made a villain, mentally ill, no longer a mutant, no longer Magneto's daughter, no longer using chaos magic, and BACK to using chaos magic.
But the writer keeps making Wiccan and Speed refer to Wanda as "Mom," and she keeps portraying them as so upset about Wanda's death. This makes no sense. Wanda didn't raise them. We know for a fact that Billy grew up with a happy family with two parents and siblings (the Kaplans). Tommy, probably not so much, because he was introduced as a prisoner in some superpowered version of Juvie. But regardless, Tommy has a different birth mother, at a minimum, even though readers have never been shown who that woman was. Billy and Tommy both lived something like 16 years of their lives with absolutely no clue that they were in any way related to Wanda, or each other. Hell, they STILL probably aren't related to her, unless we are explicitly told that whatever "spiritual reincarnation" process created them also rewrote their DNA. They're just young adults who for some reason look similar to each other, and share powers associated with Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, based upon some convoluted magical explanation. These people are NOT relatives in any other sense.
This whole storyline is offensive to adopted people, or people who have adopted children. You expect me to believe that Billy, with his happy Jewish family in New York that completely accepted him for being gay and welcomed Hulkling into the family (even though they were both still in high school), chooses to reject all of that? So that he can call some woman he has barely met "Mom"? He doesn't feel at all conflicted about calling this strange woman by the name he usually uses for the woman who raised him for 16 years of his life?
THEY WOULDN'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT WANDA. She didn't raise them. Arguably, she also didn't even give birth to them. She is a spiritual egg donor, at best. They have no relationship.
Leah Williams continues to demonstrate that she has a bizarre misunderstanding of telepathy. In the previous two issues of this miniseries, she acted like it was so difficult for telepaths to just look up Magneto's recent memory of whether or not he killed Wanda. But in this issue, Jean and Rachel casually talk about looking up Wanda's most recent memory as if it will be effortless. And it was. Then, Rachel talks casually about updating Wanda's memories, and does so within moments.
Shouldn't that have been difficult? Rachel showed Wanda some classic panels of Wanda acting like a villain ("No more mutants" is featured prominently). But those were events Rachel wasn't present for. How would Rachel have access to those memories at all, let alone from Wanda's perspective? Is Rachel otherwise just telling Wanda about everything that has happened since the 80s?
This is at least the second time in the last month X-writers have talked about updating someone's memory from another person's perspective. X-Men #4 talked about how Laura could get her memories of being in love with Synch from Synch, by way of a telepath. But that doesn't make a lot of sense. From Synch's point of view, she would have memories of looking at her own face, and being sexually attracted to the sound of her own voice and the shape of her own body. Getting memories from Synch wouldn't provide her any insight as to how she actually felt about Synch in that timeline. Maybe that version of Laura had a lot of animosity for Synch and was only staying with him because he was literally the last man in the world, and Synch never knew that. So in that scenario, would the present-day version of Laura really be getting her own memories if she were somehow to have Synch's downloaded?
With Wanda, it's the same problem, but even less logical. Rachel wasn't standing around watching Wanda declare "No more mutants." She couldn't even update Wanda's memories from an outsider's point of view, looking at Wanda's face. She definitely can't give Wanda any insight as to Wanda's reasoning and feelings while she did the things that she did.
And for all that I love Wiccan (he and Rachel are both in my top 3 favorite characters of all time), and he is supposed to be so powerful, Leah Williams gave him a power here that he isn't supposed to have. Wiccan is overpowered, sure. Generally speaking, his power is that he can reshape reality based upon speaking his intent aloud. At least once he was given the limitation that he must hear the sound of his own voice. But his early appearances contradicted this, because he was shown flinging lightning bolts and creating force fields without speaking aloud at all.
But no matter which version of Wiccan's powers you're looking at, he has NEVER had sensory powers. That's one of the few ways in which Wiccan has been consistently limited. He has no telepathy or precognition. Yet, somehow, in this issue he takes one look at Wanda and talks about knowing that pieces of her are missing, as if she were from the past.
A) Wiccan can't do that, and B) even if Wiccan could do that, how would he even know what Wanda of the present is supposed to "feel" like? I can only think of 3 occasions in which Wiccan was in the same room as her. He met her once before he joined the Young Avengers in a flashback scene; though, they didn't seem aware of the fact they were "related" back then. Then he met her once during Avengers: The Children's Crusade. Then she was in the background at his recent wedding with Hulkling, but we never actually saw her talk to either Wiccan or Speed.
So, what the Hell?
November 15, 2021
I mostri giapponesi, così, tanto per. Comprensivi di rigenerazione, che sennò finiscono subito.
Magneto che non fa più nulla.
Le memorie "esterne" riversate in Wanda, che però non sembra cambiata dopo l'intervento di Rachel e Jean.
Lo scontro "altrove" tra una Wanda ancora intrappolata (che però si riconosce nella Wanda con memorie passate che si è risvegliata a Krakoa) e quella che scopriamo essere una sua versione futura.
Il chiamare questa versione "Old Lady Wanda", che ormai questo giocare sull'Old Man è venuto a noia a chiunque.
E poi si pensa alla cena, che il marito di Jean-Paul è umano, pensa alla cena mentre gli altri sono occupati a pensare ai mostri e ai civili.
Che poi, d'accordo tutto, ma non ci sarebbero le difese di Black Tom in questi casi? Tra lui e Krakoa penso dovrebbero accorgersi e intervenire, se tre mostri giganti invadono l'isola, no?
Bah.
Magneto che non fa più nulla.
Le memorie "esterne" riversate in Wanda, che però non sembra cambiata dopo l'intervento di Rachel e Jean.
Lo scontro "altrove" tra una Wanda ancora intrappolata (che però si riconosce nella Wanda con memorie passate che si è risvegliata a Krakoa) e quella che scopriamo essere una sua versione futura.
Il chiamare questa versione "Old Lady Wanda", che ormai questo giocare sull'Old Man è venuto a noia a chiunque.
E poi si pensa alla cena, che il marito di Jean-Paul è umano, pensa alla cena mentre gli altri sono occupati a pensare ai mostri e ai civili.
Che poi, d'accordo tutto, ma non ci sarebbero le difese di Black Tom in questi casi? Tra lui e Krakoa penso dovrebbero accorgersi e intervenire, se tre mostri giganti invadono l'isola, no?
Bah.
February 5, 2022
Just when I thought I lost count of how many Wandas were running around in Krakoa, I realized there are three. Three to form the triumvirate of maiden, mother, and crone. Nice literary reference there.
January 24, 2022
This went in several stupid directions I did not anticipate. As of now, there is no trial, no one is dead, everyone looks like a punk except for the characters from X-Factor, and it’s turned into a kaiju fight. That’s without spoiling the final page which is a whole other level of unnecessary. Boo.
November 1, 2021
Oh no random Kaiju attack the island!!! What? Really? Fuck off Marvel.
I was reading this honestly thinking I had picked up a (bad) parody of what this issue should have been. I mean..... I wish I could this negative stars just....... The Trial of Magneto, which they have built up for ages...... and it's a fucking Kaiju fight... I mean really? Really?
My mind boggles, this miniseries to date has been a pretendy death which lasted an issue, a few really pointless fights and then fucking Kaiju..... Jeeeeeeeeezus. No trial, not much Magneto just am awful excuse of a comic.
..... Kaiju........
I was reading this honestly thinking I had picked up a (bad) parody of what this issue should have been. I mean..... I wish I could this negative stars just....... The Trial of Magneto, which they have built up for ages...... and it's a fucking Kaiju fight... I mean really? Really?
My mind boggles, this miniseries to date has been a pretendy death which lasted an issue, a few really pointless fights and then fucking Kaiju..... Jeeeeeeeeezus. No trial, not much Magneto just am awful excuse of a comic.
..... Kaiju........
November 17, 2021
WHAT WAS THAT ENDING
December 23, 2021
The main reason I'm giving this a 4 is the ending. It was so dopeeee. I loved it and the art. It was awesome. I really really wish they answer all the questions that is being made. It is indeed the lowest of the three so far but i hope the next two bring it back again.
What i disliked about this:
I absolutely disliked the Kaiju thing. And i feel completely detached as always with some characters like northstar.
What i disliked about this:
I absolutely disliked the Kaiju thing. And i feel completely detached as always with some characters like northstar.
May 29, 2022
I literally don’t understand why some of these things are happening in this issue. One set of things happening - Wanda’s visions - make sense in a sense. The Kaiju attack on Krakoa does not.
January 29, 2022
My review of this issue is similar to the one I made of Death of Doctor Strange #2 it is an entertaining reading but doesn't move the plot forward, just confuses the reader.
So now we wait another month to (hopefully) get a better issue
So now we wait another month to (hopefully) get a better issue
October 20, 2021
It's....something. I don't know man, I was really excited for this series, but it seems to be getting worse as we go along. The first issue was pretty good, it started out strong, but now it's a mess. Billy showing up with no explanation was odd. Old Lady Wanda being the twist is poor. Williams continues to disappoint me, and that sucks.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 22, 2021
I really enjoyed the first two issues but this one has taken some odd twists and turns that aren't particularly appealing. Hopefully Leah Williams can bring it back and tie it all together in a satisfying way.
October 22, 2021
I'll bet that the messy kaiju attack and all-over-the-place plot will be explained in future issues as part of Wanda's messy psyche creating equally messy happenings in the real world, but as a standalone issue these week's pages really don't work.
July 31, 2022
Super confusing but in a good way, if that makes sense. Wanda is literally made of chaos so nothing makes sense. She dead but not and herself but not. And trapped in the chaos astral plane or something. And I don't care that I don't understand what's happening because it's incredibly entertaining.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 22, 2025
"Took you long enough."
Following Wanda's sudden reappearance, it's revealed this is a Scarlet Witch from years past, unaware she even has children.
Three Kaiju attack Krakoa, meaning the Avengers and X-Men are joining up!
Following Wanda's sudden reappearance, it's revealed this is a Scarlet Witch from years past, unaware she even has children.
Three Kaiju attack Krakoa, meaning the Avengers and X-Men are joining up!
December 27, 2021
i am tired of everyone having abs i just want to know what the fuck is going on
August 10, 2022
What the hell?
September 16, 2022
This run is so good, can't believe there's only two more
Displaying 1 - 18 of 18 reviews