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X-Men: The Trial of Magneto
X-Men: The Trial of Magneto #1
THE STORY THAT WILL SHAKE KRAKOA TO ITS CORE! A horrific murder. A shocking revelation. A trial that will divide the new mutant nation. Leah Williams and Valerio Schiti bring you a new epic that threatens the Reign of X and will upend the world of mutants. The truth is hidden, the danger is far from over, and the trial has begun
34 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 18, 2021
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Leah Williams
270 books214 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.
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September 5, 2021
L'indagine sulla morte di Wanda, condotta da X-Factor (ma dato che i pezzi grossi pensano di essere i soli a poter fare bene le cose, X-Men e X-Force controllano e ricontrollano ogni mossa degli investigatori. Simpaticissimi.
Basta un accenno alla possibilità dell'utilizzo di un qualche tipo di metallo perché i tre gruppi decidano per la colpevolezza di Magneto.
Colpevolezza che era già data per assodata da quasi tutto il Consiglio, tra frecciatine e accuse più o meno esplicite. E mentre Magneto chiedeva la resurrezione della figlia, solo Kitty e Kurt lo hanno appoggiato e così la richiesta è caduta nell'oblio, con Erik a dichiarare apertamente che questa scelta potrebbe sancire la fine del progetto Krakoa.
Comprensibile, che un uomo come Magneto possa decidere di mandare tutto a monte per vendetta contro chi ha deciso a mente fredda di non riportare in vita la figlia morta.
Però se il Magnus sopra le righe, violento e devastato ci sta, quello che non mi è piaciuto è stato il far branco per saltargli alla gola. Senza certezze, se non quelle dei pregiudizi.
Non so, pensavo\mi aspettavo di meglio dal postumanesimo di Krakoa, che non questa sorta di giuria popolare che decide di pancia chi sia il colpevole.
Poi mettiamoci una Jean che si dichiara incapace, da sola, di entrare nella mente sedata di Magneto e il pasticcio è servito.
Davvero? Jean Grey, una delle telepati più potenti della Terra?
Spero migliori.
Basta un accenno alla possibilità dell'utilizzo di un qualche tipo di metallo perché i tre gruppi decidano per la colpevolezza di Magneto.
Colpevolezza che era già data per assodata da quasi tutto il Consiglio, tra frecciatine e accuse più o meno esplicite. E mentre Magneto chiedeva la resurrezione della figlia, solo Kitty e Kurt lo hanno appoggiato e così la richiesta è caduta nell'oblio, con Erik a dichiarare apertamente che questa scelta potrebbe sancire la fine del progetto Krakoa.
Comprensibile, che un uomo come Magneto possa decidere di mandare tutto a monte per vendetta contro chi ha deciso a mente fredda di non riportare in vita la figlia morta.
Però se il Magnus sopra le righe, violento e devastato ci sta, quello che non mi è piaciuto è stato il far branco per saltargli alla gola. Senza certezze, se non quelle dei pregiudizi.
Non so, pensavo\mi aspettavo di meglio dal postumanesimo di Krakoa, che non questa sorta di giuria popolare che decide di pancia chi sia il colpevole.
Poi mettiamoci una Jean che si dichiara incapace, da sola, di entrare nella mente sedata di Magneto e il pasticcio è servito.
Davvero? Jean Grey, una delle telepati più potenti della Terra?
Spero migliori.
August 18, 2021
More of a 3.5 but I'm willing to round up. This took X-Factor, a team that has been a lot better in theory than in execution, and just barely managed to make them come across as more competent and respectable than ever. X-Force's presence was supposed to feel like an intrusion to X-Factor, and it always feels like an intrusion to readers, too.
As usual for X-Force, only Wolverine and Domino were actually physically present, maybe with Beast and Sage communicating by comms from somewhere else, and we consider that good enough to say they're a team.
Anyway, so the Scarlet Witch is dead. Which we already knew. And this issue showed the investigation that led to why Magneto is the prime suspect in her murder. I do like how this issue had Magneto continue to refer to Wanda and Pietro as his children, which has been the status quo for many decades up until the much-maligned retcon in recent years. The fact this issue gave some respect to the previous decades of continuity makes me feel slightly better. In more recent years, when terrible writers try to implement some horrible retcon (Tini Howard, I'm looking at you), it usually feels like Marvel editorial wants to collectively pretend as if previous continuity never happened.
However, some of that bizarre retcon-at-all-costs mentality is still at play with Wiccan and Speed. We briefly see Speed here acting all traumatized by Wanda's death, commenting on how he hasn't been able to tell Wiccan.
WHY WOULD WICCAN OR SPEED EVEN CARE!?
Wanda didn't raise either of them, nor did she even truly give birth to them. She was, at most, a spiritual egg donor they have BARELY met somewhere around age 16.
THEY WOULDN'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT HER. They have no relationship. Hell, Wiccan and Speed barely have a relationship with each other. They met and learned of each other's existence somewhere around 16, prior to that growing up with different families. They have been teammates since then, so they have hung out and communicated by phone quite a bit.
BUT NOT WITH FUCKING WANDA.
Mrs. Kaplan is Billy's mom. Writers never got around to giving Tommy a mom, but presumably she is Mrs. Shepard?
Jean is inexplicably weaker than ever before, unable to just dip into Magneto's brain to determine whether he killed Wanda or not. This is moronic. Even without the Phoenix Force, Jean has connected to the minds of every person on the planet. She should be entirely capable of delving into a sleeping person's mind and looking up one recent memory. And even if for some reason she couldn't, then Rachel should be more than capable of doing it. She is supposed to be more powerful than Jean, not less.
*Shrugs* We shall see. I won't be happy until the retcon is undone and we establish that Wanda and Pietro are, in fact, Magneto's kids again.
As usual for X-Force, only Wolverine and Domino were actually physically present, maybe with Beast and Sage communicating by comms from somewhere else, and we consider that good enough to say they're a team.
Anyway, so the Scarlet Witch is dead. Which we already knew. And this issue showed the investigation that led to why Magneto is the prime suspect in her murder. I do like how this issue had Magneto continue to refer to Wanda and Pietro as his children, which has been the status quo for many decades up until the much-maligned retcon in recent years. The fact this issue gave some respect to the previous decades of continuity makes me feel slightly better. In more recent years, when terrible writers try to implement some horrible retcon (Tini Howard, I'm looking at you), it usually feels like Marvel editorial wants to collectively pretend as if previous continuity never happened.
However, some of that bizarre retcon-at-all-costs mentality is still at play with Wiccan and Speed. We briefly see Speed here acting all traumatized by Wanda's death, commenting on how he hasn't been able to tell Wiccan.
WHY WOULD WICCAN OR SPEED EVEN CARE!?
Wanda didn't raise either of them, nor did she even truly give birth to them. She was, at most, a spiritual egg donor they have BARELY met somewhere around age 16.
THEY WOULDN'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT HER. They have no relationship. Hell, Wiccan and Speed barely have a relationship with each other. They met and learned of each other's existence somewhere around 16, prior to that growing up with different families. They have been teammates since then, so they have hung out and communicated by phone quite a bit.
BUT NOT WITH FUCKING WANDA.
Mrs. Kaplan is Billy's mom. Writers never got around to giving Tommy a mom, but presumably she is Mrs. Shepard?
Jean is inexplicably weaker than ever before, unable to just dip into Magneto's brain to determine whether he killed Wanda or not. This is moronic. Even without the Phoenix Force, Jean has connected to the minds of every person on the planet. She should be entirely capable of delving into a sleeping person's mind and looking up one recent memory. And even if for some reason she couldn't, then Rachel should be more than capable of doing it. She is supposed to be more powerful than Jean, not less.
*Shrugs* We shall see. I won't be happy until the retcon is undone and we establish that Wanda and Pietro are, in fact, Magneto's kids again.
February 5, 2022
The trial starts with a murder investigation. This could have been a single issue like X-Men #200, which was the last trial of Magneto I remembered. Now, it's a mini-series event. Personally, I think it's just overkill.
September 21, 2021
I wasn't onboard the idea of yet another Trial of Magneto (because seriously, can't we come up with new stories already? Featuring many of the underutilized mutant characters with untapped potential on the X-Men roster? Instead of rehashing old plots with the same ol' faces?) but was surprisingly intrigued and engaged by what Leah Williams has given X-fans so far in these pages. Consider me onboard as of now.
- The writing is good, even beautiful in some places. As in the prose, the turn of phrase, the emotional delivery for each character beat. However I still feel that Magneto going back to his brash, belligerent self has undone the character growth we've seen in him since Dawn of X, and that's a shame. It feels too sudden a U-turn, in particular him attacking Xavier like that… which I hope will be addressed or explained in future issues.
- Artwork is great too. Not perfect, as I don't quite dig how the male faces are drawn but the overall look is neat and pleasing. The panel where Northstar hugs Quicksilver in sympathy and to calm him down legit made me shed a tear. Also regardless of how unappealing Magneto's face looks, the female mutants especially Mystique looks PHENOMENAL.
- The writing is good, even beautiful in some places. As in the prose, the turn of phrase, the emotional delivery for each character beat. However I still feel that Magneto going back to his brash, belligerent self has undone the character growth we've seen in him since Dawn of X, and that's a shame. It feels too sudden a U-turn, in particular him attacking Xavier like that… which I hope will be addressed or explained in future issues.
- Artwork is great too. Not perfect, as I don't quite dig how the male faces are drawn but the overall look is neat and pleasing. The panel where Northstar hugs Quicksilver in sympathy and to calm him down legit made me shed a tear. Also regardless of how unappealing Magneto's face looks, the female mutants especially Mystique looks PHENOMENAL.
August 21, 2021
I feel like the character work done here was very to excellent. I love that this is a logical development in the story arc of The Scarlett Witch is evil to mutants.
I’m interested to see what goes on next.
I’m interested to see what goes on next.
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December 2, 2021Lol, this series was sort of confusing. Wanda and the Xmen have had a long-hard relationship and most of them don’t like her (for good reason) and this comic makes it seem as if they do like her…? Like Rachel Summers does not like Wanda, after wanda did the no more mutants thing Rachel had a really bad time dealing with it, and which would obviously lead to the fact she wouldn’t really like Wanda and wouldn’t want to interact with her and for some reason…Rachel Wants to help Wanda? Also TBH wandas art design is so inconsistent. If we’re talking about recent years Wanda this verison of Wanda doesn’t really look like any of them (Comic Wanda usually has shorter hair, and comic Wanda is around a light brown due to her Romani heritage) this comic strip is sort of trying to make her look like 80’s Wanda and Elizabeth Olsen…at the same time? I love Lizzie Olsen as Wanda, don’t get me wrong- but Lizzie simply does not really look like…and that’s perfectly fine- a lot of actors don’t look that much alike too there comic counterpart but I hate when they change the design tk match the actor! Fills me with rage. Anyway, there are better comics to read, read daredevil (2019) and Rogue and Gambit!
August 18, 2021
Beautiful writing, equally beautiful art. I haven't picked up an X-Men comic since I was a kid but this makes me want to pick up on what I've missed. Looking forward to the rest of this particular series
August 20, 2021
"The stick stays." Leah Williams' Northstar is fantastic.
This didn't waste any time ratcheting up the tension and intensity. A lot happens and it's handled well. Great start.
This didn't waste any time ratcheting up the tension and intensity. A lot happens and it's handled well. Great start.
October 14, 2021
Minddd blowinggggg
November 1, 2021
wanda's bits were the best part, I think
March 28, 2022
Honestly the worst thing to come out of krakoa. This is a review for the whole arc but it's a massive unstructured mess where ludicrous things happen - even for an X-Men book! Just too much and awful characterisation.
September 5, 2021
There were two things I was fairly certain of before I started reading this comic: 1) Magneto did not kill the Scarlet Witch; and 2) The Scarlet Witch is not dead. After reading #1 I’m still fairly confident on both points.
Why don’t I think Magneto killed Wanda? Because that’s the obvious, simple answer, and the one that X-Factor have reached by the end of #1. Therefore, it must be wrong, else what’s the point of this series? A mystery with an obvious solution is no mystery at all. Personally, while I have no idea who killed Wanda, I think this series is leading to the revelation that Wanda (and Pietro) are actually mutants after all, and are Magneto’s children. It’s a retcon that needs undoing, particularly as it was only done because Fox had the rights to all the mutants…
This is great stuff, which effectively explores how grief effects people. This is partly why I’m sure Magneto didn’t do it, he’s clearly grieving here and doesn’t seem like a man with a guilty conscience to me…despite everyone around him interpreting his actions in this way. The book, surprisingly, also explores grief from the perspective of the deceased. After all, the deceased is no normal woman…she’s the Scarlet Witch. She once rewrote all of reality. So thinking she could be choked to death seems a little naïve.
The art is also superb, which we’ve largely come to expect from the current X-line. When the X-books are good at the moment they are simply the best of modern super-hero comics and this is no exception.
Also, if you enjoyed Leah Williams’ X-Factor run and were sorry to see it come to what felt like a premature end, you’ll enjoy this, as it’s very much a continuation of that book.
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Why don’t I think Magneto killed Wanda? Because that’s the obvious, simple answer, and the one that X-Factor have reached by the end of #1. Therefore, it must be wrong, else what’s the point of this series? A mystery with an obvious solution is no mystery at all. Personally, while I have no idea who killed Wanda, I think this series is leading to the revelation that Wanda (and Pietro) are actually mutants after all, and are Magneto’s children. It’s a retcon that needs undoing, particularly as it was only done because Fox had the rights to all the mutants…
This is great stuff, which effectively explores how grief effects people. This is partly why I’m sure Magneto didn’t do it, he’s clearly grieving here and doesn’t seem like a man with a guilty conscience to me…despite everyone around him interpreting his actions in this way. The book, surprisingly, also explores grief from the perspective of the deceased. After all, the deceased is no normal woman…she’s the Scarlet Witch. She once rewrote all of reality. So thinking she could be choked to death seems a little naïve.
The art is also superb, which we’ve largely come to expect from the current X-line. When the X-books are good at the moment they are simply the best of modern super-hero comics and this is no exception.
Also, if you enjoyed Leah Williams’ X-Factor run and were sorry to see it come to what felt like a premature end, you’ll enjoy this, as it’s very much a continuation of that book.
Get early access to all my reviews and read them a week before everyone else over on my Patreon!
August 23, 2021
16 of 16, up to date, think I may so something similar going forward.
So... Wanda isn't dead, or is she? The last few panels confused me a bit but I guess it doesn't matter as if she is "dead" she'll be alive again at some point when Marvel get bored.
The issue was pretty good. I've never really had any affinity for Scarlett Witch so her death didn't really bother me and I probably missed on the emotional side they were trying to sell.
Good art, good pacing, logical story line and we'll written with a nice mix of action and the rest. Made me realise I miss x-factor which ended up an above average title (despite the bad ending)
It all just seems too logical and obvious that it's Magneto so it probably won't be. Let's see where it goes though.
I particularly enjoyed Daken nailing Magneto, for as long as it lasted anyway!
So... Wanda isn't dead, or is she? The last few panels confused me a bit but I guess it doesn't matter as if she is "dead" she'll be alive again at some point when Marvel get bored.
The issue was pretty good. I've never really had any affinity for Scarlett Witch so her death didn't really bother me and I probably missed on the emotional side they were trying to sell.
Good art, good pacing, logical story line and we'll written with a nice mix of action and the rest. Made me realise I miss x-factor which ended up an above average title (despite the bad ending)
It all just seems too logical and obvious that it's Magneto so it probably won't be. Let's see where it goes though.
I particularly enjoyed Daken nailing Magneto, for as long as it lasted anyway!
August 28, 2021
The story is intriguing enough for me to want to know what happens next. Honestly I’m reading this since it has something to do with Scarlet Witch. I like the art of Scarlet Witch here with the flowers. But I feel like the conflict happened so quickly, I understand why Magneto is mad because of the accusation, but couldn’t he just prove himself that he’s not? Can’t someone read his mind or something.
Anyways can’t wait for the next issue.
Anyways can’t wait for the next issue.
January 2, 2022
Although I was surprised by this one, I was kinda expecting more. The conflict feels a little old and the resolution looks like something predictable, that we've seen before. Scarlett Witch is dead and they're blaming Magneto, who is his father (According to my memory). Others are doubting but the evidence is there and a trial is necessary. Was he guilty? Is she truly dead? We'll see
August 18, 2021
This was a very emotional issue, it has my favorite character's death and the last slides were amazing. I love how they explain grief just like in wandavision, it gives you the true meaning behind grieving a loved one and I think that's beautiful...I teared up in the end.
July 23, 2022
Beautiful. Both the artwork and th he way the story is being told are beautiful. Grief from so many. Magneto the crap-dad. Wolverine is showing he's finally learned that he can't take Magneto on. Every piece fits perfectly.
August 10, 2022
Well that was unexpected. Started off pretty good and that ending was nice. But that middle with the fight? Eh. Was shocking that Erik fought. He knew he was innocent and had telepaths to verify that fact. Why fight? And why would the teams come to him so aggressive. 🤦🏾♂️ didn’t make sense.
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August 19, 2021WHAT *vibrating at the like normal frequency like whatever no big deal gimmegimmegimme*
September 30, 2021
Everyone assumes that Eric was just waiting for the moment to kill Wanda. Like that isn't going to end badly.
December 25, 2021
A murder mystery? A secret motive to kill? More than one hater that wanted her dead?
I can’t wait to read the next number
I can’t wait to read the next number
January 27, 2023
Scarlet Witch, of course it’s a five star ✨
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