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X-Men: The Trial of Magneto
X-Men: il Processo di Magneto #2
• Ormai dovreste saperlo: Scarlet è stata rinvenuta morta al termine del Gala Infernale, e tutti gli indizi suggeriscono un omicidio che porta a Magneto!
• Il Signore del Magnetismo ovviamente nega, ma…
• …come la prenderanno gli Avengers, giunti a reclamare il corpo di Wanda?
• In appendice, una storia con Prodigy e uno dei figli di Scarlet: Speed!
Contiene: X-Men: The Trial of Magneto (2021) #2, Marvel’s Voices: Pride (2021) #1 (VII)
• Il Signore del Magnetismo ovviamente nega, ma…
• …come la prenderanno gli Avengers, giunti a reclamare il corpo di Wanda?
• In appendice, una storia con Prodigy e uno dei figli di Scarlet: Speed!
Contiene: X-Men: The Trial of Magneto (2021) #2, Marvel’s Voices: Pride (2021) #1 (VII)
32 pages, Paperback
First published September 15, 2021
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Leah Williams
242 books207 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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February 5, 2022
With the murder victim's history, the Avengers get involved. Now, it's a legit event. Still no trial though, just Magneto resisting arrest.
September 26, 2021
Alcune cose sono oggettivamente ridicole.
Tipo che i telepati potentissimi presenti sull'isola non possano estrarre le informazioni necessarie dalla mente di Magneto. O l'intera gestione dell'arrivo dei Vendicatori sull'isola, con giro turistico e chiacchiere assortite, quando sono arrivati in lutto per Wanda e poi sembrano essersene subito dimenticati.
Altre possono essere intriganti, e spero vengano chiarite: la mossa di Hope (legata immagino al gran finale, ma perché tutto ciò?), Mystica che spia il tutto nascosta sullo sfondo, l'elmetto di Erik, la Wanda che compare all'inizio.
Se il tutto riceverà un'adeguata spiegazione, questa miniserie sarà positiva. Altrimenti, con i vari comportamenti senza senso che si sono visti, ennessimo meh.
Tipo che i telepati potentissimi presenti sull'isola non possano estrarre le informazioni necessarie dalla mente di Magneto. O l'intera gestione dell'arrivo dei Vendicatori sull'isola, con giro turistico e chiacchiere assortite, quando sono arrivati in lutto per Wanda e poi sembrano essersene subito dimenticati.
Altre possono essere intriganti, e spero vengano chiarite: la mossa di Hope (legata immagino al gran finale, ma perché tutto ciò?), Mystica che spia il tutto nascosta sullo sfondo, l'elmetto di Erik, la Wanda che compare all'inizio.
Se il tutto riceverà un'adeguata spiegazione, questa miniserie sarà positiva. Altrimenti, con i vari comportamenti senza senso che si sono visti, ennessimo meh.
September 19, 2021
I don't know. A little weaker than last issue.
The Avengers show up to retrieve Wanda's body. This is fairly logical. The fact that the Avengers present include Quicksilver and Vision makes the most sense of all-- as her twin brother and (ex?)-husband, respectively.
But there are two major logical problems for me.
1) It makes no sense that characters are acting like it is so difficult for telepaths to just look up one recent memory in Magneto's mind. Telepaths have done that sort of thing many times before. Xavier, Jean, Rachel, Emma, Betsy, Cuckoos, Cable, Monet, Kwannon, and Quentin Quire, all should be perfectly capable of doing this. But, instead, we had this bizarre exchange between Xavier and Hope where Hope accuses Xavier of "torturing" Magneto with some convoluted telepathic illusion.
WTF?
Just dive in and look around. While I can reluctantly agree that some mutants have been known to have natural resistance to telepathic intrusion (Mystique and Storm both, for example), any natural resistance Magneto has should not be able to stand up to the top 20 most skilled telepaths in the world. Or even Rogue could easily take care of this problem. She could just kiss Magneto while he sleeps and download the info; she has done it before. This is clearly a contrived problem to add some sense of suspense to the plot. Can't have a comic about an investigation if there is no investigation.
2) The Wasp shows up with the Avengers for Wanda's body. On the surface this is expected and normal. She has been a teammate of Wanda's for decades. The women have been portrayed as friends many, many times. However, we had the uncomfortable situation of the Wasp standing around with Cyclops, Jean, and Polaris, and no one commented upon the elephant in the room. Havok had married the Wasp and had a daughter with her in a bizarre time travel incident, resulting in their daughter possibly ceasing to exist. So we have the Wasp interacting with her brother-in-law and his wife, as well as her ex-husband's ex-girlfriend, and there is no conversation amongst these people that they're aware of their strained connections with each other.
Hell, it's ridiculous that Havok hasn't already marched up to Xavier and demanded to know, "Do you have backups of my daughter Katie?" I'm not saying that Xavier definitely would. That whole storyline took place in a weird world/future, so Xavier could believably say he didn't have access to Katie's mind. Or he could say that Katie definitively didn't have an X-gene, even though last time we saw her she was probably too young for us to know for sure. But still, as a parent, I know that that would be my top priority. "Can I see my child again?"
The Avengers show up to retrieve Wanda's body. This is fairly logical. The fact that the Avengers present include Quicksilver and Vision makes the most sense of all-- as her twin brother and (ex?)-husband, respectively.
But there are two major logical problems for me.
1) It makes no sense that characters are acting like it is so difficult for telepaths to just look up one recent memory in Magneto's mind. Telepaths have done that sort of thing many times before. Xavier, Jean, Rachel, Emma, Betsy, Cuckoos, Cable, Monet, Kwannon, and Quentin Quire, all should be perfectly capable of doing this. But, instead, we had this bizarre exchange between Xavier and Hope where Hope accuses Xavier of "torturing" Magneto with some convoluted telepathic illusion.
WTF?
Just dive in and look around. While I can reluctantly agree that some mutants have been known to have natural resistance to telepathic intrusion (Mystique and Storm both, for example), any natural resistance Magneto has should not be able to stand up to the top 20 most skilled telepaths in the world. Or even Rogue could easily take care of this problem. She could just kiss Magneto while he sleeps and download the info; she has done it before. This is clearly a contrived problem to add some sense of suspense to the plot. Can't have a comic about an investigation if there is no investigation.
2) The Wasp shows up with the Avengers for Wanda's body. On the surface this is expected and normal. She has been a teammate of Wanda's for decades. The women have been portrayed as friends many, many times. However, we had the uncomfortable situation of the Wasp standing around with Cyclops, Jean, and Polaris, and no one commented upon the elephant in the room. Havok had married the Wasp and had a daughter with her in a bizarre time travel incident, resulting in their daughter possibly ceasing to exist. So we have the Wasp interacting with her brother-in-law and his wife, as well as her ex-husband's ex-girlfriend, and there is no conversation amongst these people that they're aware of their strained connections with each other.
Hell, it's ridiculous that Havok hasn't already marched up to Xavier and demanded to know, "Do you have backups of my daughter Katie?" I'm not saying that Xavier definitely would. That whole storyline took place in a weird world/future, so Xavier could believably say he didn't have access to Katie's mind. Or he could say that Katie definitively didn't have an X-gene, even though last time we saw her she was probably too young for us to know for sure. But still, as a parent, I know that that would be my top priority. "Can I see my child again?"
September 27, 2021
Magneto's bare tiddies = 🌟
Emma Frost & Cuckoos = 🌟
Three Wolverines all together = 🌟
Lorna Dane, PhD = 🌟
Intriguing plot development, will refrain from commenting until more comes up in next issue, and Werneck's artwork keeps getting better.
Emma Frost & Cuckoos = 🌟
Three Wolverines all together = 🌟
Lorna Dane, PhD = 🌟
Intriguing plot development, will refrain from commenting until more comes up in next issue, and Werneck's artwork keeps getting better.
September 17, 2021
I didn't expect to see her again so soon.
Love the artwork and how the different threads of the story weave seamlessly together. Hoping Leah Williams gets back on another ongoing title after this.
Love the artwork and how the different threads of the story weave seamlessly together. Hoping Leah Williams gets back on another ongoing title after this.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 28, 2021
Confused? You will be. But that’s entirely the point this issue, as the plot doesn’t so much thicken as become elastic and twisted.
I said in my review of #1 that I don’t believe that Magneto killed Wanda and I don’t believe she’s actually dead. I’m still convinced of both of these things…and not because Wanda appears to be alive at the end of this issue, because I’m not convinced that’s Wanda at all. And, also, yes…despite Magneto’s confession of guilt, I don’t think he did it. There’s a lot going on in this issue that’s happening just to distract the Avengers from the truth. That truth may well be that Wanda’s body is missing and they don’t know why.
What’s also curious is the clear and growing rift between the Five and the Quiet Council. The Five clearly seem to be of the opinion that they and they alone should decide who and who doesn’t get to be resurrected, and they’re willing to defy the Quiet Council’s decision regarding that. We’ve seen that in the pages of New Mutants and we are, perhaps, also seeing that here.
Also, if that is Wanda at the end, and no someone else pretending to be her, might she have been resurrected using an older back up? Not only from before M-Day but before she split up with The Vision? Beast was recently musing about this is the pages of X-Force, that if he died his friends might choose to resurrect an earlier Beast, a happier Beast…a less dark Beast…
Excellently written and beautifully illustrated, this series continues to draw me in, and I’m really looking forward to seeing where it goes.
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I said in my review of #1 that I don’t believe that Magneto killed Wanda and I don’t believe she’s actually dead. I’m still convinced of both of these things…and not because Wanda appears to be alive at the end of this issue, because I’m not convinced that’s Wanda at all. And, also, yes…despite Magneto’s confession of guilt, I don’t think he did it. There’s a lot going on in this issue that’s happening just to distract the Avengers from the truth. That truth may well be that Wanda’s body is missing and they don’t know why.
What’s also curious is the clear and growing rift between the Five and the Quiet Council. The Five clearly seem to be of the opinion that they and they alone should decide who and who doesn’t get to be resurrected, and they’re willing to defy the Quiet Council’s decision regarding that. We’ve seen that in the pages of New Mutants and we are, perhaps, also seeing that here.
Also, if that is Wanda at the end, and no someone else pretending to be her, might she have been resurrected using an older back up? Not only from before M-Day but before she split up with The Vision? Beast was recently musing about this is the pages of X-Force, that if he died his friends might choose to resurrect an earlier Beast, a happier Beast…a less dark Beast…
Excellently written and beautifully illustrated, this series continues to draw me in, and I’m really looking forward to seeing where it goes.
Get early access to all my reviews and read them a week before everyone else over on my Patreon!
October 23, 2021
I mean as utterly, utterly underwhelming and pointless Marvel has rendered deaths in the X universe this must stand up as record for how fast we've had a "major" death be turned around. New title for this arc "the minor inconvenience for the Scarlett Witch" I mean it would be more factually true.
There are hints at something deeper going on with Hope's actions and Mystique but I can't help but feel "blurgh" about the whole thing.
I remember thinking the resserection protocols were a potentially cool story prop? Turns out they aren't, there is no stakes involved in anything and probably won't be ever now they've shit canned moving Hickman's arc anywhere at all for an indefinite period.
I've said before I'm a completionist and I will feel I've wasted time and money by stopping now but I'm a hair trigger away from tossing the towel in and saving myself nigh on £40 a month as I've stopped enjoying it. I could have tolerated a quality dip if the story was going somewhere but we now know that will never happen so I've got to question the sanity of shelling out around £500 a year for an unenjoyable, unremarkable and staid series that the whole Krakoa era has become.
There are hints at something deeper going on with Hope's actions and Mystique but I can't help but feel "blurgh" about the whole thing.
I remember thinking the resserection protocols were a potentially cool story prop? Turns out they aren't, there is no stakes involved in anything and probably won't be ever now they've shit canned moving Hickman's arc anywhere at all for an indefinite period.
I've said before I'm a completionist and I will feel I've wasted time and money by stopping now but I'm a hair trigger away from tossing the towel in and saving myself nigh on £40 a month as I've stopped enjoying it. I could have tolerated a quality dip if the story was going somewhere but we now know that will never happen so I've got to question the sanity of shelling out around £500 a year for an unenjoyable, unremarkable and staid series that the whole Krakoa era has become.
July 23, 2022
What's going on?! Magic I assume. Doesn't matter. This is totally engrossing. And Quicksilver is gonna go nuts and I love it. Northstar coming to the defense of his husband and being willing to battle with the Avengers for him was so ...well heroic.
August 10, 2022
Well that was unexpected and why was Magnus wearing his old outfit? 🤷🏾♂️ don’t understand the end nor why Hope is helping Magnus cover up the body. Intrigue in the story but the execution leaves something to be desired.
May 21, 2025
"It's not the murder, Pietro. It's the grief bringing us together."
Thoughts?
Considering the Avengers are comprised of a military strategist, two geniuses and an advanced AI, maybe rushing the Mutant who controls metal wasn't the smartest idea?
Thoughts?
Considering the Avengers are comprised of a military strategist, two geniuses and an advanced AI, maybe rushing the Mutant who controls metal wasn't the smartest idea?
September 19, 2021
Beautifully written.
October 2, 2021
A badass battle between Magneto against the X-Men and the Avengers. But they're also not pretending the death is permanent, and it sets up an interesting turn for the series.
December 25, 2021
Quite a plot twist; but what kind of problem this will bring?
December 27, 2021
emma frost 🥴🥴🥴
April 3, 2022
Iron Man is so unbearable. Genuinely can't stand him at all.
April 17, 2022
Loved this one🔥.
August 8, 2022
Avengers, X-Men, Wanda being badass I need nothing more
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