Show Notes
Illustration by David Wynne In which we remain frustrated with Morrison’s Magneto; Esme Cuckoo’s hat game is lacking; and the status quo dies with Jean Grey.
X-PLAINED:
Dubious X-relationships
Some excellent songs from an excellent show
New X-Men #149-150
Various atrocities and catastrophes
The resistance, such as it is
Magneto’s limits
A rebirth
Neutron warheads
The cavalry
Yet another death of Magneto
Yet another death of Jean Grey
A peculiar epilogue
A legacy of retcons
A miasma of bleakness and futility
The Xorn retcon
Disability in “Planet X”
Miracles of Magnetism
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