Back To Life

WHILE BRINGING a character back from the dead almost became an everyday occurrence for the Merry Mutants during the Krakoan Age, due to their Resurrection Protocols, Magneto didn’t have that option after he perished in X-Men Red issue seven during 2022’s Avengers X-Men Eternals: Judgment Day crossover.

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But now the Master of Magnetism is making a comeback in a new four-issue miniseries, which sees him emerge into a muchchanged world after the events of Fall Of X.

“Making Magneto’s death meaningful – so meaningful that readers didn’t want him to return – was a tricky proposition,” says writer Al Ewing, who is joined on the title by artist Luciano Vecchio. “So I was pleased that we managed to pull it off, as even in an era where X-deaths were deliberately casual, Magneto’s final moments didn’t leave a dry eye in the house.”

DEAD HARD

Ewing maintains that Magneto’s sacrifice was necessary if Judgment Day was to have a real impact. “If we were putting Planet Arakko through the wringer, we had to reflect that in a way that