The more I think about it, sleazenation, the more I think you should expect the former, and not the latter which i agree would be completely anticlimactic and undeniably what I think we are all fearing: the discrediting of all that Morrison has given to this book and to the X Men in general with his run.
Seemingly, Morrison's motivations for killing Magneto in the first place way back in 115 were exactly what the character needed, but what no one was willing to admit: have these characters, this CONCEPT take the next step in its own evolution, and find out what the world is like when Xavier gets his chance, and gives "The Dream" its next breath. But of course it would be a waste for the brilliance of character, metaphor and analagy that is Erik Lensherr to simply go quietly into the night. I find Quicksilver's comment in 132 to be reflexive of that: "I believe my father's greatest trick is to be more dangerous dead than alive".
And so the general assumption is that while he IS dead, as a martyr the character lives on and continues to be the intricately complex and multifariously dynamic juxtaposition to the essence of Xavier's dream that Magneto has always been... though now, ironically, Magnus's role in that sense is given new life.
Now it's discovered he's still alive. More than that he's posed as a character which has served as perhaps one of the foremost representations of Xavierism (if u will), and now we see that he's pulled the rug out from all. How deep the deception is remains to be seem, though I sincerely hope he was not involved in the destruction of Genosha as that would seem DEEPLY out of character for him.
My point is (sorry it took so long) that is Morrison has all the foresight and imagination to which we have thus far credited him, I can see now that he's done all this with reason... if we all believed the death of Magneto to be what was best for the character, no doubt he saw as much too, only perhaps he saw more. One last story, to do Magnus the justice as a master manipulator, as despotic ruler, as the archetype of his cause that he could forever be defined by.
So I'm hoping.... |
