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The fifth piece is actually more rational and while it doesn't backtrack over previous statements, tries to contextualize them nicely as speculation and not statement.
I still don't see Morrison's antisemitism rising up through 'Planet X', however.
I think Magneto was, in that story, pathetic in the best ways, not quite sympathetic, but perhaps, er, empathetic. Magneto is not, to my seeing, 'right in many ways' but instead, vigorously and eloquently wrong. He is also, and this is fundamental to Morrison's whole run, old. He must be excised, just as Xavier must either be excised or leave of his own choice. Because we all wanted Xorn, we wanted to make excuses for Xorn, and we don't all or even many, want to make excuses for Magneto.
I actually think Morrion's intent with many corporate comics he has taken on, is quite in line with what Paty Cockrum is championing, here. Pull out the old characters, shine them up, make them hip and exciting and new, and let them have a moment or two in the sun. The methods differ, but the intent... villains have to do bad things, or they cease to be villains and then they have no place in the dichotomy. Magneto abandons every chance for salvation he has; it's what he does. From teaching the New Mutants to running his own religion, he fucks it up because he's full of rage and hate and petty spite and big ol' ego. And he likes sinking Russian submarines and twisting Manhattan into a giant spiderwebby installation before delivering cod-Shakespearean speeches. It's what he does. So why not have him do it bigger, better, and louder than before? And then cut off his head and give him some breathing room before someone resurrects him for another battle against the X-Men? |
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