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Two things - 1) This whole Wolverine change of look has caused some consternation among the fanboys, on their fanboy sites, which I now moderate at. Thus I am a proper fanboy (read, if you so desire, from Alex' post down.) P.S. I'm the chump with the Quimper avatar.
2) Here's what Chuck 'hack?' Austen had to say about Magneto's 'return' at X-Fan: I will never bring back Magneto, no matter what happens with my sales. I like the idea that dead is dead, from a creative and storytelling standpoint. But from a marketing standpoint, Marvel's lost a big draw. You should see the faces of people at conventions when you tell them Magneto ain't coming back. They're crushed. Jill can tell you the reaction at Toronto when that gentlemen heard Magneto was dead. People love a good villain.
But look, I agree with Grant in keeping Magneto dead for creative reasons. Not because I think Magneto should stay dead forever, but because Magneto was overused constantly for many years, and that's the main reason he's staying dead. To force people to CREATE, and stop REHASHING. People with a lack of imagination kept bringing him back and destroying the specialness of his power and character. I love the new stuff Grant's created much more (Fantomex is brilliant!), and some of the other things that have appeared in other people's books because they haven't had Magneto and Sinister and the Brotherhood to fall back on every other month.
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