r/xmen • u/VengefulKangaroo Shatterstar • Apr 10 '24

Weekly Discussion X-Men Comics New Releases for April 10, 2024

Ultimate X-Men #2

  • THE ULTIMATE X-MEN GO BACK TO SCHOOL! High school, that is! It's a new school year for Hisako as she tries to get a grasp on her new powers… Where she meets a cool, white-haired punk girl named Mei (A.K.A. Maystorm), who understands all too well the challenge Hisako faces. And they team up to embark on a creepy adventure to learn who is behind the creepy shadow that has been haunting — and taunting — them!

Ms. Marvel: Mutant Menace #2

  • THE (IN)FAMOUS X-MAN! Now that Kamala is very notably and very publicly an X-Man, she is attracting all sorts of attention…and you know who uses attention as currency? That's right — it's the return of the X-Men's old media mogul mastermind — MOJO!

Resurrection of Magneto #4

  • RETURN OF THE KING! The Master of Magnetism has returned to the world… but it is not the world he left. Nor is Magneto the same man who left it. Has death changed him for the better, or for the worse? And when he sees what ORCHIS has done to mutantkind… will it change him again?

Wolverine #47

  • SAVAGE ESCAPE! LAURA KINNEY must escape the clutches of the SAVAGE SABRETOOTH! Will VICTOR CREED'S WEAPON spell the end for LOGAN? LEGACY #389

The Invincible Iron Man #17

  • Iron Man is mutantkind's last hope! Tony Stark's greatest accomplishment may have just become the world's most advanced coffin. Trapped within a deactivated armor, Tony must face down his demons and his legacy. Can Iron Man escape, or will mutantkind's hopes die along with him? LEGACY #667

X-Men '97 #2

  • SABRETOOTH STRIKES! …and he's not the only threat the X-Men are facing! As Jean Grey and Cyclops prepare to embark on a bold new adventure, a sinister foe makes his move from the shadows, unleashing a torrent of new terror. Can an old friend turn the tide — or will it be too late to save Wolverine from being ripped to shreds?!

Weapon X-Men #2

  • ONE HAPPY WOLVERINE! Across almost every universe in existence, Wolverine is driven by pain, by the sins of his past and his future. But in one world — the very one that Onslaught has targeted next for annihilation — has a Wolverine unlike any other. A Wolverine… who got what he wanted. And for the Logan from Earth-X? That news just might be the claw in the coffin. The Phoenix's handpicked Band of Logans go to war!

Related & Unlimited Releases for 4/10

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u/VengefulKangaroo Shatterstar Apr 10 '24

Resurrection of Magneto #4

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u/ajdragoon Nightcrawler Apr 10 '24

Ok, so the new X-office can’t just ignore this, right? We’re gonna have a new status quo where Magneto has finally completed his hero arc? Because this mini has been gorgeous and should be consequential; it would be a crime to handwave it all away.

Love Mags deciding he’s neither strictly black helmet or white helmet, but a him helmet, which means he’ll do what makes sense (even if it means making a bunch of fresh orchis balls). This is a changed man, folks.

Also: “To me, my friends.” He’s speaking to them as equals. Even goes as far as forming a human-mutant circuit. “To save one life is to save the world.” Gah! I love it!

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u/azorahainess Apr 10 '24

Well he is on MacKay's X-Men team, so he will at least start the new era in the hero camp.

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u/ajdragoon Nightcrawler Apr 10 '24

Oh this is good to hear.

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u/Kingnimrod212 Apr 10 '24

In a wheelchair and beard 

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u/NuttyMetallic Gambit Apr 10 '24

I've thought of him as a hero since the Utopia days when he joined the X-Men team. Seems mostly chill and good in recent years to me. Plus all the cool stuff back in the 80s etc. 

Agreed Magneto should be a good guy on the team, it's silly when they want to re-tread the villain days.

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u/Ystlum Apr 10 '24

To be fair the comic also alludes to the idea that this Brand New Him isn't unbreakable and that he could fall back to old ways without effort. He's not changed so radically from his death, just become more conscientious.

If anything though that's probably more solid ground going forwards. Not addressing character flaws is ripe for writers to draw a downfall story out. Still even he notes in this comic that despite his guilt for walking away from Xavier and ignoring cracks, he's still avoiding him. I'm also curious how his reunion with Idie will go down and if he'll try to address the Pit.

All said public perception leans more and more into recognising Magneto as an anti-hero, so it should be safe for a while.

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u/uninspiredalias Apr 12 '24

Drives me crazy every time they do that to Juggernaut too. But, "it's comics", everything is cyclical, yada yada.

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u/TheBrobe Apr 16 '24

Juggernaut for the most part has been fine because he's goon level. For him reverting, it's very much that blue collar spider-man villain "the world won't give me a shot so I'll knock over a bank" kind of way. Always one conversation away from being able to join a super team again.

Magneto reverts and we get a genocide.

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u/AngelEyes360 Askani Apr 10 '24

Overall this was a really strong mini. It had some excellent character work for Magneto yes but also a lot for Storm. Especially in an era that was very plot driven and with X-Men Red being more action/plot based so we never really got to see some introspection for Ororo. Which I think was needed, especially with all the talk about her character in Red.

The Magneto narration of this was excellent. Probably my favourite part. He's clearly not a full blown villain but he's also not going to be a full blown hero too. He'll be himself and he'll do whatever he thinks he needs to do.

My least favourite part was the fight scenes. They weren't bad per say but after 22 issues of feats, lightning bolts, talk about Omegas, monologues in general etc etc, it's the same thing so I'm a little bored. They looked good but at this point I just went "ah. that's nice." rather than "woah!!!" or "sick!!!" The Magneto-Storm-Blue Marvel circuit was a cool visual though.

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u/ajdragoon Nightcrawler Apr 10 '24

See, I think he’s gonna be a hero, but a hero doesn’t have to be the guy who always wears the metaphorical white helmet. He makes tennis balls out of the orichis goons not out of evil, but out of an actual greater good (they’re fascists who set up a death trap for innocents). Note how he says he wants to remember their names: he may have had to kill them, but he still recognizes them as individuals, as opposed to pieces of meat to be torn through.

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u/ARTIFICIAL_SAPIENCE Apocalypse Apr 10 '24

I thought the remember their names bit was how he was risking the hostages. If he failed, they'd die, and he'd remember them.

It's far darker than you're thinking. It's Xavier's choice. The bad guy takes hostages. The hero won't risk them and surrenders.  

Magneto chooses the other option. He's willing to tread the line and risk everything.

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u/EuphemiaTyranda Cypher Apr 10 '24

I think it harkens back to the wall of names we saw back in #2, of all the people whose death he has caused.

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u/trawlse Apr 10 '24

I agree. The goons offered him a choice of you kill us or we kill you, but his thought process was only about saving the prisoners. If either of the two sides with power in the situation died, he was willing to accept that.

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u/lepton_neutrino Apr 11 '24

At least the Stark Sentinels were presented as a real threat, instead of Ms. Marvel taking them out.

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u/1204Sparta Apr 10 '24

Ewing is consistently terrible with lengthy action so this is a fair complaint. In fact, I’m convinced his Guardians run with great action was due to letting the artist cook.

He always loves oversized monsters as well

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u/Blitzhelios Magik Apr 10 '24

Overall i think this finale to ewings work ended on a strong note with a very much character focused book rather than the classic ewing plot before character style and it showed off the more human side of both storm and magneto which was always my big issue of x men red.

Ewing does a good job showing that magneto will always be a shade of grey he could be a hero but his own character is what will truly hold him back and demonstrating it with him not picking the white or black helmet representing good and evil. Instead going with the classic that represents his way and everyone around him

The circuit with storm and blue marvel is fun but also hilarious as anyone who has read ewings work knows he loves two characters in particular blue marvel and nova so he gave them both shine in his series in red and now blue in RoM.

Overall its a very good issue i do think ewing is still bad at doing long fight scenes but the art is very good and ewing ends it with a good connection to the rest of the books. This series is probably the best ewing work in x men since sword in my opinion.

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u/Built4dominance Storm Apr 10 '24

Overall loved it and loved this miniseries in general. #3 was by far the strongest issue IMO.

My only complaint is that the X-office can't decide how strong these Stark Sentinels are supposed to be.

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u/ajdragoon Nightcrawler Apr 10 '24

It’s really distracting. The sentinels were hyped as the ultimate mutant killers, which should make them terrifying.. But their power levels have varied from being a standard bag of bolts that a few Avengers can make quick work of, to a monster requiring two Omegas+ to even begin to damage. And didn’t Ms Marvel take one out on her own? Power as the story needs.

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u/EiichiroTarantino Apr 10 '24

The sentinels are as strong as the writer's allegorical/symbolic needs for the story.

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u/JackFisherBooks Phoenix Apr 10 '24

Magneto beat up a Stark Sentinel with giant fists he forged from scrap metal.

What more could you possibly want in an X-Men comic? 😊

But seriously, this was a perfect complement to what happened today in X-Men 97. Magneto is back. He's pissed off. And he's on a rampage against Orchis. It was overdue and much deserved. Such a satisfyingly issue. Definitely one of Magneto's best moments.

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u/DeltaTester Cypher Apr 10 '24

When were they scheduled to, exactly? Where are you getting this?

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u/fermentedradical Wolverine Apr 11 '24

This might be one of my fave books of the Krakoa era. Just really masterful stuff.

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u/shineurliteonme Cyclops Apr 11 '24

Crazy how nobody noticed the typo on the last page lmfao

Ewing accidentally wrote Let's go Instead of LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOO

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u/wowlock_taylan Apr 10 '24

Damn, Magneto made his entrance known. Literally crushing those goons in their own suits, strong way to choose the 'red' helmet. All the while actually thinking through his decisions and what their impact is gonna be. Though I find it kinda ironic that Between all three colors of helmets, he finds the red one to be the 'balance' one, where it is the one he is most known as a villain. Lets see how long this new outlook of his will last with the relaunch.

Stark Sentinels continue to be just like Mysterium, being the 'ultimate weapons' or being literal jokes depending on the situation. I get it that it was for the cool Human/mutant circuit moment but still, all that to deal with just one sentinel? It really stretches the suspension of disbelief sometimes. Still a cool moment, don't get me wrong.

Well, I guess my question about how Magneto learned about Tony Stark being Emma's husband got answered here.

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u/Landon1195 Apr 11 '24

Great issue. Really loved this mini series.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '24

I loved it. I love Magneto. I wish it was Ewing and Gillen writing the big flagship finale instead of the Gillen-Duggan tandem.