X-MEN MAGNETO TESTAMENT #5 (OF 5)
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I love this book and am eagerly looking forward to its certain collection. Magneto Testament is probably one of the best books Marvel has produced in some time. This book can be read without having any knowledge or indeed interest in Magneto to appreciate this work. Indeed, I think it works better for being somewhat divorced from the character that we know as Magneto. This is the story of a boy named Max, of his family and people and how they died all around him. You see his determination to save this one girl, someone he hasn't seen for years. Just a little girl he'd had a crush on as a child. It's terrible and beautiful all at once. He values survival over all and is determined that she will survive (after all he was willing to die before he saw her). And if he had to trade a bit of gold he dug out of dead man's body, so be it. You see things in this boy that are pivotal to the person he becomes latter.
I've always referred to this a my "I hate humans" book. After reading each issue I felt an overwhelming disgust towards my species and what we're capable of doing to each other. And if the tone does occasionally shift to something a little academic, I think it can be forgiven. It's something that has been occurring throughout the series and I see it as simply another part of the storytelling. And it's totally appropriate. You quite often forget that this is supposed to be the backstory of a superpowered villain. It seems quite real and the backup story (about Dina's paintings) oddly fosters that sense of reality. I was in tears after I finished. Testament is not a book to be enjoyed (indeed I've never seen anyone say that they did) but it's definitely something to be appreciated and admired.
Story: 5 - Excellent
Art: 4 - Very Good
Art: 4 - Very Good
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