It's an increadible Holocaust story. It's shaking and amazing and overwhelming at times in the emotional power of it. It is brilliantly written. It carries the shock of that time without going so far as to disconnect the reader. The characters are beautifully depicted, hopeful and foolish and fighting odds they just can't fight and don't want to. The story is both horrifying and compelling. That is what they were shooting for and they hit the bullseye.
But it isn't an X-Men story; it isn't a Magneto story. I want to see Erik (sorry Max) strike back, perhaps drunk with his own new-found undefeatability. And that's the disconnect I can't make with this book. I see tanks rolling towards Magneto and expect him to crush them, or float them, or turn them into avant garde sculptures because that's what Magneto does.
September 4, 2008 2:01 pm It was in both of the shops I went to today, the one I subscribe through and one I dropped into, because I'd forgotten to pick up a long box and I needed one.
September 4, 2008 1:59 pm I stopped reading comics after Inferno just because they took her out of the action. I'm really looking forward to her return. That said, $3.99 is insane for reprints.
It's an increadible Holocaust story. It's shaking and amazing and overwhelming at times in the emotional power of it. It is brilliantly written. It carries the shock of that time without going so far as to disconnect the reader. The characters are beautifully depicted, hopeful and foolish and fighting odds they just can't fight and don't want to. The story is both horrifying and compelling. That is what they were shooting for and they hit the bullseye.
But it isn't an X-Men story; it isn't a Magneto story. I want to see Erik (sorry Max) strike back, perhaps drunk with his own new-found undefeatability. And that's the disconnect I can't make with this book. I see tanks rolling towards Magneto and expect him to crush them, or float them, or turn them into avant garde sculptures because that's what Magneto does.