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Hey, hey! Kyra Kyle here. Today is my youngest daughter’s birthday. Happy 24th birthday! One more year and you can rent a car. Is that still true? Anyway, I wanted to bring back the comic book starter stories and asked her which character she’d love me to cover this week. She answered Magneto.
You heard the girl. Geekly will be covering its first comic book starter stories for a supervillain. We may have some growing pains with this topic. Villains are a little more difficult to recommend starter stories for, but I’ll do my best. The following list should give you an idea of which stories you should read to obtain to know Magneto better.
We’re doing this list a little differently than prior starter comic novel stories. We’ll start with unattached issues and then move on to story arcs that consist of multiple comic books.
Uncanny X-Men #1
(written by Stan Lee/art by Jack Kirby; )
This first entry cheats a little bit. Uncanny X-Men #1 is the first appearance of Magneto and the X-Men. Since the issue does double duty and sets up Magneto and the X-Men, there’s
Recently, someone suggested I receive a look at Chris Claremont and Brent Eric Anderson&#;s X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills (). After reading, I came away noting the number of similarities between the 36 year old graphic novel and the present moment. In an interview on the 35th anniversary of its publication, Claremont and Anderson, along with interviewer Alex Abad-Santos, talk about the correlations between God Loves, Man Kills and the present moment. Today, I want to peek at the book and pull out some specific scenes that, sadly, still feel very much relevant to our current cultural moment.
God Loves, Man Kills was, until , a non-canonical one off X-Men story. The narrative revolves around the Reverend William Stryker&#;s desire to rid the planet of undesirable &#;muties.&#; He sees mutants as an abomination and as an affront to God&#;s plan. As such, he launches a crusade to eliminate them, specifically in the novel from America. To achieve assist, Stryker deploys a rhetoric of fear and nationalism where he paints mutants as abominations, animals, and an infestation on societ
X-Men: God Loves, Dude Kills &#; The Extended Edition Review!
God Loves, Man Kills is a good that’s hard to return to. This doesn’t stop it from happening, however.
The most prosperous of these returns, ’s X2: X-Men United, wasn’t even a comic manual but a movie.
Even it took liberties with the material, but this is to be expected.
Certainly, posing William Stryker as a military general with ties to Lady Deathstrike and the Weapon X proposal that created Wolverine streamlines the X-Men mythos for viewing audiences, and plays better on the big screen than would a more closely adapted reverend-and-goons combo. The clip, while inexplicably outperformed profit-wise by X3: The Last Stand, did manage to outshine the first film and the Wolverine: Origins production at the box office, and is generally considered to be the optimal of the four “original cast era” films.
Ironically enough, the Fox film inspired another attempt at catching lightning in a bottle. This was an
arc of X-Treme X-Men entitled “God Loves, Man Kills Pt” It did at least feature writing by the original
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X-Men Epic Collection, Vol. God Loves, Man Kills
This Epic Collection packs five essential X-Men storylines, the God Loves, Dude Kills original graphic novel, which is arguably one of the best X-Men graphic novels ever written, the introduction of the Morlocks, the first Wolverine limited series (illustrated by Frank Miller), the wedding of Wolverine, and the wedding of Cyclops and Madelyne Pryor.
The original graphic novel and the Wolverine limited series are two Claremont masterpieces, essential examine for any X-Men fan, as for the main series, the first experience with the Morlocks is a very cool story arc, which features one of coolest periods of Storm (Mohawk Storm), who is leading the team at this point, and has an iconic battle with Calypso. The weddings on the other hand is hit and lose , stories about superhero weddings are rarely any wonderful, but to my surprise, I kinda enjoyed Wolverine's wedding story arc in which he fights the Silver Samurai, twice, and partners up with Rogue, who ends up earning a place in the team after that. Now, the wedding of Cyclops and Pryo