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In which the first Magneto miniseries is actually a Joseph miniseries; Magneto lost a lot of nuance in the ‘90s; Fabian Cortez is friend to neither man nor bird; Joseph finds his inner supervillain; Marvel’s United Nations is unusually heavily armed; and bears are much cooler than guns.

X-PLAINED:

• Magneto (again)
• The Acolytes (again)
• Joseph (again)
• Magneto #1-4
• Amelia Voght (again)
• Religious statuary
• Razors
• New Avalon
• Magneto’s voice
• How not to make a point
• Armstrong
• A Trask who may or may not be Simon
• Weird torture
• Peonies
• A big, silly fight
• Happy X-Men comics featuring Wolverine
• The many nexuses of reality

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