Writer: Greg Pak
Artist: Carmine Di Giandomenico
[ 3.6 ]
Feat: Magneto
Issues: 5
X-Men Origins: Magneto: The first 5 minutes we never got.
Published 2009
This is a tough one to give a review. It reads like Life is Beautiful without the humor and because of that, provides a very real-feeling story of a first-person account of the Holocaust (in case you never saw the X-Men movies, Magneto went through the Holocaust). It also provides statistics in relevant scenes to show you how common this kind of experience was at the time for his people.
On the other hand, it doesn’t really work as a Magneto story. It doesn’t add anything to his motivations that “Hey, that’s Magneto, he went through the Holocaust” doesn’t add. It only shows his powers subtly, in ways that could be easily explained as being “athletic” or “lucky” could in any other story.
If all this one was trying to do was tell a Holocaust story, it would be an easy 8/10 at minimum. But it is meant to serve as a Magneto backstory, and as a Magneto backstory it earns a 3.6. Go read Maus first, if you still want more perspective, then come back and read this.
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