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Dec 26, 2021
I don’t love this but I don’t hate it the way many of your seem to. Importantly, I can see where the importance of this in the overall Krakoan storyline and so I think maybe that’s why.
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Jan 02, 2022
Once again I'm very happy I didn't have the same experience as others reading this. I thought this was a fantastic ending to this story. I found this to be very moving and beautifully written and drawn. This was redemption with huge implications to krakoa. I for one loved this whole story and found the artwork to be amazing
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Jan 07, 2022
I liked this whole mini series.
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Apr 13, 2022
You know what? This was an enjoyable issue. It feels like Williams knew exactly how she wanted to end this series from the beginning (and I will say, it was actually quite a good concept), but it just felt like she had no idea how to connect the dots and get us to the desired ending smoothly. But at the end of the day, despite an extremely messy couple issues in the middle, this series managed to end strong. I really like Wanda's redemption here. And I finally get the title now! TRIAL of Magneto, but not that kind of trial. Clever clever. I still don't like it. This was a book about Wanda and the title should've been something more Wanda-centric. Making it about Magneto was misleading from the start and I think contributed to people's disap
pointed with what was delivered compared to what they expected. Overall, not a bad series in my opinion. Not a good one, but not a bad one. more
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Feb 07, 2022
I liked this. It fixes Scarlet Witch and makes Krakoa a little more palatable in the process. I don't really get the hate for this one.
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Dec 22, 2021
I can't believe I'm saying this but I... kind of liked this? I mean, the "mystery" is total bullshit and the title of the book is still disingenuous, but I felt like here Leah played to her only saving grace as a writer: her X-Men knowledge. She basically reverted Toad to the loyal servant of Magneto he was in the beginning of the X-Men. Toad has moved on from that, it's true, but it's also true that he's been receiving very little attention lately and as someone who likes Toad, I appreciated the spotlight he got here. I hope The Brotherhood gets back together in the Pit somehow, Sabretooth is already there, Orphan Maker and Nanny are there, too, there's potential for those characters to come back with a vengeance. I liked Magneto's charact
erization and I especially liked that Thunderbird came back. I'm also happy for Wanda getting some redemption and because she brought back all mutantkind her slate is clean now. There was a line that bothered me, though, coming from the Wasp. "We have no right to dictate krakoan approach to morality". Yeah, I call big bullshit on that one, coming from an Avenger. It was really dumb. But overall I liked this issue. more
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Dec 22, 2021
The ending wasn't as bad as I had expected. That's not to say it was good, but it could have been awful considering the first four. I give this issue a 7, but the story altogether is a generous 4.
The killer reveal was cheap and lacking in substance. We haven't seen much, if any, of Toad in Krakoa, so I was let down that he was nothing more than a fall guy. I said it before, but it also made X-Factor come across as inept and awful detectives. Watching Toad get sent to the pit really left a bad taste; Wanda's "redemption" seems dirty now, considering it was based on his sacrifice.
I did love seeing Thunderbird come back and I was happier still to see the Crucible get replaced. It always seemed too barbaric for Krakoa and with Apocolyp
es gone, I think it needed to fade away. more
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Dec 28, 2021
This whole series was a bit of a jumble of disparate ideas and it mostly comes together by the end. I think pretty much everything related to Wanda and the resurrection protocols really worked while the actual "trial" or whodunnit portion of the story, fell flat on its face.
Toad comes out of nowhere as the guilty party, and while you can kind of see why it works due to their Brotherhood connection, the reveal mostly lands with a thud. Especially with the further reveal that Wanda wanted all of this to happen so she could enhance the resurrection protocols. I wasn't particularly satisfied with the ending for Toad either, as he's really more of a hired gun in an assisted suicide rather than the cold, calculating murderer he was treated a
s by the Council.
As for the good: I particularly liked the callback to the campfire story as told by Exodus. It was a nice inversion of what we saw in one of Hickman's earliest X-Men issues. The art from Werneck was also solid throughout the series. I also think it's a great idea to actually give Wanda some agency as a character (rather than her just behaving like a plot device) among the mutants as well.
Overall, this probably would have worked a little better if it didn't have so much work to do to setting up portions of the X-line following Hickman's Inferno while ALSO setting a potential new Scarlet Witch title while ALSO acting as the de facto conclusion to X-Factor. more
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May 07, 2022
I'm torn. I really want someone to follow this story up and save Toad. But I really *really* don't want that someone to be Leah Williams.
I have no problems with the author's identity or politics. I have a big problem with the story structure she always uses, which is:
1) Establish problem. 2) Spend several issues hanging purple prose and/or comedy around characters who don't do anything. 3) Solve problem via deus ex machina.
I'll still rate this finale close to average, because it makes a lot of welcome and intriguing upgrades to Krakoa's status quo. Plus it's drawn decently.
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May 08, 2022
Better than the last issue but still meh
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Dec 31, 2021
What sounds like it could have been an interesting, great story is muddled by a run that had no consistent tone/characters/focus.
This needed more space, needed more focus. Trial of Magneto was not IT.
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Dec 26, 2021
Oh good. Twenty million mutants. Hmm. This just got worse. This series is nonsense.
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Dec 22, 2021
So basically this is a story that has the word magneto in it but he doesn't appear.
But wait it turns out that a weak mutant name toad killed wanda. But wait it turns out magneto already knew who killed wanda beforehand.
Holy Buddha this was convoluted as hell
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Dec 22, 2021
I can't help but wonder if I would have liked this as the closing arc of X-Factor (which I enjoyed) or if the story would have been this big a mess whether it was turned into an event or not, but regardless this is a car accident. The idea of the ending isn't terrible, but the execution is both limp and incoherent in a way that undercuts anything good about it.
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Dec 23, 2021
Wasn't quite as dogshit as the last issue but this ending was way too messy and its a shame Williams can't seem to write an engaging story
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Aug 05, 2022
Easily one of the most pathetic and embarrassing X-Stories I've ever read. Not even Lost got to this level of convoluted bullshit.
P.S. Fuck Wanda and whoever still writes stories about that garbage can of a character.
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Dec 30, 2021
I feel bad for Williams because all the incels and sad puppy types are always cunning for her and Tini Howard. So I’m hesitant to write a bad review. However, this was a terrible story arc that was convoluted and went nowhere. Just like with X-Factor, Williams was given a solid premise, and she squandered it on “character-driven†narrative that treads water the entire time.
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Feb 07, 2022
awesome tidbit on someone getting put into jail for life. no big thing blah blah blah. definitely nothing anyone would care about IRL. anyways here's a neat way to close this story right??
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Dec 22, 2021
Really nice fanfic
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Dec 23, 2021
I'm giving it a 1 because I can't give it a 0. this story seems to be the start of a bunch of poorly written stories to come to please mcu fans. Wanda's personality is a door, the heroes of the council have the most meaningless votes in the world, two telepaths in the council and nobody read Groxo's mind to know if he was telling the truth? This sucks. this Leah Williams should be fired, she can't sustain a story without bait and appeal to the mcu audience. The only good thing is that it's over, and the bad thing is that unfortunately this horrible writer is going to write another magazine for the little scarlet witch. May God have mercy on Mrs. maximoff's fans
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