GeekGround >> Grant Morrison's New X-Men reading order

Thanks again !

Thanks!

I appreciate these old republishings because they help explain situations I see in current issues but didn't understand.

Finally finished the whole series. But, it left me with a few questions...

How did Magneto come back from this?

What happened to Beak, Angel, and their brood? I don't remember seeing them in newer issues.

Willybone - 

Finally finished the whole series. But, it left me with a few questions...

How did Magneto come back from this?

What happened to Beak, Angel, and their brood? I don't remember seeing them in newer issues.

re: Magneto

I can't begin to explain it....it was BS

Here's wikipedia making it sound a million times more logical that it really is

Grant Morrison intended Xorn to be Magneto from his first appearance. As Morrison stated in an interview after he left New X-Men, "In my opinion, there really should not have been an actual Xorn - he had to be fake, that was the cruel point of him".^[3] In fact, soon after the revelation of Xorn's identity in New X-Men #146, readers pointed out that clues that Xorn was actually Magneto had been hidden throughout Morrison's run.^[4][5] According to then-X-Men writer Chuck Austen, the X-Men editors liked the Xorn character and hoped Morrison would change his mind about the revelation; when he did not, they asked Austen to bring Xorn back as a separate character. Marvel also wanted to continue using Magneto; Austen stated that "Marvel saw value in Magneto not being a mass-murderer of New Yorkers."^[6] Morrison has expressed criticism of this subsequent retcon in interviews.^[7][8]

Marvel retconned the Xorn/Magneto revelation and brought back Xorn and Magneto after Morrison's departure. In Uncanny X-Men #442 and 443, Xavier takes the body of Magneto to Genosha where they hold a funeral for the deceased mutant leader. However, in the last page of Excalibur #1, Xavier meets Magneto alive and well on Genosha. In subsequent issues of Excalibur, Xavier and Magneto debate the true identity and motives of Xorn, the individual whose bandage-wrapped body they brought to Genosha. In the same month Magneto returned in Chris Claremont's new Excalibur book, Austen's X-Men #157 introduced a new Xorn named Shen Xorn. Shen Xorn claims to be the twin brother of the original Xorn (now referred to as Kuan-Yin Xorn) who, under the influence of the entity known as Sublime, had pretended to be Magneto. This claim is supported when Emma Frost conducts a thorough mind scan of Shen. Not too long after, Shen Xorn disappears when he unleashes the gravitational forces of a black hole in the course of helping the X-Men defeat an attack by a Brotherhood of Mutants led by Exodus. Later, Shen Xorn is revealed to have been one of the mutants depowered due to the events of the House of M miniseries.

The true identity of Xorn, and his relationship to the character Magneto, became a subject of confusion to fans. Marvel refrained from giving a complete explanation, eventually hinting that the summer 2005 crossover House of M would clear up the situation.^[9] The Xorn entry in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men 2005 stated that "Kuan-Yin eventually revealed himself to be a duplicate of the X-Men's nemesis Magneto, a transformation believed to have been caused by Magneto's daughter, the Scarlet Witch." This explanation was based on a suggestion in House of M #7 wherein Doctor Strange speculates that Wanda has been 'playing with the world' for far longer than even she knows, and may have been responsible for her father's puzzling rebirth. An alternative explanation has since been given in the pages of New Avengers since, according to Marvel editor Tom Brevoort, "nobody was satisfied with that offhanded non-explanation, and it didn’t make a heck of a lot of sense by itself even as a throwaway".^[10]

So, they didn't even try to have it make sense.

OK.

As long as I know I'm not missing anything good.

UGCTT_omzzy - first one doesn't work

you mean New X-Men: E is for Extinction (#114-116)

if so, that's Dead Again's posting

MMAil him in case he doesn't see this thread or post an ATTN thread

however, as he's deployed in Afghanistan, i'm not sure if he can repost. if he can't, i will when i'm free at home.

Stickgrappler - 

UGCTT_omzzy - first one doesn't work

 

you mean New X-Men: E is for Extinction (#114-116)

 

 

if so, that's Dead Again's posting

MMAil him in case he doesn't see this thread or post an ATTN thread

however, as he's deployed in Afghanistan, i'm not sure if he can repost. if he can't, i will when i'm free at home.

Stickgrappler - He posted that. The rest of New X-Men I posted.

If he has no access to it, I'll post for you.

Thought he had a paid Photobucket acct in which case, bandwidth shouldn't have exceeded.

All my postings are spread out over multiple free accts. It's possible I may have exceeded bandwidth in the future. If so please let me know. I'm firewalled at work from seeing pix posted on photobucket.