The entire kernel of Magneto’s mindset is that enduring the Holocaust made him a single-minded consequentialist. And right now, the use of the experience of surviving one genocide as a moral shield to commit another genocide is kind of relevant.
I’ve been reading his Uncanny X-Men run so I’m blaming Chris Claremont!
The Beyonder made an enormous Jack-Kirby-esque machine to imitate a womb. Dude was the second techbro behind Thomas Edison.
Frank Miller wrote a sequence depicting a hypothetical human Logan. TIL Wolverine’s weird-ass hairstyle is a superpower.
The part of Heroes for Hope that pissed me off the most was Alan Moore’s contribution in which Magneto accepts praise from Hitler. Alan Moore prides himself on doing his homework but Magneto would never, in a zillion years, under any brainwashing, accept praise from Hitler. He’s not a Republican.
TIL the first charity Marvel wanted to donate the proceeds to for their We-Are-The-World-as-a-comic was Oxfam International—who refused because they hated the comic. Even a charity was like, “Them kids ain’t 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 hungry.” www.jimshooter.com/2011/09/hero...
It didn’t always—or even often—work, but I’m similarly nostalgic for the spirit of experimentation in game design in the NES era. They had no choice but to try new things.
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