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This book has the best artwork of the 3 volumes and is worth reading for that alone. I liked the other two and I got to the cover of this one, excited about Magneto and the continuing story. I know from some of Morrison's other work that as a series progresses it basically goes batshit insane and it's often for the better. I didn't mind the last story doing this, despite it being hard to follow and seeming so oddly disconnected (I am sure intentionally) from the rest.

But, the handling of Xorn and Magneto... I don't even know what to say. For someone who added so much interesting dialogue to comics that often are all action, how could you turn Magneto- a perfect vessel for that kind of dialogue- into a one-dimensional Hitlerian drug addict? At first I thought it was funny- sort of a jab at his epic deliveries of ridiculous statements. I laughed at "Vegetable!" and other things. But, then it kept going and got worse and worse. I know Morrison takes risks, but this just felt lazy. I also don't see anywhere along the way how Xorn was setting things up for this... This short stint of badly handled Magneto soured the rest for me. Luckily I was on the last book. And the art was spectacular enough to keep me immersed. The end was ok. I wish he would have left Magneto out of it entirely.