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BookFreakOut
, January 15, 2018
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This dark, wrenching story slants more toward historical fiction than a superhero story, but it's that very fact that makes it worth reading. Magneto's budding powers are downplayed to the point where if you removed "X-Men" from the title, someone unfamiliar with the X-Men universe would likely just take it as a brutally honest, unflinching look at the atrocities of the Holocaust and how ordinary people allowed the rise of the Nazis. The creative team paid extremely close attention to historical detail, the end notes of the collected volume reveal how true survivor stories and historical records influenced certain plot points and decisions, along with a few nods to how this volume ties into the overall X-Men universe. Magneto Testament is an incredibly powerful piece that just happens to also be a superhero origin story.
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