LBFA Presents: The History of XORN Explained [Comic]

The whole point was that Magneto on drugs. Years of "trying to be good" and "dancing between the lines" goes out the window when you do drugs. Don't do drugs.

One of the few reasons I hate Morrison's x -men with a passion... & not the reason most people imagine

As bad as the whole Xorn mess was, it served one necessary purpose:

It kept Magneto a complex, interesting character rather than take him back to his 1960s days of one-note villainy.

I liked Morrison's run as much as the next guy, but Planet X was just a clear-cut care of "didn't do the research." To Morrison, Magneto = "bad guy," and that was it. Never mind the 10 years or so of character development he spent trying to be a GOOD guy, or the subsequent time after that he spent dancing the lines between villainy and anti-heroism...his Magneto was in his own words, "a mad old terrorist twat," and that was it.

So while I agree it was an incomprehensible mess, I still prefer this to the defamation and death of one of my favorite characters in all of comics.

Umm.. what? *shakes head confused* I actually had to read that twice. Needless to say that after Morrison's "Xorn is Magneto" twist, which I admit I liked and didn't see coming, I felt as confused with Xorn as with Cable, Donna Troy, Supergirl and the Joseph clone.. I never could tell Magneto and Joseph apart. It gave me headaches just to think of it.

pfff. "magic babies" (:
It bugs me when some comics start to develop a long and confusing storyline. Pretty soon, it gets to where if you miss one issue, you're about as lost as I was when I watched "Heroes" for the first time. A couple episodes into the second season...

"Comics, everybody." (:

I'm going to show this to anyone that asks me why I quit X-Men after Morrison left.

My favourite part is the throwaway "COMICS!" at the end, specially since you actually simplified the whole deal. Yes, it may be a continuity mess and it may look like if they cheapened the story or whatever, but at the end of the day it's cool because it's comics, and if superhero comics can't be contrieved and insane, then what's the point?

This has to be a series, you guys. Great stuff.

Xorns whole story is not worse than a single issue of Green Lantern. The continuity in DC books is so... confusing and screwed up, I think Marvel is just trying to catch up

I chose to smudge my own memory. Magneto pulled off the helmet...got killed...came back under Fraction's pen. Xorn was just a disguise, right? Right? Right.

You see, this is why I like to pretend the X-men series came to a close after Scott and Emma kiss in the graveyard. Not only are the stories afterward not as good or essential, but they pull bullcrap like THIS out of their collective asses that nobody can make heads or tails of.