This is part of our worldview dilemmas in movies and comics series.
Greg Pak. X-Men: Magneto Testament. New York, NY: Marvel Publishing Incorporated, June 10th, 2009. 152 pp.
In the world of the X-Men in which mutants with special abilities are fighting for survival among regular humans and other mutants, Magneto is known as one of the X-Men’s biggest foe. Here in this graphic novel it tells of the origin of Magneto and the story takes place in the 1930s when Magneto was just a young Jewish boy in Nazi Germany name Max Eisenhardt. I think this story is compelling and would be interesting even for those that don’t typically read comics or care about superheroes. Matter of fact, one of the thing I like about this book is that it’s really not a story of supervillains and superheroes. There’s no use of superpowers (there are subtle hints of young Magneto’s interests with metals). It’s more of a historical graphic novel about the Nazis, their persecution of minorities and the injustice of society targeting those who are different. This is a story of a young boy growing up into a young man in one of the most horrible chapter in history.
