X-Men: The Trial of Magneto #1 blends raw emotion and action together for a mutant murder mystery, shaking Krakoa to its core. Those who enjoyedX-Factor will definitely want to pick this book up. Between The Trial of Magneto and the upcomingInferno, it looks like 2021 will bring trouble to the X-Men's paradise. Read Full Review

The emotion and action on display in this first issue really raise the stakes for this event. This issue has the first big Magneto vs. X-Men fight in a long time, and it felt really cool to see everyone, especially the creative team, go all out. Read Full Review

X-Men: The Trial of Magneto #1 explores many types of grief as we explore the consequence of the Scarlet Witch's death. Read Full Review

Despite my disappointment in X-FACTOR and hesitance towards this event, X-MEN: THE TRIAL OF MAGNETO was engaging, explosive, and truly feels like an event. I left this first issue wanting more and cant wait to see whats revealed in this murder mystery next. I highly recommend X-MEN fans to give this event a look. Even those unfamiliar with the current ongoing titles can still hop right in with only the prior knowledge that someone killed the Scarlet Witch. Therefore, I could argue Williams set this story up for everyone. Let me know what you think, have a great week, and God Bless! Read Full Review

X-Men: The Trial of Magneto #1 has the melodrama, action, questionable morality, and high stakes emotions that are what make X-Men comics so great. Leah Williams, Lucas Werneck, Edgar Delgado, and Clayton Cowles craft a comic worthy of a white cape wearing anti-hero grieving his daughter (and being a little bit dodgy), who is almost beaten to death by his son. Oedipus (Re)X sans the incest bit and with more metallic manipulation. Read Full Review

It's also worth mentioning that the father/child dynamic between Magneto and Wanda also demonstrates a lack of forethought abut the characters and their relationship, as though Williams is going to unnecessarily extreme lengths to make Magneto the bad guy. It's a harsh implication to portray Magneto as the worst father ever and feels downright harsh, tarnishing an otherwise intriguing narrative. Read Full Review

The Trial Of Magneto #1 was a fantastic start to what is already shaping up to be one of the best stories in the Krakoa Era for the X-Men. Leah Williams and Lucas Wereck treated the death of Wanda Maximoff and what it means for the Marvel Universe with the care it deserves. How they use this story to delve deeper into where Magneto, Polaris, and other characters are at was all expertly done. Read Full Review

The emotional highs of this book hit right where they need to, particularly where Erik is involved. And while it's clear that this story is a lot more complicated than it seems on the surface, the unraveling of this mystery is quite intriguing. Read Full Review

While this story may be difficult to comprehend for those not up to date on X-Men comics, it still proves to be an interesting investigation. Read Full Review

Overall, the Trial of Magneto starts off a little rocky. There is potential here but the obvious red herring of the trial works against the book. Also, it just feels like its missing something and it's too fast of a pace that it fails to capture any of the magic that writer Leah Williams injected into X-Factor. Those that are in dire need to know what happened to Scarlet Witch will find something to enjoy here. Others though could probably just wait for the synopsis of what happened after the event is over unless in the next few issues the book changes course and delivers something truly engaging. Read Full Review

More than anything, the first issue of X-Men: The Trial of Magneto feels like Marvel's attempt to turn Magneto back into a villain and, in doing so, split the mutant community into warring camps… again. Even if Magneto is eventually vindicated, both the accusation and the refusal to bring Wanda back (but is she dead?) are likely to be enough to create the schism Marvel is not-so-subtly forcing into existence. Read Full Review

The series has potential as the ending hints at something far more significant than Magneto's tantrums happening, but this opening chapter can't seem to settle on a consistently compelling tone. Read Full Review

Oh my goodness!! This is unbelievably fantastic! Raw emotion tons of action all written in an absolutely brilliant way. I love the stuff with wolverine and his kids I love all the emotions of Polaris and quicksilver and wow the end of the issue was amazing. This was absolutely brilliant there really is no other way to describe it. Thank you for this gem of a book I can't wait to read the next chapter. 10++

This was actually a pretty good start. A bit wordy, but not bad at all. Not sure how I feel about Werneck's art yet.

First of all: I would be happy to see Wanda dead once and for all. She has made so many fatal mistakes during her life and yet the X-Men always forgave her and moved on. I just don't like her character anymore, she has become a stereotype (like Magneto, bad and good, bad and good...). The story is ok, I like the suspense and X-Factor's investigation. What I don't like is the usual "Magneto disagrees with Xavier and goes insane"... Again, we've seen it a hundred times.

A not inconsiderable opening, although there are things that are not very reasonable such as Eric murdering Wanda, and asking in any way that she be resurrected, that does not make him a murderer. Of course, his brother lashes out at his own father, it is logical. But the end I think should not have been placed, not in this number, it takes away the mystery.

Definitely I think that Erik is being accused, he is desperate for his daughter to be brought back, the saddest thing is that the same ones who point him out as the executor are the same ones who do not want to resurrect the Witch, a little hypocritical. A solid delivery

Suspicion settles solidly onto Magneto as the mutants start dealing with the death of the Scarlet Witch. I felt this issue had a lot of small storytelling faults, like the occasional clumsy phrase or bit of bad blocking. The pace is slow (like it's an ordinary-sized comic with every scene inflated) and the script is wordy. And even accounting for grief and resentment, I thought Magneto ate too much scenery. But the content is powerful stuff, carefully-chosen developments and observations that range from the absolutely necessary (like Quicksilver weighing in) to the surprisingly inventive (like the OG Brotherhood of Evil Mutants reunion). This story isn't told perfectly, but it's powerful enough to impress and engage.

I have mixed emotions with this, this has potential, but apparently lacks the knowledge of the characters. There are things that I like but they are taken to an extreme outside the logic of the character, and even cruel. There are parts of Magneto's attitude that have logic, others seem to be someone else. In the end we know that something else is cooking. I think it would have been better if they had given the correct form to the emotions, for my taste.

"You are all choosing to suddenly honor the same arbitrary human limitations we've long since abandoned for ourselves...This is a choice you all are making. And it is the wrong one."

- Erik Lehnsherr-


It is the first time that a comic bothers me, I do not feel that Charles would be able to deny a father the rebirth of his son due to an old grudge. The story is good but the placement feels a bit strange here.

I had a lot of questions about this book but they were answered largely by the interview Hickman gave regarding his departure from the X-Men line. Seems to me like he got sidelined by the other X-books writers, which is a shame because his vision should have been respected, he's a much more better writer than them. Anyway, back to the book. Leah Williams has a big, big problem with her writing: she suffers from a severe case of verbal diarrhea. I swear, you could remove half of the dialogue from the first half of the book and you wouldn't lose anything at all. Also, because of the reason I brought up earlier, the book moves way too fast and the actions of the characters are not believable. I mean, until now, Magneto was basically the cult hero of Krakoa and the mutant who spearheaded the effort to relocate the Arakki to Mars. And now they all hate him because the guy just wants to resurrect his "daughter"? Wow, what a monster, let's all antagonize him. Now, to Leah's credit, you can tell she loves the characters and she knows her X-Men history and that's something I will always appreciate. Also, the way she wrote Magneto here was sound, a lot better than most writers these days. If only she could lay down on those tons of irrelevant dialogue. So overall, decent book but because of the rush of it, I have a hard time believing the characters' actions. more

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Onomatopoeia - Aug 19, 2021

I think she wrote Magneto well, had it been the 60s. He was the typical ego maniac that Stan Lee created. Idk, I just felt like he's grown too much to keep doing this to him. As you said, he was a cult hero of Krakoa.

Merlyn - Aug 19, 2021

You have to remember, he's in terrible grief. He has been biting his tongue at all the insults towards Wanda all this time and at the end of the S.W.O.R.D. issue he made amends with her. Just to see her dead afterwards. He's filled with rage. That's why I say the X-Men should have handled that better.

Onomatopoeia - Aug 19, 2021

I'm not disputing his grief, far from it. I think the emotion he's showing is justified and believable. I just think that a head-of-state, leader, and demi-god like Magneto would act in a more controlled manner. He attacked Xavier, which I just couldn't understand. I get that it's for the sake of the story, but for an innocent, he's sure acting guilty.

Merlyn - Aug 19, 2021

Well, he was my first suspect but given that they pointed fingers at him so early on, I'm thinking more at Mystique now. I actually liked the moment when he attacked Xavier. Charles was acting so cold and detached, like he didn't even try to understand his friend's pain. I was expecting to vote for the resurrection, at least for the sake of their friendship, I mean, even with that vote, he would've still been overruled by the council but no, Charles just didn't give a crap.

Merlyn - Aug 19, 2021

*I was expecting him

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Awesome art buried another a mountain of asinine and unnecessary text. Good lord what a slog.

okay boomer

So disappointing but what I should have expected from the writer as I tend to find most of her stories not for me. Besides the extensive dialogue (which I don't mind when interesting), the characters don't seem to be acting in line with their current status in the books. Magneto especially comes across as his 90's villain phase and the art also further depicts characters acting more aggressive than you'd expect in some situations. Hopefully the other issues improve as an X-Event in this current status of great books should be exciting to read.

The beginning of this book had everything I wanted from Williams' X-Factor run. A detective story fueled by unique and interesting uses of obscure powers. Unfortunately, that's about all the praise I can muster. After three years of Krakoan X stories, we've seen nothing other than leadership, strength, and stoicism from Magneto. I don't know if this is a plot point/clue, but I don't understand the drastic change in character. I would expect grief from Magneto, not child-like rage.

The weakest links in Hickman's run have been the event comics, this is shaping up to be no exception.

Uff what was this? really who wrote this, the art is good, of quality. but what aaah !! a promise that resulted in misspelled fraud.

enttäuschend reading, bad configuration of the characters.

I was really frustrated that there were brand new ways telepathy works, and they were created just to have this story. Since when can’t Jean read a mind because the Id gets in the way? Flimsy way to keep the story going. I don’t like it.

this woman should be prohibited from writing. just write shit

Leah Williams is one of the worst writers! She can't write dialogue, yet writes way too much of it!!!!

Writing is like a fanfic, characters talk like they are action figures controlled by kids.
Art is not consistent, some pages are awful