X-Men: The Trial of Magneto #5 provides an excellent ending to this miniseries and addresses grief in engaging ways. Read Full Review

This was ok at best and all over the place at worse. Although we know who killed Wanda and got a new status quo for Krakoa, it feels like it missed the mark completely. The Trial of Magneto might be the biggest misnomer in comics this year, if not the last five. Read Full Review

X-Men: The Trial Of Magneto #5 has a good ending, but it also shows just how bad this book really has been throughout its run. It would have been a fine mystery book, but Marvel apparently had other plans for it, and it hurt things immensely. The ending doesnt do much to redeem the story and is even more frustrating because it could have been a great story if it had been done differently. Wernecks art is uneven, which is basically this book in microcosm. This comic is the ultimate missed opportunity, and its ending cant save it, even if its the best part of this five-issue tale. Read Full Review

And so the Trial of Magneto ends as it lived: as a reminder that Leah Williams should have been allowed to just keep writing X-Factor however she wished. Read Full Review

X-Men: The Trial of Magneto #5serves as the conclusion to a convoluted and ultimately disappointing story that redeems the Scarlet Witch but fails to put the spotlight on Magneto. Read Full Review

X-Men: The Trial of Magneto #5 brings this chaotic mini-series to a close with unsatisfying results. The comic answers who killed Wanda, but the reveal is not as impactful as expected. On top of that, the comic adds a big revelation on top of the other that doesn't make things clearer but more confusing and convoluted than this series already is. Read Full Review

Trial of Magneto is safe at best and boring and convoluted at worst. Read Full Review

Are the events of Trial of Magneto going to be significant and perhaps a relief to certain fans? Sure. Are they enjoyable to read? Not really. Read Full Review

This "story" will be a minor footnote in this era of mutant history, a tedious attempt at a mystery that ended up as a horrible mistake. Read Full Review

Once again I'm very happy I didn't have the same experience as others reading this. I thought this was a fantastic ending to this story. I found this to be very moving and beautifully written and drawn. This was redemption with huge implications to krakoa. I for one loved this whole story and found the artwork to be amazing

I don’t love this but I don’t hate it the way many of your seem to. Importantly, I can see where the importance of this in the overall Krakoan storyline and so I think maybe that’s why.

You know what? This was an enjoyable issue. It feels like Williams knew exactly how she wanted to end this series from the beginning (and I will say, it was actually quite a good concept), but it just felt like she had no idea how to connect the dots and get us to the desired ending smoothly. But at the end of the day, despite an extremely messy couple issues in the middle, this series managed to end strong. I really like Wanda's redemption here. And I finally get the title now! TRIAL of Magneto, but not that kind of trial. Clever clever. I still don't like it. This was a book about Wanda and the title should've been something more Wanda-centric. Making it about Magneto was misleading from the start and I think contributed to people's disappointed with what was delivered compared to what they expected. Overall, not a bad series in my opinion. Not a good one, but not a bad one. more

I liked this. It fixes Scarlet Witch and makes Krakoa a little more palatable in the process. I don't really get the hate for this one.

I can't believe I'm saying this but I... kind of liked this? I mean, the "mystery" is total bullshit and the title of the book is still disingenuous, but I felt like here Leah played to her only saving grace as a writer: her X-Men knowledge. She basically reverted Toad to the loyal servant of Magneto he was in the beginning of the X-Men. Toad has moved on from that, it's true, but it's also true that he's been receiving very little attention lately and as someone who likes Toad, I appreciated the spotlight he got here. I hope The Brotherhood gets back together in the Pit somehow, Sabretooth is already there, Orphan Maker and Nanny are there, too, there's potential for those characters to come back with a vengeance. I liked Magneto's characterization and I especially liked that Thunderbird came back. I'm also happy for Wanda getting some redemption and because she brought back all mutantkind her slate is clean now. There was a line that bothered me, though, coming from the Wasp. "We have no right to dictate krakoan approach to morality". Yeah, I call big bullshit on that one, coming from an Avenger. It was really dumb. But overall I liked this issue. more

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Onomatopoeia - Dec 22, 2021

I thought the same thing when Wasp chimed in. It was especially bad considering "Devil's Reign" is all about the Superhero community imposing their will and considering themselves above the law.

Merlyn - Dec 23, 2021

Yeah, it was very dumb. I took it as a political message from the writer, a parallel to the real world belief that America shouldn't impose their values on others. Well, I don't agree with that in real life, not when it comes to basic human rights and principles, and I don't agree with it in the MU either, not coming from an original Avenger who has fought all her life. Dumb line indeed.

SenpaifenixJäger - Dec 23, 2021

This was like a guilty pleasure for some of us. Hehehe

Onomatopoeia - Dec 23, 2021

I didn't read that far into it, I just think it was a way to get the Avengers out of there and wrap up the story as fast as possible.

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The ending wasn't as bad as I had expected. That's not to say it was good, but it could have been awful considering the first four. I give this issue a 7, but the story altogether is a generous 4.

The killer reveal was cheap and lacking in substance. We haven't seen much, if any, of Toad in Krakoa, so I was let down that he was nothing more than a fall guy. I said it before, but it also made X-Factor come across as inept and awful detectives. Watching Toad get sent to the pit really left a bad taste; Wanda's "redemption" seems dirty now, considering it was based on his sacrifice.

I did love seeing Thunderbird come back and I was happier still to see the Crucible get replaced. It always seemed too barbaric for Krakoa and with Apocolypes gone, I think it needed to fade away. more

This whole series was a bit of a jumble of disparate ideas and it mostly comes together by the end. I think pretty much everything related to Wanda and the resurrection protocols really worked while the actual "trial" or whodunnit portion of the story, fell flat on its face.

Toad comes out of nowhere as the guilty party, and while you can kind of see why it works due to their Brotherhood connection, the reveal mostly lands with a thud. Especially with the further reveal that Wanda wanted all of this to happen so she could enhance the resurrection protocols. I wasn't particularly satisfied with the ending for Toad either, as he's really more of a hired gun in an assisted suicide rather than the cold, calculating murderer he was treated as by the Council.

As for the good: I particularly liked the callback to the campfire story as told by Exodus. It was a nice inversion of what we saw in one of Hickman's earliest X-Men issues. The art from Werneck was also solid throughout the series. I also think it's a great idea to actually give Wanda some agency as a character (rather than her just behaving like a plot device) among the mutants as well.

Overall, this probably would have worked a little better if it didn't have so much work to do to setting up portions of the X-line following Hickman's Inferno while ALSO setting a potential new Scarlet Witch title while ALSO acting as the de facto conclusion to X-Factor. more

Better than the last issue but still meh

I'm torn. I really want someone to follow this story up and save Toad. But I really *really* don't want that someone to be Leah Williams.

I have no problems with the author's identity or politics. I have a big problem with the story structure she always uses, which is:

1) Establish problem. 2) Spend several issues hanging purple prose and/or comedy around characters who don't do anything. 3) Solve problem via deus ex machina.

I'll still rate this finale close to average, because it makes a lot of welcome and intriguing upgrades to Krakoa's status quo. Plus it's drawn decently.

What sounds like it could have been an interesting, great story is muddled by a run that had no consistent tone/characters/focus.
This needed more space, needed more focus. Trial of Magneto was not IT.

Oh good. Twenty million mutants. Hmm. This just got worse. This series is nonsense.

So basically this is a story that has the word magneto in it but he doesn't appear.

But wait it turns out that a weak mutant name toad killed wanda. But wait it turns out magneto already knew who killed wanda beforehand.

Holy Buddha this was convoluted as hell

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Merlyn - Dec 22, 2021

Toad didn't kill her, he just took the fall for it. She killed herself with Magneto's assistance. It's why she hesitated so much to pin the blame on Toad and tried to absolve him. Poor Mortimer was just loyal to Magneto.

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I can't help but wonder if I would have liked this as the closing arc of X-Factor (which I enjoyed) or if the story would have been this big a mess whether it was turned into an event or not, but regardless this is a car accident. The idea of the ending isn't terrible, but the execution is both limp and incoherent in a way that undercuts anything good about it.

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Onomatopoeia - Dec 22, 2021

I would have liked it as an X-Factor closer if X-Factor actually solved the case.

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Easily one of the most pathetic and embarrassing X-Stories I've ever read. Not even Lost got to this level of convoluted bullshit.
P.S. Fuck Wanda and whoever still writes stories about that garbage can of a character.

Wasn't quite as dogshit as the last issue but this ending was way too messy and its a shame Williams can't seem to write an engaging story

awesome tidbit on someone getting put into jail for life. no big thing blah blah blah. definitely nothing anyone would care about IRL. anyways here's a neat way to close this story right??

I feel bad for Williams because all the incels and sad puppy types are always cunning for her and Tini Howard. So I’m hesitant to write a bad review. However, this was a terrible story arc that was convoluted and went nowhere. Just like with X-Factor, Williams was given a solid premise, and she squandered it on “character-driven” narrative that treads water the entire time.

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I'm giving it a 1 because I can't give it a 0. this story seems to be the start of a bunch of poorly written stories to come to please mcu fans. Wanda's personality is a door, the heroes of the council have the most meaningless votes in the world, two telepaths in the council and nobody read Groxo's mind to know if he was telling the truth? This sucks. this Leah Williams should be fired, she can't sustain a story without bait and appeal to the mcu audience. The only good thing is that it's over, and the bad thing is that unfortunately this horrible writer is going to write another magazine for the little scarlet witch. May God have mercy on Mrs. maximoff's fans

Really nice fanfic