Book description
Magneto tears Wolverine's world apart! As the terrifying Legacy virus spreads among mutantkind, the X-Men suffer a truly heartbreaking loss. Then, when the messianic madman Magneto returns, offering mutantkind safe haven aboard his asteroid home, which longtime X-Man will join his Acolytes - and why? Secrets of Magneto's life are…
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1 author picked X-men Epic Collection as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I’m recommending this book because it grapples with death from illness in a way most superhero comics will not.
This collection features a key story in the long-running X-Men subplot about the Legacy Virus, a science fiction analog to HIV/AIDS (a time-traveling supervillain’s evil scheme, not a storyline one would want to attempt with a real-world virus).
Superhero stories tend to rely on a type of moral causality, but viruses do not discriminate between heroes and villains. Junior X-Men member Jubilee must confront the unfairness of a fatal condition in a world where death is usually a plot contrivance to…
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