{"id":827,"date":"2010-04-08T09:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T16:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/04\/08\/comic-book-report-x-men-magneto-testament\/"},"modified":"2010-04-08T09:07:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T16:07:00","slug":"comic-book-report-x-men-magneto-testament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/04\/08\/comic-book-report-x-men-magneto-testament\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Book Report: X-Men: Magneto Testament"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This coming Sunday is the start of the Days of Remembrance<\/a>, so it’s fitting that I just read the excellent X-Men: Magneto Testament<\/span>. I came to this book by another route–that of researching writer and filmmaker Greg Pak’s oeuvre<\/span>, the same way I wandered into Planet Hulk<\/a>–and I’m glad I found it.<\/p>\n

I generally have little or no interest in the epic soap opera that is the Marvel Comics universe (another exception: Joss Whedon’s Astonishing X-Men<\/span> run), but I have to give them props, especially in this book, for adhering to historical accuracy and their own fictional continuity. It’s a high degree of difficulty squared<\/span>, and Pak and his editorial team handle it very well.<\/p>\n

This is not a superhero story. It’s not even a supervillain<\/span> story. You could call it sneaky way to educate kids about the Holocaust using a comic book (or not-so-sneaky, given the big letters proclaiming INCLUDES TEACHER’S GUIDE on the front cover), but it’s a good story any way you look at it.<\/p>\n

Buy the book:<\/span> Powell’s<\/a>, Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n

And speaking of the Holocaust… PBS is airing the 2009 BBC miniseries of The Diary of Anne Frank<\/span><\/a> this Sunday (you can watch online<\/a> starting Monday until May 11th). I’ve seen nothing but good reviews of this show.<\/p>\n

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