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This post relates to: Are you a comic reader, collector, or both?

I read and collect.

This post relates to: What is your favorite comic related cartoon?

I know it's funny, being a Marvelite and an X-Freak, but JLU is just...better than any of the X-Men related cartoons. The characters are fully fleshed out, the stories reasonably complex, the voice acting is top notch, and the animation is good.

Of the X-Men related cartoons, I liked Evolution the most. TAS followed the stories more, but the animation was mediocre and the voice acting just got on my nerves.

This post relates to: In Secret Invasion, what character would you hope turns out to be a Skrull?

Magneto IS a Skrull!

Ha-HA!

YES!

This post relates to: In Secret Invasion, what character would you hope turns out to be a Skrull?

Given his recent whacked out appearance in Uncanny #500, I really am hoping Magneto turns out to be a skrull.

It makes sense. From the beginning planning stages of the Invasion, the Skrulls were concerned about the large Mutant population uniting against them. Putting a skrull next to the High Evolutionary to sabotage any attempts to repower the mutant species would be in their best interest. And as leader in the mutant community, Magneto is ideally placed to keep the mutant community from uniting. That explains his rabid factionalism in #500, which would be part of the plan to keep the mutants divided and leaderless.

It also explains Magneto's lack of interest in repowering the mutant species until now, his rather random behavior since the helicopter exploded in New Avengers #20 and he disappeared, and how the heck he got to the mainland from Genosha without his powers...

What is awesome is they can kind of hold this door open for a while. Magneto is hated by the heroes of the M.U. I can totally see a massive break out of a Skrull holding facility...and the heroes leaving the real Magneto behind as a "lesser evil". That way they can put the character on the back burner until writers and editors figure out what to do with him post M-Day. Meanwhile the writers with a Silver Age fetish (that can't be bothered to go write for the Ultimate universe) can write Magneto as bad (and I mean that on multiple levels) as they want to.