Whispers On the Wind
Scott Lobdell
Roger Cruz
Redemption
One issue of Uncanny X-Men. $1.95
The opening page of “Whispers on the Wind.” Priceless.
Anyway, I don’t think I’ll be spoiling it for anyone if I say that this story is not about Magneto, but a clone who thinks he’s Magneto. He’s just landed on Earth, at the same time the body of the real Magneto went missing. He was found in a farm in South America, by Sister Maria and her five adopted children. The oldest, Migdalia, named him Joseph.
I first thought that Joseph/Magneto was finding redemption and a second chance. He had amnesia, he was suddenly a few decades younger, and he was in the care of a nun and her children. But in the end, when the children were threatened, his strategy of rescue involved the death of a dozen criminals. There was no loss to the gene pool, but it seemed that you could take a man’s memories, you could take him away from his familiar environment, but you can never change his nature once he’s learned it.
Anyone agree with that?