[2][3] During their "Marvel: Next Big Thing" panel, Al Ewing talked about the book, which would come out in January 2024: "When we killed Magneto, there was a plan.
"[4] In January, Ewing gave an interview to Comic Book Resources where he talked more about the book:[5] The decision to kill Magneto came hand in hand with the decision to bring him back, and I knew his resurrection was going to come in the form of a quest undertaken by Storm at roughly the end of my time with her, assuming I got more than a year to tell the story.
[6] After defeating Tarn, Storm's ancestor Ashake appears and tells her that in order to find Magneto, she needs to ascend the Tower.
After ascending and falling from the Tower, in liminal Overspace, she is found by a group of Dominions, godlike beings of artificial intelligence who exist outside of time and space.
[7] They explain that Magneto also passed this way, warn her about Enigma, a Dominion made of human intelligence,[8] and then attempt to absorb her, but she hits one with a lightning bolt and escapes.
Magneto talks to his younger self and accepts the darkness within him, while Storm realizes that the Shadow King wants them to be alone, but they aren't.
Storm then receives a telepathic signal from Emma Frost asking for Magneto to help her husband, Tony Stark.
"[20][21] The mini-series was collected into a trade paperback on August 13, 2024: AiPT gave the first issue a 9.5 out of 10 and wrote that it "blends sci-fi and the spiritual in a work like a 21st-century version of Siddhartha.
"[22] Comic Watch gave it a 9 out of 10 and wrote: "Al Ewing’s writing jumps off the page as much as the art, with an almost poetic thoughts coursing through Storm.
The story is visually stunning, one of the most artistic issues of recent memory, with great design, color, and as mentioned earlier, textures, that give off the feeling of what the place not just looks, but what it is made from.
"Rich storytelling is matched with artists at the top of their game to answer the question of who the Master of Magnetism has become in his return to the land of the living.
"[30] Nerd Initiative gave it an 8 out of 10, noting "[t]he art team delves into multiple full page images fitting for a legend’s grand homecoming.
It is also one that suits Magneto entirely too well--a distillation of all the ambiguities and anxieties of American Judaism as it reckons with the sacrifices made to the promise of "never again," and the increasingly fraught question of what that actually means.The book was listed as one of the "Best Comics of 2024 (So Far)" by ComicBook.com.