The Definitive Guide to Magneto (Early Access for Crushing Comics Club members)

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Alright - you asked for it!

Last week, Patrons said that the next guide they wanted was a page devoted to the Master of Magnetism, which agreed with the last survey of the Crushing Comics Mailing list. I'm more than happy to oblige with The Definitive Guide To Magneto!

Your password to access the guide (until I get your spiffy user roles setup) is"sir-ian" - please do not share the password! You have early access until January 15th, 2017.  

This is the first time I've ever turned out a single guide from start to finish in a single 36hr period, and it was pretty darn intense! It took about half of that time to create the guide. I also managed to squeeze in about 6hrs of sleep, and 2hrs at the playground with the toddler (though, to be fair, I was working on the guide for at least 30m of that).

The guide is in the same style of the Squirrel Girl, Thanos, and Jessica Jones guides, in that it not only contains every appearance, but it also describes almost every appearance. That was cute with a formerly niche character like Thanos, or characters with only 15yrs of history like Squirrel Girl or Jessica Jones. 

For Magneto - a character that has been around since 1963 and rarely goes more than a year without an appearance - it was a significantly greater challenge. Figuring out Magneto's appearances was the easy part. I spent much more time paging through the majority of all Magneto's appearances to determine if they were important and how to summarize them.

Part of the result is the guide is a little... scrappy? My existing formatting tricks don't work well on something with this much copy and different levels of importance. I need to re-strategize a bit if I'm going to take this approach to further guides of characters who don't have a primary book to appear in.

All that kvetching aside, I'm very proud to have completed this one with your support! I've always said that Magneto has one of the most fascinating arcs of all Marvel characters, and this only served to prove it to me. Hardly any major appearance of his is wasted on an insubstantial story after the Silver Age.

Questions or comments? Let me know below!