Resurrection of Magneto

Resurrection of Magneto is a four-issue comic book limited series written by Al Ewing and drawn by Luciano Vecchio, published by Marvel Comics in 2024 and starring Storm and Magneto. It was part of the Fall of X storyline during the Krakoan Age of the X-Men.

During the 2022 crossover A.X.E.: Judgment Day, Magneto had been killed in battle by the Eternal Uranos. Without a Cerebro backup, there was no way to use the Resurrection Protocols to bring him back. In September 2023, Marvel revealed a glimpse of what they would be discussing during their "Marvel: Next Big Thing" panel during New York Comic-Con, which included Fall of the House of X, Rise of the Powers of X, and Resurrection of Magneto. 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. This isn't going to be a golden egg, easy path to resurrection. This is the hard road."

In January, Ewing gave an interview to Comic Book Resources where he talked more about the book:

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. And we've pretty much stuck with that, though a couple of the fine details have evolved as we've told other stories in the meantime. But his death was always going to be the first act of the story.

On Arakko, Storm has a nightmare about Magneto in pain. She is comforted by Craig Marshall, but knows that she needs to help Magneto, even in the afterlife. She visits Blue Marvel in his underwater base and, after explaining what she needs, he shows her a possible gateway to the afterlife. Heedlessly, she jumps in and finds herself at the Well Beyonds the Worlds and is confronted by Tarn the Uncaring, whom had been killed earlier by Magneto. 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. They explain that Magneto also passed this way, warn her about Enigma, a Dominion made of human intelligence, and then attempt to absorb her, but she hits one with a lightning bolt and escapes. Finally, she falls until she finds herself in a broken city next to a river of lava. Magneto is already there, his eyes bleeding.

In a flashback to Giant-Size X-Men: Magneto, a sea witch hands Magneto his prize: a mysterious key, which she says is the key "to the door of judgment and purification," although she does not answer when he asks whether the door leads in or out. In the present day, despite being dead, Magneto still feels the weight of the key with him. In a place of judgment now, he reads the names written on the wall, all of the names of people killed "by my hand or in my name. By action or inaction. By intent or by accident." When Storm shows up, he tells her that every name must be counted and then tells her to leave. While she is trying to convince him to come back to life with her, Storm explains about the recent massacre at the Hellfire Gala and what happened with Professor X. Magneto, enraged, attacks Storm with the names on the wall until he comes across his own name, Max Eisenhardt. Storm finally shows him that the wall has rebuilt itself, with all the names of the people he has saved. Convinced, he takes the key and turns it. Both Storm and Magneto fall into darkness, into shadow, where they are confronted by the Shadow King.

Alone in darkness, Storm is confronted by the giant golden mask of Annihilation. Storm isn't convinced and asks instead if it is really the Shadow King. The Shadow King shows its face, but also that it has many faces, including la Bete Noir, Adversary, the First Fallen, and the Goblin Force. As Storm fights them, Magneto confronts the Shadow King in the guise of Professor X and then his own younger self. 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. She reaches out and takes Magneto's hand and together they banish the Shadow King, but this leaves Storm on the brink of death. Magneto doesn't accept this and uses his own power to charge Storm's heart, which brings her back to life back in Blue Marvel's base. Magneto then walks through the portal into the base himself rejuvenated.

As Magneto, Storm, and Blue Marvel assault an Orchis ship, Magneto contemplates which version of himself he will be. He tries hard not to kill any of the Orchis guards. When he is confronted with a group of guards that have a special weapon against him which will trigger a poison gas that will kill a roomful of mutants if he attempts to use his powers, he realizes that he has no choice and uses his magnetic abilities to crush the guards' suits so quickly the gas cannot be activated, but leaving the guards dead. Leaving the ship, Magneto, Storm, and Blue Marvel see a Stark Sentinel attacking a ship full of human supporters and combine their powers in order to defeat it. Storm then receives a telepathic signal from Emma Frost asking for Magneto to help her husband Tony Stark. Together, they leave with Magneto saying "To save one life is to save the world."