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Alan Moore Wrote A Three Page X-Men Story You’ve Likely Never Read
By DEVIN MEENAN
Despite falling out of love with superhero media, author Alan Moore has created some of the greatest comic book stories, such as “Watchman” and “Batman: The Killing Joke.”
Moore mostly wrote for DC Comics, but he created a story for Marvel Comics — a three-page “X-Men” tale for the 1985 anthology issue “Heroes for Hope: Starring the X-Men.”
The story follows Magneto as he puts on Cerebro and sees an alternate future in which his former Brotherhood of Evil Mutants has won and rules a world that has become a wasteland.
A crowd of mutilated corpses shambles toward Magneto, who stares at his helmet in horror. His final line: “The hands of the dead are upon me, and I have no right to scream.”
The undead in the story are likely the casualties of Magneto’s conquest. His guilt is not fear of what he could have become but a reminder of what he’s already done.