What do you think was the bigger creative mistake: Jim Lee pushing to use Magneto in more antagonistic roles again starting with the X-Men vol 2 relaunch, or Chris Claremont implicating the Shadow King as a root cause of all of Magneto’s silver age plots during the Muir Island Saga?

Ooh, that’s a tough one. I’m sort of leaning to the latter, because I could see Magneto as an antagonist working after his New Mutants phase, but it could have been done somewhat more intelligently and more impactful.

Whereas the Shadow King thing always smacked a bit much of Claremont trying to wrap things up too neatly.