Grant Morrison is regarded by some fans as the best writer the X-Men have ever had, and if you are new to the series, or simply want to check out some of the best superhero comics ever written, there's no better place to start than with his stories.

But this, the third and final collected volume of his X-Men tales, is probably the weakest of the three.

Much of the first half of the book focuses on Fantomex, a new character created by Morrison. Although interesting, and providing a little more information about Wolverine's past, this section of the book feels like a bit of a diversion from the main storyline focusing on the X-Men themselves.

Then we get into the meat of it, with the reappearance of Magento - and there are some moments of sheer genius here. Magneto has become a cult figure while the world believes he is dead, in a similar way to Che Guevara. But he discovers how easy it is to disappoint his followers, as he fails to live up to the fantasies they have created about him.

The trouble is that Morrison also portrays Magneto as irredeemably evil, happy to murder half the world's population, not to mention incompetent. There is an explanation of sorts for his uncharacteristic behaviour, but he's still not the Magneto we're used to seeing.

By making him so unsympathetic, Morrisson robs Magneto of all the things that made him interesting.