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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (Jerry Boyajian)
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Subject: Some comments
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Date: Sat, 6-Oct-84 14:06:01 EDT
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From:	dartvax!mwm	(Mark Modrall)

> Just a quick note about x-men 137.... i agree with the way that it was
> handled. Jean had just killed a star system, but more than that, what would
> they have done with her if she had lived...?  a star-system, she may have been
> able to cope with, but her very existence would have made the rest of the
> x-men superfluous.... and if they had just taken away her powers, what good
> would that do? you would have one normal person who used to be god that would
> have to fade into the wood-work... no, the way they did it, they got rid of a
> too powerful character, and made a hell of a good tear-jerker out of it....

Apparently, you're not aware of Claremont's plans for her if she had lived. She
naturally would have gone into a deep depression after getting the "psychic
lobotomy", and she and Scott would've both left the X-Men to get married. They
go on a Caribbean cruise and get shipwrecked, landing on --- you guessed it ---
Magneto's island. Magneto finds out about Jean's "lobotomy", and convinces her
that he can restore her powers to her if she'll betray the X-Men and help him.
It doesn't really matter whether or not he *can* do it, just as long as she
believes that he *might* be able to do it. Her inner struggle to decide whether
or not to go along with him would've formed the basis for #150 (if you had lost
all of *your* senses, wouldn't you really consider doing *anything* to get them
back?). I'm sorry that this storyline wasn't able to be pursued.


> From:	CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:Pucc-I:Pucc-K:afo	(Laurie Sefton)
>
> did I miss something, or was [KITTY AND WOLVERINE] always intended to be a
> six-parter?

Actually, no. It started out to be a four-parter, but pretty soon after it was
announced as such, Marvel/Claremont/whoever changed it into a six-parter.


> From:	milo!eric
>
>	Can someone please tell me how many issues of "Elementals" by
> Comico there have been. I have only seen one, but seem to remember references
> to there having been others. My local comic shop, while generally pretty
> good about carrying non-mainstream companies does not seem to be carrying
> these. Funny, I kind of liked the first issue.

Unless another one is sitting at the comic shop when I go there today, there has
only been one issue, so don't worry, you haven't missed any.

--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA)

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