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From: mwm@dartvax.UUCP (M. W. Modrall)
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Subject: re:x-men 137
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Date: Mon, 8-Oct-84 12:45:49 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  8 12:45:49 1984
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i was entirely aware of claremonts plans for jean grey had she lived....
(i read the untold saga like everybody else) and i still contend that they
ended it the best way possible.... they got to make a big moral issue out of
it, and, as i said, they got rid of a character that was too powerful without
destroying her integrity... i think robbing a hero/heroine of powers is a
cheap gambit that destroys their character.... look at the times ben grimm
has gotten changed back from the thing... every time he's human, he whines
about being left out.... heroes dont make the transition back to normaldom
easily, and i can't think of one case where it has been done well....
no, it was better to let her go with her integrity and her power by her
choice..... and it gave the rest of the x-men a reason to exist again....

now a side note.... who else here think that syzygy wimped out in dreadstar
#14.... i remember in the price, the lord papel described him as the most
powerful thing on 2 legs.... and yet two bush-league teenagers were able
to take him out but good.... pretty cheap.....
  
Mark Modrall
mwm
Dartmouth