Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dartvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!dartvax!mwm From: mwm@dartvax.UUCP (M. W. Modrall) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: re:x-men 137 Message-ID: <2456@dartvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Oct-84 12:45:49 EDT Article-I.D.: dartvax.2456 Posted: Mon Oct 8 12:45:49 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 10-Oct-84 05:30:02 EDT Organization: Dartmouth College Lines: 20 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