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From: ph@wucec2.UUCP (Paul Hahn)
Newsgroups: net.comics
Subject: Re: Jean Grey
Message-ID: <1161@wucec2.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 00:57:02 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  7 00:57:02 1985
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In article <1383@mtgzz.UUCP> dls@mtgzz.UUCP (d.l.skran) writes:
>Personally, I think Chris deserves some blame for this
>mess. The Phoenix was never clearly laid out. In some
>comics, it was vaguely stated that Jean had achieved her
>ultimate potential as a PSI, in others that a COSMIC being
>has done - what ? -- to/with her. I vastly dislike the COSMIC
>being idea. It relieves Jean of too much of the blame.

	    Admittedly, I haven't been reading for very long, but all
	the issues I've seen in which Chris describes the use of the
	Phoenix power are explicit: Jean (or Rachel) uses some
	(presumably psionic) ability to tap into "power primal as
	creation and so vast it beggars description".  The most I ever
	recall Chris claiming was that she had become someone/thing
	else as a result of having gained all this power (and who
	wouldn't?  That was part of the point of Chris' creating the
	character)--not that she had been "taken over", or whatever,
	by some being.

						--pH
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