Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.PCS 1/10/84; site mtgzz.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtgzz!dls From: dls@mtgzz.UUCP (d.l.skran) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Re: Jean Grey Message-ID: <1383@mtgzz.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 21:03:13 EST Article-I.D.: mtgzz.1383 Posted: Tue Nov 5 21:03:13 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Nov-85 04:19:40 EST References: <878@cvl.UUCP> <2021@reed.UUCP> <317@pedsgd.UUCP> <900@cvl.UUCP> <50@hadron.UUCP>, <584@wjvax.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Labs, Middletown NJ Lines: 31 I have just read X-factor #1, and, well, it could be worse. A lot of attention was put into the comic, and I found myself liking Jean Grey in spite of myself. It's actually a pretty good working out of what might happen if she was resurrected/re-created. 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. I like the idea of a normal human suddenly getting power without limit and then slowly going down the tubes as they find that they cannot restrain their inner thoughts and desires, egged on by Mastermind, of course. The current confused storyline puts the focus back on the cosmic being idea. Who is the Phoenix? Jean? Maddy? Rachael? What is happening? What is that bolt of energy flashing from the moon to the Earth? The Phoenix? Are we supposed to believe she/it/he hung out on the moon for all those years? Ugg! Dale