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From: dls@mtgzz.UUCP (d.l.skran)
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Subject: Re: Jean Grey
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Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 21:03:13 EST
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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