Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site wucec2.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!mgnetp!we53!busch!wucs!wucec2!ph 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 Article-I.D.: wucec2.1161 Posted: Thu Nov 7 00:57:02 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 06:44:15 EST References: <878@cvl.UUCP> <2021@reed.UUCP> <317@pedsgd.UUCP> <900@cvl.UUCP> <50@hadron.UUCP> <584@wjvax.UUCP> <1383@mtgzz.UUCP> Reply-To: ph@wucec2.UUCP (Paul Hahn) Organization: Washington U. in St. Louis Lines: 22 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 /* * "LEAVE ME ALONE, YOU DOO-DOO HEAD!" */