That's clearly NOT Jean using her powers.
It seems as though she's 'assessing' some other power.
That's clearly NOT Jean using her powers.
It seems as though she's 'assessing' some other power.
Lord Ewing *Praise His name! Uplift Him in song!* Your divine works will be remembered and glorified in worship for all eternity. Amen!
"He's pure power and doesn't even know it. He's the best of us."-Matt Murdock
"I need a reason to take the mask off."-Peter Parker
"My heart half-breaks at how easy it is to lie to him. It breaks all the way when he believes me without question." Felicia Hardy
"He's pure power and doesn't even know it. He's the best of us."-Matt Murdock
"I need a reason to take the mask off."-Peter Parker
"My heart half-breaks at how easy it is to lie to him. It breaks all the way when he believes me without question." Felicia Hardy
I like the pink, so I hope its something else going on. Though it wouldn't be the first time someone's miscolored a person's powers.
Kubert's art still looks great! Sometimes that isn't the case, but his style still looks as good as his past stuff.
As a Jean Grey Phoenix fan, I loved Morrison's run because he - imho - succeed in making both original Phoenix saga and the retcon work together, with minor changes.
- The cocoon (of the retcon) could be seen as a Phoenix egg
- Phoenix was both a part of Jean's powers and a cosmic entity
- When Xavier says to Jean that he wants to talk to the Phoenix, the Phoenix answers. Jean speaks "with the voice" (as Cable noticed during Chris Claremont's Revolution run). Yet, when the Phoenix speaks, Xavier still calls it Jean. Is it a mistake from Xavier ? Or does he consider that The Phoenix identity is Jean ?
- The Phoenix answers to Xavier and says "Jean is only the house where I live". It can be seen as "Jean is just a host". Or we can see it as The Phoenix can live outside and inside Jean. Her body is seen like a "house", like the body can be seen as a "temple" for the soul... And what soul do we have inside us ? Ourselves, and not other's. It's my interpretation, but there is more than this in Morrison's run :
- When Jean hatches from her egg in the future (Here Comes Tomorrow), she changes/saves the universe by making past Jean say "Live Scott"... Past Jean speaks with... The voice. With the Phoenix voice. In that story, the Phoenix talking through Jean is... future Jean. And so we have it all : Jean=Phoenix and Phoenix=Jean.
- Jean explains the Phoenix to Loga, and says that when she comes "too close, it replaces" her.
Maybe the Phoenix force that took Jean's place (Clasisc X-Men by Claremont) is a "transcendanted" version of Future Jean : a being of pure energy that wanted to live and feel like a human being (again)
Anyway, that's one of the reason I love Morrison's Jean. He really did his "homework" with the character's long and complexe history, and his take on the Jean/Phoenix was not "under the nose". It's quite subtle.
A note about "Phoenix Resurrection" : Rosenberg got some things right (and some things wrong). I liked that Rosenberg implied that the Phoenix was dormant/hidden in X-Factor's Jean. That leads me to... the "break-up". To me, the "break-up" scene was so wrong. Jean knew the purpose of the Phoenix, and she embraced it a long time ago. But when she said "good-bye" to it, the Phoenix didn't fly away. It became smaller and smaller, in her hand. Can such an entity just... disappear ? Or is it dormant/hidden, like it was during her X-Factor's days ?
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Ommadon: “By summoning all the dark powers I will infest the spirit of man So that he uses his science and logic to destroy himself. Greed and avarice shall prevail, and those who do not hear my words shall pay the price. I'll teach man to use his machines, I'll show him what distorted science can give birth to. I'll teach him to fly like a fairy, and I'll give him the ultimate answer to all his science can ask. And the world will be free for my magic again.”
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This is my Emma and Jean commission I got yesterday!
Art by Luca Strati (Lucca Comics)
Friendly reminder that Nathan Summers and Rachel Grey Summers care about each other
Kitty: "We need to buy ourselves a little time to figure this out. We need alibis."
Rachel: "Leading a rebellion in outer space? Being held prisoner by the hand in Madripoor? Judging a Wolverine cosplay contest in Japan?"
Hate the pink, so any other color is better. Yellow is nice
I don't recall if I posted these here but here are my Jean related commissions from nycc this year. Sorry they all have cyclops too. Russ Braun, Sabine Rich and Claudio Castellini are the artists in order of the pics.
I also like Jean's powers to be yellow or another color other than pink. In Extraordinary X-men her powers were kinda red/dark pink and it looked pretty good. I wish that her tp and tk powers would have different colors to differentiate between them. In the late X-factor stories her tk was pink and her tp was yellow/gold. I liked that.