I'm all with you on this one : The New X-Men suit his my favorite "plain" suit for Jean.
About Hickman saying there was a reason for Jean to be back with her old 60's drag : he said he was disappointed that Jean's fans didn't find out why. Well I'm still waiting for his explanation. Because, so far, absolutely no-one, not even one single Jean fan, got his "reason"... So maybe, I really mean maybe, it's not us, it's him.
I think he just meant that in-story, Jean decided to wear it for the same reason she did during the DPS. Which is nostalgia, "I started as Marvel Girl, so..." and whatever. Or maybe that, she died after she wore that outfit and then she died in HOX, so it was foreshadowing?
They made such a big deal about Jean seperating herself form the PF that I dont see her using anything associated with it (imagery, costume, codename) unless she bonds with it again
The only time when she was back with her 'old 60's drag' was during her trial with the Shi'ars. She wanted to put a distance with her Phoenix time and to go back in her 'own skin'. Now the context is different and it just looks regressive: like she's not anymore a 'mature woman' with years behind her but a young girl again. Like all those years didn't matter…
Well, they all look different for me and it isn't just the outfit anyway.
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I think you're right. She won't use anything Phoenix related until she bonds with it again. The editors wanted to let Hickman reset the X-Men and mutants in the world, and at that critical juncture they didn't want Jean as Phoenix who would have curb stomped Nate Grey and even made moving to Krakoa unnecessary, since the X-men never would have disappeared and mutants wouldn't have gone through a fresh round of persecution.
Nah. There was no reason to go with the Morrison look either.
Honestly her best costumes are Phoenix costumes.
Hickman put Jean in the Marvel Girl costume and made sure she DIED in space again in the same green dress that she died in before she came back as Phoenix. So perhaps it is foreshadowing. He has mentioned the Phoenix in the data pages and how the techno organic collectives fear the Phoenix and Galactus.
I thought that Jean changing the costume would be some important event but if she still using marvel girl on x-men #8, I guess she using Red costume is juat a one issue event;