Jean Grey/Marvel Girl/The Phoenix Appreciation

[Aighthomie]

Me too! It's not my favorite costume of hers, but this is the best rendition of it. Love the power signature and the hair too.

I remember I even got a Jean foil sticker from a vending machine that had this art.

I wish we got this costume:

[Bart]

I wish we got this costume:

Yep definitely prefer this alternate costume. It's sleek and the colors are very "Jean." Plus, I've never liked Jean's face being covered like the one they settled on.

[Londo Bellian]

Me too! It's not my favorite costume of hers, but this is the best rendition of it. Love the power signature and the hair too.

I remember I even got a Jean foil sticker from a vending machine that had this art.

We need more overt visualizations of tp/tk energies in comic art again.

[Wiccan]

I wish we got this costume:

This is glorious. It would have also established "Phoenix" as a superhero identity more.

[Phoenixx9]

Excellent Jean costume!

What comic/issue is it from?

[Aighthomie]

Excellent Jean costume!

What comic/issue is it from?

I believe it was an alternate team Jim Lee (and Clairemont?) was thinking of before he (they?) settled on the now famous Blue/Gold Teams. It's interesting to me that even then PhoenixJean was an option.

Gambit's hair is kinda funny to me. LOL.

[nx01a]

The original exists only as pencils, I believe. Amateur colourists have been having fun with it for years. It's a far better costume than what we got but Jean and the Phoenix were separate back then so no Phoenix imagery or fiery motifs for Jean. Here's a more recent interpretation of said costume...

[LocoSteve]

Going by the earliest issues of X-Men, Iceman was the youngest at 16, and Beast was the oldest at 19, so I'm guessing that she is probably around 18, like Havok83 said a few pages ago. In the original run, she was already attending college around issue #25 or so



Wow.....

*ahem*

I love Art Adams' art. I hope he draws an issue of Blue.

Yeah... you should see his art of jean in the ultimate x series :P

[WallStreeter]

I wish we got this costume:

That would have been awesome. Maybe one day it can be Jeen's costume, so we can technically still get it. Send this off to the X-Men editorial office and suggest it for Jean.

[Harpsikord]

Going by the earliest issues of X-Men, Iceman was the youngest at 16, and Beast was the oldest at 19, so I'm guessing that she is probably around 18, like Havok83 said a few pages ago. In the original run, she was already attending college around issue #25 or so

I think it would be better to go with the X-Men Origins issues as well as more modern interpretations of the Original Five, where the ages were a little bit more spread out than that.

Iceman ended up at about fourteen during that issue, and Beast stayed around 19. Angel was 17, and Jean and Scott were sixteen. Add sixteen months to that, assuming Jean was *freshly* sixteen, she's about 17 and 1/3rd right now.

[5cents]

X-Men Blue #3


https://twitter.com/MarkPaniccia/sta...58523843469312

[AbnormallyNormal]

Beast is surrounded by a kind of force field?

[MarvelMaster616]

X-Men Blue #3


https://twitter.com/MarkPaniccia/sta...58523843469312

Anybody else think Jean's expression looks somewhat...constipated?

[Londo Bellian]

Welp, the Magneto-brand schooling continues. By the end of it the XMB will beg him to be their mentor.

[Havok83]

Welp, the Magneto-brand schooling continues. By the end of it the XMB will beg him to be their mentor.

he's already their mentor