X-men has been such a fun experiment with it's cast, if someone had put those characters together before this series I wouldn't expected them to gel so well. This cast has a special place in my heart!
Can I be honest, I've disliked all of Emma and Jean interactions, since like NXM. No one outside of Morrison has really understood Emma and the dichotomy between Emma and the other X-women. Typically, they just like using Emma so her positioning in stories with the other X-women always feels off for me. Realistically none of those women would put up with Emma's nonsense, and what I liked about Morrison, while Emma was clearly his favorite she always got her comeuppance. I'm tired of reading stories about how hard on Emma, Jean is or how Jean needs to be more patient or understanding with Emma. She's never given her own thoughts and emotions, she's used in relation to Emma to further Emma's development. Even under Bendis I thought the Emma/Jeen pairing did more for Emma than Jean, when Jeen's own Omega Level daughter, at the time, was readily available and more equipped. But that would have meant developing Jeen's relationship to Rachel, and at the time it was more important to absolve Emma of her bad feelings.
I'm tired of my favorite character being used to add to other's narrative, personally I'm fine with them being kept apart!
Poor Betsy, this CB run has officially demoted her in regards to her placement amongst the X-men. Kwannon has completed the transition and firmly has Betsy former role within team shots.
For the love of God can we please stop with this, every-time someone states they aren't completely satisfied with how Jean is used it is interpreted as wanting her to consume all available space in the comics she appears.
I enjoyed X-men 11-12 but no other Jean fans are obligated to enjoy those issues, and yes there were several problems for me with those two issues. Jean being portrayed as powerful or competent shouldn't mean we all run to rejoice, those characteristics should be the standard and unfortunately it is not.
I'm optimistic, but I won't be surprised if this is yet another opportunity for a writer to use Jean to push another character. And if I'm being honest all the signs seem to be pointing towards Jean, relieving her Phoenix mantle to someone else. Moreover, I didn't even know that apparently, Galactus mom is the Phoenix over in Defenders....
Why is this only true for Jean? I can not understand how Cyclops, Emma Colossus, Magik, Namor, Hope, Thane, Taaia, Quentin Quire, Wolverine, Echo, Fongji, A Cavewoman, multiple alternate reality version of Marvel superheroes, and literally anyone else a writer can imagine can be the Phoenix yet Jean Grey is too powerful as the Phoenix, it's just not adding up.
Probably the best course of action.
I'm a little disappointed too, Ewing was the writer who had Jean resurrected Fabian Cortez without the use of the helmet, maybe he just forgot or an artistic error. Either way we have two instance of Jean not wearing the helmet when she resurrects Xavier and Fabian. Plus, unlike some of her peers, during before instance we are shown visuals of the individuals being fully resurrected, pod and all with no helmet in sight!
EDIT-- I do not think Cassara will be a good fit for X-men year 2, I'm open to it. But Duggan benefitted GREATLY from Larraz, great art and I do not think from what I've seen from Cassara it will be a good fit for the stories we've seen in year 1.