Yes, I'm pleased as punch that the charade is finally over as the B.S. fan-fic was a direct and blatant contradiction to what was printed in Thor (Vol. 1) #301
So the scene in Planet Sized X-Men was a little unclear from the art what exactly happened. But a fan asked Gerry Duggan and he basically confirmed that it was indeed Jean and Exodus moving the entire island through a gate and Latucca guided them:
And here is a bigger of the tweet from CF Villa that the pink energy that blew the Hex's head out is Jean's:
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I’m very happy to hear Jean had a role in physically moving arakko with her tk and was part of the offensive show of force during judgement day #2 my only question is : Couldn’t the artist and writer do a better job at conveying what was actually happening? Having to check via social media in order to make head or tail regarding Jean’s role in these issue is so very weird, people often criticize Claremont but even as young child I never had any trouble understanding what was going on panel, his caption were always informative and cool in a nerdy kind of way.
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.”
It's kind of funny...
We all know it was a massive feat both literally and figuratively. Villa clearly shows the scale of Jean's effort and just how she accomplishes it...in four panels. Yet we want to be told in caption that "Jean, using her telekinetic might, drowns the Hex"
Don't get me wrong, there are many writers and artists in modern comics who absolutely need caption/narration boxes but Duggan and Larraz/Pina/Villa are not them.
The one (of a few) thing I hated most about Claremont's writing was that he was so redundant in both his captions and his art direction. Why explain something when it was clearly shown by the artist? It cluttered up beauty-full artwork unnecessarily.
My Summer rain. My rooftop in Japan. My quiet in the storm. *cries* Al Ewing is GOD...Praise His name! Uplift Him in song! Glorify His works!
Don't get me wrong. I'm not calling him a liar, I just don't believe his words.
It is also plausible to believe that Jean was attacking the Hex alongside Exodus. I don't know... In the last editions in which Exodus and Jean appeared together, the designers insist on showing Exodus' telekinesis and not Jean's, so it is implicit
I can 100 % agree that Gillen and Schiti needed some caption boxes. As beauty-full as it was the artwork was way too busy and things were happening way too scattered.
My Summer rain. My rooftop in Japan. My quiet in the storm. *cries* Al Ewing is GOD...Praise His name! Uplift Him in song! Glorify His works!
“Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.” Goethe
That Jean vs Hex scene should have been a splash page, to indicate the scale of such a feat. Four little boxes doesn’t cut it. They’re in the business of entertainment. Well entertain, dammit!
On a smaller scale, Iceman leveling up to knock out a Hex was also event worthy. Yet both those feats seemed ho-hum because they were depicted as such.
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