It's all just so stupid, how do you have Destiny, Hope, and Exodus alongside 250K mutants in the WHR, and the story is Jean being killed smh it almost makes me want to laugh.
Even including the first panel in IMX might have made a slight difference for me. But ignoring the Jean solo, Gillen has done a horrible job telling Jean's story through everyone BUT her and I do not care about some flash of Phoenix which she'll share at the very end of the story.
Same! I'm over her being used like a Macguffin!
Honestly, that retcon one of the stupidest things that's ever happened to Jean and the logic behind ripping years of the best development she's ever received WITHOUT a plan on doing anything of substance with her afterwards is imo the epitome of how women characters are treated so carelessly.
IDK, it's been over 40 years and Jean still hasn't fully recovered from that retcon it divorced her from one of the few era's where she received consistent development. Absolutely, nothing was done to replace that development but worse it forced her into a box because after the retcon she could never BE Phoenix, but it also handicapped her as a character because the most pivotal story of her existence was stripped away, and again I do not think anything has ever been done to repair the damage or mitigate it by giving her something else to fill that void.