When you can't get readership on your own, you bring in mutants.
Originally Posted by The General, JLA #38
'Why?' Just to see the disappointment on your corn-fed, gee-whiz face, Superman. And because a great dark voice on the edge of nothing spoke to me and said you all had to die. There is no 'Why?'
I can't wait for Claremont's Legends story where he reveals that this fake Phoenix has been showing up all over the place. Maybe Cates can do his Knull created the Phoenix story first so Claremont can erase that too.