Hell yes!
Absolutely!
Within the story, Scott was chosen to be Scott, the Phoenix was a nice coincidence. Just as Star-Lord or Spider-man. T'Challa invented a machine that would choose the necessary survivors in case the scientists who were going to evacuate died (which happened). Scott would be one of the chosen ones. What we do not know is what criteria the machine used.
In the story, the Phoenix as they have already said represents opposition to Doom in the form of reboot, while Reed Richards is the middle way between restarting and maintaining the status quo.
Last edited by Glio; 04-20-2019 at 08:52 AM.
Hickman clearly wanted Jeen to be Phoenix and I guess Scott would be her guide through the whole thing. You can see her with Scott on the promotional images and the Reed cover. But that was changed midway, so Scott got the responsibility of being the Phoenix. But yeah, the criteria seemed pretty weird. I still love that Hickman was so interested in writing him.
And yeah, the Phoenix was the whole reboot idea we discussed earlier.
Also, cheers for the 300 pages. We're clearly the biggest appreciation thread every year, thanks to near infinite amounts of complaining and inside jokes LMAO
I had to take a step away from X-Men comics for a little while. I just wasn't enjoying them.
But alas, I have returned. As has Scott. Which is why I have returned. I've picked up the UXM Annual and following issues. And I'm excited to get to reading again.
It wasn't a promotional image, but a variant from issue 1
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Look at Jeen right there. And then there's the Reed cover:
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Look at Jeen right there with the Spideys. There was clearly some editorial intervention here.
It pretty much could be since it doesn't contradict anything that was going on in the X-books at the time, IIRC.