Jean did screen our the cosmic radiation and did for a while before her shields weakened.
I dunno about light but Jean should be able to easily filter radiation seeing how she shielded from hyperspace and a white hole.
Yep, since the 90s the Jean has been able to make chains, ropes, grappling hooks and cushions with her tk, Teen Jean was also able to make hammers, shields, swords, shuriken, ropes and chains with her tk.
Making a TK ball or bubble is something she casually does most times when she creates a shield... She's also made Phoenix raptor/claw constructs
I was looking at the sales charts for X-Men Red, and I noticed by #8 the book was selling 39,763 copies
So I had to compare with some of the DoX books charts for their issue 8. The results are :
- X-Force 8 : 41,153 copies
- New Mutants 8 : 39,251 copies
- Marauders 8 : 37,413
X-Men Red was not that bad in the selling charts, wasn't it? If Marvel considers that Jean Grey/X-Men Red was flop, then they'll have to admit that New Mutants and Marauders are a flop too.
Well, I guess we have to consider that DOX books are double-shipping.
But either way, I don't think they considered RED a flop. That's not why it ended. It ended because there were already other plans in motion and everything that was being released at the time also got shafted.
It's just me. I am a bit paranoid after 14 years of Marvel's disdain of the character lol
Sometimes I have the feeling that they are pushing hard some of their properties, and that they don't care much about Jean, even if her books were doing ok (Red and even the (teen) Jean Grey book # 8 was selling 38,240 copies). It was not stellar selling, but it wasn't worst than some DoX books.
Looking back I think that was part of my aversion to Jeen, in that writers made her highly skilled and powerful almost instantly with only limited training. I know that we were Jean starved by that point, but it set a bad precedent for things moving forward. This now creates an issue where Jean can appear less powerful or skilled when comparing the two (which is almost worse in some respect considering Jean has all the memories of Jeen). The writing for Jean, for me, has improved with the roll out of more titles outside of PoX/HoX in particular X-Force.
Marvel is always good about promoting teenaged girl characters, especially within the X-Men franchise, their track record with adult women is substantially worse. When Jeen came in she basically filled in the "it girl" role that had been vacated by Hope, similar to how characters like Kitty Pryde or Jubilee had functioned in the past.
Teen Jean was definitely written very powerful, and was at the center of a number of the stories she was featured in. However, she was written very inconsistently, and often felt like a different character altogether. Yes, she has some similarities to adult Jean, but it was a major story point that she was acting differently to try to change her future. Teen Jean was a fun distraction, but I'm much happier having the adult Jean back.