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        | Andrew Bitner Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          I've been enjoying this alternate history so much. JB, I hope it's been as fun for you as it has been for us readers.
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        | Michael Penn Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          Hmm. Perhaps Wolverine is really kind of an oddball mutant
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 eye-beams, and thus deserving his name, but his actual x-
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        | Wallace Sellars Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          Can you imagine the terror Jean's parents (being civilians) must be experiencing right now?
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 Though now that I think of it... Would they be more or less frightened than the X-Men given that they don't know the full extent of the Phoenix entity's powers?
 
 Hmmm... I guess I'll go with more scared since given their perspective, after a certain point it doesn't matter just how powerful someone trying to harm you is.
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        | Steven Queen Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          The suspension in mid-air so high (the stark white backgrounds) really adds to the sense of danger and helplessness.  It's a good choice of less-is-more imagery, especially in contrast with what occurred previously.
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        | Rebecca Jansen Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          Wolverine in the Legion might've been Regener-Lad. Sorry.
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 Mr. & Mrs. Grey are hanging in there. So what does the Phoenix-Empress who can have anything really want? :^O
 
 I guess even a mint copy of Motion Picture Funnies Weekly #1 and Action #1 with the coloring contest page intact won't be a lot of help...
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        | Andrew Bitner Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          If a declawed Wolverine had been female and in the Legion of Super-Heroes, might they have called her...
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        | Andrew Bitner Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          As for Lilandra, evidently she (or the Phoenix) wanted to kiss Scott, so... check that off the list.
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        | John Byrne 
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        | Vinny Valenti Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          Then again, since Wolverine had bone claws all along.......
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        | John Byrne 
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          Shrieking hellspawn upon your house, Valenti!!!
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        | Mark Haslett Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          Michael: Hmm. Perhaps Wolverine is really kind of an oddball mutant
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 |  superhero too. Like Cyclops having completely artificial
 eye-beams, and thus deserving his name, but his actual x-
 power being able to breathe under water.
 
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 Agreeing that Wolverine is a weird case, the overall package does seem to make a
 slight amount of sense in regards to the original idea of the X-Men-- at least in
 comparison to your example.
 
 Logan's healing allows ---> bone replacement/claws ----> creating Wolverine.
 
 He's a mutant with a wrinkle -- a compound result of mutant powers and Canadian
 governmental abuse.
 
 If he were the only exception, I think the X-Men concept could accommodate him
 pretty easily. But he's not the only exception, and I guess he probably never could
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        | Mark Haslett Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          Wallace: Can you imagine the terror Jean's parents (being civilians) must be
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 Yes! To me, it's a testament to the mastery on display here that I feel so much
 of their plight with very little page-count actually devoted to it.
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