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Tim O Neill
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I really like these moments with Xavier - I really do appreciate how you depict
him as an essential element of the team.
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Rod Collins
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JB wrote: The biggest problem with Xavier is that he is far and away the most powerful of the X-Men. Writers are forced to contrive reasons for him to not simply blank the memories of the bad guys (as he did to the Blob and the Vanisher in their first appearances).I’m reasonably sure Stan and Jack put him in the wheelchair to limit his scope. -------
They had the foresight to limit him to the control centre so to speak. When Secret Wars was over and they had Xavier as a field agent, the rest of the X-Men became somewhat redundant. I guess that's why they quickly moved him on at the time.
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Mark McKay
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I've had several moments throughout many X-Men tales of thinking "well, Professor X could just......."
It would make for some pretty boring X-Men stories though.
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John Byrne
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Xavier is a classic example of the old adage, “If it’s already broken, leave it broken.”*(And, as I recently pointed out, Xavier’s legs are BROKEN—crushed—NOT “paralyzed”.) ———— * Closely related to “The people who created the character(s) probably got it right.”
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Wallace Sellars
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That's how I feel about Dr. Strange and (especially) Zatanna.
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Doug Centers
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Question for JB, in those panels where we're in Pablo's mind, how would you tell the colorist to handle it?
Thanks in advance!
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Rebecca Jansen
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| Posted: 18 May 2021 at 5:10pm | IP Logged | 7
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I think it was after the #155-164 Brood space saga where Professor X (and everyone else) got a new clone body,and his was without crushed legs... and yet he still couldn't walk because it was "psychological"! Something else I detested in the post-Byrne X-world because to me it made no sense for someone with such incredible mind powers not to be able to move his own undamaged legs. And then he could and we got (not making this up) "The Bald Phoenix" (Star-Jammers #1 & 2).
Oh well, just another thing, like the Wolverboneclaws, to forget about with help from Elsewhen.
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Andrew Bitner
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I heard about "the Bald Phoenix" only recently -- and why didn't they call him PhoenX? Was it that hard to figure out?
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Jason K Fulton
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Whichever Magneto survived, I hope the Alt-Magneto costume sticks around. The cleaner lines just look better, especially on the helmet!
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Rebecca Jansen
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I dunno. "It was the worst of times, it was the..."?
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Jason K Fulton
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Almost went my entire life without seeing Xavier in a Phoenix costume. Just wasn't meant to be, I guess!
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Philippe Negrin
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oh man, that's a horrible piece...Can't I unsee it ?
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