QUOTE: I thought they had one. His name started with an "M" or something...?

Mesmero?

He even perpetuates the myth that X-Men took off in sales because of that story. Appealing to Salicrup to verify his version-- it turns out that Salicrup came in after everything was already a done deal. Pesky little facts.

One would think this was all a matter of record as told in Phoenix- the untold tale.

Edited by Mark Haslett on 02 June 2011 at 2:30pm

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QUOTE: Mesmero?

Joke apart i loved Jean as Phoenix and never was happy that her dark side became more than a Hulk sort of menace (something bad inside).

I wasn't happy to see her destroy an inhabited  planet, and even less happy to see her die.

Loved the Hellfire arc, stopped to like the Dark Phoenix one when she destroyed that star.

But of course i wanted to keep Jean as Phoenix, that's how i liked and still like her.

That didn't stop me to continue to enjoy both yours and Chris' work ,though.

All things considered, I think it would have been far better to just play Jean's powers for all they were worth. In the early issues, she was VERY powerful, yet somehow limitations got imposed -- many of which ignored what had been already established. For instance, how do we reconcile her not being able to use her TK powers to lift anything greater than she could physically carry with…

Sure, she "feels faint" after this little exploit, but that seems more in the writing than the pictures -- and even if those are particularly skinny ladies she's hoisting about a quarter of a ton there, CONSIDERABLY more than she could carry by hand!

Seems like Jack wanted her to be a lot more powerful than Stan did -- and I would have taken that scene as an indication that she merely needed to PRACTICE. It is a SCHOOL, after all, right?

No need to BOOST her powers, any more than I BOOSTED Sue's powers to show everybody that the Invisible Girl was a major player!

This is a case where I wish the powers that were would have allowed Chris & John to put the "toys" back on the shelf where they found them.  I much prefered Jean as Marvel Girl over Phoenix and it would have been nice had they been able to restore her to that immediately after the Dark Phoenix saga.