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...turn of Madelyne's, but rather they are both ruined by it.
If this introductory issue had a theme, it is, perhaps appropriately, on the consequences of refusing to grow up.
Its launch is characterized by nostalgia winning over reason–an insistence that the good 'ol days...
...I can't help but to hate the irreparable character damage it does to my second favorite character in X-History, Scott Summers, nor his ill-fated bride Madelyne.
X-Factor #1 opens boldly with character assassination, for all of her vaunted resentment, it hard seems natural...
Good morning and welcome back, folks! After yesterday's rise from the ashes, it's time for our baptism by fire: we're reading X-Factor #1.
I want to be plain (and up front) in admitting my frustration with this Third Genesis; while I love what the book does in the longterm...
...making her depiction as "hysterical woman" all the more maddening as Byrne closes out his issue.
Jean's return does more harm than good, leaving her less herself than she was even in the face of the Dark Phoenix's corruption.
She might be back, but in a way, she'll always...
...Nightcrawler limited series, where the Kurt we encountered felt miles away from the Kurt we were reading at the same time in Uncanny X-Men.
At least Cockrum inarguably cared for Kurt, but in the case of Jean's, her return as its written–driven by profit over passion...
...time with any consistency, we'll be reading books outside of the purview of Claremont's stewardship–and the resentment baked into X-Factor means little effort is made to recapture the voices established for these characters.
It was something faced recently with Cockrum's...
...into a state of submissive terror once her reality sets in seems counter to any Jean I would have expected to read by this point in publication.
But that, in and of itself, is the problem we'll face again and again as we begin the rollout of X-Factor week(s)–for the first...
If Phoenix was Jean, rather than Jean the Phoenix, it does mean that her development under Claremont can be hand-waved away.
Jean's capacity for rage is present in the story from the moment she's ripped from the safety of her Jamaica Bay cocoon, but her immediate fall...
...stories (not without error, but far better than most)–but Byrne writes Jean in a way that makes the character barely recognizable.
But with Shooter's mandate and super-fan Kurt Busiek's ideas in place, Jean is ultimately more of a tabula rasa than defined person.
...has personal implications; if he can be good and noble and heroic, maybe she can be, too.
In defense of his teacher, Warlock prepares to drain the lifeglows of the assembled Avengers, but Erik quells his rage through an attack of his own.
Captain America was the first of...