-> On Sun  5-Apr-1998 17:31 , Stephen Turner wrote:
->
-> ST> Talking about losses, is anybody here old enough to have read the
-> ST> Byrne
-> ST> X-Men that led up to the death of the original Jean
-> Grey/Phoenix? Doesn't
-> ST> it strike you as a little strange, not to mention cruel, that the
-> ST> character with SOOOO much potential, made her into a monster, and
-> ST> killed her off?
->
-> I never liked that either.
Doesn't it seem like Marvel does that with ALL their best characters??
ESPECIALLY the ones with major spiritual potential?? Witness Dr.
Strange, the Surfer, Reed Richards, Odin, Balder, Karma, Prof.
Xavier....I'd say there's something pathological at work there.
-> ST> The original Phoenix was the embodiment of characters like the
-> Watcher, ST> The
-> ST> Silver Surfer, Ego, Thor and such, in a female vessel....before
-> she turned
-> ST> into Dark Phoenix, she saved the universe, defeated the evil side
-> ST> Shi'ar Empire, and did quite a few other things that proved quite
-> ST> impressive in
-> ST> her six or seven year tenure. Why would you kill off such a GREAT
-> ST> character and plot device?!
->
-> I think they are working on that now in the X Books...
MORE confusion!! (g)
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