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X-Men: Phoenix Rising by Jackson Butch Guice, Bob Layton, Roger Stern, John Buscema, John Byrne
ptothelo's review
3.0
Despite the whole living-dying-living-dying thing with clones and alien beings thrown in, Jean Grey/Phoenix is my favorite character. I've been looking for this story for a while and was glad they finally put it out in trade. It was a good story and only a slight let down because I've been waiting for it for so long that I've built it up in my mind. And they still haven't even begun to deal with the Maddie issue in this collection and I really wanted to see Scott tell Jean about her. alas
fictionista3's review
4.0
Would have given this 5 stars, except that it ends in a very odd place. And I can't figure out where/if the story is continued in another book!
booknooknoggin's review
4.0
rebirth of Jean Grey. This was back when they had a lot of dialog that you do not see in contemporary comics.
squidbag's review
4.0
Memory lane, man.
I guess I was a little obsessive about Phoenix when I first started getting into X-Men; Jean's death is kind of the fulcrum event between the old guard and the new guard (Jean/Kitty) and when I started reading X-Men, I was collecting in two directions - forward and backward. I would read what happened this month, and then get through the crop of old stuff that I picked up at flea markets and backwater comic stores - so I knew Jean was dead before I read the death itself. I even had the "alternate ending & interviews" issue with John Byrne talking about grapes.
This, though - this was current. I was reading FF, Avengers and X-Men when this happened, and the house ads for X-Factor made everyone unreasonably excited. I say all of this to say that I cannot, with any responsible objectivity, evaluate the interior content. I can say that all of the parts of this reveal unfold across four titles, and they're all included here, along with material that came later. Exactly what you need from this collection.
I guess I was a little obsessive about Phoenix when I first started getting into X-Men; Jean's death is kind of the fulcrum event between the old guard and the new guard (Jean/Kitty) and when I started reading X-Men, I was collecting in two directions - forward and backward. I would read what happened this month, and then get through the crop of old stuff that I picked up at flea markets and backwater comic stores - so I knew Jean was dead before I read the death itself. I even had the "alternate ending & interviews" issue with John Byrne talking about grapes.
This, though - this was current. I was reading FF, Avengers and X-Men when this happened, and the house ads for X-Factor made everyone unreasonably excited. I say all of this to say that I cannot, with any responsible objectivity, evaluate the interior content. I can say that all of the parts of this reveal unfold across four titles, and they're all included here, along with material that came later. Exactly what you need from this collection.
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