Confession:
I was not eager for the return of Jean Grey. Ever since the birth of Hope Summers and up to the All-New Marvel Now teaser, Jean’s possible return was teased.
I thought poor Jean had been through enough after deaths and resurrections. I even wrote I love you Jean Grey, stay dead.
Then Brian Michael Bendis took on the X-Men and brought Jean back in a way no one was expecting. The blast from the past reinvigorated the X-Men’s future.
Bendis will leave the franchise with Uncanny X-Men #600. As the fan-favorite writer looks back on his run, he reveals his favorite moments and achievements. I had to share this one about the beloved Marvel girl.
“I will say I’m personally proudest of doing a Jean Grey story that didn’t end with her murdered,” he admits. “The people always said they wanted Jean Grey back and we brought her back. Literally every day, someone wrote me and said, ‘Are you going to kill her? Are you killing her? When you gonna kill her?’ But we told a great story and we didn’t do it so that was exciting.” Bendis told Marvel.com.
The writer definitely put Jean through trials and trauma against the Shi’ar Empire and a future Xavier but she kept getting stronger. We love Jean so much now she made our top characters to stay in the post-Secret Wars status quo. Fans get their wish.
Young Jean Grey will stay in the All-New, All-Different Marvel Now in Extraordinary X-Men by Jeff Lemire as Bendis says goodbye in Uncanny X-Men #600. Both issues arrive Wednesday.
By Editor