Phoenix Returns? Marvel’s Live Event

It's coming Live Event this Wednesday. Image courtesy Marvel.com

  It’s payoff time this Wednesday. After months of teasers, today Marvel announced a live event Wednesday at 3pm eastern, high noon pacific.

  The teasers with the fiery image have been promoting that Marvel’s top creators are attached to the project meaning this will not be just an X-Men storyline.

  In the Point One issue Nova was seen speeding away from the Phoenix image as it appeared to be consuming a planet like it did in Uncanny X-Men #135 during the Dark Phoenix Saga.

Uncanny X-Men #135 cover courtesy Marvel.com. Art by John Byrne

  The Watcher was a central figure in Point One. Marvel teased that Ed Brubaker may be working on a Watcher project in 2012. The alien has always been tied to the Phoenix. If Ed Brubaker is involved, I hope this means the return of Vulcan, Scott and Alex’s revenge crazed brother who took over the Shiar Empire. The entity is tied to Shiar legends, a Shiar warrior once wield the Phoenix Force via a giant blade. If Vulcan is able to host or manipulate the entity the universe should be quaking with fear.

‘The Phoenix is about destruction and rebirth,” Marvel Editor in Chief Axel Alonso told Comic Book Resources. Could that signal a huge shakeup of the Marvel Universe titles and perhaps this might explain why so many titles were cancelled.

  If the Phoenix is coming who will be the host? Will this mean we go back inside the ‘white hot room’ and revisit Grant Morrison’s Here Comes Tomorrow storyline?

  The image of the Phoenix appeared to Emma Frost twice recently around the young mutant Hope. With titles like Messiah Complex and Second Coming, the X-events featuring the young mutant fanned of flames that Hope might be Jean reborn or the future host of the Phoenix.

Phoenix: Endsong #1 Cover by Greg Land. Marvel.com

  As I have posted before I hope the return of the Phoenix does means the resurrection of Jean Grey Summers. Jean has suffered enough rebirths. I know a lot of fans love Jean and want her back with Cyclops but I want her to stay dead. Thanks for the information Robot 6.

 

Death of Phoenix Page Sold For $65,000+

Uncanny X-Men #137 art by John Byrne and Terry Austin. Published by Marvel Comics

Story:

An original page from Uncanny X-Men #137 sold for $65,725! That 1980 issue features the death of the Phoenix/Jean Grey. The art is by John Byrne and Terry Austin. This issue is the final chapter in the Dark Phoenix Saga. The panels show Jean begging Scott Summer/Cyclops to kill her before she loses control and the Dark Phoenix takes over. Thanks for Robot 6 for this scoop. There’s a very rich X-fan out there.

Essential X-Men Volume 2. Art by John Byrne and Terry Austin. Courtesy Marvel.com

 Opinion:

The Dark Phoenix Saga is the greatest X-Men and comic book story ever told. Claremont and Byrne weaved an intergalactic, action packed epic filled with emotion. I swear I didn’t cry. I still have my issue #137 and every few years I reread the whole saga and sometimes the entire Clarement/Byrne era.