Hold onto your hats everyone: Jean Grey is BACK?! But this character NEVER returns from the dead – that’s why she’s called Phoenix half the time! And it’s been years since we’ve seen Jean – why, I bet there’s an entire generation of comics readers who’ll be utterly lost as to who this “Gene Gray” person is!
I may have overdosed on sarcasm there. Yeah, that’s what Marvel needs right now: another uninspired resurrection storyline where they bring back a character who’s not only died and come back to life on multiple occasions but who’s also another version of a character they already have two of running around!
It was kinda interesting that Matthew Rosenberg’s story was Twilight Zone-ish - an amnesiac Jean is stuck in an idyllic American town surrounded by dead characters wondering what’s up doc – it’s not the most predictable way to bring her back, so I give Rosenberg some credit there. And the art line-up is pretty faultless: Leinil Francis Yu, Joe Bennett, Carlos Pacheco and Ramon Rosanas are all fantastic artists.
But it’s simply impossible to care one fig about anything that happens in the book. She’s alive, she’s dead, the Phoenix Force is gone, then it’s back – who blimmin cares at this point. It’s all so unoriginal, there are never any consequences, it’s just the same stuff repeating for the umpteenth time.
The only thing not resurrected in Phoenix Resurrection: The Return of Jean Grey is my interest in the character.
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