mwm@dartvax.UUCP (M. W. Modrall) (09/30/84)
Just a quick note about x-men 137.... i agree with the way that it was handled. Jean had just killed a star system, but more than that, what would they have done with her if she had lived...? a star-system, she may have been able to cope with, but her very existence would have made the rest of the x-men super- fluous.... and if they had just taken away her powers, what good would that do? you would have one normal person who used to be god that would have to fade into the wood-work... no, the way they did it, they got rid of a too powerful char- acter, and made a hell of a good tear-jerker out of it.... and just a side note... this comic reader happens to like the flash, and i don't like all of the abuse he's had over the past couple of years.... and i don't like snide comments about blowing the poor guy up.... come on... he's had enough already... Mark Modrall mwm Dartmouth college
mwm@dartvax.UUCP (M. W. Modrall) (10/08/84)
i was entirely aware of claremonts plans for jean grey had she lived.... (i read the untold saga like everybody else) and i still contend that they ended it the best way possible.... they got to make a big moral issue out of it, and, as i said, they got rid of a character that was too powerful without destroying her integrity... i think robbing a hero/heroine of powers is a cheap gambit that destroys their character.... look at the times ben grimm has gotten changed back from the thing... every time he's human, he whines about being left out.... heroes dont make the transition back to normaldom easily, and i can't think of one case where it has been done well.... no, it was better to let her go with her integrity and her power by her choice..... and it gave the rest of the x-men a reason to exist again.... now a side note.... who else here think that syzygy wimped out in dreadstar #14.... i remember in the price, the lord papel described him as the most powerful thing on 2 legs.... and yet two bush-league teenagers were able to take him out but good.... pretty cheap..... Mark Modrall mwm Dartmouth