Warning: incorporates a preview of Jean Gray #2!As Marvel places a brand new spin on the X-Males‘s most well-known and iconic story, Wolverine‘s therapeutic issue simply fatally broke the logic that made it work within the first place. The change is resulting in an thrilling (and mysterious) alternate historical past during which Wolverine turns into the Darkish Phoenix, however it’s exhausting to disregard the way in which the comedian breaks the unique story.
In Louise Jones Simonson, Bernard Chang, Marcelo Maiolo and Ariana Maher’s Jean Gray #2, the lately deceased Jean Gray continues to review her previous, discovering how issues would have modified if key moments had gone in a different way. This situation, Jean is concentrated on ‘The Darkish Phoenix Saga’ – an iconic X-Males story tailored in each X-Males: The Final Stand and X-Males: Darkish Phoenix, in addition to most animated diversifications of the franchise. Jean displays on the second the place she selected to manually pilot an area shuttle, crashing it into Jamaica Bay. It’s there that she related to the Phoenix Power, resulting in the destruction of a star system, and the genocide of the alien D’Bari. Jean Gray #2 factors out that Jean ought to by no means have been piloting the shuttle, since Wolverine’s therapeutic issue meant he might simply have survived doing so. Within the preview, Jean lets Wolverine take her place, kicking off a brand new model of occasions.
Jean Gray #2 depicts the occasions of X-Males vol. 1 #100, throughout which era Wolverine was – as Jean says – “the irritating new man along with his adamantium claws and mysterious previous.” At this time limit, Wolverine’s powers have been far much less excessive, and his therapeutic issue hadn’t been established at wherever close to in the present day’s energy degree. Certainly, Marvel had solely lately thought-about killing him in an plane explosion (however in the end opted to lose James Proudstar’s Thunderbird as a substitute, as the 2 have been thought-about too related.) By retconning Wolverine’s therapeutic issue to in the present day’s godlike ranges, Jean Gray #2 breaks the logic that justified Jean Gray’s sacrifice.
Within the unique comedian, Jean was one of the best candidate to pilot the shuttle – her telepathy allowed her to ‘obtain’ the abilities of a pilot, and her telekinesis protected her from the radiation, a minimum of for some time. Nevertheless, by retroactively mentioning Wolverine’s highly effective therapeutic issue, Jean Gray #2 raises the purpose that Jean by no means wanted to threat her life piloting the shuttle, and claims she did so as a result of she was unwilling to confess she didn’t have all of the solutions. Given this resolution was the primary domino in a course of resulting in planetary genocide, it’s an sadly petty cause for Jean to have denied the clearly higher choice of letting Wolverine volunteer. It additionally makes Logan look worse – within the unique comedian, he’s providing his personal heroic sacrifice, however now it appears extra like he let Jean threat her life simply because she yelled at him.
Fortunately, this small second is more likely to be forgotten within the bigger story of Wolverine falling prey to the world-destroying energy of the Darkish Phoenix. Promo artwork for the problem reveals him turning right into a monstrous, fiery warrior sprouting claws throughout his physique, and backed-up by Jean Gray and Cyclops. The comedian’s fascinating premise, as Jean tries to vary key moments of X-Males lore to avoid wasting them from the Mutant Bloodbath that simply left them on the point of extinction, is in full swing, and will probably be attention-grabbing to see how the remainder of X-Males‘s wildly well-known Darkish Phoenix Saga performs out with Wolverine in Jean’s place.
Jean Gray #2 is coming September 27.