![]() Jean Grey returns to the fold as an auxiliary member of sorts, having rekindled her affair with Scott Summers/Cyclops. The other originals, including Beast, Angel, Iceman, and Marvel Girl, move on. ![]() ![]() In the wake of the historic Giant-Size X-Men #1, which saw a new roster of mutants brought under the influence of team mentor Professor Charles Xavier, only one original team member remains-the stoic, insecure Cyclops. That wouldn’t fly with Claremont, who’d made a name for himself as a write not only for his complex, mature storylines, but his desire to bring his female characters to the forefront-as fully-formed, complicated people. The Dark Phoenix Saga focuses on the telepathic/telekinetic Grey nee Marvel Girl, one of the original, founding X-Men, who up until then had been portrayed as a mostly two-dimensional way, the bland foil to her male counterparts. ![]() In fact, some would suggest-as I have-that arguably his most lauded stories, “The Dark Phoenix Saga,” is really a long spotlight piece on one of the medium’s most evocative femmes fatales-Jean Grey, the aforementioned Dark Phoenix. ![]() While at first blush Claremont’s literary superhero epic veers far from the gritty, street-level turf of crime fiction, the scribe is no stranger to the genre’s basic elements. ![]()
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