*Main Post* 30 Days of Scans_Daily: Day 19: Character you used to hate/dislike, but now you don’t?
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scans_dailyHi all, this is sandoz_iscariot, your guest host for today's 30 Days of Scans_Daily entry. Today we ask, who's the character you used to hate (or dislike), but now like?
For me that character is...
Phoneix/Jean Grey!
Like a lot of X-Men fans my age, I first discovered the team via the 90s animated series. To me TAS Jean was incredibly bland compared to Rogue or Jubilee, and her romance with Cyclops was pretty much the two of them yelling, "SCOTT!" "JEEEEEEAN!" into infinity. All of Jean's episodes could have been cut from the series and first grader!me probably wouldn't have cared.
But as I soon learned, you can't always judge a comic character from an adaptation. For me the turning point was reading The Phoenix Saga and Dark Phoenix Saga in their original, not adapted/edited for Saturday Morning forms. With the Essential X-Men books in hand I was fascinated by her evolution as a mutant--going from the least powerful, "token girl" of the team (poor Silver Age Jean) to someone who was "fire and life incarnate." (Plus that whole sun-eating thing.) Jean's humanity, her basic struggle to hold onto herself, her relationships with her family, friends, and loved ones as she is becoming something beyond human, drew me to her character.
Recommended reading: Besides her two best known "Sagas," I'd recommend Chris Claremont's Jean-centric Classic X-Men backup stories. Though short, they're full of the quieter, character-driven moments that the main titles don't always have room for when the X-Men are fighting Firelord or The Brotherhood or whoever. (Though for the record, I'm not mad that she was brought back--clumsy retcons aside, if anyone has a "get out of heaven" free card, it's a character named Phoenix. And I'm looking forward to her return.)
Also, I need a Colleen Coover-drawn Jean/Wanda X-Men: First Class spin-off series right now:
So Scans_Daily, what character(s) did you used to hate, but now like?
sandoz_iscariot, your guest host for today's 30 Days of Scans_Daily entry. Today we ask, who's the character you used to hate (or dislike), but now like?For me that character is...
Phoneix/Jean Grey!
Like a lot of X-Men fans my age, I first discovered the team via the 90s animated series. To me TAS Jean was incredibly bland compared to Rogue or Jubilee, and her romance with Cyclops was pretty much the two of them yelling, "SCOTT!" "JEEEEEEAN!" into infinity. All of Jean's episodes could have been cut from the series and first grader!me probably wouldn't have cared.
But as I soon learned, you can't always judge a comic character from an adaptation. For me the turning point was reading The Phoenix Saga and Dark Phoenix Saga in their original, not adapted/edited for Saturday Morning forms. With the Essential X-Men books in hand I was fascinated by her evolution as a mutant--going from the least powerful, "token girl" of the team (poor Silver Age Jean) to someone who was "fire and life incarnate." (Plus that whole sun-eating thing.) Jean's humanity, her basic struggle to hold onto herself, her relationships with her family, friends, and loved ones as she is becoming something beyond human, drew me to her character.
Recommended reading: Besides her two best known "Sagas," I'd recommend Chris Claremont's Jean-centric Classic X-Men backup stories. Though short, they're full of the quieter, character-driven moments that the main titles don't always have room for when the X-Men are fighting Firelord or The Brotherhood or whoever. (Though for the record, I'm not mad that she was brought back--clumsy retcons aside, if anyone has a "get out of heaven" free card, it's a character named Phoenix. And I'm looking forward to her return.)
Also, I need a Colleen Coover-drawn Jean/Wanda X-Men: First Class spin-off series right now:
So Scans_Daily, what character(s) did you used to hate, but now like?
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Date: 2010-09-04 01:13 am (UTC)