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Really, Marvel? Jean Grey is probably coming back. Again.
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But. They both appear to be on an ascending course...
If Bucky and Jason Todd can come back, why not?
Pretty much ever since a young lady named Hope was introduced in the pages of Cable about three years ago, there have been rumors, teases and innuendos that she may be a reincarnation of original X-Man Jean Grey. Well, with the impending March launch of the annoyingly provocatively-titled X-Men event Second Coming, the suggestions as to Grey's return have reached a new low of obliqueness.
Taking huge cues from DC's promotion of their recent big-time events, especially Final Crisis, Marvel has been regularly releasing teaser images to hype Second Coming. There have been several images released thus far, the third of which being the one leading me and just about everyone else to think Jean Grey is coming back to life yet again.
A member of the very first incarnation of the X-Men team back in the 60s, Grey first took a dirt nap back in 1980 when she disintegrated herself to prevent her out-of-control Dark Phoenix powers from destroying any more inhabited solar system and any more billions of lives. She was retconned back to life a mere six years later, and lasted nearly two decades before getting iced again in 2005 when Grant Morrison gave her a massive, massive stroke near the end of his landmark New X-Men run. And so Jean Grey has remained dead-dead-deadski for the past five years. Second Coming will probably change that.
Click here for an XXL look at the image you see in the upper right corner of this page. Look. Two Hopes. One looks like a benevolent Jean Grey for the Gossip Girl set, while the other looks like an evil A Pup Named Scooby-Doo-style Grey as Dark Phoenix. "One Will Rise..." the image claims. Yeah, I mean at this point one better. This teaser sure seems like an outright promise of Jean Grey's return, but I've seen enough comic company bait-and-switches to worry Marvel, in its pretty blue dress, might pull that football at the last second leaving us fanboys on our backs screaming a bewildered "ARGH!"
(Thanks once again, Greg.)
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