And that’s a wrap on Stephanie Phillips’ time with Jean Grey and the Phoenix Force.
Come January, Phillips will be off the X-books and preparing to launch a new volume of Daredevil alongside artist Lee Garbett. It’s a big transition period in general for Phillips, as her longest comics series to date, BOOM Studios’ Grim, ended this month with issue #25, with a possible animated adaptation on the way for Netflix.
But all that begs the question: Where’s Jean?
The final issue of the Phoenix series, which came out in September, ends with a splash page of Jean declaring herself happy. Not sacrificing herself to stop some cosmic-level threat, not losing her powers in some grand conflict. Just content in a moment of family reunion with her long-lost sister, Sara.
So where is she?
She wasn’t in any of the “Shadows of Tomorrow” books announced for January or February. She’s not on Stefano Caselli’s promo art for X-Men United, a book that purports to pull from all corners of the X-line.
An answer no doubt is coming. As the avatar of a cosmic entity and one of the Important X-Men, Jean can’t stay disappeared for long. Look for a last-page reveal of the Phoenix in trouble, probably sooner than you think.
In the meantime, check out our exclusive preview of Binary #3, out next week, and keep scrolling for the basic deets.
And for our official thoughts on Marvel’s “Age of Revelation” event, click here.
W: Stephanie Phillips | A: Giada Belviso | CA: Rickie Yagawa
SUPERNOVA! X YEARS LATER, Carol Danvers, bearing the heavy weight of the cosmic name BINARY and feeling the godlike power of the PHOENIX FORCE coursing through her body, now stands face to face with the enemy who has come to annihilate everything Carol holds dear! At her lowest ebb, will Carol manage to hold back the destruction, or will she go supernova… and take it all with her?!
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