X-Men: Elsewhen - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Fri, 25 Jul 2025 12:14:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/comicsxf.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cropped-orange-favicon-2.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 X-Men: Elsewhen - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 Everything old is new again as John Byrne returns to the X-Men https://comicsxf.com/2025/07/25/everything-old-is-new-again-as-john-byrne-returns-to-the-x-men/ Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=53573 Remember when Phoenix ate a star and killed a planet of Asparagus People, and then the recently-deceased Jim Shooter told creators Chris Claremont and John Byrne they had to scuttle their plans to lobotomize her as punishment, so they killed her instead, thereby creating one of the most memorable and impactful endings to a superhero...

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