#generations phoenix

[thewhitehotroom]

Welcome to Comic Cover Friday where we take a look at comic covers featuring Jean Grey and examine some of the details and plot points from within the book to learn more about Jean Grey!

If you have any suggestions for Jean Grey Comic Covers that I should feature and examine please feel free to message me and I will gladly look into them!

This Week the cover I have chosen to highlight is: Generations The Phoenix

Cover Artists: Stephanie Hans

The Cover: This comic book was apart of a series of books where two versions of characters from past and present met and adventured together. This book was also in my opinion one of the first hints that the original Jean was going to return. I love the cover, the art is beautiful and both the Time Displaced Jean and the original Jean are highlighted amazingly. Jean is in all of her Phoenix glory lighting up the entire cover with her flames while the Time Displaced Jean looks to be trying to protect herself, and maybe even shocked to discover she is time displaced again. I also think that the confidence in their paths with the Phoenix Force can clearly be seen on both of their faces.

The Comic Book:

The young Jean Grey suddenly finds herself within the Vanishing Point. She eventually finds she's on a beach in Italy, and uses a wide-scale psychic "nudge" to hide her uniform from anyone who looks at her. After a quick mental sweep, Jean seemingly finds the older Jean Grey on the beach; however, the younger Jean realizes that this is not actually the older Jean, but rather, the Phoenix.

"Jean" informs her younger self that she can sense her there. Young Jean begins to ask "Jean" about the Phoenix Force, as it is coming for her in the present; however, "Jean" interrupts and, feeling hungry, takes her younger self to Cefalù for food, then to the Flames Nightclub, but the younger Jean won't stop trying to ask the older "Jean" questions about the Phoenix Force. Young Jean notices the man who came to "Jean" at the beach is also in the club, and that this is in fact the illusionist, Mastermind. "Jean" then decides to show her younger self what the Phoenix is all about, and they fly into space.

Minutes later, they arrive on another planet about to be consumed by Galactus. Phoenix declares that the planet is under her protection and easily deals with Galactus' herald, Terrax. Galactus takes notice, and begins to fight the Phoenix. Galactus using the Power Cosmic, begins to syphon energy from the Phoenix. Marvel Girl begins to draw telepathic energy from everywhere around her, including Terrax, Galactus, and the Phoenix Force itself. This results in Marvel Girl creating her own purple, Phoenix-like psychic aura, and punching Galactus in the face hard enough to knock him over. Terrax admits that his master is impressed and will spare this world, but he will obliterate them, should they get in his way again.

The Phoenix then claims that this is why she is here, to save lives, but Marvel Girl replies "no." The Phoenix can tell that there is something Jean is not telling her about their future, but then the Watcher arrives, appearing only to Marvel Girl, informing her that while he cannot intervene, the choice she makes to tell the Phoenix about the future would impact everything that comes after. Jean decides not to tell the Phoenix about the near future, and the Watcher takes Jean back to the Prime Marvel Universe before she can even say goodbye to the Phoenix. Yet, the Phoenix says that it's alright, and that they both know they will meet again. (Synopsis courtesy of Marvel Fandom.com)

[quintesequential-blog]

I’m glad that the characters seem as confused as the readers as to the purpose of these one shots...

We’re two issues in and I am still waiting for someone to explain to me what exactly generations is supposed to be/accomplish.

[thirdeyecomics]

NEW COMIC DAY TODAY, OUR PICKS: GENERATIONS PHOENIX #1 One-Shot *Road to MARVEL LEGACY* -- Third Eye Faithful, we are so pumped about MARVEL LEGACY! Following hot on the heels of DC Comics’s own very cool return to their roots, DC REBIRTH, Marvel is bringing back many of their most iconic characters and thrusting them into the spotlight, alongside the next generation of heroes they’ve built over the last decade! A blending of the things that have made MARVEL COMICS amazing for so many years combined with the cutting edge, innovative storytelling and world building that’s made Marvel so unique since the 2000s began – Marvel LEGACY is shaping up to be quite possibly the most exciting thing that we’ve seen the publisher do. Period. We know that you’re like us, and CANNOT wait for LEGACY to start.. well, get ready to get an early look at the overall theme and tone of LEGACY with Marvel’s upcoming GENERATIONS series – a limited 10-issue series featuring special team-up one-shot issues pairing the return of a classic Marvel icon with their modern-day next generation counter part. What’s really interesting about Marvel GENERATIONS is that many of the characters featured… have been MIA for quite some time, whether either dead or trapped somewhere else – but: this is legit. The characters you see returning here are the real deal, and these stories do happen – and LEGACY is going to be a big part of what explains how it happens. The fun continues this week, as the mysteries of the strange purgatory where many of Marvel’s most iconic heroes have been trapped as the prime representations of themselves, THE VANISHING POINT, is explored! In GENERATIONS PHOENIX #1, teenage Jean Grey is willing to do whatever it takes to avoid the fate that befell her predecessor. But when Jean is cast through time into the VANISHING POINT and comes face-to-face with the newly possessed Phoenix, will she find the key to saving herself…or learn that her fate is sealed? What does this all mean to the cataclysmic events of GENERATIONS that are on the way? Find out in this week’s GENERATIONS PHOENIX #1!

[thirdeyecomics]

NEW COMIC DAY TOMORROW, OUR PICKS: GENERATIONS PHOENIX #1 *ROAD TO MARVEL LEGACY* -- Third Eye Faithful, we are so pumped about MARVEL LEGACY! Following hot on the heels of DC Comics’s own very cool return to their roots, DC REBIRTH, Marvel is bringing back many of their most iconic characters and thrusting them into the spotlight, alongside the next generation of heroes they’ve built over the last decade! A blending of the things that have made MARVEL COMICS amazing for so many years combined with the cutting edge, innovative storytelling and world building that’s made Marvel so unique since the 2000s began – Marvel LEGACY is shaping up to be quite possibly the most exciting thing that we’ve seen the publisher do. Period. We know that you’re like us, and CANNOT wait for LEGACY to start.. well, get ready to get an early look at the overall theme and tone of LEGACY with Marvel’s upcoming GENERATIONS series – a limited 10-issue series featuring special team-up one-shot issues pairing the return of a classic Marvel icon with their modern-day next generation counter part. What’s really interesting about Marvel GENERATIONS is that many of the characters featured… have been MIA for quite some time, whether either dead or trapped somewhere else – but: this is legit. The characters you see returning here are the real deal, and these stories do happen – and LEGACY is going to be a big part of what explains how it happens. The fun continues this week, as the mysteries of the strange purgatory where many of Marvel’s most iconic heroes have been trapped as the prime representations of themselves, THE VANISHING POINT, is explored! In GENERATIONS PHOENIX #1, teenage Jean Grey is willing to do whatever it takes to avoid the fate that befell her predecessor. But when Jean is cast through time into the VANISHING POINT and comes face-to-face with the newly possessed Phoenix, will she find the key to saving herself…or learn that her fate is sealed? What does this all mean to the cataclysmic events of GENERATIONS that are on the way? Find out in this week’s GENERATIONS PHOENIX #1!