Talk:Dark Phoenix Saga

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I've revised the account of how the return of Jean came about, since the account as it stood was highly inaccurate. I was not a freelance writer when I came up with the idea that was ultimately used to revive Jean Grey, and Carol Kalish was not yet even working at Marvel, much less VP of New Project Development, a position she didn't reach until the 1990s. Carol was also not involved in Marvel's actually doing the story -- the idea traveled from me to Roger Stern to John Byrne to Bob Layton. I've reworked the chain of events to reflect what actually happened.

Also, a more minor change -- John Byrne didn't redraw FF #286. The reworked pages are by Jackson Guice.

For an account of these events published by Marvel and vetted by Stern and Byrne, see the introduction to the X-Men: Phoenix Rising TPB, which reprinted the crossover that brought Jean back to life.

I've never revised a Wikipedia article before, so I don't know the protocols -- but I figure that as a participant in the events, I'm a better source than whoever wrote the earlier version.

-- kurt busiek

well, no amount of fan speculation and conjecture can beat a first-person account of the goings-on at Marvel at the time. Thank you, mr. busiek! -65.92.78.177

A small point of contention, though--Phoenix never spoke about leaving the crystal in a sun. After healing the M'Kraan, she and the rest of the X-Men reappeared through the stargate to face a surprisingly calm Firelord. No mention of a star. Matter of fact, no mention of the Phoenix Force "choosing" to keep Jean as a host; the Phoenix Force itself wasn't really even given much of an independent consiousness until much later.

[edit] Creation of a new page, focusing on the Dark Phoenix character by an expert

An expert or a X-Men/Dark Phoenix fan should create an article which focus on the Dark Phoenix character with the intention of exclude it from this article, so that Dark Phoenix initiate fans like me can know more about her. Thank you for your attention. Lord Hammu talk

• Phoenix (comics) is currently an article on the Phoenix Force itself. User talk:Anarkeya 7/23/06

[edit] Sequels section

The last paragraph of this section is a disaster, riddled with poor grammar and worse spelling. I don't recall the details of the story line well enough to fix it; is there an X-Men expert out there who can repair it? It's the only bad section of an otherwise well-written article. --DrGaellon 23:12, 7 October 2006 (UTC)