After 14 Years, Jean Grey Returns To Marvel Comics

Death isn’t forever in comics. In 2003, Jean Grey died during an
iconic run on New X-Men by acclaimed writer Grant
Morrison. Since then, that version of Grey has been dead, but this
December, Grey will return in the five-issue miniseries Phoenix
Resurrection: The Return of Jean Grey.

The new story written by Matthew Rosenberg and drawn by Leinil
Yu will follow–you guessed it–the resurrection of one of the
original five X-Men: “Strange events are no surprise to the X-Men,”
reads the official synopsis from Marvel. “But when events start
occurring that are more specific and stranger than usual, the group
is forced to confront the truth: could Jean be alive after all? And
how will this Jean Grey deal with a world that is now so different
from the one she left years ago?”

The story is still a pretty big mystery at the moment, but the
upcoming months in the current X-Men titles should shed some light
on what’s coming ahead. “This is very cool mystery building to a
mind-warping climax,” said senior editor Mark Paniccia. “And it has
plenty of what you’d expect from an X-Men epic of this magnitude.
Action, romance, sacrifice, lots of X-Men, and five great
artists.”

In addition to Yu, the series will feature five artists taking
on the story. It has yet to be revealed how that is going to come
into play, whether each issue will be an individual artist or all
five will be featured in each issue.

Jean Grey does currently exist in the Marvel universe, as a
version of her from the past has been living in the present for the
past few years. However, the teenage Jean Grey doesn’t have the
experience, memories, or the connection to the Phoenix Force of her
future counterpart.

It will be extremely interesting to see these two characters
meet and find out how the adult Jean Grey reacts to her younger
counterpart, the deaths of Cyclops and Wolverine, and an older
Logan from a parallel world currently on the X-Men. Again, this
mutant team is no stranger to the strange.

Phoenix Resurrection will hit stores on December 27,
and interestingly enough, Phoenix will be returning to comics 11
months before the big screen adaptation of the legendary story
The Dark Phoenix Saga. X-Men: Dark Phoenix is set to
release on November 2, 2018.