Jean Grey’s upcoming “miraculous return” will clear up an X-Males thriller that is been lingering because the ’90s, because it’s now been revealed that the character who was beforehand teased to be resurrected within the pages of Could’s Phoenix #11 will in reality be Sara Gray, Jean Gray’s sister whose loss of life left many lingering questions which have plagued the X-mythos since. Marvel has additionally now revealed the Darkish Phoenix-esque cowl to Phoenix #12 by Lucas Werneck, seen under.
Phoenix #11 by author Stephanie Phillips and Roi Mercado, who joins because the title’s new ongoing artist, will dig into the thriller behind Sara’s loss of life in 1994’s X-Males #36, by which Sara was murdered and her household was absorbed by the techno-organic Phalanx.
Sara Gray’s precise destiny has left ongoing questions which have but to be addressed within the 30 years because the story was advised – together with her obvious latent mutant powers which, whereas by no means manifested, have been hinted at within the tales main as much as her loss of life.
May this imply that Sara Gray is an Omega mutant on the extent of her sister, maybe sufficient to draw the omnipotent Phoenix Power, which is at present inextricably bonded with Jean?
We’ll get some solutions in Phoenix #11, which is able to “rattle [Jean] to her core and make her query her total objective because the Phoenix. “Then, within the observe as much as Sara’s return in June’s Phoenix #12, Sara will “share her unbelievable story,” laying naked lengthy held secrets and techniques of X-Males historical past.
For longtime X-Males readers, these sorts of mysteries are par for the course, with many such lingering plot threads left dangling over the a long time. And whereas lots of the most well-known X-Males plot mysteries have now been solved, the true destiny of Sara Gray and the query of her obvious mutant powers is one which’s been hanging too lengthy with out a actual reply.
“Jean’s story is commonly outlined by resurrection, so it feels deeply private to ask her to confront the return of somebody she misplaced and by no means anticipated to see once more,” says Phillips in a press release accompanying the announcement. “This forces Jean to grapple with extra than simply the burden of the Phoenix… It is in regards to the deeply human battle between duty and longing. Can she steadiness the cosmic burden of what she is with the private want to reclaim what she misplaced?”
Phoenix #11 goes on sale Could 14, adopted by Phoenix #12 on June 11.
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