Phoenix Resurrection: The Return of Jean Grey

Phoenix Resurrection: The Return of Jean Grey #1-5

by Matthew Rosenberg, Leinil Francis Yu (Illustrator), Carlos Pacheco (Artist)

Collects Phoenix Resurrection: The Return Of Jean Grey #1-5.

She will return, like a Phoenix from the ashes! Years ago, Jean Grey perished, and the X-Men mourned her loss. Now, when strange events start happening all over the world, the X-Men can only come to one conclusion: the one, true Jean Grey is back! Kitty Pryde, Old Man Logan and Cyclops lead squads across the globe, chasing events connected to the Phoenix — yet with friends disappearing and familiar enemies returning, they're fighting a losing battle. Meanwhile, a young woman named Jean starts to go insane in her peaceful, suburban life. Nightmares and daydreams spill over into the world and reveal cracks in her reality. Jean needs to escape. The X-Men need to stop the cycle of death the Phoenix brings. And their worlds are about to collide — violently!

Genres: Comics, X Men, Marvel, Graphic Novels, Superheroes, Comic Book, Graphic Novels Comics

142 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 17, 2018

About the author

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"I haven’t always been a writer. My parents are writers and my brother is a writer, and I resisted that as long as I could. When I was 17, I hopped in a band’s van and I went on tour for a summer, and that was it, that was what I wanted to do. I ran a record label for 10 years, a small indie punk label. I did everything in music that you can do that doesn’t involve having musical ability. Eventually the music business, probably in a similar way to comics, will just start to break your heart, and I realized one day that I kind of hated music. I was resigned to thinking, if I’m going to be involved in music forever, I’m going to hate it for the rest of my life. I just stopped. I stopped having any sort of business with music, any involvement.

I read comics my whole life, so I just naturally fell back into another medium that is marginalized and hard to make a living in."

Source: http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles...

Writer of comics WE CAN NEVER GO HOME, SECRET WARS JOURNAL, OUR WORK FILLS THE PEWS, 12 REASONS TO DIE, & MENU.

Reviews

[Sam Quixote · Rating 2 out of 5]

Hold onto your hats everyone: Jean Grey is BACK?! But this character NEVER returns from the dead – that’s why she’s called Phoenix half the time! And it’s been years since we’ve seen Jean – why, I bet there’s an entire generation of comics readers who’ll be utterly lost as to who this “Gene Gray” person is!

I may have overdosed on sarcasm there. Yeah, that’s what Marvel needs right now: another uninspired resurrection storyline where they bring back a character who’s not only died and come back to life on multiple occasions but who’s also another version of a character they already have two of running around!

It was kinda interesting that Matthew Rosenberg’s story was Twilight Zone-ish - an amnesiac Jean is stuck in an idyllic American town surrounded by dead characters wondering what’s up doc – it’s not the most predictable way to bring her back, so I give Rosenberg some credit there. And the art line-up is pretty faultless: Leinil Francis Yu, Joe Bennett, Carlos Pacheco and Ramon Rosanas are all fantastic artists.

But it’s simply impossible to care one fig about anything that happens in the book. She’s alive, she’s dead, the Phoenix Force is gone, then it’s back – who blimmin cares at this point. It’s all so unoriginal, there are never any consequences, it’s just the same stuff repeating for the umpteenth time.

The only thing not resurrected in Phoenix Resurrection: The Return of Jean Grey is my interest in the character.

[Paul · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was initially wary when this mini-series was announced... I mean, AGAIN? Right?

Having now read it, all I can say is that it was beautiful. Great art and a great, respectful story by Matthew Rosenberg.

Welcome home, Jean. It's damned good to see you again.

[Chad · Rating 4 out of 5]

Honestly, the last thing I wanted was Jean Grey to come back, especially with teenage Jean Grey already boring me over in her own series. (Can we jettison the time lost original X-Men back into the timestream now? They are all very boring and redundant at this point.) But if she's coming back at least this was well written. The art's good but a different artist on each book is a bit of a drag. (Hey Marvel, how about planning this stuff enough in advance you can commit one artist to a project!) So, now that old Jean is back, hopefully Tom Taylor can make me care about her again over in X-Men Red. (By the way, why do those costumes look like sentinels? They're hideous!)

This book illustrates one of the HUGE problems with the X-Men these days. Their are at least 50 different X-Men lurking in the backgrounds of the panels of this book. When the X-Men were really good in the 70's and 80's, there was only a core of 6 or 7 of them at any given time. The X-books really need to get back to that. Now there's no time to focus on any particular character.

[Artemy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Character death/return events are a staple of superhero comics. We all know them, we all groan at them, but we all read them because we kinda have to in order to understand what's going on in the given comic book universe. The thing is, they're some of the most unnecessary stories you can tell in the medium because at the end of the day, the character in question is just dead/alive again and that's all you really need to know. There is rarely a good reason or explanation for them to be dead or resurrected in the first place, more often than not it's some contrived bullshit that makes little to no sense.

Phoenix Resurrection: The Return of Jean Grey is no different. Something something happens with Phoenix, then poof and just like that — Jean is back. Back again. Which time is it? Who cares. The entire point of this book is in its title, and you don't need to know anything besides that fact because there is no logical explanation as to why she's back. Apparently, she's been in some hallucinatory egg the whole time, but when Old Man Logan goes inside to talk to her she just springs back out of it. That's it.

Matthew Rosenberg tries to pull something out of this setup by playing out some emotional scenes from Jean Grey's history towards the end, and kudos to him for that, that worked really well. The book is overall quite readable, and it has some interesting surreal scenes that are pretty intriguing until the big reveal nullifies all that. On the other hand, at five issues the book is really slow for what it ultimately achieves, and it would read much better at four or even three issues, but then Marvel wouldn't have gotten as much profit out of it.

Phoenix Resurrection features some gorgeous artwork from the likes of Leinil Yu, Carlos Pacheco, Joe Bennett and Ramon Rosanas, all top Marvel talent, so if there's one thing I can give this book it's that it looks beautiful. Every artist did their best to invoke some powerful imagery, from smaller character moments to big, fiery psychedelic scenes inside the egg.

Ultimately, the book is just not worth the time or the money. I'm sure that every important plot point from this series will be covered in some convenient expository dialogue later on in whatever comic this one affects down the line, and the main point of it is already spoiled by the title. Jean Grey is back, guys. Now let's hope Marvel does something interesting with her.

[Subham · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a fun read!

So yeah Jean returns again for the umpteenth time.. thats a cliff notes version of this story.

But being serious the story starts with mysterious incidents happening all over the world and well the X-Men split into teams and investigate them only to find that they are phoenix related phenomena and we follow the team as they look for clues and pieces if their friend is back until after meeting Emma they find incident is in new york and on the other side we follow Jean in this paradise as all the dead X-Men are alive there and we find something is wrong. And when these two collide, its Wolverine and X-Men vs their friend? Can they save their friend or an old threat will return?

Its a fun story and I remember reading it when it was coming out and at the time it pretty much just returned one of the most loved X-Men (after Krakoan era its less special but its before that) and like what happens to her now and we follow the emotional component of the story that is Jean and yeah its pretty basic and all but does well to give a slid story to the reader, ticking off the boxes and sets the stage for X-Men red! As for the art, not the greatest but the covers are nice.

In short I will say do read it once, its a good one time read!

[Craig · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was surprisingly enjoyable. Jean Grey first appeared in the first X comic way back in the summer of 1963, before many people in the US had ever heard of Vietnam or The Beatles and the Bucky clause hadn't become a thing yet. She first died in 1976 or thereabouts, came back some more and died some more over the years, and, depending on which timeline or alternative universe you were in, it was never possible to tell for sure just where, when, and how many of her were dead and how many were alive. Stan should have provided a scorecard. I exaggerate a bit, obviously, but the point is I skipped this story when it appeared as single issues with a "Here we go again" shrug, but was pleasantly surprised with the book when I checked it out from the library. It's rather nicely written and has some nice moments and clever points. There are different artists for each of the five sections with varying levels of success, but I did enjoy seeing their varying recreations of Jean's varied looks over the years, Marvel Girl to Phoenix and beyond. One problem is that there are so many characters now that every mission looks like a crowd scene, and no matter what happens you can't trust anything to stay real because there's more ret-con than reality, but... enough. It was fun, I enjoyed it. Excelsior!

[James DeSantis · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was okayish. I mean we knew the big red would be coming back but how was the question!

So weird shit begins happening. Kids getting murdered. Weird psychic occurrences begin. Then the X-Men decide to break into teams to find out what it is. When they begin to piece it together we learn the Phoenix has returned but so has Jean! However, with her back is she who she says she is? At the same time we get to see Jean mentally breaking down little by little. Going through various images or people in her life and fading away.

Good: I liked some moments with Jean and characters. Especially the Scott moment and the Logan moment. I also forgot how much I liked Jean and when she returned I wanted her back on the team. Also, this moves very quickly, so it's never boring.

Bad: The storyline itself feels forced in a lot of ways. We know Matthew Rosenberg is a GREAT writer, but he can only do so much with this storyline. I also thought the art was okay, some cool moments, but nothing special.

Overall this is okay. Can read it and enjoy it, especially for Jean fans, but it won't blow your mind. A 2.5 out of 5 but I'll hit it with a 3 because why not.

[Rod Brown · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was a big X-Men fan in the '80s, but I try to avoid it nowadays as the continuity is so tortured and the characters number in the thousands. I decided to give this book a try as it revisits a big storyline from the team's heyday and is written by Matthew Rosenberg who impressed the hell out of me with his 4 Kids Walk Into A Bank.

Unfortunately, this book just reinforced my need to continue my avoidance strategy. It's not badly done, I just can't care about the dozens of characters (so many of them time-displaced future or past selves of present day or dead X-Men) crammed into the story and the dozen more temporarily resurrected dead characters who also walk through. Besides, how can you get excited about an epic story whose only point is spoiled in the title.

I'm still interested in seeing how Rosenberg fares writing some non-X titles, and I think I have a few more of those left in the to-read pile.

[Shannon Appelcline · Rating 2 out of 5]

2017 was the year of resurrecting X-Men characters who really didn't need to be resurrected. One of those was Jean Grey, who'd been entirely replaced by young Jean and Rachel and even Quentin. But unlike with the two other major resurectees of 2017, at least Marvel had an excuse for resurrecting Jean, as she had been the avatar of a god of resurrection (or perhaps just replaced by her, but modern X-writers try really hard to pretend that didn't happen).

As for the comic itself, it's at best OK. The comic comes in two parts. One part is a long MacGuffin hunt that mostly involves the X-Men standing around places that were important to Jean. Different groups of X-Men stand around at each location. It'd be a neat crossover for the currently disparate X-titles if it involved anything other than standing. But really, they just pose and posture and then move on. The other part involves a memory-less Jean interacting with memory-less dead X-Men, who are playing the roles of auto mechanics, short order cooks, or diner customers. There's a theoretical purpose to it, but it mostly feels like an attempt to sell nolstalgia as plot. Dead adult Scott is the only one who's really meaningful.

Overall, there's perhaps an issue worth of story in this five-issue mini.

And was it worth doing? Who knows. I guess we'll see if X-Men Red is any good, but overall this feels like yet another step backward for a X-line that's been giving up ground faster than a college team in the Superbowl. Pretty soon it'll be the '80s again, and 30 years of mature development for the X-Men will be gone.

And boy I'm sick of every death and resurrection being an event title. This and the Death of Wolverine have pretty well shown us that it results in substandard stories, but more generally if this sort of status quo change can't be told as part of the regular comic plotline, it's probably not worth doing. (They're also done a pretty horrid job of derailing the connected comics, Paul Cornell's Wolverine and the teen Jean Grey in these two instances.)

[Baba · Rating 4 out of 5]

So out of more or less nowhere with limited indicators outside of the time displaced young Jean Grey's book, the Phoenix is back and it wants Jean Grey as it's host. Not to badly written and some of the various artists really blow it out of the park!
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The story itself is pretty forced - but the story around how the Phoenix managed Jean Grey for acceptance of it's power is pretty good and the final issue is wonderfully moving and completely in line with Claremont - Phoenix mythos. One for the Old Skool - this issue had me bumping this up from 7 to 8 out of 12.
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Look out for the Claremont and Cockrum name drops :)

[ScottIsANerd (GrilledCheeseSamurai) · Rating 2 out of 5]

Eeeeeeeeeh. I mean, it was okay. Five issues were a little much though. Especially because not a heck of a lot happened.

There were a few pages that I dug...I guess.

I dunno.

I'm just kinda over the whole Jean Grey/Phoenix thing. Ya know?

So yeah, she's back. I probably wouldn't have picked these issues up...but I wanted to know what the heck was going on for when I start reading X-Men Red when it comes out (which it did today) so I can decide if I like it or not.

This one sure didn't do much to pump me up for it though.

[Blindzider · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was certainly the most well done of all of Jean's resurrections. This shouldn't be any spoilers given the title of the book and who this is. Sadly coming back to life is now Jean's "thing". The book spends a few issues (maybe one too many) letting you absorb the potential threat level and impending doom while you figure out just what is going on. It ends rather quickly but in a satisfying way, reestablishing her character. You don't get all the answers but some. Hopefully, Marvel will let this be the last time she is killed and brought back to life.

[Chris Lemmerman · Rating 3 out of 5]

[Read as single issues]
Jean Grey's back (yes, again), and this time she's brought a load of dead X-Men along with her, because why not.

Let's be honest - the whole point of this mini-series was to bring Jean Grey back and Marvel didn't really care how they did it. Matthew Rosenberg does an admirable job in trying to turn this into a story that makes some form of sense, but there's so much continuity around Jean and the Phoenix that it falls all over itself almost as soon as it starts. There are X-Men all over the place, most of the psychics that could sort this out quickly have been moved off the board thanks to the Jean Grey solo series, and it's kind of just...okay.

The thing I did really like, which is what saves this from a lower rating, is the final issue of the series. Also like the solo Jean Grey series, the final issue here sees Jean face off against the Phoenix for the last (?) time and basically give it a good telling off for being a giant dick. I'm simplifying, but it's some very well executed dialogue that rings true to character while moving Jean into the next phase of her life. A great ending to a mishmash of earlier issues.

The art's also a bit all over the place tbh. This is another one of those series where Marvel throws a different artist at each issue for no particular reason other than so that it can come out weekly. It's not a bad selection of artists, but they're not particularly impressive aside from Leinil Yu to open the series. Joe Bennett, Carlos Pacheco and Ramon Rosanas take the following issues, but they're all fairly standard comic book artists, at least to me. Yu and Bennett tag team the final issue which only goes to highlight the differences between them.

Not a bad read, but clearly just built for purpose.

[Michael Hicks · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have to admit that I’ve been mostly disappointed in the ResurrXtion cycle of X-Men books thus far in Marvel’s line-wide relaunch. I went into Phoenix Resurrection with lowered expectations, figuring it would be a hackneyed effort that was mostly a love letter to past eras, like much of Mark Guggenheim’s run on X-Men Gold. Instead Matthew Rosenberg does a hell of a job creating something that actually feels fresh and, even better, freaking weird.

Of what I’ve read from this batch of X-books, this is easily the best of the bunch! It starts off with some Phoenix-related oddities popping up around the world, including a pair of levitating children with bleeding head wounds. If that’s not one hell of an opener, nothing is. Rosenberg pulls off a vibe similar to The Prisoner, but filtered through cosmic weirdness and Phoenix lore, and it keeps the pages turning while you try to figure out the why or it all and how the dual narratives are going to sync up. Rosenberg also pays dues on some particular relationships, but without coming off as schmaltzy or sappy. There’s an honesty to the feelings and psychological states here, and I dug the hell out of it.

My only gripe is that the book ends pretty abruptly and I wanted more time with these characters in the aftermath. We don’t get much of Jean’s actual return in the last few pages, and I suspect this is because Marvel reintroduces her as a team leader in her own series, X-Men Red. So, I’ll be moving onto that book next.

[Dan · Rating 4 out of 5]

review- https://youtu.be/DwOqS_TI248

[Will Robinson Jr. · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have said it once and I will say it again Marvel Comics desperately needs to reboot the X-men as a franchise. Rosenberg has written a okay X-men story here but I just feel as fans are just settling for sub par stories. I started to enjoy what Guggenheim and Bunn were doing with the X-men blue and Gold books but the problem with those books and even this book is that the X-men's past present and Future is so convoluted. There a lot of key moments that show up in this book that longtime X-men readers will recognize but they lose their value when we have an old man Logan from an alternate timeline, teenage X-men from an unknown timeline, other x-men characters who at this point some are suppose to be dead. Nevertheless Jean Grey is the real star of this book and here coming to grips with the idea that she is suppose to be dead yet this deity like alien force known as the Phoenix keeps bringing her back. If you just want a good X-men story and you do not care about continuity this book works okay but if you are confuse I would suggest you at least read the following books to get updated on where the modern X-men are currently in the continuity: Avengers vs. X-Men Omnibus, X-Men: Schism, All-New X-Men, Volume 1: Yesterday's X-Men, Extraordinary X-Men, Volume 1: X-Haven, Uncanny X-Men, Volume 1: Revolution, Inhumans vs. X-Men, X-Men Gold, Vol. 1: Back to the Basics, X-Men Blue, Vol. 1: Strangest, Wolverine: Old Man Logan, Vol. 1: Berzerker andAll-New Wolverine, Volume 1: The Four Sisters. Hope the mentioned will catch you up on all that X-men flavor.In closing, this book was good but X-men deserves more than just okay.

[Sana · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was even better on the reread. I wish I had read more X-Men comics to get all the references and stuff, but I know I'll come back to this again so all good

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'I don't want to die, but I need to be allowed to live.'

OMGGG this nightmare dreamscape on a loop is exactly the kind of thing that I love to read about

So I'm basically on a quest to read all the comics that feature Laura Kinney AKA my love and preferably in a chronological order and since this happens right before the X-Men Red arc, I had to read it. (Shoutout to Ellis for letting me know about that fact, continuity struggles are real)

Even though I didn't know who half the X-Men are (eventually gonna rectify that), I hella enjoyed reading this. THE SASS AND THE FEELS. Like I loved Jean being absolutely stuck and helpless and doesn't even know while the X-Men try to figure out just what the hell is happening. Also super appreciate the jumping from one team to another to keep the suspense alive even if it absolutely tested my patience skills, ha. Anyway, Jean is written so well here mainly because I love reading about characters putting themselves first even if doing so could also absolutely crush them like the last panels really got to me. Damn, why you gotta come for me like that 😭

For once, Laura Kinney did not jump up with her claws out but actually asked if someone could be a threat (as much as I love that about her) and I liked it. It's what she deserves 👏

The art is great and pretty much the kind I like to see in superhero comics. Even though there are multiple artists collaborating on the different issues, there is a cohesive and put-together look to it all. The panels featuring Jean in different costumes throughout her history as Phoenix were done so well and definitely my favorite

[Frédéric · Rating 2 out of 5]

Well, the title kinda spoiled it all didn't it?

So our famous red haired mutant is back from the dead hatched from her egg. Is there any other reason than to launch X-Men Red? If so it didn't jumped out at me.

Though decently written if I'm honest the plot is contrived from page one to last. No real explanation is offered as to why here? Why now? Why at all? Don't gimme no shit and go buy X-Men Red in sales next week says the editor.
Which I will since Mahmud Asrar draws the first volume. Stupid me, eh?

Talking of art, this volume is all over the place since 5 different artits draw it, with about as much justification as Jean's resurrection. If Leinil Yu does a good job tbe others don't make any lasting impression.

So do you really need to read this book? Probably not unless you're a fan of Jean Grey. It's so unjustified in every way that a mere "Like a Phoenix from the ashes, Jean Grey has returned to life" in the summary of X-Men Red#1 is enough if you ask me. I didn't make that "Like a Phoenix..." line up by the way.

[C. Varn · Rating 4 out of 5]

So we return to having two Jean Grey's in the Marvel universe, Rosenberg resurrects Jean again but does so in a way that acknowledges the near ridiculousness of the constant resurrection. Jean gets to mourn the death of the original Cyclops, who thankfully remains dead so that arc continues to have consequences, and gets to deal with the lose of her past. The use of multiple teams with some characters that are under-utilitized in contemporary X-books (such as Jubilee and Strong Guy) is nice, although old man Logan continues to feel underdeveloped in books not written by Lemire. The atmosphere moves from eerie to tragic, and does build to Gray having a larger role in the Marvel universe. Rosenberg seems to aiming to get Gray to be a fleshed out character for the first time since the Dark Phoenix saga. Promising although not perfect, the pacing does feel a little rushed towards the resolution

[Jesús De la Jara · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sólo y únicamente por el final le doy una estrella más. En realidad como siempre digo no pudo haber peor momento en la historia de los X-Men para que resucite Jean Grey, cuando Wolverine y Cíclope están bien muertos. El eje temático nada sorprendente. Los acontecimientos que abarcan los primeros 4 cómics de los más aburridos (mucho más interesante está la parte final de la serie "Jean Grey"), con idas y venidas de acontecimientos totalmente anodinos. Sólo la parte final me gustó algo por la nostalgia que pusieron en el último número. Realmente un desperdicio de haber podido aprovechar el regreso de Jean Grey.

[Robert Kirwan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ok, so this got me SUPER excited!! I wasn’t sure that I’d give this set of comics 5 stars or whether it would fall short....but it did not.

The main thing this set did was eat me VERY excited again. I’m just realising how much I love Jean Grey as a character, and in a way, how much I resent Marvel and those at X-Men for using her as more of a icon rather than a fully formed character!! She is most effective through her death and I think that does Jean a disservice!!

The artwork in this set is gorgeous, and when Phoenix re-emerges in the characteristic flame filled background full page panel, it’s breath-taking!!

Love this set of 5 and excited immensely for X-Men Red

[Veronica Eule · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved it, it was soo sad, the details in the story hhggh :(

[47Time · Rating 4 out of 5]

This isn't the standalone story I expected, but it's not bad. There are some pretty impressive fight scenes with dead X-Men that are sure to please fans, but will do little to casual readers. The miniseries covers a pivotal event which will likely cause ripples in future X-Books.

The X-Men are investigating a strange event that led to two kids being found catatonic and levitating a foot off the ground. They have three leads, all of which end in bloody encounters. Though the other X-Men don't agree, Wolverine is convinced that the Phoenix is back. Meanwhile a surprisingly-familiar Jean is a waitress at a bar in the middle of nowhere. She has been having nightmares that she feels won't bode well.

The only X-Man able to use Cerebro is Cable, but even he is disabled after finding more leads to go on. One of them is the most worrysome - Jean Grey's grave is empty. She is the waitress and her nightmares are getting worse. The X-Men find her in New Mexico where a giant sphere hides the town designed by the Phoenix to bring Jean Grey into the right frame of mind to merge with her again. Wolverine is sent in to talk with her. He helps her remember who she is which generates a conflict between her and the Phoenix. Jean rejects the Phoenix by accepting the death of every person who has died in her past. In the end the Phoenix reluctantly leaves.

[Garth · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was another why bother series in the endless series of The X-Men. I was kind of excited for it because it was the original Phoenix Saga they drew me into The X-Men all those years ago. But all of the endless reboots, alternate timelines and multiple teams/books has just bastardised those memories. I miss the days of just one book, one team (okay, plus The New Mutants, loved them). And I’m someone who likes alternate timeline stories but I can’t keep anything straight in the Marvel Universe anymore, most of all X-Men books. Anyway, good story that felt too long and too short. One large Giant-Sized issue would have been perfect. And the change in art in the last book kind of ruined the feel. Why does Marvel constantly do that? Switch artists at the last minute? It’s like Spielberg coming in to direct the third act of The Godfather. I think I’m ready to just stop trying to recapture my childhood in all of these new X-Men titles and stick with DC.

[Jen · Rating 3 out of 5]

I might have to reevaluate this review (and three stars) at a later date. This wasn't the EVENT that I thought it would be. It was interesting, but I guess I was confused as to which Jean I was looking at a first since I know there is a Young Jean running around, and don't know whatever it is that happened in Jean Grey #10 that kept being referred to in this collected edition.

I liked this story, liked seeing all the people that are gone (JAMIE I MISS YOU). Again, it just wasn't an EVENT and maybe needed some more issues for context. I'm also behind on the Gold/Blue team issues so I'm not sure where some of these X-Men are popping up from. Like Shatterstar is back in again?

[Christian Zamora-Dahmen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is my second read of the book. This time I followed it side to side with the Jean Grey series to get the bigger picture.
It is an enjoyable series, but it doesn’t make me too happy when the title of a book reveals the outcome. I mean, no surprise here and I don’t mean it in a spoilerish way. What the title of the book says is what actually happens.
Other than that, I really liked the set up of this series. It was eerie in a good way, but it didn’t take long for the story to fall into a pre-existing pattern. You know, different teams, as the easy way to linger on this story, and then, very slowly finding the direction that was the point of the book since the beginning.
Anyway, getting out of the way the couple of things that I didn’t like that much, I really enjoyed the story.
STOP READING OF YOU DON’T WANT SPOILERS.
The setting where the spirit of Jean Grey lived was really interesting to explore. Seeing other dead X-Men in there and interacting with her was real fun. And then there were the little details that revealed their identities. I really loved that they didn’t get name tags, just subtle references that gave away who was each one of them.
Anyway. The return of Jean Grey lasted way too long. Longer than I expected. She’s a very dear character and I’m so glad she found her way back. If you ask me, she shouldn’t have died at the end of Morrison’s run, and, obviously, she shouldn’t have stayed dead for about 15 years or so!
In contrast, all of Jean’s copies fail to live up to her. Even younger Jean, who started as the “cool” Jean, ended up being brattish and annoying. I’m glad the real Jean is back. Now, she needs a song!

[Rolando Marono · Rating 3 out of 5]

Esta historia es mucho más extraña de lo que esperaba. Me gustó, un poco, aunque es confusa al principio, las cosas comienzan a aclararse mientras se acerca al final.
Me gustó lo surreal de la historia, hay varios momentos en donde las cosas que le están sucediendo a Jean son muy extrañas. Me pusieron a pensar como si estuviera viendo una obra de arte moderno y estaba pensando en qué simbolizaría todo eso.
Me gustó la metáfora del huevo. Había llegado a ella un poquito antes que los autores nos dijeron qué estaba sucediendo. Tiene sentido. Me gustó como explicación del inevitable retorno de Jean, pero, ¿Era necesario que regresara? No creo, honestamente. Me parece que con la Jean joven desplazada del tiempo teníamos suficientes aventuras de Jean y no creo que una segunda nos vaya a dar cosas diferentes.
Me gustó que enviaran a Logan a confrontarla pero la confrontación me dejó un poco que desear. Quizá esperaba más, más emociones, más conflicto, más lucha, no sé.
Lo cierto es que esta historia pudo estar mucho peor. Partiendo de que no era necesaria realmente, muchas cosas pudieron hacerse mal.
Sé que esta Jean lidera un equipo de X-men en X-Men: Red, pero no sé que tan interesantes sean sus aventuras y no se me antoja especialmente descubrirlo.

[Guilherme Smee · Rating 2 out of 5]

A entidade Fênix é uma dos elementos mais importantes da mitologia dos X-Men. Não por acaso, ela estrela a maior e melhor saga dos Filhos do Átomo, A Saga da Fênix Negra. Jean Grey é uma das personagens da Marvel que é conhecida por não permanecer morta. Mas a Marvel conseguiu o feito de deixar ela no caixão por quase 15 anos. Porém, quando ela a traz de volta, o faz em uma história chatinha, burocrática e totalmente esquecível. Ao ler apenas este encadernado, não conseguimos ter uma noção das motivações da entidade Fênix em trazer Jean Grey de volta (talvez saibamos no segundo encadernado da versão jovem de Jean Grey, e sim, você leu certo). A ideia de fazer esse encadernado com quatro desenhistas diferentes também não faz sentido, porque a história é a mesma, e não tem quebras na linearidade. O bom do retorno de Jean Grey para a Marvel é que ela vai gerar a série X-Men Red, por Tom Taylor e Mahmud Asrar, muito elogiada lá fora. Contudo, essa minissérie em questão: A Ressurreição da Fênix: O Retorno de Jean Grey é um material totalmente dispensável. A não ser que você seja um fã radical dos X-Men feito eu.

[Nelson Zagalo · Rating 5 out of 5]

A Fénix, alter-ego de Jean Grey, heroína dos X-Men, protagonizou uma das histórias mais memoráveis da Marvel nos anos 1980/1990. Nessa história, Jean Grey desaparecia.

Passados todos estes anos, vivendo no nosso imaginário, a Marvel decidiu trazê-la de volta à vida. Fiquei imensamente receoso quando soube. Agora, depois de ler os 5 livros encadernados neste volume completo, fiquei feliz por reencontrar Grey. Soube-me bem volver tantos anos no tempo, reviver e virar as páginas dessas experiências, voltar a olhar pelos olhos de quando via o mundo de forma bastante mais simples.

A arte é fantástica, podendo ainda encontrar-se variações da arte criadas por vários ilustradores ao longo do volume.

[Judah Radd · Rating 3 out of 5]

Just ok.

This is so routine. They want Jean back, so this is them slapping it together. It’s not bad, some of the art (especially Lienel Francis Yu’s) is is incredible... but there’s also something uninspired and cynical at work here. It almost feels like Matt Rosenberg knows it, too. In the last issue, I could almost read him apologizing for this business decision between the lines.

At any rate, even if it’s contrived, I did find parts to enjoy, and i was impressed by the artwork and paneling.