Tag: Dark Phoenix

X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga Year: 1980 Author: Chris Claremont Length: 200 pages It’s interesting how many comic book fans cite the Dark Phoenix Saga from the X-Men series as such a good plot when it’s been so difficult to adapt in other media. Having now read this set of comics from the 1960s, I get the feeling that part of the reason is that the ‘90s animated show was the only one to truly get the aesthetic feel right, and that’s the one part that I definitely would cut out from any adaptation because of how cringey it is. There were definitely some choices made here that don’t translate well to modern times. The core of my problem with this saga is how Jean Grey fused with this all-powerful interstellar being, and yet was so easily tricked with psychic mind illusions that caused her to go down the path of villainy. This is on top of the fact that the whole subterfuge is set...