Welcome Our New Writer at Jean-Grey.com – Conor McKenna
Hi everyone! I’m the new writer at Jean-Grey.com. I’ll be writing about Jean Grey a lot now.
I first saw Jean Grey in the first X-men movie and the animated series X-men Evolution, so I’ve been a Jean fan for nearly ten years. My first Jean Grey comic was from the New X-men series and it was a story called Murder at the Mansion. I sympathised with Jean when she found out that her husband Scott Summers, was having a telepathic affair with Emma Frost, the White Queen. When I saw Jean Grey’s awesome powers in one of the splash pages I was crying out for more. I went to my local comic book shop the next day and bought the first volume of the X-men. I read it within the next seventy two hours and loved it.
I felt that Jean Grey was a symbol of power back in the sixties, where many women were usually oppressed. Especially in the comics where the Invisible Girl was getting barely any action in the Fantastic Four and Wasp’s role in the Avengers comics was getting as small as her size. Over the years Jean has established herself as an essential member of the X-men and a loving and compassionate character who would do anything for her husband and her friends.
Now Jean Grey fans, as we know, Jean Grey has been dead for nearly six years now and the purpose of Jean-Grey.com is to keep her memory alive! If you want to see me writing about anything you can post it on the website (or email us at admin@jean-grey.com) and we would also love to hear your opinions of the character. As her dedicated fans it is our job to keep Jean Grey’s memory alive in the world as it is today.
Conor McKenna
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Welcome new writer. I first saw Jean in the animated series when it aired in 1992 and thought this woman has awesome powers why aren’t they using her to her full potential. By the time she was in that costume in the comics she was kicking Sabertooth’s butt and flying groups of people around. The phoenix saga solidified my interest in her and I started picking up X-Men comics. During the early years women in comics weren’t allowed to trump the men so Jean was added as the token girl. Oh how the times have changed. Yes Jean has been gone for a bit but her memory is imbedded deep in the X-Men and it’s only a matter of time before the right story brings her back. Look at all her appearances this year (I should know I collect everything Jean Grey) in comics, the Wolverine and the X-Men Show and she even made it as a playable character in the Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 game. The creators of MUA2 have said that Jean was the #1 requested female in the game so that should tell Marvel something. A lot of hints are also coming in on Jean’s return too. All of the X-book writers when asked about Jean’s return keep saying “watch the girl Hope in the future with Cable”, she has green eyes and red hair. The phoenix fragments are starting to return too. Which is all leading somewhere, hopefully it will be answered when the Second Coming Arc starts in spring of 2010. So let’s make this is awesome Jean Grey site, can’t wait for more stuff to come.