Dark Phoenix

 Natty, that's beautiful!  It's like you're watching the phoenix rise.  What an awesome place to quarantine- you're certainly living the high life!  I'm so jealous!  You're beautiful too, like the sunset.  You look like you're about to topple over, though.  Maybe you're flying, or something.

When I saw the trailer for the movie "Dark Phoenix", I knew I would hate it.  I guess it's because I grew up with the X-Men comics, back when Marvel was just a comic book, and I don't want to see their story told any differently.  But that was about 1983-1984, and the original Phoenix saga was 1976.  I did get to meet Chris Claremont, who I totally admired as the X-Men writer at the Salt Lake City comicon.  And he gave me a revelation to shake my ignorant youthful world: The X-Men are just for jerking off to.

Well, he was right.  As is the case for much of showbiz.  While Dave Cockrum is well-respected, I don't see how his art could be sexy.  Not compared to comics nowadays, at least.

No, the movies don't seem to stack up to the comics visually.  Maybe that's the fault and reason for the flop.  For me, I simply preferred the original storytelling.  What do you think people would do if Dark Phoenix were for real and in our world right now?  They would spy in on her everyday life, of course.