As Jean Grey of the X-Men heads to space to make her mark as the once and future Phoenix, she’ll be doing so from a newly introduced space base. What her headquarters looks like remains to be determined, but it’s a sign of what Jean’s attitude towards the wider Marvel cosmic menagerie will be.

In AIPT’s latest X-Men Monday interview, Stephanie Phillips, writer of the upcoming Phoenix series, teased that Jean Grey will be getting her own space headquarters in the series.

Phoenix will feature Jean venturing off into space to interact with the broader cosmic Marvel Universe in ways only the Phoenix Force could. If Jean is going to be embarking on intergalactic travel, then it makes sense for her base to either be a spaceship, a space station, or some combination of the two – though readers will have to wait for the release of Phoenix #1 to find out.

Jean Grey Gets Her Own “Space Headquarters” In New Cosmic PHOENIX Solo Title

Writer Stephanie Phillips Promises Exciting Reveals In Phoenix #1

Writer Stephanie Phillips dropped several tantalizing hints about what is to come in her Phoenix series. Specifically, she mentioned that Phoenix #1 will include the reveal of Jean Grey’s new space-based headquarters, as she vaults up the hierarchy of Marvel’s cosmic heroes. As Phillips stated:

Yes. As the Phoenix, Jean doesn’t technically need any of that, but Scott has helped her create a kind of HQ in the stars to adjust to her new living situation. To be revealed in issue 1…

Phoenix is one of several titles in the new ‘From the Ashes’ X-Men era, focusing on solo characters, and few characters are more deserving of this than Jean. At the Krakoan Era’s conclusion, Jean once again died and became one with the Phoenix Force, returning with seemingly more control over it than ever.

Now, with a new lease on life, it’ll be up to Jean herself to define what the Phoenix means to the broader Marvel Universe. As Phillips points out, Jean’s power as the Phoenix is potentially infinite, but creature comforts are better than the cold of space. This indicates Jean is choosing to emphasize her humanity in the new series; having an actual physical base of operations could be considered a sign of this. The Phoenix’s home is the heaven-esque White Hot Room, which sits outside time and space, but Jean is anchored to the here and now.

Cyclops Is Showing His Support For Jean’s Off-Earth Adventures By Building Her A Base

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This isn’t the first time that Jean’s lived in space. During the majority of the Krakoan era, her and the extended Summers family lived on the moon, and the fact that Cyclops is arranging this base gives a possible hint towards its origin. Previews have revealed that Jean will once again be working with the spacefaring pirates the Starjammers, led by Cyclops’ father Corsair. The Starjammers, via Scott, could be essential in helping Jean get set up in space, especially since both them, and the Phoenix itself, have a somewha thorny relationship to wider intergalactic hierarchies.

The other possibility is that Cyclops will be using tech developed to kill mutants to help Jean. In X-Men (2024) Scott will be leading an X-Men team based out of a Sentinel factory in Alaska previously run by the anti-Mutant coalition Orchis. Orchis, whose own bases were primarily space stations, might just be the key to getting Jean comfortable in her own space base. As Jean Grey heads off on her cosmic journey as the Phoenix, it would be ironic if it were the X-Men’s enemies who facilitated her going further than ever.

Source: AIPT