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Look! Phoenix is back!
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The Phoenix Force has taken over Rachel Summers, and is flying her through space where she destroys Galactus’ planet eating machine.
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He is displeased.
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Alan Davis’ art is (no pun intended) stellar, so this extended cosmic battle is a good read. Lots of great full-pagers.
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Frankly, it’s the most interesting this book has been in years.
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We learn details about the Phoenix Force: If it dies, the universe dies, but when it lives in a host body, it prevents new life from coming into being. Or something like that. So the Force has to abandon Rachel in order to stop preventing new life from arising.
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And thus, after some conversations with Death, Rachel is returned to Earth, de-powered from the Phoenix Force.
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After a series of hallucinations.
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Actually, she still has a little bit of it. And she changes her costume to red.
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For the cliffhanger, she says she’s going to back to the future, to her own time.
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Meanwhile, the rest of the team have a bunch of antics on Earth that aren’t as interesting. It’s typical silliness for this book, well-drawn by Davis, but forgettable.