@fall1n1: It really good, I gotta say. More condensed and you concentrate more on Jean’s inner state of mind the majority of the time. You do get Scott’s perspective every so often, but Jean is front and center entirely. You are basically with her the entire way.
You also get hints of developments that happen later in comic history taking place earlier. For instance, Emma and Scott’s romance is short starting to spark in this story and it becomes a sort of central conflict that provokes Jean in their fight, similar to how New X-Men went, yet this time, you don’t entirely side with Jean because you see from her perspective where this rabbit hole is taking her.
The downfall of this is you are still in essence reading the same graphic novel in text form. It’s non-canon of course because certain interactions that never took place in the comics happen in this novel, but you are basically reading the same Dark Phoenix Saga that Claremont wrote.
With all that said, to me, it’s a really interesting read.
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