Marvel is celebrating the release of the Dark Phoenix film, though perhaps not its early results, and while
Namor's history with
Jean Grey may not be as noteworthy as the one he shares with some other members, he was a part of of her version of the X-Men just last year.
Once again, his appearance is brief, but at least makes sense.
Jean has consulted with some of the most brilliant minds on earth and hatched out a plan to make the world a better place for mutants. Her first stop? Why, Atlantis, of course.
Maybe you'd get more if you were wearing pants when they arrived.
Atlantis seems like an odd choice until she elaborates a bit.
Jean arranges to speak before the U.N. (just like that) and states her case that mutants need to be recognized as a group even though they are not a nation as such (and attempts at having a nation specifically for mutants have just made them easier to target). This is where
Jean's friends come in.
Once the meeting is at an end, the various members of the team are complimenting
Jean on her progress when one of the ambassadors who questioned her drops by for a chat. It is quickly clear though that the ambassador is under some sort of mind-control and even more so when her head quite literally explodes.
Jean is suspected of having caused the ambassador's rather spectacularly gruesome death but
Namor steps in to defend her from trigger-happy UN cops.
Nightcrawler whisks the team away to regroup,
Namor included. The villain is revealed to be one
Cassandra Nova, a name which...means nothing to me at all.
A decent enough premise though I'd be surprised if it hadn't been attempted before. I don't expect
Namor's face time to increase much and while he had a good reason to be there initially, I wonder if he'll have a good reason to stay. We'll see how he's worked in.
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