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Doop (xdoop) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-09-05 16:00:00

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char: cyclops/scott summers, char: dust/sooraya qadir, char: marvel girl/phoenix/jean grey, char: white queen/emma frost, creator: frank quitely, creator: grant morrison, group: x-men, publisher: marvel comics, title: new x-men

Grant Morrison on the Scott/Emma affair.

Back in S_D 1.0, I posted the storyline of Scott and Emma's affair from Grant Morrison's New X-Men run. I remember that there was some debate over whether or not Scott was actually cheating on Jean, since the hot sweaty sex he was having with Emma was only telepathic.

Well, here to settle the debate once and for all is Grant Morrison himself.

This is one of the questions from Grant Morrison's interview in the Comics Creators on X-Men book, which I highly recommend if you're an X-Men fan.

In your mind, did Scott and Emma commit adultery?

The way I saw it was that Jean and Scott had become remote. For me, the great emotional moment for Scott and Jean was when they ran out to die together on the moon during the Phoenix Saga. After Jean died, Scott ended up with a lot of other women. Scott was very attractive to women even though he didn't know it and I wanted to play around with that. Since he was becoming emotionally remote from Jean, because she was becoming more and more godlike, it just seemed he would naturally fall into the arms of someone more emotionally connected, which Emma actually was. Yes, it was a kind of adultery, but at the same time Jean wasn't being his wife anymore. I just felt that the spark between them had died out and it was time to give Scott someone else.

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	xdoop 2009-09-05 09:30 pm UTC (link)
	Who said she was trying to make Scott jealous? He didn't even know about it. And she only tried talking to Wolverine after Emma and Scott's night in Hong Kong. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-09-05 09:43 pm UTC (link)
	And in the next couple of pages we see that Scott is out with a telescope and has been watching this, and the implication is that she was quite aware he was watching the whole time. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	xdoop 2009-09-05 09:46 pm UTC (link)
	He didn't have a telescope, and I never got the implication Jean was doing it to make Scott jealous. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sandoz_iscariot 2009-09-05 09:52 pm UTC (link)
	Jean did a bad thing by kissing Logan. No pretending she's a saint there. But she didn't continue to pursue him with the promise of a mental affair, like Emma did when Scott turned down a meatspace roll in the hay in Hong Kong. Both were wrong, but not on the same equal footing IMO. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	icon_uk 2009-09-05 10:09 pm UTC (link)
	Different strokes, I did take it that way, since we know Jean's perceptions were expanding and her basic awareness of Scott ever-present. Fair enough on the lenses though, I was rememering the telescope/binoculars as being out on the grounds, not Emma carrying them. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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