CBR: X-POSITION: Duane Swierczynski

**CBR News** · 12-23-2009, 08:57 AM

The writer of "Cable" joins X-POSITION to answer your queries about "X-Men: Second Coming" while developing the perfect post-apocalyptic buddy comedy and providing a recipe for a tasty holiday treat!

Full article here.

**Vic De Zen** · 12-23-2009, 10:37 AM

Great X-Position this week. I liked the question/comment about whether or not Hope is Jean Grey or not. I find this whole scenario cool in the sense that they are either giving us a blatant hint of who Hope really is or totally leading us to left field with this one. I'm wondering if Bishop is essentially chasing Dark Phoenix at this point?

**Azure** · 12-23-2009, 10:40 AM

Oh, I finally realised just what the second coming is.

**jarrod** · 12-23-2009, 10:53 AM

*Command F*

*Rachel*

*Not Found*

*:(*

**Jmacq1** · 12-23-2009, 11:02 AM

The only thing that weirds me out about this whole thing is that Hope has more or less been developed as her own character. If she's just Jean in disguise then what happens to the actual character of "Hope" when Jean takes up residence (so to speak)? Does she get erased/submerged like the other personality fragments Jean has absorbed over the years, or do we end up with a very weird situation where Jean is both Cable's mother and (adoptive) daughter and tends to think of him both ways? As if the Summers family tree wasn't complicated enough?

**jarrod** · 12-23-2009, 11:12 AM

Also, did they just accidentally confirm that Cable ends after Second Coming?

I hope Duane lands another X-ongoing.

**Jmacq1** · 12-23-2009, 11:15 AM

Originally Posted by jarrod

Also, did they just accidentally confirm that Cable ends after Second Coming?

I hope Duane lands another X-ongoing.

I believe that had already been confirmed, but I could be wrong.

**joshtylen** · 12-23-2009, 11:47 AM

Cap America is being brought back and I think they are using “the gun didn't kill Steve but froze him within space and time and they need to unstuck him”. They can make it work for Jean better than that, so here we have Second Coming. Jean didn’t really give birth to Cable. Hope is just a name Jean is going by at the moment so to have a little surpise. She spent a little time in the future trying to survive and bond with Cable till she got her powers back and is now ready to return.

Yep he has another x title mini series already in the works.

**darknessatnoon** · 12-23-2009, 11:50 AM

Hope is not Jean. You people and your nonsense, "How can she be two people at the same time?" She can't. She's just Hope. Jean is still rotting in white hot hell.

**ikeepitblazin** · 12-23-2009, 11:54 AM

Originally Posted by Vic De Zen

Great X-Position this week. I liked the question/comment about whether or not Hope is Jean Grey or not. I find this whole scenario cool in the sense that they are either giving us a blatant hint of who Hope really is or totally leading us to left field with this one. I'm wondering if Bishop is essentially chasing Dark Phoenix at this point?

If we are going by the title as he hinted...it does seem more like the Second Coming of a Phoenix Host. They are right its not Jean coming back...it's the Phoenix.

**Psychic Illusion** · 12-23-2009, 11:54 AM

Urgh. The person just confirmed Hope is Jean. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

**Azure** · 12-23-2009, 11:55 AM

It's not the Phoenix and it's not Jean. It's something else.

**jarrod** · 12-23-2009, 11:56 AM

Originally Posted by ikeepitblazin

If we are going by the title as he hinted...it does seem more like the Second Coming of a Phoenix Host. They are right its not Jean coming back...it's the Phoenix.

It'd be more like Fifth Coming then.