The Decision to Kill an Artist

"I decided we'll kill it, and we did. But the book Jim Schuder made this call as the book was going out to the printer," says Scott Sally. "So my decision was, you know, either she spends the next ten years putting her in jail and busting her out of jail, or we kill her." The writer then wrote a plot that said Phoenix would never return after being killed by Jean Grey's powers were stripped from her body. It took two years for X-Men 199 to be published.