- I am fire and life incarnate efore Onslaught, before Parallax, before Dark Knight Returns, or Watchmen, or any of the other grim and gritty stories that shaped comics as we know them today, there was Dark Phoenix. Of course, the final panels of X-Men 100 were hardly the first cliffhanger in comics history, but NO one saw the ending to issue 137 coming. These were the days before Previews or ...users.aol.com/dkphnx/dkphoenx.html