Originally posted by manorastroman
phoenix "gave birth" to galactus in adventures of the x-men 12, the same comic where the brothers got retconned. it's questionably canon.
Nope.
Not sure if you actually read the comic, or are just paraphrasing GS, but nothing happened in that comic to suggest that the Phoenix had any sort of role in Galan's transformation to Galactus.
In fact, NONE of the three versions I have seen of Galactus' origin show or mention the Phoenix. That X-Men issue shows a 'sentience of the universe' speaking to Galan...and in 'Thanos' #3, that 'sentience' is clearly shown to be Eternity...NOT the Phoenix.
Furthermore...when posed the question, (at another board), about a possible Phoenix connection to Galactus' origin, X-Men editor Andy Schmidt was totally flabbergasted...saying that he had never even heard of that scenario, and encouraged us to not put any stock in it.
So the evidence of the Phoenix having anything to do with the origin of Galactus remains elusive.