Here is an archive of all the past top five lists I've done over the years.

The friendship/flirtation between Wolverine and Jean Grey was so strong that it made its way into multiple X-Men films. Here, we'll look at the top five moments between the two. Note that I'm excluding the current "Jean Grey from the past" from the list, as she's pretty much her own character. I'm mostly excluding alternate universe stories, but I make a couple of notable exceptions.

Enjoy!

HONORABLE MENTIONS

New X-Men #117

For reader Inner Circle, I'll add this bit from this issue by Grant Morrison, Ethan Van Sciver and Prentiss Rollins...







X-Factor #37/Uncanny X-Men #242

So X-Factor and the X-Men run into each other for the first time since Jean Grey returned from the "dead" and the X-Men similarly returned from dying in Dallas during the Fall of the Mutants. Wolverine has to make sure Jean Grey is legit...









Not a terrible bit, but a bit too close to Adrien Brody/Halle Bery for my tastes.

What If...? #60

Kurt Busiek and Ron Randall did a one-shot when Cyclops and Jean Grey got married that went through different scenarios involving Jean and Cyclops, including one reality where she ended up with Wolverine. I just love this page. That look on Wolverine's face? Priceless!



Wolverine #75

So Wolverine just had the adamantium pulled out of his body by Magneto. The X-Men are keeping him alive as they fly back to Earth, but their plane keeps getting hit by lightning during an electrical storm created by Magneto messing with the Earth earlier in the storyline (which led to the X-Men attacking him in the first place). Jean Grey, in particular, is using her powers to keep him alive. Meanwhile, Wolverine is ready to just give up and die, but Jean gets into trouble, and Wolverine goes away from the light for Jean...







Uncanny X-Men #394

The first issue of Joe Casey, Ian Churchill and Mark Morales' run begins with Wolverine, Jean Grey and Archangel running afoul of a bad guy who is trying to celebrate the anniversary of Magneto's attack on Cape Citadel from the very first issue of X-Men by attacking it himself. His reality-warping powers make it so that Wolverine and Jean Grey are pretty much done for, to the point where Jean is beginning to give up - Wolverine has to come up with a way to shock her back into fighting...





Uncanny X-Men #272/X-Factor #63

So Wolverine is without his healing powers and after fighting Archangel, he's in bad shape. Jean Grey comforts him.



Then, in X-Factor, when he is in even worse shape, she comforts him even more...







This is like a more tender, heartfelt and mutual version of the Inferno kiss.

Go to the next page for the last honorable mention and the beginning of the top five...

X-Men - Phoenix: Endsong #3

So the Phoenix has returned, and Wolverine has to keep killing Phoenix to keep the Dark Phoenix from taking over in this moment from Greg Pak, Greg Land and Matt Ryan...











5. New X-Men #154

In the finale of Grant Morrison's run on the X-Men, Wolverine meets the resurrected Jean Grey in the future and he manages to calm her down to bring her back to humanity, and it is him filling her in on what happened originally following her death that led to Jean giving Scott and Emma a nudge together to be together following her death, thus avoiding the horrible timeline of "Here Comes Tomorrow"...











4. Weapon X #2

The altered timeline of Age of Apocalypse led to a relationship between Weapon X (Logan) and Jean Grey that was really well-developed. Writer Larry Hama did a hell of a job with them. Jean in this world fit Wolverine a bit more, as she had a dark time in this timeline. Anyhow, eventually, she discovers some news that she feels that she needs to get back to the X-Men in the United States. Weapon X doesn't want her to do it, leading to this striking sequence, drawn by Adam Kubert and a bunch of inkers...







Go to the next page for the top three!

3. X-Men #98

Chris Claremont really didn't do much with Jean Grey until this storyline, so this is really where the whole Wolverine/Jean flirtation began, and boy, they sure do contrast each other well...









Dave Cockrum and Bob McLeod drew it.

2. New X-Men #148

Magneto has trapped Wolverine and Jean Grey on Asteroid M as it travels into the sun. Their deaths are imminent. How do they handle it?













The heat death of the sun triggers the Phoenix force within Jean and she saves herself and Wolverine. Phil Jimenez and Andy Lanning did a heck of a job on the art.

1. Classic X-Men #1

It is kind of weird, in retrospect, to see how much importance Chris Claremont placed upon stuff that took place pretty much just in back-ups in issues of Classic X-Men. It was like he took the approach of, "Hey, I wrote it. So you should have read it," when it came to referencing it later. It was the back-up of the first issue of Classic X-Men #1 (drawn by John Bolton) that probably best explored the flirtation between Jean and Wolverine...















That's the list! Agree? Disagree? Let me know! And if you have suggestions for future top five lists, drop me a line at brianc@cbr.com!