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The Claremont Run
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By the end of the second brood saga, the die is cast, so to speak on Madelyne’s transformation into the Goblin Queen, but instead of launching straight into Inferno, Claremont
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Before he became a CIA operative, and then the much-lauded recent author of Batman, Mister Miracle, Sheriff of Babylon, and Vision, Tom King worked as an assistant to Claremont at
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In UXM 272, Claremont uses a reunion with the broader X-Men and the extreme circumstances of collective torture to define and showcase Psylocke’s new emerging character in the wake of
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The benevolent patriarch is a standard character archetype in the silver age of comics. With Prof X, Claremont takes that trope and converts into X’s hamartia (tragic flaw), altering the
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With the help of Frank Miller in the 1982 Wolverine mini, Claremont aligned Wolverine’s character with samurai mythology (on top of the previous cowboy association), a decision that greatly altered
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Though Claremont is credited with reviving the X-Men, the run prior to Claremont’s very nearly accomplished the same thing, but for some unfortunate circumstances; nonetheless, Neal Adams’ run served as
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While the character of Wolverine is wholly unique, a lot of his attributes can be seen to reflect the greater cultural history embodied by the figure of the American Cowboy,
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Roberto Da Costa, created by Claremont (with Bob McLeod on art) for the New Mutants Graphic Novel in 1982, is currently the centre of white-washing accusations in the wake of
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In 2010, the Guinness Book of World Records awarded Claremont a trophy for the best-selling comic of all-time in honour of X-Men #1, which sold somewhere between 3 and 8
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Wolverine’s healing factor creates a dynamic yet contradictory power fantasy that winds up burdening his stories with an endless escalation of bodily trauma in order to preserve the impact of
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Despite an aesthetic shift from teenage girl to cigar- chomping demon, the character of Illyana Rasputin has a great deal in common with the character Hellboy, and exhibits a lot
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Claremont is famous for rehabilitating Carol Danvers in the wake of a character assassination from Avengers #200, but he actually does something quite similar for Psylocke, after a similarly contentious
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