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 Marvel comics, describing the experience in interview as highly educational. 1/5 #xmen

“I was the assistant to Chris Claremont…he was basically in charge of reviewing every single comic script that came into the office and sort of commenting on them or adding his Claremont-ness to them… 2/5

“…Basically, my job, if anybody has ever talked to Chris, he's got a lot of opinions on things. And my job was to sit there and sort of listen to him as he examined each script and broke it down and said what works and what doesn't work…” 3/5

“…I was sort of a sounding board for him to talk to. And so I got to be exposed to each of those scripts, and how they worked, and how they didn't work, and how people drew them. I saw it from sort of beginning to end…” 4/5

“…And studying at the hands of Chris Claremont, who's you know, one of the great writers in comics.” Full interview: https://www.gamesradar.com/from-cia-to-comic-books-the-secret-origin-of-tom-king/ 5/5