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This was the first comic I ever read. Giant Sized X-Men 2, Roy Thomas, Neal Adams and Tom Palmer. This is what comic book perfection looks like. This issue is

🤍Magneto’s white cape🤍

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#Mystiny Long story short my drawing app crashed I gave up Maybe it can be a pfp Illyana, Kate, & Rachel #XMen #Doodle Karma, Rahne, and flowers from Dani

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Claremont is on record as being opposed to gendered superheroine codenames. As such, none of his female character creations have the word “girl” or “woman” in their superhero names, a

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Though he never drew consecutive issues of UXM, artist Rick Leonardi made an indelible impression on X-Men with issues of the “Mutant Massacre,” “The Genosha Saga,” and the Outback era,

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Leading up to the UXM #200 trail of Magneto, the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, led by Mystique, decide to align with the protections of government sanction and negotiate to rebrand

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One of the more common character tropes that Claremont uses is the idea of the being who is fighting their own dark destiny, and – more often than not –

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Strangely, one of the contributing factors to Claremont’s departure was Marvel’s initial public offering of 40% of shares in the company in 1991, a long-percolating business strategy that radically reconfigured

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Though Claremont tends to play things very loose with structure, in his early years on UXM he does quite frequently use a common screenwriting technique in which the plot reverses

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Even at his peak, Claremont’s writing credits were not all successful, but his famous attachment to the characters that he developed often resulted in characters from failed books getting sucked

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In a 1982 interview Claremont describes his unique portrayal of women in comics as a conscious decision, made under epiphany. The result of this is one of mainstream comics most

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Though already an Omega-level mutant, expert thief, and melee fighter, Claremont also built a delicate, but hard-to-trace, thread by which we can perceive Storm as a magical being as well.

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The launch of Kitty Pryde represented an important structural transition for the series, introducing a young female viewpoint character (highly unusual), but it also created connective tissue across books as

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Claremont created the character of Mystique as a nod to “The Feminine Mystique” (1963) by Betty Friedan, an important text that spurred the 2nd wave of American feminism, and one

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Former Marvel EIC Jim Shooter gives an interesting account of how the Claremont/Byrne tension continued to impact Marvel’s publishing line even after the two creators split up, describing an ongoing

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Rachel Summers can offer a poignant commentary on the concept of integrating into society whilst struggling mentally and emotionally, and the extent to which that sense of incongruity can leave

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One of the most pivotal marketing strategies for Marvel was the construction of shared universe storytelling, and though X-Men was often its own isolated corner of the Marvel universe, Claremont’s

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