anarky wrote:Miss Sinister?
As lame as he has become, I still wonder how fucking awesome the X-Men books would be if he'd never been axed. Maybe if he'd stayed "practiced," he wouldn't suck now. And the stories would've had more steam for at least a few years, even if he did lose it in the late 90s the way he did in the real world.
Was "THE LAST CLAREMONT X-MEN STORY!!!!" in (New) X-Men near the beginning? I vaguely recall Magneto/Accolytes covers with that blurb at the top in the 2nd series. Do you know he was axed, Chux, or was it a mutual parting of the ways?
I read something really interesting from Neal Adams. He drew (and helped plot) X-Men right before the book tanked the first time (at issue 66). His take is that EVERY successful X-Men writer since his run has basically ripped it off: Magneto, Savage Land, Shi'ar/Starjammers then back to Magneto again, with brief sojourns off to "new" places in the interims. I found that pretty funny - and also kinda true.
Claremont had gone around that track a good number of times - I'm really not sure how much more he could have done even if he had stuck around the first time. In my mind (having read a ridiculously huge glut of non-memorable X-stories since Claremont's departure)only Grant Morrison and Joss Whedon have truly broken those confines.
My X-Universe is in holding right now having ended with GS Astonishing #1, even though the books keep coming out and I keep buying them.
