I completely get where Chris is coming from , I miss the days where you had a normal moment. I loved seeing the mutants shopping in front of Rockefeller Plaza, or getting into a snowball fight. I’m not up on reading the current issues, but I miss the little character moments we used to have. Not everything is world ending event , let’s see the little normal insights once in awhile .
Fans need to stop enabling the propaganda bullshit Marvel is pumping out now by talentless hacks. Demand quality and good customer service. Even Claremont, over and over is saying this in a very subtle way.
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Who here wouldn’t like to see what Chris would have told in X-Men if he had never left the book? To see what the differences would have been, which way it would have gone.................
My favorite X-Men writer hands down. I grew up reading his stuff. There was so much variety in his storylines from The Shiar to Alpha Flight to Savage Land to Proteus to Hellfire club to Dark Phoenix to the Brood, etc. The problem with writers today is that they are so leery of adding new characters and/or creations to the Marvel because they know once they create them under the Marvel banner, they don't own them anymore so they just rehash old characters in different situations. They save all their best new creations for Image where they can keep the rights to them.
What a great interview!!!l...I always wanted to meet him! I've met John Byne many times.Walt Simonson..Roger Stern..Stan Lee but not Claremont....A legend!!lll
@@NearMintCondition He's still doing stuff on his website. He actually is still doing new X-Men comics on his site. Just for the fun of it I guess. Would love it if you managed to get an interview, in the top 3 creators of all time for me.
Ha ha Claremont's reaction to Franklin not being a mutant was hilarious. However that was Slott and not Hickman who threw that curve. But it could be a red herring as you said Omar.
Fantastic interview, as always. You've become an important fella on TH-cam, interviewing some of the greatest writers ever. Keep up the good work, Omar!
I really hope interviews with Claremont continue to happen, ones you've done really have been a treat. He's a legend as always, and I can't imagine a better host.
I love you telling Mr. Claremont stuff that’s happened and he doesn’t like it lol. Great interview! Mr. Claremont seems like a grandpa I would want. Just talk a ton and ask a quick question that turns into a whole bunch of stories. What a lad! :) Algorithm gang!
With Claremont's comics you really get your money's worth and feel invested and it actually has content in it even if he gets wordy as hell from time to time lol. It's very insightful for the story and characters. Few current comics nowadays have that and you immediately rush through the story and are done with it.
Thank you for this again beautiful interview. Thank you Mr. Claremont for taking time it was pleasure listening and thank you Omar again for amazing job you are doing. I could listen to Chris Claremont speaking and dissecting every issue of X-Men every single day. Hope we get more in near future. 🙏🍀🖖
Thank you for this interview yet again So he knows about Krakoa (and Jubilee)! Interesting, but its surely a totally new kind of deal to him, after all these years, Hickman's philosophy is fundamentally DIFFERENT from his, that's for sure!
I think that’s the issue. They have a different perspective. Hickman is still relating it to the world of today but in a very different way and less straightforward. It’s more thematic. I’m probably explaining it poorly but there have been moments in Hickman’s X-Men that have resonated with me in a real world way but in a very different way than Classic Claremont. When I read Claremont X-books, the characters felt like humans and like my friends. Current characters don’t. But there have been moments that have made me think of the real world and how it relates to the ideas the characters are espousing. Of course I’m also pretty political so maybe that’s why it makes me think that way. I don’t know. With that said, overall I would rather Claremont. I know his more recent stuff hasn’t been as good but I also think he never got a chance to dig in long term which is his strength. If he never left back in 1991, the result would most likely have been better than Forever and if he had been consistently writing since then with greater control, I’m pretty sure I would never have been off and on over the years That was rambling I hope it made sense
Claremont was a great plotter and a top notch comicbook scripter. He should never be anyone's favorite writer. He is the best there is , at what he does Thanks for posting.
Well Yes I comprehend where you are coming from. I guess his being Omar’s “favorite writer” just tells you how much Omar is into comics heh. I both agree with you (and Omar) that Mr Claremont’s work is among the finest in comic book history- While at the same time having to personally list Shakespeare and Stephen King as my “favorite writers”.
Hickman also expanded Apocalypse and added more to his background in the X of Swords event. Also new characters that are interesting now are Isca the Unbeaten, Bei Bloodmoon and the Chimera mutants are very interesting. Gotta let a writer tell there story their own way or else it just becomes repetitive. So the current X-Men books are not what we grew up with but I am ok with the current situation.
I enjoyed this interview. I have scheduled two different comic conventions specifically to get him to sign Omnis and he had to cancel both for whatever reasons. I hope I can meet him post Covid if things ever get back to normal.
Chris is so right about the universe, and it’s why I don’t read marvel comics anymore, despite the fact that it is by far my favorite fictional universe (but only 1961-1985 or so)
The reason continuity is gone at Marvel is because editors no longer enforce it. I think that is what Claremont is talking about when talking about how everything is insular now. I look forward to the day when continuity is restored and is adhered to again. It gave the characters and stories substance and weight.
Hi Omar! If you get a chance to interview Chris again, please ask him what input he had, if any, with the decision to have Colossus “cheat” on Kitty during the original Secret Wars… Out of any character within the team (or even the whole of the MU), Peter had maybe strongest moral code that it always felt entirely against how Claremont portrayed him. They tried to say it was an aspect of Zsaji’s power, to have whoever she healed be drawn to her, and there were some lovely character beats that Claremont wrote with Peter afterwards addressing his struggle with it. But it hurt that that was never entirely communicated by Claremont between Kitty & Peter. Haha Rambleramble
Claremont makes a good point , Have nightcrawler at his Sunday church more often & the girls at the mall getting there hair done .. I'm so behind on x-men do they still do this stuff regularly?
The discussion at 18:14 (Wolverine and Phoenix representing the universal forces of faith and reality) made me stop and think that a more fitting summary would be Wolverine and _Jean_ as faith, with *Phoenix* as reality: a Lacanian take on those universal forces, where Logan represents the imaginary, Jean represents the symbolic, and Phoenix represents the real. Always the threat of cosmic destruction intrudes on the fantasy that there can be a time of "lasting tranquility" or "final triumph" over outside forces of aggression/evil or whatever. Also with Jean being the symbolic -- to Logan, she's a desire. She represents and encapsulates that unattainable desire for everlasting peace. That's illusory, and not "of the real". Phoenix is a reminder and representation of "the real" that shatters that fantasy. Shit. Sorry, I've been reading *a lot* of philosophy and poli-sci and that's the first thing I thought of. I might edit this comment later into the video if I think of anything else, I'm still just mad at myself for missing this live. lol EDIT time. 20:30 - Cyclops puts up with the tension and anxiety Jean and Logan's relationship brings him because he doesn't just have feelings for Jean. He has feelings for Logan, too. They're not necessarily romantic™ feelings, but they are _connected_ to the romantic feelings he has for Jean -- they're primal feelings, in any case, and there has to be a kind of love and trust between them because he knows Logan's going to be around after he himself has died. Who else can he trust to care for Jean than the man who's saved his own life countless times, not to mention hers as well, and has the longevity of an Eternal as far as we know? 30:00 - Comics as a representation of society, whether an idealized one or not, is just brilliant and I love it. 35:38 - Chris's method of changing the way information is re-iterated (especially in X-Men and New Mutants classics) is part of what makes those stories so readable even to this day. Everyone knows the X-Men and New Mutants are people "with extraordinary abilities" that "separate them from the rest of humanity" and that each one has their own unique power, and everyone knows their favorite character's ability. But those things are stated at different points in the stories as they're relevant, if at all, and sometimes you'll even find Chris's usual 2 or 3 panel explanation of those things near the end of an issue. Either way the information is there, but it's not intrusive at all. I can't think of a better example of how crossovers and events have put a wrench in enjoying comics than to cite Dawn of X, as much as I love the premise of the story, the fact that it happened the way that it did (6 series, 12 issues each, then leading directly into X of Swords breathlessly? PLEASE STOP) really sucks. And no one can ever top Claremont/Byrne/Cockrum/Simonson etc., the classic team, in making incredible -- epic! -- stories without all of the trappings of the modern crossover events.
@@ReaperXC that was the exception however. And that sold 8 million copies. Claremont was selling 500k per issue on a regular basis with 0 variant covers, and had a comic book that grew in sales consistently for 16 years.he can without a shadow of a doubt claim to be the most successful writer since Stan Lee 8n terms of sales
Am I getting old? I read his X-Men throughout my youth, and then barely endured the next 10 years. Now I don't recognize any of them. Not even Wolverine. There was something special about the Marvel Universe before the 90s. There were great stories, but there was also a lot of simplicity. Now there are only huge threats, the fate of the universe always at stake and nonsense like that. I miss my old friends, luckily I can always reread what Chris wrote.
Wait what was up with that Bishop comment? Did he have something to do with the creation of the character? He did seem to use him upon his returns more than other post-claremont characters
@@NearMintCondition thats what I thought. I don’t remember the exact quote but something about what he said made me think he was implying a connection with the character. Maybe he just meant that he liked him or that he worked on him when he returned more than any other post-claremont character I guess
Much as a legend he is, Claremont comes across sometimes as not understanding that the X characters are IPs not his toys. I get it, you get attached to these characters but man he's having a hard time to let go of stuff. I always laugh when he mentions Scott and Maddie in interviews lol He's still salty. Lastly, it's difficult to compare his stint in Xmen to other writers because Marvel Comics would never give one writer decades of control of the X line, not even Hickman. The only other writer to have that long stint on the XMen was Mike Carey and he was never Head of X. Great intverview, thanks for the video.
Thank you so much for watching and I can sense how much it still hurts him to be taken off the books. But I do love that he still keeps up with his X-men.
I think Claremont is an absolute pioneer for Marvel comics but the Jean and Wolverine arc never made a lick of sense. Jean and Logan are selfish and un-loyal, so why the heck would they stick it out together? I really liked Alex Ross's take on the two of them in Earth X. Logan is selfish and Jean is always looking for the next big thing. When the world doesn't need mutants, their relationship goes to crap but Cyclops remains dedicated and sharp throughout his career and life. Jean, although caring, is not a warrior and is always looking for an easy out. Logan has just about slept with every other heroine in Marvel and has a few kids to boot. Based on their character traits, there's no way their relationship would work long-term.
He acts as if he’s a gift to humanity and the greatest writer of all time. Spare me. Stop disagreeing with everything and treat others with kindness and respect, Chris. You did some good stories which doesn’t make you better than anybody as a person.
I hated the idea of modern xmen and what they are doing to the characters, especially this house of x crap... can confirm now, Claremont hates them too. I feel vindicated and respect the man even more for telling it how it is. The modern writers are not worthy to be on these books and pushing the agenda they are. Sorry if you disagree, but there is a reason why the classic still hold up and the crap written now will be forgotten. You are ALLOWED to criticise modern comics, despite how much vitriol and malice thrown at you. You do not have to like everything. Learn about classic literature and why it works.... why modern marvel and DC are digging their own graves and the greatest writers refuse to work for them. Propaganda over art doesnt sell books. I am thankful I can now buy all the classic stories.
I have to agree. Of course it’s subjective But I feel for myself that by and large the events for DC and Marvel In the eighties that effectively ended the continuities they had spent decades building Were awful mistakes that make everything after them of very limited interest to myself. To me the “multi verses” that are used now should have been limited to stories like in the original “What If “ book. Now all that exists is “what if”. Not that “what if “ was ever my idea of the most interesting title- But To me whatever fun there was in such is now lost with everything effectively being along those lines. To me there is some definite irony that DC and Marvel saw their destruction of continuity As freeing when really that was what they both had most going for them Thus they are now free to do as they like with their remaining meaningless universes, Very killing the golden goose.
The art suffered dramatically too. As much as I loved the X-men Claremont was a genius. Fabian Nicieza and Scott Lobdell were ok. But Jim Lee was a big draw and Andy Kubert was amazing but it took him awhile to become great. I even started going into the Wolverine series because of Adam Kubert.
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Dang, Chris wrote so hard that he broke his hand. Boss!!
He is the man.
I'm jealous about this father and son relationship!
Hahahaha. I'm being adopted by him!
I've seen you interview Claremont and I've seen you interview Peter David. John Ostrander is all you're missing to complete my holy trinity.
Ostrander, along with Stackpole and Zahn need to be in charge of SW Disney lore.
@@smartassdroid5149 Truer words were never spoken
I completely get where Chris is coming from , I miss the days where you had a normal moment. I loved seeing the mutants shopping in front of Rockefeller Plaza, or getting into a snowball fight. I’m not up on reading the current issues, but I miss the little character moments we used to have. Not everything is world ending event , let’s see the little normal insights once in awhile .
Fans need to stop enabling the propaganda bullshit Marvel is pumping out now by talentless hacks. Demand quality and good customer service. Even Claremont, over and over is saying this in a very subtle way.
Claremont!!! Byrne!!!!!!..the greatest!!!!!!
Absolutely.
I know how much he means to you. I have no idea how you even kept your cool or when you had to tell him about Vulcan. You are a better man than I.
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I’m in for the idea of “Omar X-Plains Post-Claremont X-comics to Chris!” Haha uggghh.... poor Chris....
Great interview by the way!
Nice to see Omar spend time with his dad
I love this guy.
Always fun to see you speak to the legendary Mr Claremont! I'd mess up interviewing my favorites. Somehow.
This channel has the best guest speakers! Solid video 👍🏼
explaining (post Claremont) X-men continuity to Chris Claremont needs to be a show on Disney +
I’d love to host it. :)
I loveeee Chris Claremont. For me there is no other writer as great as him!
Its always nice to see that your heroes are down to earth and cool as hell! Great interview Omar!
Who here wouldn’t like to see what Chris would have told in X-Men if he had never left the book? To see what the differences would have been, which way it would have gone.................
I think we all would.
To me, Claremont's continuity still rules! Most that followed him quickly lost control.
This is true.
My favorite X-Men writer hands down. I grew up reading his stuff. There was so much variety in his storylines from The Shiar to Alpha Flight to Savage Land to Proteus to Hellfire club to Dark Phoenix to the Brood, etc. The problem with writers today is that they are so leery of adding new characters and/or creations to the Marvel because they know once they create them under the Marvel banner, they don't own them anymore so they just rehash old characters in different situations. They save all their best new creations for Image where they can keep the rights to them.
What a great interview!!!l...I always wanted to meet him! I've met John Byne many times.Walt Simonson..Roger Stern..Stan Lee but not Claremont....A legend!!lll
You've met some legends yourself.
This is the greatest thing I've seen this week!!!! Keep rewatching it!!!! Thanks for this video!!!
Good to see Chris again. Any chance John Byrne would agree to be interviewed on the channel? Be interesting to hear him on X-Men, FF, and Superman.
I would love to have John on, but I don't think he does much these days.
@@NearMintCondition He's still doing stuff on his website. He actually is still doing new X-Men comics on his site. Just for the fun of it I guess.
Would love it if you managed to get an interview, in the top 3 creators of all time for me.
Always a treat to see another interview on your channel. You always have some of the greatest guests. Looking forward to whatever comes next.
Much appreciated!
Ha ha Claremont's reaction to Franklin not being a mutant was hilarious. However that was Slott and not Hickman who threw that curve. But it could be a red herring as you said Omar.
Fantastic interview, as always. You've become an important fella on TH-cam, interviewing some of the greatest writers ever. Keep up the good work, Omar!
Much appreciated, my brother.
I can agree with his point on events. I wish Marvel would ease up on them.
They have their times when they don't , but it comes down to sales.
“I’m not gonna go out and *buy* them!” Lol... savage!
I really hope interviews with Claremont continue to happen, ones you've done really have been a treat. He's a legend as always, and I can't imagine a better host.
You are too kind and he is always welcomed back.
Hickman is the long storyteller in essence there will be like one or two panels but and then be relevant when we forgot about it.
I love you telling Mr. Claremont stuff that’s happened and he doesn’t like it lol. Great interview! Mr. Claremont seems like a grandpa I would want. Just talk a ton and ask a quick question that turns into a whole bunch of stories. What a lad! :) Algorithm gang!
Glad you enjoyed it
With Claremont's comics you really get your money's worth and feel invested and it actually has content in it even if he gets wordy as hell from time to time lol. It's very insightful for the story and characters. Few current comics nowadays have that and you immediately rush through the story and are done with it.
I’d like to see his Sovereign Seven collected in omnibus form. He made so many stories that I love.He is truly the man.
Oh yes. Good idea. I love the art by Turner.
Thank you for this again beautiful interview. Thank you Mr. Claremont for taking time it was pleasure listening and thank you Omar again for amazing job you are doing. I could listen to Chris Claremont speaking and dissecting every issue of X-Men every single day. Hope we get more in near future. 🙏🍀🖖
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you so much.
Thank you for this interview yet again
So he knows about Krakoa (and Jubilee)!
Interesting, but its surely a totally new kind of deal to him, after all these years, Hickman's philosophy is fundamentally DIFFERENT from his, that's for sure!
I think that’s the issue. They have a different perspective. Hickman is still relating it to the world of today but in a very different way and less straightforward. It’s more thematic.
I’m probably explaining it poorly but there have been moments in Hickman’s X-Men that have resonated with me in a real world way but in a very different way than Classic Claremont. When I read Claremont X-books, the characters felt like humans and like my friends. Current characters don’t. But there have been moments that have made me think of the real world and how it relates to the ideas the characters are espousing. Of course I’m also pretty political so maybe that’s why it makes me think that way. I don’t know.
With that said, overall I would rather Claremont. I know his more recent stuff hasn’t been as good but I also think he never got a chance to dig in long term which is his strength. If he never left back in 1991, the result would most likely have been better than Forever and if he had been consistently writing since then with greater control, I’m pretty sure I would never have been off and on over the years
That was rambling I hope it made sense
He does know and reads them from time to time.
Wow! He is just so right about crossovers!
Yes. He is.
@@NearMintCondition Omar, you are a brave man by pointing out to him, he started it with Mutant Massacre. 😄
Claremont was a great plotter and a top notch comicbook scripter.
He should never be anyone's favorite writer.
He is the best there is , at what he does
Thanks for posting.
Well Yes I comprehend where you are coming from.
I guess his being Omar’s “favorite writer” just tells you how much Omar is into comics heh.
I both agree with you (and Omar) that Mr Claremont’s work is among the finest in comic book history-
While at the same time having to personally list Shakespeare and Stephen King as my “favorite writers”.
Always fabulous to listen to the great Chris Claremont 👌🏻✌️🙏👍😀 TY, Omar 🤟🙂
Thanks for listening
Great interview once again! You get so much out of the creators thanks to your knowledge of the medium! Hope you will keep doing these.
That's the plan! I am going to be reaching out at the beginning of the year.
Yeah, that sounds like a great plan.
At 27:00 LMAO even Chris Claremont is like smh and again at 51:05 when he hears what Wolverine, Jean, and Cyclops are up to these days lol
I hated to break it to him. :)
Lol
Hickman also expanded Apocalypse and added more to his background in the X of Swords event. Also new characters that are interesting now are Isca the Unbeaten, Bei Bloodmoon and the Chimera mutants are very interesting. Gotta let a writer tell there story their own way or else it just becomes repetitive. So the current X-Men books are not what we grew up with but I am ok with the current situation.
I enjoyed this interview. I have scheduled two different comic conventions specifically to get him to sign Omnis and he had to cancel both for whatever reasons. I hope I can meet him post Covid if things ever get back to normal.
I hope one day you get to meet him.
Chris is so right about the universe, and it’s why I don’t read marvel comics anymore, despite the fact that it is by far my favorite fictional universe (but only 1961-1985 or so)
I love this man so much. Another great interview!
He is the man!
The reason continuity is gone at Marvel is because editors no longer enforce it. I think that is what Claremont is talking about when talking about how everything is insular now. I look forward to the day when continuity is restored and is adhered to again. It gave the characters and stories substance and weight.
You look forward to a day that shall never come my friend
Also Omar read Al Ewing's Sword he does cosmic like no other these days including his Guardians of the galaxy
Always wondered why Chris didn't just let Jim have adjectives and carry on as writer on Uncanny, what was the reason for him leaving Uncanny?
He was asked to leave really. Harras made a call.
Good interview!
Thank you, he's always a blast to have on.
Informative interview. Too bad I missed it live!
Next time!
Just finished, great interview and insight
Thank you so much.
Man I’d love to get something signed by mr Claremont, even if it’s on Tp lol love him so much. Anything on eBay? Great job Omar
He signed my Nightcrawler number one a few summers ago. I will never part with it. He's a fun guy to talk too.
@@jmv1969 awesome! happy for you
Hi Omar! If you get a chance to interview Chris again, please ask him what input he had, if any, with the decision to have Colossus “cheat” on Kitty during the original Secret Wars… Out of any character within the team (or even the whole of the MU), Peter had maybe strongest moral code that it always felt entirely against how Claremont portrayed him. They tried to say it was an aspect of Zsaji’s power, to have whoever she healed be drawn to her, and there were some lovely character beats that Claremont wrote with Peter afterwards addressing his struggle with it. But it hurt that that was never entirely communicated by Claremont between Kitty & Peter. Haha Rambleramble
Claremont makes a good point , Have nightcrawler at his Sunday church more often & the girls at the mall getting there hair done .. I'm so behind on x-men do they still do this stuff regularly?
The discussion at 18:14 (Wolverine and Phoenix representing the universal forces of faith and reality) made me stop and think that a more fitting summary would be Wolverine and _Jean_ as faith, with *Phoenix* as reality: a Lacanian take on those universal forces, where Logan represents the imaginary, Jean represents the symbolic, and Phoenix represents the real. Always the threat of cosmic destruction intrudes on the fantasy that there can be a time of "lasting tranquility" or "final triumph" over outside forces of aggression/evil or whatever. Also with Jean being the symbolic -- to Logan, she's a desire. She represents and encapsulates that unattainable desire for everlasting peace. That's illusory, and not "of the real". Phoenix is a reminder and representation of "the real" that shatters that fantasy.
Shit. Sorry, I've been reading *a lot* of philosophy and poli-sci and that's the first thing I thought of. I might edit this comment later into the video if I think of anything else, I'm still just mad at myself for missing this live. lol
EDIT time. 20:30 - Cyclops puts up with the tension and anxiety Jean and Logan's relationship brings him because he doesn't just have feelings for Jean. He has feelings for Logan, too. They're not necessarily romantic™ feelings, but they are _connected_ to the romantic feelings he has for Jean -- they're primal feelings, in any case, and there has to be a kind of love and trust between them because he knows Logan's going to be around after he himself has died. Who else can he trust to care for Jean than the man who's saved his own life countless times, not to mention hers as well, and has the longevity of an Eternal as far as we know?
30:00 - Comics as a representation of society, whether an idealized one or not, is just brilliant and I love it.
35:38 - Chris's method of changing the way information is re-iterated (especially in X-Men and New Mutants classics) is part of what makes those stories so readable even to this day. Everyone knows the X-Men and New Mutants are people "with extraordinary abilities" that "separate them from the rest of humanity" and that each one has their own unique power, and everyone knows their favorite character's ability. But those things are stated at different points in the stories as they're relevant, if at all, and sometimes you'll even find Chris's usual 2 or 3 panel explanation of those things near the end of an issue. Either way the information is there, but it's not intrusive at all. I can't think of a better example of how crossovers and events have put a wrench in enjoying comics than to cite Dawn of X, as much as I love the premise of the story, the fact that it happened the way that it did (6 series, 12 issues each, then leading directly into X of Swords breathlessly? PLEASE STOP) really sucks. And no one can ever top Claremont/Byrne/Cockrum/Simonson etc., the classic team, in making incredible -- epic! -- stories without all of the trappings of the modern crossover events.
Thank you for writing all of this. I really enjoyed reading it. I'm with you. No one can top those years of Claremont. In my eyes.
Great interview. You seem to talk over each other often though.
Thank you. It’s a little difficult when streaming though streamyard as sometimes there can be a lagZ
it's like the beer goggles come off when you see him for this long - don't you wish you could just protect the artist from themselves ?
That's my secret. Beer goggles stay on. :)
It was best selling because Of the art and variant covers mostly, the writing second.
Well, back then there were no variant covers....however the art was top notch. Some fill in issues...not so much.
Near Mint Condition x men number one with Lee and Claremont has tons of covers. And then you could buy the fold out cover.
@@ReaperXC that was the exception however. And that sold 8 million copies. Claremont was selling 500k per issue on a regular basis with 0 variant covers, and had a comic book that grew in sales consistently for 16 years.he can without a shadow of a doubt claim to be the most successful writer since Stan Lee 8n terms of sales
Am I getting old? I read his X-Men throughout my youth, and then barely endured the next 10 years. Now I don't recognize any of them. Not even Wolverine. There was something special about the Marvel Universe before the 90s. There were great stories, but there was also a lot of simplicity. Now there are only huge threats, the fate of the universe always at stake and nonsense like that. I miss my old friends, luckily I can always reread what Chris wrote.
Hugh Jackman is Australian not brirish. Pretty sure Doug Scott isn’t from Australia.
True.
One minute in and I already learned I’ve been pronouncing Mariko wrong all these years
lol Or maybe we all have.
@@NearMintCondition Claremont created her so I defer to him (and we won’t mention any Ra’s al Ghul confusion where even O’Neill seemed not sure)
@@Kyle_The_Mighty hahaha I know. We all say Ra's a little different. :)
Wait what was up with that Bishop comment? Did he have something to do with the creation of the character? He did seem to use him upon his returns more than other post-claremont characters
He didn't. That was all Jim Lee and Whilce Portacio. Although we all love Bishop.
@@NearMintCondition thats what I thought. I don’t remember the exact quote but something about what he said made me think he was implying a connection with the character. Maybe he just meant that he liked him or that he worked on him when he returned more than any other post-claremont character I guess
Much as a legend he is, Claremont comes across sometimes as not understanding that the X characters are IPs not his toys. I get it, you get attached to these characters but man he's having a hard time to let go of stuff. I always laugh when he mentions Scott and Maddie in interviews lol He's still salty.
Lastly, it's difficult to compare his stint in Xmen to other writers because Marvel Comics would never give one writer decades of control of the X line, not even Hickman. The only other writer to have that long stint on the XMen was Mike Carey and he was never Head of X. Great intverview, thanks for the video.
Thank you so much for watching and I can sense how much it still hurts him to be taken off the books. But I do love that he still keeps up with his X-men.
I think Claremont is an absolute pioneer for Marvel comics but the Jean and Wolverine arc never made a lick of sense. Jean and Logan are selfish and un-loyal, so why the heck would they stick it out together? I really liked Alex Ross's take on the two of them in Earth X. Logan is selfish and Jean is always looking for the next big thing. When the world doesn't need mutants, their relationship goes to crap but Cyclops remains dedicated and sharp throughout his career and life. Jean, although caring, is not a warrior and is always looking for an easy out. Logan has just about slept with every other heroine in Marvel and has a few kids to boot. Based on their character traits, there's no way their relationship would work long-term.
Huh. That's ... Claremont.
That is.
He acts as if he’s a gift to humanity and the greatest writer of all time. Spare me. Stop disagreeing with everything and treat others with kindness and respect, Chris. You did some good stories which doesn’t make you better than anybody as a person.
When did he act like he was better than everyone else?
I hated the idea of modern xmen and what they are doing to the characters, especially this house of x crap... can confirm now, Claremont hates them too. I feel vindicated and respect the man even more for telling it how it is. The modern writers are not worthy to be on these books and pushing the agenda they are. Sorry if you disagree, but there is a reason why the classic still hold up and the crap written now will be forgotten. You are ALLOWED to criticise modern comics, despite how much vitriol and malice thrown at you. You do not have to like everything. Learn about classic literature and why it works.... why modern marvel and DC are digging their own graves and the greatest writers refuse to work for them. Propaganda over art doesnt sell books. I am thankful I can now buy all the classic stories.
I have to agree.
Of course it’s subjective But I feel for myself that by and large the events for DC and Marvel
In the eighties that effectively ended the continuities they had spent decades building
Were awful mistakes that make everything after them of very limited interest to myself.
To me the “multi verses” that are used now should have been limited to stories like in the original
“What If “ book.
Now all that exists is “what if”.
Not that “what if “ was ever my idea of the most interesting title-
But To me whatever fun there was in such is now lost with everything effectively being along those lines.
To me there is some definite irony that DC and Marvel saw their destruction of continuity
As freeing when really that was what they both had most going for them
Thus they are now free to do as they like with their remaining meaningless universes,
Very killing the golden goose.
The art suffered dramatically too. As much as I loved the X-men Claremont was a genius. Fabian Nicieza and Scott Lobdell were ok. But Jim Lee was a big draw and Andy Kubert was amazing but it took him awhile to become great. I even started going into the Wolverine series because of Adam Kubert.
Claremont is so smug.