Welcome!

[sheliak]

Welcome to X-Men Classic!

This is a community dedicated to the classic Claremont-era X-Men! Related titles very much included. If you want to talk about New Mutants, X-Factor, Excalibur, the Magik miniseries, the Fallen Angels or anything else X-related from this time period—go right ahead! We hope you’ll have fun here.

To get the discussion rolling, tell us about the comic or arc that got you hooked on the era, or X-Men comics in general!

Comments

[rachelmanija]

Oh! I just remembered that the first X-Men issues I read were the one with Psylocke AND the one where Storm and Rogue are swimming together and bonding and then Storm gets shot with the de-powering ray!

I love the depowered Storm arc so much. Normally female characters get depowered in order to make them, well, less powerful. And also to shove them into the background. And typically make them more stereotypically feminine. Depowered Storm became MORE badass, kept on being LESS stereotypically feminine (not that she really ever was, but...), and became EVEN MORE prominent, oh and also the team leader of a team of superpower mutants where she was the only non-powered one and it didn't matter. That whole arc could not have been more my id (among other things, I love "badass normal" and it's almost never written with women. It's probably my all-time favorite single X-Men arc.

[sheliak]

I loved how without her powers Storm was just focused and distilled--not a lesser person or hero, but more stripped down to her core. And that entire storyline was about her, about how losing her powers made her change and grow and rise to new challenges, not about anyone else. It was great.

(There's this one scene I particularly love—the X-Men are in the middle of a nasty fight, and one of their enemies can cancel people's superpowers. So he thinks he's cancelled Storm's and starts gloating, and she says "Such a pity I have none," and punches him. I just loved that bit.)