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

[delight]

Once upon a time I saw X-2 and thought Kurt was amazing! Yeah, that's an embarrassing intro to a series when you have a comic geek parent, but it is the truth.

So I wanted to learn more about the source material - my father was a huge Jack Kirby fan (they shared a birthday, as a bonus) - and my first opportunity was at summer camp. What my camp-mates had brought along in terms of X-Men was all Claremont; I got introduced to the swasbuckling priest Kurt Wagner and fell in love with both him and everything around him, his team, his friends, everything.

ETA: The arc with Alex Summers and Annie Ghazikanian was the first I actually read in full! It was so far away in my weird foggy memory and then came back all at once.

My second summer at said camp, the Emma Frost miniseries origin story came out, and now Emma and Kurt are tied for first comic book characters of all time in my heart. Yes, both have had arcs that make me go D: and want to ignore them, but that's comics for you. I recently learned the Emma series has a complete set you can buy on Kindle for $25, and I intend to do this as soon as I have the funds because I haven't got the faintest clue where the actual books are anymore!

[rachelmanija]

That intro sequence with Kurt in X-2 is one of my favorite sequences of anything ever. Though swashbuckling priest Kurt is still the greatest.

[sheliak]

Kurt was wonderful in X2! He's had a lot of really great iterations, really; he's been pretty lucky with adaptations.

[sholio]

I love Kurt in X-2! He's so wonderful in that. :D