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

[lilacsigil]

So! I was about 10 and my mother brought home a random box of books from a garage sale. In it was the X-Men: Heroes for Hope comic. It was a one-off special by various big-name creators (including Stephen King!) with a framing story by Claremont, where each of the X-Men of the time have a scary experience where they learn about despair and then go to famine-hit Ethiopia and literally beat up despair in the form of a monster. It sounds terrible but the individual stories are really good, and they're clear that this doesn't solve famine. I was super impressed by Storm, Magneto and Rogue, who are still three of my favourites.

[sheliak]

I've never read that story, but it sounds really fun! And I'm glad that Storm, Magneto and Rogue all had good sections.