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x_men_classicWelcome 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!
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!
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Date: 2018-12-19 07:09 pm (UTC)And then I discovered, in 1992, that my college had a small comics library inside its larger actual library. (OK, it was my co-college, me being at Bryn Mawr and the library being at Haverford.)
As far as I *remember*, they had most of the Claremont X-Men run. I'm pretty sure they were light on the early Claremont/Cockrum productions, and I don't imagine they could have had Giant Size X-Men #1, it being even then pretty rare & expensive, but I know I've read that stuff at other times.
Anyway. Love! Drama! Claremontisms! The focused totality of her psychic powers! Self-sacrifice! Punk Storm being badass, and Kitty Pryde figuring things out and being one of the more stubborn people in the universe. Mentorship of many different kinds. Mutantkind as one big ol' queer metaphor. Stuff like that.
I guess the arc I liked best was, yes, punk Storm, or more accurately, Storm trying to figure herself out, re-discovering that core of strength and steel, and how the network of relationships within the X-Men changed and grew, all during it.
(But I also loved Rachel Summers flailing in confusion and pain, and Piotr and Kitty's Big Romance (which makes me wince now), and Kurt being Kurt, and just everything.)
Anyway, I think they had like 3 issues of Excalibur and a couple of New Mutants. I later went on to collect as much of Excalibur as I could, and all of New Mutants until Claremont left, but not so much X-Men because I'd already read it and Claremont's writing tics by that time annoyed me. (I also collected some post-Claremont NM, but Simonson just really didn't... jell with the book, and Liefield is to be avoided at all times.)
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Date: 2018-12-19 09:28 pm (UTC)I haven't read much of the Simonson New Mutants, or collected any of it. There's some good stuff there, but it really doesn't feel like the same series or characters.
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Date: 2018-12-20 02:44 am (UTC)