Archive for April, 2006



Chris Claremont: Now and Then

Published on April 10, 2006

Old and New Claremont
X-men #1 and an Uncanny X-men year 2006.
How things change but still remain the same.
Taking up comic books again after more than 15 or so years of being out of it is like moving back to your old neighborhood. While the changes that happened while you were away will continue to shock you for a little bit, there will always be some little out of the way place that haven’t changed, and, being human, you probably will try to latch on to the familiar, bask in the nostalgia, reminisce about a better time.

Here is my take on how Chris Claremont has (or failed to) change with the comic book reader.