With the success of X-MEN 97 is it time to get Claremont back full time?

[Anthony W]

Should Marvel do it?

DISCUSS!

[Rift]

Reminder that Claremont once wrote a small story with Hellion in an anthology book or whatever. I didn't read the whole book, just the story with Hellion.

So what I'm saying is, I'd be up for Claremontian stuff if it was about Hellion. Because tbh a lot of his more recent stuff has felt very dated and bland. That might have been a limitation, since he was basically froced to stick to past stories and didn't get a chance to visit Krakoa. But we know he can write Hellion, so let's start there.

[Anthony W]

Reminder that Claremont once wrote a small story with Hellion in an anthology book or whatever. I didn't read the whole book, just the story with Hellion.

So what I'm saying is, I'd be up for Claremontian stuff if it was about Hellion. Because tbh a lot of his more recent stuff has felt very dated and bland. That might have been a limitation, since he was basically froced to stick to past stories and didn't get a chance to visit Krakoa. But we know he can write Hellion, so let's start there.

Marvel loves Synergy this is a perfect chance for it.

[Galen Nycroft]

The question is not should Marvel do it, but if Claremont wants to do it. I think now that he is old, he doesn't want to be tied down to a monthly.

[Steroid]

I love Claremont's first run and that will never change but no he shouldn't be handed the keys to the franchise. At this point he's to bitter and set in his ways to ever allow the franchise to move forward beyond his vision of the X-Men.

[Anthony W]

I love Claremont's first run and that will never change but no he shouldn't be handed the keys to the franchise. At this point he's to bitter and set in his ways to ever allow the franchise to move forward beyond his vision of the X-Men.

Except his vision of the X-Men is what Marvel/Disney/Fox is pushing. It's not like Marvel his any stars lying around. Marvel should let him cook.

[numberthirty]

No...

The series in question is literally set decades ago.

Everything else has long since moved on.

[Til]

No. I'll always love his earlier work, but I haven't liked a single X-book he's written in the past 20 years. Not to mention, he left the books in 91. So I'm not sure how much credit he should get for 90's X-Men nostalgia.

[Username taken]

No...

The series in question is literally set decades ago.

Everything else has long since moved on.

Exactly this.

[Grunty]

I love Claremont's first run and that will never change but no he shouldn't be handed the keys to the franchise. At this point he's to bitter and set in his ways to ever allow the franchise to move forward beyond his vision of the X-Men.

He still seems to know his craft as a writer, but he can't bring back what is long gone.

It can be argued that when people say they want him back, what they actualy mean is that they want the feeling and quality of his writing from back in the 70's and 80's back.

But that was the result of a specific environment. The state of the world, Marvel as a company, the editorial and the writer himself at the time. All of that changed. So just like someone can never experience a 1970's Rolling Stones concernt live again, it's unlikely that the man alone would be able to create another 1970/80's X-men comic.

Perhaps this wouldn't be such a problem if the X-men comics would have had another such long time of consistency and quality of writing after his run ended.

No. I'll always love his earlier work, but I haven't liked a single X-book he's written in the past 20 years. Not to mention, he left the books in 91. So I'm not sure how much credit he should get for 90's X-Men nostalgia.

90's nostalgia in regards to the X-men comics, seems to only mean everything between 1990 and 1992. With the period from 1995 to 2000 in particular having quite a bad
reputation.

It's arguably TAS, which mainly drew from stories of the 70's and 80's stories, which dominates the X-men nostalgia of that decade.

[Angleman70]

Should Marvel do it?

DISCUSS!

Absolutely Not! His treatment of Polaris and Havok are unforgivable!

[seccruz]

Should Marvel do it?

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Yes! Thank you.

[whitecrown]

Should Marvel do it?

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Yes, I only consider his X-Men canon. With a few exceptions like Rick Remender.