chris claremont

Uncanny X-Men #137 is well known for featuring the Death Of Jean Grey. The Dark Phoenix. And the moment that comic books grew up. The ending however, was new. Famously Jim Shooter wouldn't stand for Jean Grey, portrayed as possessed by a cosmic force, to get away with committing genocide in a previous issue. She […]

With The New Mutants finally seeing the light of day after two years of delays, director Josh Boone had major plans. Among them, a sequel would have starred Antonio Banderas. Prior to Disney's purchase of FOX, Boone meant for the film to expand to a trilogy. He spoke Entertainment Weekly about what he wanted to […]

While waiting for the Marvel Women of Panel to start, Marvel Editor in Chief C.B. Cebulski came and sat in the front row between me and a writer from another website. I provided this information to my higher-ups at Bleeding Cool [Jude], who asked me to take advantage of the opportunity to ask when Chris […]

Since 2014's Nightcrawler series, Marvel has paid Chris Claremont to remain a Marvel-exclusive writer and yet refuses to actually have him write much of anything. Aside from the occasional one-shot or short story in an anthology, fans are deprived of ongoing Claremont goodness, causing Bleeding Cool to name Claremont the Wolverine's Weiner X-Pick of the […]

Each week in X-ual Healing, Bleeding Cool's weekly X-Men recap column, we choose the X-book which that week provided the most satisfying X-Men reading experience, filling one's belly like a juicy sausage grilled by a hairy Canadian with his adamantium claws on a hot Summer day. As we enter the new year of 2020, and […]

In the cutthroat world of comics "journalism," reporters can't just sit around and wait for the news to happen. We have to make the news happen, whatever the cost. And in an internet click economy that incentivizes quantity over quality, there's nothing more important than having a few good sources that are always good for […]

When Marvel released their full March solicitations yesterday, we noted that all of the X-books shipping in March except the ones that are launching that month would come with variant covers celebrating God Loves, Man Kills, the classic Marvel Graphic Novel by Chris Claremont and Brent Anderson. However, the solicits did not reveal the covers, […]

Welcome to the pretty-much-mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. A run around the day before and the day ahead. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Today is Local Comic Shop Day, so get out to your local comic shop and see what special goodies they have in store… The 10 most-read […]

Welcome to the pretty-much-mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. A run around the day before and the day ahead. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Today is Local Comic Shop Day, so get out to your local comic shop and see what special goodies they have in store… The 10 most-read […]

Chris Claremont, writer of the X-Men from 1975-1991 and several times after that and greatest comic book writer of all time, is currently retained by Marvel Comics to remain exclusive to them. However, besides occasional one-shots and short stories in anthologies, Claremont is hardly used. The last time Claremont was given an ongoing series to […]

Lots of big news announced by David Gabriel of Marvel Comics at London MCM Comic Con 2019's October show, straight from the Diamond retailer meeting. Follow along with our MCMLondon tag for this and many other new stories being announced today. David Gabriel talked about how the Major X #0 book did very well for […]

Forty years ago, Chris Claremont, John Byrne, Terry Austin, Glynis Wein, and Tom Orzechowski brought us the Dark Phoenix Saga in the pages of Uncanny X-Men. It was a storyline that so revolutionized comics that it is still rehashed over and over again to this day. In addition to being rehashed within the pages of […]

Chris Claremont sat down with Marvel Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski for the Marvel Fanfare panel at New York Comic Con. Bleeding Cool had ace reporter Jemal Flores on the scene, ready to strike with the most important in the history of comic book journalism: will Marvel let Chris Claremont write an ongoing series? It's a question […]

Legendary X-Men writer Chris Claremont was interviewed on Syfy Wire's NYCC livestream, and he dropped some major news. The interview began by discussing Claremont's return to New Mutants alongside Bill Sienkiewicz. "The New Mutants look brilliant," Claremont said when asked what he thinks of returning to the X-Men in the current era. "I can't speak […]

For years, Marvel has paid legendary X-Men scribe Chris Claremont to remain Marvel exclusive, but since the end of 2014's Nightcrawler series, the House of Ideas hasn't had an idea for Claremont to write anything other than the occasional one-shot or short story in an anthology. Why would the biggest superhero comic book publisher in […]

You just knew that Marvel couldn't keep their X-books confined to one per week for the length of HoXPoX. This week, we've got recaps of and thoughts on Powers of X #5, Marvel Comics Presents #9, Wolverine Annual #1, and New Mutants: War Children #1. Sworn to sell comics for Marvel executives who feared and […]

Legendary X-Men scribe Chris Claremont reunited with Bill Sienkiewicz for New Mutants: War Children, a Marvel 80th-anniversary one-shot released last Wednesday. But why doesn't Claremont, who is paid to remain a Marvel-exclusive writer, contribute more than the occasional one-shot or short story to the franchise which he played a bigger role than anyone else in […]

Legendary creators Chris Claremont and Bill Sienkiewicz return to The New Mutants for New Mutants: War Children #1, along with colorist Chris Sotomayor and letterer Clayton Cowles, in stores next week from Marvel Comics. We've got a preview. And if you're wondering whether Claremont and Sienkiewicz have still got the magic… well… Of course they […]

Bleeding Cool has been dutifully following and reporting on the ongoing Twitter exploits of Terrific Production LLC, the publisher owned by Andrew Rev which recently acquired the rights to Youngblood against the wishes of creator Rob Liefeld. Terrific has been looking to recruit comic book creators on Twitter, even offering to take young up-and-comers like Ryan Stegman and turn […]

I've always been fond of Martin Eden's self-published comics. He began his superhero series The O Men back in the 1990s and finally completed the story in 2017. That's over 1,000 pages of a saga he wrote, drew and published on his own. In the course of all that time, he has created his own […]