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Chris Claremont appeared on Syfy Wire's live stream from C2E2 Sunday to discuss his upcoming story in Marvel Comics Presents #5, going back to the 1980s and the Cross-Time Caper era of Excalibur But before that, the greatest comic book writer to ever live talked about how he gets work at Marvel these days —[...]

Though they continue to pay him a retainer to remain Marvel exclusive while refusing to allow him to write an ongoing comic, Marvel has announced a new short story by Chris Claremont to appear in the upcoming Wolverine: Exit Wounds one-shot in June Claremont will team with Salvador Larroca for a story set during the[...]

And in May, the decade in question is one of the most memorable times for Marvel Comics: the 1980s! In addition to another chapter of Wolverine's Vigil storyline, Marvel Comics Presents #5 will feature a Nightcrawler story set during the Cross-Time Caper storyline from Chris Claremont and Alan Davis's legendary Excalibur run, written by Claremont himself! More[...]

Bishop was a character created by Whilce Portacio and John Byrne for Uncanny X-Men, and the character then headed up the X-treme X-Men comic by Chris Claremont, Salvador Larroca and Igor Kordey He was portrayed by Omar Sy in X-Men: Days Of Future Past based on the Claremont/Byrne comic. And he's currently locking lips with Jean Grey over in Age Of X-Man.  But Chris[...]

Writers and comics creators such as Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Frank Miller, Chris Claremont, Fiona Staples, Gail Simone, and Rumiko Takahashi took Maher to task for his simplistic views on comics' history of challenging social norms and political movements. Simone summed up what she saw were Maher's intentions on Twitter: Here's a thing, even if you don't care about[...]

A great decade for comics? Or the greatest decade? U-Decide! Either way, in April, Marvel's 80th-anniversary Decades celebration reaches the 80s, featuring some of the best comics stories every told by Chris Claremont, Chris Claremont, Chris Claremont, and a bunch of others too See James Rhodes don the Iron Man armor in Iron Man #170, Mariko[...]

There is finally some news about FX's Legion season 3! One of our favorite shows of the last two years, Legion is Noah Hawley's adaptation of Chris Claremont's Marvel Comics title with art by Bill Sienkiewicz The series reflects much of the source material- surreal visuals complimented artistically with music choices and a pretty outstanding cast. Speaking of cast- we do[...]

Okay, here they are: Marvel finally lets Chris Claremont write an X-Men ongoing Marvel finally lets Chris Claremont write an X-Men ongoing Marvel finally lets Chris Claremont write an X-Men ongoing Marvel finally lets Chris Claremont write an X-Men ongoing Marvel finally lets Chris Claremont write an X-Men ongoing Marvel finally lets Chris Claremont write an X-Men ongoing Marvel finally lets Chris Claremont write an X-Men[...]

During this happiest time of the year (relatively speaking), we figure it's as good a time as any to revisit one of the happiest times in comics, which is, of course, anytime the legendary Chris Claremont is writing the X-Men Of course, there's no reason Chris Claremont couldn't still be writing an X-Men comic right now,[...]

During this happiest time of the year (relatively speaking), we figure it's as good a time as any to revisit one of the happiest times in comics, which is, of course, anytime the legendary Chris Claremont is writing the X-Men Of course, there's no reason Chris Claremont couldn't still be writing an X-Men comic right now,[...]

During this happiest time of the year (relatively speaking), we figure it's as good a time as any to revisit one of the happiest times in comics, which is, of course, anytime the legendary Chris Claremont is writing the X-Men Of course, there's no reason Chris Claremont couldn't still be writing an X-Men comic right now,[...]

During this happiest time of the year (relatively speaking), we figure it's as good a time as any to revisit one of the happiest times in comics, which is, of course, anytime the legendary Chris Claremont is writing the X-Men Of course, there's no reason Chris Claremont couldn't still be writing an X-Men comic right now,[...]

Unfortunately, you can't actually get any of them. A New Ongoing Comic by Chris Claremont Chris Claremont wrote the longest and most definitive X-Men comic book run of all time, contributing many of the ideas that Marvel still mines today for rehashed storylines Marvel pays Claremont a retainer to remain Marvel exclusive, preventing him from writing for[...]

Jubilee and Shogo didn't get to take their month-long Christmas vacation, but she does Nightcrawler, or "Big Bamf" as Shogo calls him, to teleport them to Oahu for New Years. Okay, ready for the rest of the stories? *deep breath* On December 2nd, in a story by Chris Claremont, the Dodsons, and Chris Sotomayor, Kitty Pryde lights a[...]

And fulfilling our own holiday wishlist, the issue features a story by living legend Chris Claremont, the objectively best comic book writer of all time Well, Christmas has come early, or, in this case, Chanukah, as Claremont's entire story, with artists Terry and Rachel Dodson and colorist Chris Sotomayor, is revealed in a preview of[...]

Marvel still won't give Chris Claremont an ongoing series to write, despite paying him to be a Marvel exclusive writer, but they sure do love selling collections of his old work, don't they? Solicited in Marvel's February solictations today is Iron Fist: The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu Complete Collection, collecting the work of Claremont,[...]

Highlights include Chris Claremont, of course, writing an as-yet-untitled Kitty Pryde story with artist Terry Dodson, plus an Iceman story by Sina Grace and Cory Smith, a Magneto story by Cullen Bunn and Roland Boschi, plus Charlemagne Tha God, Christopher Daniels(!!!), Vita Ayala, Pere Perez, Rainbow Rowell, Tini Howard, Andy MacDonald, Tamra Bonvillain, Aubrey Sitterson, and[...]

But over the weekend at MCM London Comic Con I heard a tale from comic book writer Chris Claremont that put in it perspective. He recalled the publication of Superman #75, which featured the Death of Superman He was working for DC at the time, on Sovereign Seven The Superman storyline was planned as a big comic[...]

Fact: Chris Claremont is the greatest comic book writer of all time Fact: Marvel pays Chris Claremont a retainer to be a Marvel Exclusive comic book writer Fact: Chris Claremont has not written an ongoing series or even a mini-series for Marvel since the 2014 Nightcrawler series ended. These facts may not seem to add up,[...]

If you're new to the column, the basic idea is that we read and recap every X-Men comic that comes out each week, make some jokes, and complain about how Marvel is mean to Cyclops or won't let Chris Claremont write something. This weekend was New York Comic Con, so it seems like a good time[...]

Continuing to defy the wishes of fans, Marvel refused to announce an ongoing X-Men comic by legendary writer Chris Claremont at New York Comic Con Sunday The publisher held its X-Men panel, the most important panel of the convention, without mentioning Claremont once until the very last question in the Q&A session, asked by Bleeding[...]

This Wednesday is the moment we've all been waiting for: the return, once again, of the greatest writer in the history of comics, Chris Claremont Claremont is writing X-Men Black's Magneto issue with artist Dalibor Talajic, and we're hoping it will lead to some kind of ongoing work in the near future, not just one-shots[...]

This December is about to be the merriest holiday season of all time as Marvle has just announced Merry X-Men, an X-Men holiday special featuring 25 stories be the likes of  "Chris Sims, Chad Bowers, Rainbow Rowell, Chris Claremont, Matt Rosenberg, Ed Brisson, Kelly Thompson, Charles Soule, Tini Howard, Charlamagne Tha God, Zac Thompson, Lonnie[...]

In addition to their previously advertised classic comic additions to Marvel Unlimited, Marvel slipped a few more classic books into the digital

One of the topics brought up was Marvel's plans for Chris Claremont in the X-Men universe, as well as Cebulski's recent meeting with John Byrne. "I can't speak too much to the specifics of anything without giving too much away," Cebulski said of the future of the X-Books "Cullen [Bunn] and Mark Guggenheim, what Charles [Soule][...]

What? You don't spend all your free time thinking about that? What kind of fan are you? Around the same time we started this column, this reporter also began a reread of legendary X-Men writer Chris Claremont's epic run on the X-Men, and we recently completed it with X-Men #3 Rather than continue to read every[...]

In 2008, following his run on New Excalibur, legendary X-Men writer Chris Claremont set his sights on revamping another franchise with New Exiles Alongside artists including Tom Grummett and later Tim Seeley, Claremont replaced the previous volume's Exiles with a new team of mostly X-Men characters and kicked off new capers for 18 glorious issues[...]

Cebulski (@CBCebulski) June 18, 2018 It may not have taken the power of the Infinity Stones to do it, but this has actually happened before, in an alternate-continuity series from 2009. In X-Men Forever, Chris Claremont returned to his legendary run on the X-Men, picking up after the events of 1991's X-Men #3 With collaborators such as Tom Grummet, Paul Smith, Terry Austin, and[...]

But it's not the first time it's been done in a Marvel comic book, even if it did happen out of main universe continuity. In X-Men Forever, Chris Claremont returned to his legendary run on the X-Men, picking up after the events of 1991's X-Men #3 With collaborators such as Tom Grummet, Paul Smith, Terry Austin,[...]

As revealed at San Diego Comic-Con, the world's greatest living comic book writer Chris Claremont will return to the X-Men once again to pen Magneto's X-Men Black one-shot alongside artist Dalibor Talajic And in Marvel's October solicitations, revealed earlier today, Marvel hammers home the point, advertising: "MAGNETO IS BACK! …and so is Chris Claremont!" Claremont hasn't technically[...]