Chris Claremont is a writer of American comic books, best known for his 16-year (1975-1991) stint on Uncanny X-Men, during which the series became one of the comic book industry's most successful properties.
Claremont has written many stories for other publishers including the Star Trek Debt of Honor graphic novel, his creator-owned Sovereign Seven for DC Comics and Aliens vs Predator for Dark Horse Comics. He also wrote a few issues of the series WildC.A.T.s (volume 1, issues #10-13) at Image Comics, which introduced his creator-owned character, Huntsman.
Outside of comics, Claremont co-wrote the Chronicles of the Shadow War trilogy, Shadow Moon (1995), Shadow Dawn (1996), and Shadow Star (1999), with George Lucas. This trilogy continues the story of Elora Danan from the movie Willow. In the 1980s, he also wrote a science fiction trilogy about female starship pilot Nicole Shea, consisting of First Flight (1987), Grounded! (1991), and Sundowner (1994). Claremont was also a contributor to the Wild Cards anthology series.
This issue started out casually enough. The teens were watching a movie (an old Western - which Dani just loved), Bobby was around, feeling conflicted about his place in the world and Dani was on the phone to her mother...before being overwhelmed by her friends ‘...personal, private images of death!’
I did not read after the part where The Beyonder arrives at the school and . I did read the part right at the end when the cosmic being . That’s going to be interesting to follow up!
Easily the best rendition of Beyonder - always in shadows, the angles, it gives a ‘beyond’ sensation to him, an otherworldlyness. Pre Beyonder is good, and the Cheyenne counting coup is so well done, as Dani touches Beyonder at the end before he kills her. That was so powerful.
Messy and only gets interesting at the very end. But the writing and plot are so scatterbrained it doesn’t come across entirely cohesive and I just want Secret Wars 2 to quit fucking up the X-Men books because clearly nobody wanted to deal with this shitshow of an event.