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I'm rereading almost all of Claremont's run on the X-Books for the umpteenth time. I just love them. Really, the only thing I fault this book on is well, it's Claremontness. That's not a bad thing really. Densely plotted... characters with depth.
ButI'm rereading almost all of Claremont's run on the X-Books for the umpteenth time. I just love them. Really, the only thing I fault this book on is well, it's Claremontness. That's not a bad thing really. Densely plotted... characters with depth.
But I don't think the classics trades format does Claremont, the master of the long term payoff, many favors. As annoying as only having the stories in black and white is... I think The Marvel Essentials line was the IDEAL format for reading his X-Titles. in the 8-10 issue format you get him starting maybe seven plots and finishing 3 of them. Not much feels complete. In a phonebook style collection... you get maybe 15 plots start but satisfying closue to about 12 of them.
But that does lead to one question.... the first volumes of Marvel Essential to come out were Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, and X-Men. But X-Men started with the Wein/Claremont runs. Was 24 issues or so chose as the length because that's how long filled a phonebook sized book or since what they NEW would be their biggest seller (since it hadn't been reprinted quite as much at the time) was Claremont's X-Men... and was as long as it takes Claremont to tell a story.
As much as i love the first three volumes of New Mutants Classic.... part me of me mourns the Essential New Mutants vol one (containing the graphic novel, issue 21, the X-Men issue where they fight the New Mutants, and New Mutants Annual #1) that never was....more
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