So this is where things get interesting as Marvel clearly realizes the hit they have with Chris Claremont’s X-Men. So this is where things really start to get interesting. This month, we're covering 1983 to 1984, the heyday of Claremont's run on Uncanny X-Men. Maybe by the end of 2023, I’ll have some kind of grand unified theory of Chris Claremont’s time on the book or maybe I’ll just have read a lot of comics that range from “not bad” to “what were they thinking?”. So armed with several omnibuses, Marvel Unlimited, and whatever back issue diving I need to do, I’ve set the goal to read his 16-year run on X-Men, New Mutants, and other related books, probably also eventually including some Louise Simonson New Mutants and X-Factor here as well since the series are so tied together.Īs much as this is to check out these stories again, I want to see if there’s a completeness to the story that Claremont was telling, starting with his first issue, X-Men #94 (1975), and extending all the way through X-Men #3 (1991). I probably read it when it was coming out but more out of the inertia of collecting than any love of it. 7 min read One Punch!! (From Uncanny X-Men #186 (1984,) art by Barry Windsor-Smith and Terry Austin)Īround the end of 2022 a thought struck me have I ever read all of Chris Claremont’s X-Men? I think I’ve collected it all in one form or another (or even multiple forms) but there’s a point in the mid-1980s where a lot of it becomes fuzzy in my memory.

The New Mutants by Chris Claremont