Oct 28, 2018
From Doctor Strange #41, 1980. Did Gene Colan just kind of run out of room for Chris Claremont’s plot? Because this issue transitions rather abruptly to a concluding scene, via this very long caption.
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From Doctor Strange #41, 1980. Did Gene Colan just kind of run out of room for Chris Claremont’s plot? Because this issue transitions rather abruptly to a concluding scene, via this very long caption.
The second Man-Thing series ends (in 1981, with issue #11) the same way the first one did--with a story narrated by its writer, in this case Chris Claremont, who even gets off a Claremontism in the first panel here! (He also dies and gets resurrected in this story, and John Kowalski from his early "War Is Hell" stories" appears too.) Art by Val Mayerik and Bob Wiacek; additional appearances in this scene by Jim Shooter, Danny Fingeroth and Louise Jones.
War Is Hell #11, 1975, by Chris Claremont, Don Perlin and Sal Trapani. Could this be the first appearance of the Claremontian "no quarter"?
Chris Claremont has mentioned that he got his first writing gig when he agreed to turn around dialogue for an issue of Daredevil literally overnight; the evidence suggests that that would be 1973’s Daredevil #102, drawn by Syd Shores and Frank Giacoia. (The legend suggests that it was just a dialoguing job, which makes me wonder who plotted it!) And, in fact, Claremont had written dialogue from Archie Goodwin’s plot for Incredible Hulk #148 the year before; maybe he’s conflating the two? I’m fascinated, though, that Daredevil is already mentioning Peter Corbeau, who had appeared in that Hulk issue!
X-Treme X-Men #27 (2003)–part of the “God Loves, Man Kills II” storyline, by Chris Claremont, Igor Kordey and Scott Hanna–features the return of one of the greatest Claremontisms of them all.
I See What You Did There, Chris Claremont, Part II: the first pages of Uncanny X-Men #95 (1976) and of X-Treme X-Men #2 (2001).
The first issue of X-Treme X-Men--the series launched to showcase Chris Claremont's writing when he moved off X-Men and Uncanny X-Men in 2001, drawn by Salvador Larroca in a new style for him (it seems to be reproduced from his pencils, although it could be digital too)--includes this bold Claremontian "that."
The first pages of Uncanny X-Men #101 (1976) and X-Men #101 (2000). I see what you did there, Claremont.