The Claremont Runさんのイラストまとめ

Fan studies is an emerging discipline in the academy, and concepts such as Gee’s “affinity spaces” hold the potential to help us understand the back and forth relationship between Claremont’s UXM and the fan cultures that formed around it. #xmen 1/9

Outside of a handful of issues, this relationship is by no means paramount and largely plays out in the background, but it shows Claremont’s capacity to define and advance consistent character relationships that builds off continuity in complex ways. 10/11

Years later when Havok is the last X-Man accounted for from the Siege Perilous, he and Wolverine pick up right where they left off – with the same mutual animosity and the same familiar banter. 9/11

This scene speaks to Havok’s secret admiration for Logan. Acting out of character, Alex violently interrogates a suspect in a very Wolverine style whilst actually adopting a Logan phrase. In Logan’s absence, Alex is trying to fill the role himself. 8/11

Shortly thereafter, Logan takes a leave of absence and the team falls apart catastrophically. For his part, Havok blames Logan for abandoning them – it is perhaps ironic then that the same issue sees Havok adopting Logan’s tactics and figures of speech. 7/11

Despite his lack of good judgment or combat skills, Alex is nonetheless quite happy to constantly question and undermine Wolverine’s authority as leader of the team in these early issues, ironically just as Wolverine did to Cyclops in the early years of their relationship. 3/11

Things start out shaky with Logan serving as Alex’s first field leader and quickly learning that Alex is no Cyclops. By this point in time, Logan had made peace (mostly) with Scott and even come to admire Scott’s abilities – abilities Alex does not possess. 2/11

“He recruited artists when they needed artists. In order to keep the best colorists and letterers, he paid people out of his own pocket to Glynis Oliver and Tom Orzechowski. He really poured his heart into that.” 8/11

“Well, guess what? The books started to sell, I got these incentive plans in there, people started to make big money, Claremont makes big royalties, buys his mother an airplane and so they were happier with me. They started to realize the value.” 6/11

Overall, this development should perhaps remind us of 2 principles: 1) comics are a visual medium and visual style can radically alter the storytelling. 2) comics production can be a bit of a meat-grinder, and time constraints on artists can likewise impact the storytelling. 9/9