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The Claremont Run is a SSHRC-funded academic initiative micro-publishing data-based analysis of Chris Claremont's 16 year run on Uncanny X-Men and spinoffs.
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This strategy of empowering young artists on low-selling titles was fairly common for Marvel of the era – a sort of last ditch strategy for incubating new voices and ideas instead of simply axing a faltering series. It also paid off with Frank Miller’s Daredevil run. 3/6

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Kurt’s failure as leader serves many purposes: It aggrandizes Ororo/Scott’s leadership skill through contrast, creates a renewed sense of vulnerability to the team in Storm’s absence, highlights Kitty’s potential, and establishes the importance of good leadership in general. 6/7

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“The Unpublished X-Men” is a delightful repository of unused or rare X-Men artwork. The blog has been inactive for years, but remains invaluable as a historical archive covering decades of material. https://t.co/oT3uSsf6ye

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Finally, he asserts that the merger of Jean/Phoenix was always a losing gamble, that Jean was in over her head to begin with: “A star belongs in the heavens. The rightful home of the Phoenix is the entire cosmos, not in the fleshly casement of a young woman.” 6/10

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Much of the gravity and impact of the Dark Phoenix Saga was established after-the-fact with frequent callbacks to the emotional consequences of that event. Oddly, one of the more prominent and candid stories to undertake this approach is Kitty’s Fairy Tale. 1/10

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Joseph Darowski () notes: “Wolverine does take on the role of the outsider on the team, and adopts cowboy imagery, such as a cowboy hat, and mannerisms.” Throw in cigars, a checkered past, and long wistful stares at horizons, and you have your Wolverine. 2/6

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Thus Roberto’s skin colour is deeply attached to the character’s back-story at the literal and symbolic levels. To alter it as an adaptation choice does move against C’s commitment to diversity, and thus represent a form of what’s called ‘symbolic annihilation.’ 6/10

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In Marvel Graphic Novel “The New Mutants,” Roberto is subject to a racially-motivated assault, referred to as “half-breed” and told that his father’s wealth “can’t change the colour of your skin. You’re black – an animal masquerading as a human being!” 4/10

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Roberto is the son of an Afro-Brazilian businessman and a White American archaeologist. In his earliest appearances, Roberto is consistently rendered with a dark skin complexion, nearly identical to that of his father. 2/10

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Yet aspects of Kurt’s gender performance are queered. Kurt doesn’t kiss the princess, but does joyfully kiss a holographic Arcade in female drag. Kurt also equates himself with the princess, recognizing her fear of Murderworld as similar to his fear of the Beyonder.

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