One of the most crucial scenes in this volume - the fight between Cyclops and Wolverine after the latter's traumatising encounter with Proteus - works as a beat in the Proteus story but for regular readers it more importantly draws a satisfying line under stuff that's been building for four years of stories and leaves you feeling both characters have grown while you've been reading about them. But the impact of these comics - and the thing that won them such incredibly loyal fans - was precisely that they weren't neatly divided into stories and sagas, they flowed and built month by month letting arcs build but also resolving not just plots but emotional tangles. Isn't this just being pedantic? Well, maybe. At the end of this volume (issue 131) that plot is clearly about to come to a head, with Jean's friends noticing how quickly she's changing, but there's no indication that we're in the middle of a "saga" rather than at the end of a three-part story introducing Dazzler* and Kitty Pryde.
But also no: the inciting incident - Mastermind's seduction of Jean Grey - has been a long-running subplot for well over a dozen issues, and some of its most famous and disturbing scenes, like Jean's 18th century "human hunt", aren't part of the 'Saga' at all.
Is there such a thing as "The Dark Phoenix Saga"? Yes, comics history tells us, and it happens in X-Men 129-137. One of the good things about the Masterworks series is its lack of respect for later collection conventions. Claremont was also a contributor to the Wild Cards anthology series. In the 1980s, he also wrote a science fiction trilogy about female starship pilot Nicole Shea, consisting of First Flight (1987), Grounded! (1991), and Sundowner (1994). This trilogy continues the story of Elora Danan from the movie Willow. Outside of comics, Claremont co-wrote the Chronicles of the Shadow War trilogy, Shadow Moon (1995), Shadow Dawn (1996), and Shadow Star (1999), with George Lucas. He also wrote a few issues of the series WildC.A.T.s (volume 1, issues #10-13) at Image Comics, which introduced his creator-owned character, Huntsman.
Chris Claremont is a writer of American comic books, best known for his 16-year (1975-1991) stint on Uncanny X-Men, during which the series became one of the comic book industry's most successful properties.Ĭlaremont has written many stories for other publishers including the Star Trek Debt of Honor graphic novel, his creator-owned Sovereign Seven for DC Comics and Aliens vs Predator for Dark Horse Comics.
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