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Marvel Visionaries - Chris Claremont (Uncanny X-Men)

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Marvel's line of hardcover Marvel Visionaries books seem like a good idea, but there are a few that while they display the highlighted author's talents, they are poorly assembled. This hardcover TPB, which focuses on legendary X-Men scribe Chris Claremont, is sadly misassembled thanks to only featuring single issues of his various runs on different series' instead of full storyarcs, which really doesn't display Claremont's talent as a whole to begin with. The issues we get here aren't bad though: the penultimate issue of his legendary Dark Phoenix Saga from Uncanny X-Men, an issue from his Wolverine mini-series (featuring art from Frank Miller), as well as various issues from his runs on Excalibur, New Mutants, Iron Fist, and Daredevil. While what you get here isn't bad, if you start to dig the story you're reading and want to see how it ends, prepare to lay down more cash to pick up the whole thing in TPB form. There's nothing bad here at all, and Claremont is more than worthy of being labeled a visionary, but this poorly assembled TPB fails to display just how great and influential a writer Claremont was way back when.

If you are an X-MEN comic fan then its because of author Chris Claremont. He turned the X-Men into what they are today. So if your picing up a new X-men comic and enjoy it remember that Claremont made it possible for the band of merry mutants and underdogs of the marvel universe to get that far. This is a great collection with some real good stories the only problem i see with this collection is that they could have used more stand alone issues that lets say the last chapter in the phoenix saga. Some of the stories will have you confused unless you own or read the rest of the ongoing plot in the original comics of uncanny x-men. Others do hold up ontheir own lie the wolverine blac widow and captin america issue or the first ppearance of sabertooth and rogue which is another plus to this collection. If they would have put more stand alone issues or maybe like a 3 part story instaed of some ongoing plot basicaly part of a saga issues this would get 5 stars easy because chris claremont was one of the best authors in marvel in his time. Too bad he lost it...