The Claremont Run
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An academic research project devoted to the study of Chris Claremont's 16 yr run on Uncanny X-Men comics and associated titles.
Woot; thank you!
October 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Woot; thank you!
As an aside, Chapters 3 & 4 of the new book talk about the Mutant Massacre and subsequent X-spinoffs. It's a really cool piece of X-Men history. www.amazon.com/Chris-Clarem...
Chris Claremont (Biographix)
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October 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
As an aside, Chapters 3 & 4 of the new book talk about the Mutant Massacre and subsequent X-spinoffs. It's a really cool piece of X-Men history. www.amazon.com/Chris-Clarem...
Kurt becomes a capable leader, a better fighter, and more willing to lean on others (it helps that Rachel and Kitty force him). Most importantly, though, Kurt is still a superhero, and that representation matters within the context of the disability metaphor. 9/9
October 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Kurt becomes a capable leader, a better fighter, and more willing to lean on others (it helps that Rachel and Kitty force him). Most importantly, though, Kurt is still a superhero, and that representation matters within the context of the disability metaphor. 9/9
At the point of Claremont’s departure, he has Kurt (and Kitty) still pursuing a slow recovery, but – more importantly – Kurt has learned how to live and excel with his injury, adjusting his approach to superheroism in accord with the demands of his embodied experience. 8/9
October 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
At the point of Claremont’s departure, he has Kurt (and Kitty) still pursuing a slow recovery, but – more importantly – Kurt has learned how to live and excel with his injury, adjusting his approach to superheroism in accord with the demands of his embodied experience. 8/9
As with the others, Kurt’s super-injury comes with challenging mental side effects such as depression, frustration, and even suicidal ideation, allowing Claremont to portray a more humanist look at traumatic injury. 7/9
October 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
As with the others, Kurt’s super-injury comes with challenging mental side effects such as depression, frustration, and even suicidal ideation, allowing Claremont to portray a more humanist look at traumatic injury. 7/9
As with Kitty and Colossus, Kurt’s post-massacre disability is specifically centred on his superpowers (and thus supernatural/metaphorical). This further builds on earlier powers-based metaphors for disability seen in both Rogue and Storm. 6/9
October 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
As with Kitty and Colossus, Kurt’s post-massacre disability is specifically centred on his superpowers (and thus supernatural/metaphorical). This further builds on earlier powers-based metaphors for disability seen in both Rogue and Storm. 6/9
More recently, x-scholars have explored perceiving mutanity itself as a metaphor for disability – something that might even be particularly apt for Kurt, who is unable to visibly pass in society the way his peers can. Famously, he rejects trying to pass and accepts who he is. 5/9
October 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
More recently, x-scholars have explored perceiving mutanity itself as a metaphor for disability – something that might even be particularly apt for Kurt, who is unable to visibly pass in society the way his peers can. Famously, he rejects trying to pass and accepts who he is. 5/9
In contrast, media such as comics can be seen to, at times, reify ableist perspectives on traumatic injury by having the hero recover fully and and/or immediately, thus portraying disability as something that is antithetical to superheroism. There are, of course, exceptions. 4/9
October 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
In contrast, media such as comics can be seen to, at times, reify ableist perspectives on traumatic injury by having the hero recover fully and and/or immediately, thus portraying disability as something that is antithetical to superheroism. There are, of course, exceptions. 4/9