Originally posted by ShadowFyre
You answered your own question. The dragons ran off the phoenix, not Danny. And he can only tap into their chi.In that same arc, Thor knocked the entire phoenix tfo with the first hit then got owned and could do no damage to p5 members. Literally makes no sense.
Same deal with Danny, if you consider he beat the dragon to gain access to that chi.
P5 members > entire Phoenix Force, I guess.
Originally posted by bluewaterrider
Did some searching after you wrote this.Marvel ultimately DID present that as Storm's backstory, but it would take a little while. The first published meeting of these two took place in a very different setting than the streets of Cairo, Egypt:
Source: Giant-Sized X-Men #1
Circa: 1975
I’d love to ask Claremont about this!
Every so often I actually get the attention of and interact with storied people.
I remember to this day Kurt Busiek surprising me by responding to a thread in which I shared an article on why Comics disappeared from newsstands and being literally very near everywhere newsprint was sold, to gradually becoming a niche item sold in specialty shops only (and now of course, the Internet where it's become or becoming big again). The author of that article made the surprising case that keeping the price of comics LOW, and thus theoretically more affordable for everyone, actually led to the decline. Reason was, from the perspective of a retailer who has limited shelf space, it made more sense to stock, say, Time or Life Magazine, which you could sell for at least a dollar a book versus Superman 132 or whatever, which gained you perhaps s quarter or so per sale, but used 4 times the space and often left you with a ton of overstock to recycle or throwaway.
Kurt also had an interesting perspective to share on why publishing rights are a big deal to Marvel and DC but not libraries.
Similarly, I actually remember getting into an argument with Jamal Igle about Supergirl and Superman. He asked me if I realized I was arguing with the artist of the then current series. I respectfully responded that I did, but that the title had also been subjected to NUMEROUS teams throughout its history and had a poor history of retaining its talent, no matter HOW good. History soon won that general point for me. Recently, the writers of the Benoist show won a 2nd.
Which is to say the staff of these companies are people not altogether TOO different from us, are sometimes gracious or simply interested enough to respond to an intriguing topic and talk with us regular folk, and, stranger things HAVE happened ...
Don't give up the faith, Riv!
Perused some Chris Claremont interviews for you.
Couldn't find him responding in video format to your specific question yet, but I'll likely continue the search at random in the near future.
I'm the meantime, I came across an interesting written interview with him:
... as well as the following, which features some interesting thoughts on topics we actually touched on earlier in this thread like, NightCrawler's devout Catholic faith and Wolverine's initial atheism (unfortunately, as the image you or someone else gave of that was in Photobucket, it is now gone ... Photobucket has a nasty habit of breaking all your links anytime you rearrange any of your personal folders, word to the wise), Madelyne Pryor, loyalty in marriage, and Jean Grey:
Originally posted by riv6672(Storm) and Xavier originally met (when she, as a young child) stole, or tried to steal, his wallet. Been a while, cant recall if she was successful.
Although it would take about 2 and half years, Marvel DID adopt that as the official "original" meeting of the two:
Judging from the above, though it's somewhat ambiguous going by the artwork, Storm did not succeed at taking Xavier's wallet.
Originally posted by bluewaterrider
Perused some Chris Claremont interviews for you.Couldn't find him responding in video format to your specific question yet, but I'll likely continue the search at random in the near future.
I'm the meantime, I came across an interesting written interview with him:
... as well as the following, which features some interesting thoughts on topics we actually touched on earlier in this thread like, NightCrawler's devout Catholic faith and Wolverine's initial atheism (unfortunately, as the image you or someone else gave of that was in Photobucket, it is now gone ... Photobucket has a nasty habit of breaking all your links anytime you rearrange any of your personal folders, word to the wise), Madelyne Pryor, loyalty in marriage, and Jean Grey:
I gave up on photobucket over a year ago. Lost a lotta good pics.
Originally posted by DarkSaint85
Arguably the first he 'killed' was Cassandra Nova...
Say, Man from the UK, you might be able to answer, though perhaps your dad or even grandad should be able to respond the most accurately ...
Was Claremont's X-Men title the biggest influence on bringing Superhero comics to England? Or merely the most important for Marvel Comics during its time?
Or perhaps not even that, but just big for X-Men?
Who's the biggest comic book star in England today?
Was it the same 20 or 30 years ago?
Curious because of what I've just read here:
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The relaunch in 1975 was a massive gambit. The editors at Marvel were taking quite a risk. They weren’t just reviving a troubled concept, they were broadening the comic’s scope as well. The make-up of the new X-Men team featured in Giant-Sized X-Men #1 was decidedly international, featuring the German Kurt Wagner, the Russian Piotr Rasputin, the African American Ororo Munroe, the Canadian named Logan – better known as “Wolverine” – and the Native American John Proudstar.
According to Clarement, this diversity was the point from the outset. “That was the intent for the title from the beginning,” he explains. “Stan Lee, Roy Thomas and Len [Wein] were all working on the presumption that the X-Men would be a possible means of expanding the sales to foreign venues.
“Marvel had a reprint operation going in England, they were starting to talk to people in Paris and Italy, so there was this hope of moving beyond the domestic United States. And this was the thought of saying, ‘Let’s see what happens if we make it a more international group.’ Because, at that point, all the Marvel teams were all collections of White Anglo-Saxon Protestant males, with an occasional girl as a chaser.”
The strategy would work. Uncanny X-Men eventually became a massive success. Despite the troubled sixties, the book that had been relaunched in 1975 as a bi-monthly book would become one of the company’s great success stories. It ran continuously into the twenty-first century; the first volume ending in October 2011 with issue #544 ...
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https://them0vieblog.com/2014/05/19/an-interview-with-chris-claremont-part-i-of-v/
Well I know 2000AD has been around since the 70s, with Judge Dredd, so it was probably important only for Marvel.
Even then, the comics kids read were more comic. Think the Beano(1930s), or the Dandy (1937).
As for the big names, it'll be the same as in the US thanks to the films. Batman, Thor, Iron Man, Hulk and the like.
