Then the X-men go to a hellscape that looks like Dante's Inferno in order to rescue Kurt. Were you interested in Cyclops' entire backstory up till Jean-as-Phoenix's death in a condensed version? If so, this has you covered. That's not to say they are all useless or uninteresting. The problem is that DoFP only two issues long, so in order to sell it, Marvel padded this volume out with extra issues that really only have a tenuous connection to the event. You know shit will eventually go sideways for them no matter what. Does it work? Can they all fight for the greater good fix the future? So they hop in the X-jet and run off to find Charles, kick Mystique's ass, and hopefully save the douchey senator. They check Kitty's brain waves and find out that they are older/more advanced.? Something that sounds like a vague pseudo-sciencey reason to believe a 13 year old when she tells you it's her 30somthing year old self speaking to you from a dystopian future that some of your fuckwit peers kicked off by making a martyr out of some asshole senator. As they should.īut only for about 10 seconds because this is a comic book, folks! When the new old Kate Pryde arrives in the noggin of her past self, the X-men aren't convinced of the validity of her statements. The science behind it is murky at best, but they manage to send Kitty's consciousness back in time to her teenage body, in the hopes that she can avert THERMONUCLEAR WAR. The X-men are convinced this will not end well. The clock is ticking down and within days countries with nuclear capabilities are going to declare war on the Sentinals. They seem to think the only way to stop all mutants is to take over the world. When the story picks up, the Sentinals have largely devastated North America, and due to their faulty programming have gone rogue. After his death, humans freak out and the Sentinels are activated. Decades in the past, a group of evil mutants (aptly named The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants) assassinated a political candidate that was spewing anti-mutant sentiment and raising questions about how dangerous they could potentially become. Things have taken a terrible turn in the future and only a few surviving X-men remain to attempt to make it right. I mean, they even made a movie out of the general idea of the plot. 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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