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I do find Claremont added some texture and depth to his comics by adding cool details and connections like this...but he would often go too far (everyone is related or in love or has powers...).••• Of my myriad complaints about Chris’ writing, close to the biggest was that he would never allow anyone to be ordinary. In a series already loaded with extraordinary people he would layer in more. Consider Moira MacTaggert, conceived as housekeeper (to answer a question that needed no answer), she spun into much more in her first appearance. Consider Kitty Pryde, who I created to be a completely ordinary teenager, but who Chris mage a “genius”. Storm had a highly exotic backstory, but Chris turned her into Modesty Blaise. And Cyclops, of course, became the son of a space pirate. It goes on. sigh
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