Seeing the trailer for that godawful X-Men movie got me thinking. Why did you and Chris Claremont write Banshee out of the X-Men. Who came up with idea`you or Claremont ?

     Banshee eventually regained his powers... well after I stopped reading the core book.  I might've hung on a little too long, probably too young and naive to realize what John's contribution to the X-Men stories that had excited me were besides the art.  When I finally did stop (around the time the whole "Inferno" story arc was running, and the X-Men were quasi-mystical "legends" chilling out in the Australian outback), old Sean was still kicking back at Muir Isle with Moira running the mutant labs.

     He had come back a few years before I started reading his appearances in Generation X in the mid- to late 1990s.  Then got unceremoniously retired by Mystique in one of Chuck Austen's story arcs shortly after the title got cancelled.  I think he was one of the characters killed off in the "Decimation" story arc of 2004.  Just like that, he became just another name they dredge up to fling around for a while, then toss aside like a 5-year old brat whose overdoting parents keep buying new toys every day.

Banshee will be in that "X-Men: First Class" movie, be interesting to see if he stays dead after that comes out.