Do you trust that the people doing the live tweet are factual and impartial? And that they are not determined to be offended? Is it just possible that a lot of what they have reported as being offensive statements were said in jest (if they were said at all)? I'm sure most visitors to this site have witnessed completely baseless character assassinations of JB, so maybe think twice before just accepting what is written about other comic creators. My advice: don't believe everything you read on the internet.....
Anthony - Claremont slighting JB goes back a long time. The first time I saw Claremont at a con panel was in the early 1980's and even then he was telling the audience that "obviously" JB made a mistake leaving their partership because the quality of JB's work wasn't nearly as good and looked "rushed" without Claremont.
One thing about Chris Claremont's ouvre is that, if you imagine it without the brief chapter where he co-wrote stories with JB, it becomes a completely different thing.
Without Dark Phoenix, the Hellfire Club, or Days of Future Past to build upon, large gaps suddenly open in his resume.
This "live-tweeting" of his appearance is obviously unflattering and slanted. But one thing it echoes about his writing is the explosive bursts of creativity that take the conversation off course. IMHO, it's too bad he does not see himself as someone who needs a strong collaborator, because he's always at his best with one.
I second that sentiment, Mark. I've enjoyed a lot of Claremont's writing but the absolute best (imho) stuff was in collaboration with artists who, themselves, were strong storytellers like JB and Dave Cockrum or Walter Simonson. I don't know how much, if any, input Walt had in the plotting of the X-Men/New Teen Titans team-up but, to me, it reads like something that wouldn't have landed without him.
I put Chris Claremont in the same box with Grant Morrison as a writer who needs a collaborator or a strong editor to tell them to dial it back a few notches.
As someone who has been taking care of his parents thru advancing years past 70, there comes a point where their views change with the weather, or the pain in their shoulder, or that they can’t climb stairs anymore.
I am of the mind that we be respectful, maybe reverent, yet, able to let wind blow free through a chain link fence as we go.
All that need be said has most likely been said, IMO.