Marvel's Mutants: The X-Men Comics of Chris Claremont

ISBN-13: 9781788311526 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 256 str.

UK) Booy Miles (Independent Scholar

Opis

In 1975, Marvel Comics revived the X-Men, a failed title which hadn't used new material for half a decade. It was a marginal project in an industry then in crisis. Five years later, it was the bestseller in a revived comics market. Chris Claremont wrote the comic from 1975 to 1991, developing new characters such as Wolverine and Storm, and taking themes from Freudian psychology, Christian temptation narratives, Existentialist philosophy, and the language of sub-cultural identity.

Marvel's Mutants is the first book devoted to the aesthetics of these comics that laid the foundation for the worldwide X-Men franchise we know today. Miles Booy discusses Claremont's recurrent themes, the evolution of his reputation as an auteur within a collaborative medium, the superhero genre, and the input of the artists with whom Claremont worked. Also covered are the successful spin-off projects, which Claremont wrote: solo Wolverine mini-series and whole new teams of mutant superheroes.

Spis treści

AcknowledgmentsChapter One: Claremont's CharactersChapter Two: History and Futures PastChapter Three: Bringing It All Back HomeChapter Four: Existential X-Men: The New MutantsChapter Five: Harder They Come.Appendix: Sales Figures of 'The Uncanny X-Men' during the Claremont EraNotesBibliographyIndex

O autorze

Miles Booy studied film, television and literature at the College of St Mark and St John in Plymouth, before doing post-graduate work in cinema at the University of East Anglia. He lives in Stafford with his wife and son. He is an expert on Marvel Comics.