The Four Color Media Monitor

The Staten Island Advance reports that Chris Claremont visited the Jim Hanley comics store on New Dorp Lane a few days ago. And I'd be able to appreciate this news clip much more if it weren't for...this:

Claremont, 54, a London native, worked on the "Uncanny X-Men" from 1976-1991, co-writing some of the series' most memorable storylines, including the "Dark Phoenix Saga" -- a storyline he penned with fellow X-Men scribe John Byrne.

In that story, the telepathic heroine Jean Gray turned into the insane, villainous Dark Phoenix, who killed billions of aliens by making a star go nova, then killed herself after an epic battle. The Jean Gray character eventually came back from the dead.

These days, whenever I see that overrated storyline (IMO anyway) being given mention, after all the countless times it was regurgitated...I simply must shudder. And in this case, given that they don't give the whole story, about how it was written off as an energy being that pulled all those dirty deeds, that's one more reason why this ends up bothering me.

With all due respect to the Advance staff: please, please, PLEASE don't report about a story like that.

Labels: marvel comics, misogyny and racism, women of marvel, X-Men