My Misspent Youth: Magik by Chris Claremont and John Buscema, Ron Frenz, and Sal Buscema

Like a lot of teenaged comic book fans in the nineteen-eighties, I was a helpless devotee of the uncanny X-Men, the group formally tagged as “Marvel’s Merry Mutants” but far more angsty and melodramatic in their iteration two decades in to their publishing history. (They weren’t really all that merry in the nineteen-sixties either, but Stan Lee loved alliteration.) They’d been shepherded from a group perpetually on the brink of publishing extinction to a true sensation by writer Chris Claremont, who became a star creator in the process. The X-Men had so clearly become the line’s prime commodity and Claremont the … Continue reading My Misspent Youth: Magik by Chris Claremont and John Buscema, Ron Frenz, and Sal Buscema