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May 6 08 2:07 PM
Claremont's mid/late 1980s style is something you either love or hate. His earlier style was more neutral, traditional superhero action. And that was also the problem, there was not much to distinguish him from the other writers (IMO). The later 1980s style was at least different - but if you were not on Claremont's wavelength, it would just annoy you to no end.
What made Claremont's style distinctive in my eyes was that there seemed to be a method to his madness. He had a grand design, a vision, or a bigger plan, and all those stray danglers and subplots were slowly building up to it. (Or if he didn't have one, he at least created a very convincing illusion that there was one.) But as I said, I may be slightly biased and misled due to having worked somewhat 'closer to the source' at the time.
And this is I think the biggest difference in his current (late 1990s/2000s) writing style: lack of vision. Claremont no longer seems to have a master plan; instead, he just serves a patchwork of disparate, unrelated story arcs and ideas. Some of the ideas are quite ok, but nothing much ever comes of them. He also introduces tons of new characters, apparently without knowing what to do with them. So he just throws them away and introduces a dozen new characters more. I would be much happier if Chris could convince me that he was working on some devious master plan again.
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