Welp, Chris Claremont is getting canceled now. 

These people are so damn weak that an old man's jokes are making their brains go Chernobyl. I'm glad Chris is honest about the Krakoa arc and how he hates current X-Men stuff, its refreshing to see him let loose.

Chris Claremont is a legend. I would buy any indie project he came out with

I met Chris Claremont at a con a number of years ago and he talked comics with me and my friend for a solid 40 min. One of the very best experiences at a con.

It had to happen eventually, yet it feels unreal and ridiculous all the same. Chris Claremont made a black woman the leader of the team and now they're saying he's racist and misogynist. Send in the clowns.

Tinfoil hat theory: Claremont is trying to make a bunch of incidents that will encourage Disney/Marvel to end his contract and he can start writing comics anywhere and anyway he wants.

So basically just to clarify, Chris Claremont was at con for a Q&A , answers questions and gave some opinions even does some jokes and all of a sudden these "people" were outraged about the answers they got. Say what you will about the man but he has made a difference in comics ten fold than anyone doing the X-Men now.

It sounds like he was getting tired of barbed questions and started getting cranky. Which he typically gets when people ask him questions about modern X-Men. It's unfortunate that this is where we are now. It's become almost mandatory that the performer has to know who is in their audience, rather than everyone in the audience know who they're going to see.

Don't these people understand that trying to take a comic book giant like Claremont down won't make them any bigger/popular and just makes them look petty and despicable?

Twitter: "How dare this man talk about race-swapping Kitty Pryde? So racist!" Also Twitter: "Why haven't we done it?"

Chris's legend status keeps getting bigger. Chris is hilarious and unlike the people complaining, his books actually sell.

You have Chris to owe for saving Miss Marvel herself, Carol Danvers, after the atrocity that was Avengers 200.

It's so crazy when the writer who practically invented diversity and many of the most powerful women characters in comics has to deal with people who can't tell a joke from a real racist comment.

Chris Claremont commits the unthinkable act by making a con panel memorable.

Wow, it's so funny how all of these wokies who would use Chris Claremont's X-Men as a shield are now attacking him for being "problematic." Man, it's almost like they were full of shit all along.

$10 says someone got intimidated because Marvel rehired him to run Gambit, first issue launched a couple of weeks ago. This Cancelation lynch mobs often happen right after someone gets a contract.

So Chris Claremont was being Chris Claremont. Shocker.

He made the X-Men what they are today

"Chris Claremont is having a mental breakdown" say the people actively having mental breakdowns.

Now we need a “Claremont was Right” shirt.

He’s not wrong about Russell Crowe. The first time I saw the trailer for Thor: Love & Thunder, I mistook him for Ray Winstone! 🤣

Chris Claremont: "I'll turn an established character black." SJWs: "You racist monster!" Marvel & DC: "We'll turn a bunch of established characters black." SJWs: "So stunning and brave!"

The worst of Claremont comic is better than anything modern X men is now. So really the only thing these folks need to be mad at is the creators behind that mediocrity. Overall they can try to “cancel” Chris but nothing will take away his legendary status. The man made the x men who they are today as a brand( alongside Wheezie, Len, Dave and many others) and his best work will be TIMELESS. Not TIMELY like modern x men.

Turns out the comics industry really does need Chris Claremont to save it

Not gonna lie, this actually made me love Chris Claremont even more. Legend.

The same people who have been telling me for years that X-Men has always been a woke comic (pointing usually to Claremont's God Loves, Man Kills book) are now the same ones saying he's a racist, sexist, bigot. Because of course they are. The minute their feelings aren't validated they will turn on anyone in a second. They are always the very thing they pretend to hate.

Hey, Perch! I’m just amazed that we now live in a society of perfect and right minded people who have never uttered an inflammatory comment or had negative thoughts towards anyone. I would bet my bottom dollar if the thought police really existed we’d all be cancelled. Hypocrites who come down on people who have a different opinion or perspective on things than them.

There was a time when these panels were an opportunity to see creators state their unfiltered opinions and say outrageous silly things, all for the sake of having fun and being entertaining. Apparently now creators are expected to say only "the right things". And Jesus, that comic tropes guy just keeps getting worse and worse. I used to watch his videos years ago. They were good and he kept himself out of the nonsense culture war stuff but these days he has gone on full clown mode. That has been painful to watch.

he is canceled because newer comics creators feel emasculated by him

I think Ya boi Zac is right on this, in a couple years being cancelled will be a badge of honour….. i think Chris wil be fine and if he chooses to, he can get some more lucrative comics work outside of Marvel or DC ( formally known as DC Comics….😑) what has this world come to if there’s no room for grumpy old men?!

Had he cracked jokes about Trump or any outlandish comments opposite of what he had said at the panel, these overly sensitive kids would have hailed him and held him up as a member of the old guard 'siding with them'. As it stands it went the other way. The man is a legend and his work is -still- light years beyond the garbage we're seeing now. I went back and re-read some of his previous work and damn does it still look and sound solid. Especially when you look at how his work crossed over with other titles/writers at the time. Fall of the Mutants, Inferno, Mutant Massacre, X-Tinction Agenda, Days of Future Past, and his regular titles he wrote and/or all of the characters he created (or co-created) he's head and shoulders above these clowns. He took what appeared to be great pains to ensure stories meshed with one another. I remember going back recently and looking at his earlier stuff on the X titles and how you could see he'd have stories that lined up with one another for years. You just don't get that with modern comics much anymore

Claremont is the X-Men as far as I have always been concerned, been a steady downward trend since he stepped off. As an aside, speaking as a Brit, it is a well known fact among us that Americans just don't get our dry sense of humour a lot of the time.

I'm sure there are people in the industry who are salty that his new Gambit will outsell them based on his name alone. The correct answer for them is to build up their own names to the point where they can do that too, but a lot of them know they can't and want to make that anyone's fault by their own.

Chris Claremont sounds pretty based. He’ll be welcome at Anime Matsuri or any of the new conventions the parallel economy is setting up.

Using the word 'yikes' should be a firing offence for anyone who claims to be a journalist.

As a so called 'black man' helming from the eastern coast of The Dept. Of Homeland Security(formally USA), I have nothing but appreciation for Chris Claremont contributions in the comic book world. His time on X-men set the bar high for later writers and artist. His and John Byrne's x-men run was my first introduction to reading comics. That duos take on Storm in both narrative and illustrated physical proportions are THE TRUTH LOL!

4:04 heck this is funny. It's not as if Claremont was one of the first writers of superhero comics to have a 50/50 split between male and female on his book whilst keeping Storm, a black woman btw, the leader of said team in the book, which btw was one of the top selling ones at marvel. What isn't misogyny if that's the case?

"You're nobody till everybody in this town thinks you're a bastard" -- Elvis Costello, "This Town" (1989)

Howard Chaykin once jokingly told me so long as he was alive, Chris Claremont would only be the second most hated person in the comics industry.

4:14 Firstly I believe Claremont meant "Persons In Black," and secondly there is a growing precedent to justify that joke.

So does this mean that Comic Tropes is the "good" Chris like Evans and Claremont is the "bad" Chris like Pratt now? I may not know much about life, but I do know that - when Chris-es cross it makes the internet jump, jump and - that Claremont will forever be the miggity miggity miggity miggity Mac daddy of X-Men comic writers.

Back when I was at the Kubert School in '97 (I think) Chris was appearing at the comic store in the Rockaway Mall just as Christmas break kicked off. A friend and I heard about it and headed over. There was virtually no one there and we monopolized him for a couple of hours. Guy was awesome and even then pretty critical of the industry. I imagine he hasn't gotten any less cranky over the years.

This reminds me of the Jim Steranko situation from year back only this blew up even bigger. I respect Comic Tropes content but man is he a perfect example of what kind of person not to be in life.

"OH HI, you caught me stolking the fire of canceling Chris Claremont; speaking of being canceled let's talk about 1950's Captain America"

I haven't bought a new floppy in years. I would find a comic shop and pre-order a copy of Chis Claremont's Kitty Pryde racial journey comic. Would be hilarious as hell.

Chris Claremont did the first raceswap with Psylocke.

I was pleasantly surprised by how much I loved Everything, Everywhere, All at Once. It was fun, charming, strange and entertaining. These are things a lot of today's movies are not.

I spent 8 hours with Chris drinking and eating. Nicest person to chill with. Like most of us nerds he's awkward funny & opinionated ( a right he's earned thru out his career) these modern woke folk are dumb.

Chris gives no fucks and has never given a fuck. And I love him for it! Anyone who's ever seen a Clairemont interview online or met him in person should know this.

It's too bad. I like Comic Tropes. He's very informative and passionate. He is also a bit eager to please and often veers into pointless platitudes on racism and such. I'll continue to love his channel but I really wish he shut up about certain things.

If he apologizes, he’s done.

Chris Claremont is hilarious. I am tempted to buy comics just to spite the haters.

As he was born in London - perhaps it is his English genes asserting themselves. Americans, famously, cannot "do" irony. Everything an Englishman says is irony. There is also a perverse pleasure in employing irony on a baffled audience...

I'd probably agree with everything Claremont said then. Good for him for poking the snowflakes, the toxic RU-vid Channels and these so called "journalists" with a big X shaped stick LOL!

Canceling Claremont just proves that the X-men are well and truly dead. Good job Twitter! You keep up the good work! 😂

In a world that takes a professional comedian seriously and holds them "accountable" for their jokes, it's never surprising when the same dumb thing happens to self-styled comedians.

People are so over sensitive nowadays. Really thin skinned. I bet everyone found it funny - but the idea of getting internet points prevents people from admitting it. Edit: The sales figure are for the entire X-Men line? What the f-

Dude obviously gives zero F's. I love it, but I can see how he'd rub some people the wrong way. Having said that, this guy is a legend. Even if you hate his rough edges, he deserves respect for his accomplishments. The clowns freaking out over this are nobodies and easily ignored.

Sounds like it's time for me to go to the comic store and buy something by Chris Claremont.

4:52 The sheer *audacity* on display from this user to *assume* Claremont would even step near an Arby's "restaurant."

As someone who's never seen Chris past con statements I just thought they were funny jokes he was saying / him just giving his opinion on stuff.

The current X-men is garbage. I am currently reading Claremont’s X-men run from the beginning and just finished up mutant massacre. It is amazing how much more engaged i am in the stories even though I know the outcomes already. Writers today don’t have a clue how to tell a good story. The artists aren’t much better mostly either

Claremont is a legend. Love that guy. His writing made me love and respect Storm.

Mean Girls got reimagined, but with a cast of overweight men with weak chins and cartoon animals. That's so progressive!

I've always enjoyed Claremont's writing of the X-Men (much better than the current stuff), but my respect for him went sky-high for his hate for the Krakoa-era crap and what he had to say about Everything Everywhere at Once (I happen to really love that film and I think it win some "Best Picture" awards).

The funniest thing is Clarement's fake accent. He's about as British as the chimney sweep in Mary Poppins!

Claremont is a based legend

It's fairly alarming that apparently some people couldn't see that some of these things were clearly jokes. How blind can you be?

I'm sure comicsgate would be head over heels to welcome him aboard. Eric July would likely go nuts to have him write for the rippaverse.

I can as hoping they would let him write the reveal that the Krakoa era were plant people and the real Xmen were held hostage under the island.

I forgot the phrasing, but this feels like the ever so often instance of a joke being told in text and the reader not interpeting it as such and taking it at face value.

I’ve met Claremont. Nice guy. I started reading X-Men when he started writing it and quit when he did. Jim Shooter as EIC gave us the greatest runs on Marvel. Claremont is not racist. That’s ridiculous.

You could get rid of both Comic Tropes and Comics XF and nothing of value would be lost.

20 years ago, at a Wizard World Chicago, I was writing for CBR. I mentioned in my column a line that Jeph Loeb said at a panel that I thought was funny. Loeb had joked about how a typical comic should take as long to read as it takes the reader to do a #2. And, Loeb said, one of his comics can be read in the time the reader needs to take a piss. I thought it was a funny line. I quoted it. All pre-Twitter hell broke loose about how big a hack Loeb is, and how even Loeb knows it. Then I got crap from the other side saying I quoted him out of context and was being mean and disparaging to Loeb. Lesson learned: You need to be at a comic panel to understand what's truly going on. People will read into everything, out of context, to make it prove their own case. And this one Claremont Twitter thread is a great example of how one person doing a sarcastic Twitter stream clearly took an angle on the panel to promote their own agenda and everyone bought into it. The more things change, the more they say the same, indeed.

Anyone who even tries to imply Claremont is a racist or misogynist is basically exposing themselves as a fake fan who clearly never read any of his work from 1975-1991

John Byrne: 'First time?' 😏

Claremont hated the dullness of Eternals, the rampant Bendis inspired misogyny of MoM, and the campy twaddle that was Love & Thunder. He is based.

Displaying his own mutant power of having two functioning eyeballs

I’ve met Chris He was a funny man He was also a honest man

Its hard to know when someone is joking when they are this unfunny.

If the twitter mob hates him, he's probably a decent, principled, gentleman.

i think it's time we ignore twitter. twitter is full of the worst members of society. leave chris alone.

I still have the letter from Chris that he sent me back in the early '80's asking to come to Australia and be a guest at the countries FIRST internatanal comic convention ...

The majority of these alleged X-Men fans came to this via the films & have no idea of Claremont’s pedigree...also they’ve turned being offended into a full time job & their personal hobbie. Nothing but shallow indoctrinated clones with no idea of humour or sarcasm! All the best from Cornwall,UK

Sounds like Claremont was right about everything.

People who won't buy comics try to cancel a guy who has a lifetime contract to not even work. Love to see how this works out.

I didn't think I could love Chris Claremont more!

I met clairmont, he has a pretty dry sense of humor. Kind of biting. Good guy.

Sounds like that panel was great. It seems that a chunk of the comics community has forgotten what sarcasm and nuance are. 🤣🤣 A new interview with Claremont is a must for the channel now Perch. 😁😁

I’m at C2E2 I didn’t see his panel but I did have dinner with him just a couple hours after his panel. He seemed fine and was his normal Chris Claremont self. I’ve known Chris for a few ye now and have hosted multiple panels of his. Let me tell you if your hosting a Chris Claremont panel you have to be on your game, if you’re not then you get steamrolled, the guy has a great mind and your going to get a lot of stuff thrown your way if you don’t have a plan.

BASED Chris!

"He's having a mental breakdown," "He's a bigot"-they always accuse you of whatever it is they're doing.

Chris Claremont’s legacy kept Marvel solvent during the bankruptcy plagued 1990s.

Was the supposed racism that chris talks about race swapping a character; after marvel and DC have done the same thing a dozen times? This stuff is hilarious.

I’ll be seeing him at C2E2 tomorrow, which will be the second time, looking forward to it!

It could be argued that Claremont and Byrne kept Marvel alive. The X-Men reboot could easily have died if anyone else but Chris had taken the reigns from Weine. Now that Byrne has retired, Booth is God. I didn't get into line for health issues, but I saw Chris signing endless stacks of comics with no limits.

Chris Claremont hasn't written anything that people want to read in a few decades - incredibly good in his early days, but he created and perfected a style that people moved on from. I'm sure he still wants to write, and if his comics sold, he would still be writing regularly - but . . .

Claremont should have gotten a standing ovation after his panel.

I can't stand ComicsXF; but I'm half way thru reading their tweet thread of the panel and it is AMAZING! Chris Claremont is a legend.

Chris Claremont is the man. Scrub the haters.

Lol this just seems like British humor😅. Sad I missed his appearance last month.