Exploring Excalibur and the X-Men
Moderated by Terence Dollard, Chris Claremont and Alan Davis. Among the topics covered were Chris “grabbing” Alan when he heard he was available. What about Excalibur that Chris gets that other writers don’t “get”. Alan spoke about drawing Nightcrawler, Chris talked about the Nightcrawler and Captain Britian relationship and the jokes he used, Alan talked about working with Chris’s scripts, they both reminisced on working on a New Mutants Annual together, Chris complimented Alan on how he was able to draw anything he threw at him and make it better, he also loved how Alan got the physical relationships between the characters, they spoke about the design of various characters, Chris revealed he made sure every character in the book was either co-created by him or Alan so they could get incentive/royalties, they both spoke about wanting to work together again and working in ‘Marvel’ style.
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