“Once Upon a Time – and only once – I got the chance to work with George Pérez.” In a 2004 essay introducing Uncanny X-Men Annual #3, Claremont describes his enduring joy at getting to collaborate with the late great comics legend. #xmen 1/5
John Byrne was “slammed” and “we needed a penciller of his caliber who could handle team choreography, action galore, physical and emotional characterization, spectacular visuals, special effects, the works!” 2/5
“So an invitation was sent to one of the House SuperStars; to our delight/amazement/surprise, George accepted.” 3/5
“Nobody does it like George and damn near nobody does it better, from the opening panorama in the Danger Room, to Colossus trading punches with Arkon by the swimming pool, to Peter ending the fight by using a convenient oak tree as a baseball bat,…” 4/5
“…to the X-Men’s arrival in Arkon’s palace, finding a way to tell that story, dynamically and excitingly and evocatively, without it feeling the slightest bit cramped. (But boy, in retrospect, what we could have done with another dozen pages!)” 5/5
The essay is reprinted in UXM Omnibus #1.
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