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CHRIS CLAREMONT TAKES TIME FOR RECOVERY

Press Release

On March 5, comic industry legend and current writer of Uncanny X-Men and Excalibur, Chris Claremont, was overcome by exhaustion while attending a conference in Italy.

Thankfully, he is expected to make a full recovery and return to the comic industry he helped build.

Chris Claremont is best known for being the definitive X-Men writer and over thirty years later is still writing Uncanny X-Men along with New Excalibur.

After treatment and tests in Italy, Claremont was diagnosed with cardiac stress and last week returned to New York City where he will continue his rehabilitative therapy.

Due to this brief hiatus, Claremont’s newest projects – his taking over Exiles and debuting GeNext – will be pushed back until late in the year when he returns. Claremont will be coming back to the fold soon, and Marvel is pleased to announce that he will be a part of this family for many years to come, as he recently renewed his exclusive contract.

Marvel wishes Claremont a speedy recovery and looks forward to future classic stories from an industry legend.

I wish him a speedy recovery, but I just hope that this means we get that many more months of Tony Bedard writing Exiles, instead of what Chris Claremont would be inflicting upon the title.

Go read this interview with Jay Faeber about Noble Causes. A personal favorite of mine. One of the best super-hero (looks around for the Marvel DC lawyer ninja) on the racks. Just behind Invincible in coolness.

It follows a super-hero (still checking for ninja) family quite unlike any other in comics.

There are five TPB collections of the series available now go down to your local comics pusher and check them out. Noble Causes Volume One: In Sickness And In Health is here at Amazon.com

Not a good week for the health for comic book creators.

No underachiever, but rather one of the last living comics masters and a tremendous influence on many of the great talents working today in comics and animation, Alex Toth has been in the hospital the past several weeks and can use some words of encouragement, humor and appreciation. This message courtesy of the offical Toth Fans site run by Dave Cook. Please send your kind messages (I would think postcards are the way to go) to:

Alex TOTH, room 407
c/o Belmont Village of Burbank
455 E. Angeleno Ave.
Burbank, CA
91501-3083

Toth's Zorro will always be among my favorite work, and helped create Space Ghost. What else do I have to say. And they recommend that you send postcards because he likes to send to lots of people.