Chris Claremont’s X-Men Days of Future Past, Marada, Red Sonja! VIDEO INTERVIEW - Mr. Media Intervie

Today's Guest: Chris Claremont, long-time X-MEN comic book writer and co-creator of Marada The She-Wolf.
 

Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with long-time Chris Claremont by clicking on the video player above! 

Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience that includes Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Lawrence, Anna Paquin, Michael Fassbender and Ian McKellen, and James McAvoy and Patrick Stewart … in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!

Marvel Comics’ Epic era slipped by me while I was in college and starting my career.

That’s my only explanation for how a guy who read all of the Conan the Barbarian, Kull the Conquerer, and even Groo the Warrior and Ironjaw comics missed seeing Chris Claremont and John Bolton’s work the first time on Marada The She-Wolf.

Fortunately, those pages have finally been collected in a single, stunning hardcover graphic novel by Titan Books and reading it is sheer pleasure.
CHRIS CLAREMONT podcast excerpt: "Marada The She-Wolf, originally, was Red Sonja. As I was getting deeper into the plot and John Bolton was starting to pencil, Marvel lost all the licenses (to Robert E. Howard characters. Suddenly we had 20 dead pages and a really good story and both of us were really pissed... The idea popped into our heads: 'Who don't we pitch it as our own concept? Nothing's been established; there's nothing we can't change. The story doesn't exist yet.' The operational structure of the story was that we were going to take the central character out of her comfort zone—ditch the steel bikini. Have her dress sensibly. Do an historical fantasy. Archie Goodwin and Jim Shooter were totally on board with it."

You can LISTEN to this interview with long-time X-MEN comic book writer CHRIS CLAREMONT, co-creator of MARADA THE SHE-WOLF, by clicking the audio player above!

Marada is a sword ‘n’ sorcery warrior woman of the first order. No doubt the