


And I said, even more cool." As Claremont alludes, the contents of the book are built around the classic Days of Future Past storyline and the corresponding new prologue story from Claremont and Larroca (which is actually listed in the contents as "Uncanny X-Men #140.5"). I thought, 'Wow, that's cool.' And then they said they wanted a 20 page add-on that structured this all together. "Since I only work from a perspective of a small piece of the project, the giant size aspect of a 400-page omnibus is sort of like, 'Huh?' No, I got a call. You might assume Claremont himself curated the lineup in the Paragon Collection, but he told us Marvel already had the contents laid out before he was approached to participate.

12 Images Choosing Claremont's Best X-Men StoriesGiven that Claremont wrote Uncanny X-Men nonstop from 1975 to 1991, not to mention assorted spinoffs and more recent projects, the prospect of narrowing down that back catalog to a couple dozen issues is certainly daunting.
