I would have included the fight with the Imperial Guard, but it would just be the X-Men fighting characters I hate. I decided to concentrate on the important moment instead.
Oh, well, if Claremont acknowledges it's not his best, then I'll retract some of my grumbling. (And to be fair, as I understand it there was quite a bit of behind-the-scenes fracaing... fracing? Which would leave anyone a little distracted.)
Oh, definitely. It was just "failure to communicate" all the way up and down the chain of command. There's a really good interview in a book called "The X-Men Companion", where Claremont lays out step by step everything that went wrong:
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(And to be fair, as I understand it there was quite a bit of behind-the-scenes fracaing... fracing? Which would leave anyone a little distracted.)
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https://tombrevoort.com/2023/01/01/the-x-men-companion-1-chris-claremont-interview/#jp-carousel-38110