“Comic Creators on X-men” is a must have for comic book geeks and fans of X-men. Even for the people that are only familiar with the X-Men through their films this book through its concise and interesting interviews gives you a very deep history of the X-men how they came about, how the book survived it cancellation in the late 60’s & how it was groundbreaking in reinventing itself, expanding it’s character universe and telling stories of maverick mutants fighting to protect the very planet that has often sought to betray and kill them. This book starts off with an interview with one of the single greatest modern writers Stan Lee and that’s just where it begins. Tom DeFalco also interviews some of X-men’s greatest artists, Roy Thomas, Neal Adams, John Byrne and Marc Silvestri to name a few. My favorite chapter was on Chris Claremont who wrote the X-men stories for nearly 30 years. The book is dedicated to Claremont who has contributed more to the X-men anthology than probably any other person on the planet. Pick up a copy, learn up on the X-Men history from the people that wrote and drew it. You too can then see how the films compare and contrast the original material and how the X-Men can be interpreted many ways. Pick up a copy today true believer from Titan Books.

Here’s the Bottom Line: I used to be a hardcore comic geek when I was a kid. As a teen I discovered music, girls and eventually movies so I grew out of the comic book world. I would like to think that even today my stories and writing is influenced greatly by comic books. I even once as a kid wrote a letter to Tom DeFalco, Editor In-Chief at Marvel comics and author of this book. I asked him how to get into comics drawing and writing. He actually took the time out of his day and wrote me back a nice letter giving me some tips and even autographed a copy of “Moon Knight” for me. Which he said was strange because nobody ever requested the editor’s autograph.