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"Chris Claremont has discussed his upcoming work for 2012. The legendary X-Men writer will continue to focus on his prose work after a year-long hiatus from the comics industry. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve got a prose novel making the rounds to potential publishers, and a short story in Simon &amp;amp; Schuster&amp;#039;s Under The Moons of Mars: New Adventures of Barsoom anthology,&amp;quot; he told Robot 6. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m working on another novel that&amp;#039;ll hopefully be in a position to start sharing with publishers soon as well. This year&amp;#039;s the first time I&amp;#039;ve been able to do things that are all totally mine and all totally different.&amp;quot; 2011 was the first year in the last 40 in which Claremont did not write a single line of comics text, with his X-Men Forever 2, New Mutants Forever and Chaos War: X-Men - which were published at the beginning of the year - completed by him in 2010. Claremont admitted that there was nothing currently being published in comics which he was excited by. &amp;quot;Embarrassing as it sounds, I don&amp;#039;t. I&amp;#039;m not that interested,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;My basic response is that I&amp;#039;m not the intended audience anymore. &amp;quot;But I have a certain vision for certain characters, and Marvel, for example, is taking their books in a direction that is not simpatico with that vision, so for me it&amp;#039;s easier to focus on other things that are definitely more enjoyable. &amp;quot;I enjoy the memories, and enjoy the work that&amp;#039;s been done when I come across it, and then I move on to other things.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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