Chris Claremont

Created (or co-created) the X-Men characters Dazzler, Longshot, Rogue, Mystique, Mojo, Destiny, Pyro, Avalanche, Kitty Pryde, Sebastian Shaw, Phoenix and Legion, among others. Claremont was also key in re-engineering the histories of most of the other major X-Men characters, most notably Wolverine, whom he and artist Frank Miller recast as a man of honor (a quasi-samurai) instead of a beserker, and Magneto (by introducing the backstory that the young Magneto was a Holocaust survivor.)

In reality good guys sometimes do not win and people die. And that has to be part of their lives otherwise it just becomes a video game... life isn't like that. And I always thought, my thought was the stories we tell in comics shouldn't be like that either. If there is risk for the reader, then the victory is that much sweeter. And you can, something can happen that can catch you by surprise and can have that much power and heart.