Original sentence: Claremont also promoted strong female characters such as Jean Grey, Storm and Moira MacTaggert, who were a far cry from the token roles usually reserved for women at that time.Claremont excelled at the task of writing good "team" arcs, in which every member of the ensemble cast of X-Men had her/ his moment to shine.Claremont is regarded as one of the hallmark Marvel Comics writers, having written one of the flagship titles, the Uncanny X-Men, for sixteen consecutive years.Claremont's approach set the standard for team-based comic books for decades.He was lauded for writing action-packed stories with strong characters, both heroes and villains, mixing it with soap opera elements and always bringing in the social undercurrent of mutants being a harassed minority.However, as of 2005, Claremont is seen as one of the most important writers ever in X-Men, and maybe in the whole Marvel Comics franchise.In addition, critics have criticized his recent work (e.on X-Treme X-Men or Excalibur) as cliched and unoriginal, citing forgettable characters, the frequent use of mind control and a generally "dated" approach to plot writing, especially in comparison to younger colleagues like Mark Millar, Brian Michael Bendis or Ed Brubaker
Edited sentence: Claremont also promotes strong female characters.Claremont's soap opera approach to the ensemble cast of X-Men set the standard for team-based comic books for decades