It wasn’t all work and no play for the excellent designers and storyboard artists that drew X-MEN:TAS. They would sneak in fun bits when they could. In what was SUPPOSED to be our big series finale — the four-episode epic “Beyond Good and Evil” (apologies to Nietzsche) — Larry Houston and Frank Squillace needed more incidental characters designed than usual (more about how this story was radically changed later). So there were two “artists” created for the story, and, in another scene, two members of a “Human Assault Force.” These pairs of characters look suspiciously like Larry and Frank — just in better shape. I’ve heard dozens of tales of animation artists that delight themselves in slipping in certain images (Barney Rubble, a hint of a butt crack, etc.) into chaotic scenes when they could. Why not? If I could draw I would. Nothing brings more joy to work that taking mischievous pleasure in the doing of it.
