FAN FRIDAYS: LARRY’S EASTER EGGS
Today starts a tradition of fan-focused posts once a week. Testimonials — like that of Jenee Darden back in July — will be popular. We’ll start with a special contribution …
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WOULD WE SUCCEED IN 1992? MARGARET BETS THE FARM.
When Fox Kids TV, upstart also-ran among TV networks, committed to the initial 13-episode series of X-MEN:TAS in February, 1992, most people in the business doubted it would succeed. In …
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YOUR FAVORITE CHARACTER
Everybody who cares about X-MEN:TAS has a favorite character. For me, it was a toss-up between Beast and Professor X. I guess being put in charge of a project, I …
IMMORTAL VOICES: ROGUE
For 29 years the voices of the X-Men had been a private, individual choice. Each comic book writer and reader had imagined his or her own Cyclops or Professor X. …
X-MEN:TAS – COSPLAY
During the years we worked on X-MEN:TAS, we had no idea that people all over the planet would end up walking around dressed like the characters we were writing and …
X-MEN PSAs (Public Service Announcements)
You might not know that in 1994 the X-MEN:TAS cast starred in 12 public service announcements for the Fox Network. These were 30-second bits, cut together from old footage from …
CHARACTER DESIGN
There was great debate over the design of the characters for the series. Dozens of artists had drawn the X-Men over their 25 years of publication. What would our X-Men …
“THE CURE”: CHARACTER-BASED STORIES
People often ask how we decided on what stories to tell. Every TV series has this dilemma: where do you focus? Is it big action spectacle? Surprise plot twists? “Big-idea” …
Coming Soon!
This page is under construction but there will be lots of goodies soon to come… Follow us on twitter @xmentas to talk with creators of the X-Men animated tv series …