LOGAN: Two Farewells
We just saw “Logan,” and I left it with mixed emotions. My main feelings were those of gratitude and loss. When the first X-MEN movie came out 17 years ago, …
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BEAST’S FAREWELL FROM CHARLES
We established the “obscure literary quote” for Hank McCoy in episode 2, during “The Night of the Sentinels.” It was pure indulgence on our part — not from the books, …
GAMBIT: Man of Mystery
I’m not sure that we did Gambit justice. I feel like I know Logan and Scott and Jean and Hank and Rogue and Jubilee and Prof X, but I’m not …
OUR WISEST, KINDEST SOUL: The Beauty of the Beast
Hank McCoy is the most thoughtful superhero character I know, anywhere. He didn’t start out that way. In the first dozen books in 1963, he’s just one of the the …
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APOCALYPSE: Needing to Stage Him as Larger Than Life
Staging a character — whether within a camera frame or on a storyboard panel, can be the difference between success and failure. We just screened the recent feature X-MEN: APOCALYPSE. …
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FAN FRIDAYS: WORLD-WIDE LOVE
The whole world loves X-MEN:TAS. It was our good luck to come out in the 1990s when television networks around the world were starting to open up and feature American …
DVDs: APOCALYPSE, X-MEN:TAS
Today is an X-MEN fan day. The feature movie X-MEN: Apocalypse will be joining our DVD libraries. Of course we buy them all. I spent four years living with these …
X-MEN: TAS — THE BOOK!!
Yes, there’s going to be a book! We’ve resisted for two decades telling the story of how X-MEN:TAS struggled to get made and survive on the air. The 25th Anniversary of our …
SHAPESHIFTERS
Mystique. Morph. Shapeshifters are fun in TV and movies. They’re kind of static in comics and nearly useless in print books, where there is no visual shape to shift. But …
X-MEN:TAS ROMANCES
Who would have thought that a “boys action” superhero series played on Saturday mornings would be full of romance? Yet it was. Everyone knows that Scott and Jean were engaged …
GREAT VOICES: “OUR APOCALYPSE”
X-MEN characters exist in the books and the animated shows and the live-action movies. In the books, their voices exist in our imaginations. In the various animated series and the …
FUN FOR THE ARTISTS
Writing for animation is different from, say, poetry (or blogging) because you’re writing for artists. Graphic artists and actors and sound designers and editors bring what you write to life. …