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, …
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, …
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, …
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 …
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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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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …