So who wrote the 76 X-MEN:TAS stories and turned them into 40-page scripts and why? Margaret Loesch ordered the series. She and Sidney Iwanter hired me to be in charge …
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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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The first image of the first episode of X-MEN:TAS was of an unnamed mutant on a rampage. Please see the first two panels of Will Meugniot and Larry Houston’s storyboard …
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 …
In the eleven months of work it took to get to the official premier of X-MEN:TAS shown on Fox TV in January, 1993, there were dozens of opportunities for the …
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 fans continue to amaze us. What is it about these characters that has fascinated people all over the planet for decades? How did our 76 episodes add to or …
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” …
We worked fast. On February 17th I was hired and told that we needed to figure out the show and needed scripts right away. We built the show in a …
We all love the opening title sequence to our series. Will Meugniot and Larry Houston created it, storyboarded it, and, with Sidney Iwanter, supervised Ron Wasserman’s amazing creation of the …
Welcome to xmentas.com. Today marks the beginning of what we hope will be a long, shared adventure. On February 17th, 1992, we were assigned the job of creating and managing …
The core team all agreed to a creative vision for X-MEN: TAS, one that would make it different from animated series that had come before. This note to our staff …