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THANKSGIVING THOUGHTS: THUNDERBIRD, The X-Man We Tried to Use but Couldn’t
When Mark Edens wrote the pilot script for me for X-MEN:TAS, there was an X-Man in it that never ended up apprearing on screen as an X-Man. It was the Native …
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Change the Team?!
There’s a little known fact: we were going to change the X-MEN:TAS team. We had written the script where four members left and four new ones came on. It seems …
Proteus: Villains vs. Threats
Stan Lee liked his villains straight and simple: evil characters to be defeated by heroes. Mark Edens and I once got in trouble during a “Thor” development meeting (the series …
X-MEN:TAS WRITER E-PUBLISHES DARK COMIC NOVEL
Without Mark Edens, there would be no X-MEN:TAS as we all know and love it. We would have stumbled through somehow, but Mark’s presence was critical to the storytelling. Mark …
HEROIC SACRIFICE
Sacrifice is central to being a hero, super or otherwise. Sadly, much of Hollywood has given up on this. All endings, it seems, must be happy. In classic storytelling, the …
“WHAT’S IN A NAME?” A GREAT ONE LEAVES US TODAY
Names matter. For Romeo and Juliet, their surnames meant they were screwed. For those of us on X-MEN:TAS who were trying to adapt a massive universe of preexisting characters, it was a …
CONNECTING OUR STORIES TO THE MARVEL BOOKS
X-MEN:TAS has a complex relationship with the many series of X-MEN comic books that we respectfully mined as source material. Many fans have made lists of the connections they see, …
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 …
INFLUENCES
Writers have influences. TV animation writers are no different. A number of X-MEN:TAS stories had precursors, dramatic stories or moments or moods that stuck with us and informed our choices …
WRITING FOR CARTOONS
We’re not in it for the glamour. Writing animation in Hollywood is not the road to fame and fortune. We don’t have a lot of street cred. It’s odd — …
FAN FRIDAYS: ANNIVERSARIES
Today we honor an exalted predecessor to X-MEN:TAS. Fifty years ago yesterday, on September 8th, 1966, the first episode of Star Trek: TOS (“The Original Series”) premiered. I know because …