YOU CAN’T ESCAPE YOUR PAST: SIDNEY’S PICTURE
We did a lot of time travel episodes in X-MEN:TAS. Always intriguing, always hard to keep the logic straight. We have all had moments when we wished we could go …
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GOD IN A SATURDAY MORNING ACTION-ADVENTURE CARTOON
I’d never seen it — focusing on the question of God’s existence in a Saturday morning cartoon. But I couldn’t help but ask if we could try. The story for …
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1992 SIBLING RIVALRY
This blog exists to celebrate an animated super-hero television series that we, with struggling humility and extreme prejudice, believe is among the best ever made; none better. Were there others …
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 …
THE FOX KIDS NETWORK
There was nothing random about the fact that X-MEN:TAS was successful on the Fox Kids Network (or “Fox Children’s Network,” or FCN). First, no one else would program it. Margaret …
WOLVERINE GRIEVES FOR MORPH: The Art of Collaboration
The single most important creative decision we made was killing Morph in the opening two-part story. Mark Edens and I insisted that we show the audience that what the X-Men …
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IN SYNC FROM THE START: THANKS, COACH (Sidney)
The two sides of the X-MEN:TAS creative team hadn’t met before the initial meeting on February 17, 1992. Mark Edens and I, leading the writing staff, hadn’t met Will Meugniot and …
THE TENNESSEE MAFIA: MARK AND MICHAEL (AND ERIC, AND JOHN,…)
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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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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