BEST INTENTIONS
Even with the best of intentions, you can get in trouble. Some of you may remember that at the end of each episode during the first season, there was a …
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MY MUTANT INTERNET – 1992
Those of us entrusted with writing X-MEN:TAS stories only had a couple of weeks to figure out who and what the X-Men were and what they meant to each other and …
WHY WOLVERINE?
Every lead X-MEN:TAS character was important to the storytelling. Different fans have different favorites. We couldn’t have crafted the 59 stories we did without all of them. But if push …
EVERY X-MAN MATTERED
How did we decide on the nine lead X-Men charcters out of the dozens available to us for the animated series? They made themselves necessary. Every one of them mattered. …
OUR TOUGHEST CRITICS
Working for nearly a year before the official premiere in January, 1993, we really didn’t know if X-MEN:TAS would survive. Animation takes a long time. Many at Marvel doubted us. …
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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THE FIRST IMAGE
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 …
YOUR FAVORITE CHARACTER
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 …
WILL & LARRY — HEART AND SOUL OF X-MEN:TAS
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 …
CHARACTER DESIGN
There was great debate over the design of the characters for the series. Dozens of artists had drawn the X-Men over their 25 years of publication. What would our X-Men …