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 …
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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 …
BEST INTENTIONS
Your first thought when watching (or writing) a televised cartoon is rarely: “What would the government think of this story?” That’s good. Countries where governments completely control the content of …
STRANGE DOCTORS, GODS, & ALIENS: THE MARVEL UNIVERSE
When we all signed on to do X-MEN:TAS in February, 1992, new colleagues Larry Houston and Will Meugniot introduced me to “The Marvel Universe.” At first I believed it simply …
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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 …
SHAPESHIFTERS
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 …
GREAT VOICES: “OUR APOCALYPSE”
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 …
DEADPOOL GETS HIS SCREEN DEBUT
This year’s Deadpool feature movie was a fun mega-hit. Ryan Reynolds nailed it. What few fans realize is that the character Deadpool got his first bits of screen time on our …
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 …
CHARLES & MAGNUS
There is no more intense relationship in the X-Men universe that than between Professor Charles Xavier and his longtime friend and adversary, Magneto (or “Magnus” or “Eric Lehnsherr” — he …
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. …
FAN FRIDAYS: LARRY’S EASTER EGGS
Today starts a tradition of fan-focused posts once a week. Testimonials — like that of Jenee Darden back in July — will be popular. We’ll start with a special contribution …