How the X-Men ’97 Team Preserved — and Tweaked — the Classic Marvel Designs for Max Nostalgia

How the X-Men ’97 team preserved — and tweaked — the classic Marvel designs for max nostalgia

It’s been more than a year since Marvel Animation revived X-Men: The Animated Series in all of its splashy operatic 2D glory. X-Men ’97 was a triumph, not just in the Marvel canon but in an entire year of TV. As the producers and artists behind the series explain in the new book X-Men ’97: The Art and Making of the Animated Series, translating the ’90s Fox show for new and audience alike was a delicate process. To do it right, they needed legit …

7 Insights From X-Men '97: The Art and Making of the Animated Series

“The end and yet… the beginning.” So reads the last shot of the final storyboard for the 1997 series finale of X-Men: The Animated Series, ending on a heroic and dramatic upshot of the X-Men — Cyclops (Norm Spencer), Jean Grey (Catherine Disher), Storm (Alison Sealy-Smith), Jubilee (Alyson Court), Wolverine (Cal Dodd), Beast (George Buza), Gambit (Chris Potter), Rogue (Lenore Zann), and Morph (Rob Rubin) — beneath a dawn skyline alongside Magnet…

Doug Ramsey Is About To Become A Very Important X-Men Character Indeed

Doug Ramsey Is About To Become A Very Important X-Men Character Indeed

The X-Men fight a damn god in Marvel's Uncanny X-Men #16

The Dark Artery, gateway to an underworld of unspeakable evil, has taken one of the Outliers, and it will take the Uncanny X-Men to get them back, if they can survive the corruption process needed to enter. Plus, the secret of the Endling at last? Uncanny X-Men #16 is written by Gail Simone, drawn by... The post The X-Men fight a damn god in Marvel’s Uncanny X-Men #16 appeared first on COMICSXF.