Episode 453 - X-Men '97, Part 1 (Patreon)

SPOILER WARNING: ALL OF THEM, NONSTOP

In which we put the comics on hold to take a look at X-Men ’97; it is still always Inferno in here; Wolverine is best used sparingly; a Marvel show finally embraces politics; Wolverine is best in small doses; Madeylne Pryor still always deserves better; Jubilee grows up; and we are all in on this series.

X-PLAINED:

• “Beyond Good and Evil”

• X-Men: The Animated Series and our respective feelings about it

• X-Men ’97, episodes 1-5

• Watching X-Men ’97 with and without context

• Making animated Cyclops work

• The Magneto’s-hair-length morality index

• Politics

• Voices

• Adaptation pacing

• Agency

• Abcissa

• Foreshadowing

• Time compression

• Horniest Rogue

• Death in cartoons

• A metaphor

• Nonbinary identity in 1997

• Character evolution

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