X-Men S:01 E:03

Posted on by The Vern

Episode Title: Enter Magneto

Original Airdate:  11-27-92

Hello X-Fans. We are back for another exciting entry into the X-Men The Animated series.  What new adventures await are mutant friends.  Well, when we last left our heroes.   Beast was being captured by the Sentinels because of the break in to the Mutant Registration Building and is being held to be put on trial. Will The X-Men break him out or will Beast be able to pass his bar exam in time for the trial.  Let’s not sit around like Professor X (too soon?)  and get going with this week’s  adventure. Continue reading X-Men S:01 E:03

X-Men S:01 E:01 and 02

Posted on by The Vern

Episode Title: Night of The Sentinels. Parts 1 and 2
Original Airdate: 10-31-92

Hello everyone and welcome back to my coverage of X-Men: The Animated Series.  Night of The Sentinels would be the show’s pilot episode and for a kids show.  It does manage to  have some pretty heavy subject material in the first few shows  With concepts ranging from concentration camps in the holocaust to sacrificing your own life to save a friend.  This first one does reference stories from previous issues of the comic.  Such as the creation of The Sentinels(Uncanny X-Men #14)  and the mutant registration act(Uncanny X-Men #181).  The look and design of the characters themselves are almost identical to the ones artist Jim Lee drew in the 90’s.   Let’s cue up that awesome theme song and start discussing this first entry.

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X-Men: Introductions

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X-Men The animated Series was on the Fox Kids network from October 1992 to September 1997.  Now, for most people.  Their love of comic books happened around the same time as the movies that were released.  Well in the 90’s, there wasn’t much of a choice.  Seriously the only good ones at the time were Batman, Superman, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Now having read a few issues of X-Men before seeing the show.  I was very excited to see my favorite heroes in action but I was afraid they wouldn’t live up to how I saw them act in my mind.  Well  each character is represented pretty well and some do a much better job then the live action version in 2000..  Each week I’m going to cover episodes from the five seasons of when the show aired. Continue reading X-Men: Introductions

Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends S:02 E:01

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Episode Title: The Origin of the Iceman

Well true-believers, we’ve arrived at the start of season two of Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends. Now, when it comes to Saturday morning cartoons, it was not uncommon for a relatively small number of episodes to be made of a show which were then rerun for many years. In the case of the Spider Friends, only three episodes were added to the mix for season two. Each of these episodes focused a bit on the origin stories of our three heroes. We begin with the birth of one “cool” mutant in The Origin of The Iceman. Continue reading Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends S:02 E:01