Just finished this ep…excellent show, but I have so many gripes that don’t quite rise to the level of hate mail. I was a fan of the Fox X-Men animated series, but Batman TAS was hands down the best cartoon adaptation. I think X-Men TAS was one of the first times I experienced Nerd Rage over the changes they were making to the original stories for the adaptation.

Thanks for posting the Pryde of the X-Men, but the full 20 minute episode is also on Youtube. Did you hear the voices of Dusty and Duke (GI Joe) making guest appearances?

As for the Fox movies, I can tell you that I have never walked out of any of those movies happy. Furthermore, I have never bought any of the movies on DVD/BluRay/Digital Download. Not even First Class. 6 foot 4 Wolverine just does not work for me.

Favorite lineup was the Australian Outback lineup post-Fall of the Mutants. Covered all the bases except for technical/scientific expertise- Storm, Wolverine, Colossus, Rogue (with Ms. Marvel powers), Havok, pre-ninja Psylocke, Dazzler, Longshot. That’s when Gateway was introduced to help them teleport around the world.

I was a big fan of Gambit too, but looking back on it, I am not sure what made the guy so cool to me. Was it the head gear? The trench coat? The way Claremont wrote the accent? Claremont used to write duels between Gambit and Wolverine showing Wolverine was getting old and slow. Wolverine seems to have been rejuvenated a number of times since.

We should do a show on Villains. Why? Because I am all about the heroes, so it would be a good counterbalance. Or a show on the Avengers. I was a big team book reader because it gave me the most bang for my buck when I was a kid. It also introduced me to the solo books, so there was some effective marketing there.